30.08.2022

Enhancing Maldives Ports

In the Indian Ocean, state-run Maldives Ports Limited (MPL) has decided to enhance its terminal handling equipment. It plans to add three Kalmar T2i terminal tractors to its fleet at the beginning of 2023. MPL was...
29.08.2022

MOL takes the gloves off

MOL will build four capesize bulkers and two very large crude carrier (VLCC) tankers which will use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as their main fuel. The Japanese company has signed a deal for the construction of four 210,000...
29.08.2022

UK’s Hico charms Bengal Tiger and CFS

The trust fund Hico, owned by the British Hartnoll family, has acquired all the assets of Bengal Tiger Line (BTL) from CMIA Capital Partners, formed in 2017. With initial roots in Hamburg (1986), registration was subsequently...
29.08.2022

Eimskip holds a steady Atlantic course

Eimskip has reported its results for Q2/2022. Volumes were strong in imports to Iceland and in Trans-Atlantic services. The domestic Iceland segment performed well driven by overall high activity in the Icelandic economy,...
29.08.2022

Montevideo's green plans for Europe

The ports of Montevideo and Hamburg have been in close contact since 2005, when they signed the first memorandum of understanding (MoU), which was renewed in 2013. Then as now, the focus was on the international exchange of...
26.08.2022

A new connection on the Red Sea

P&O Maritime Logistics and Unifeeder are joining forces in the Middle East region. This is the first time P&O Maritime Logistics will be trading in the Red Sea with containers on a liner basis between Port of Jeddah and...
26.08.2022

More ro-ro capacity in Antwerp

It is a quarter more. The Antwerp Euroterminal (AET) is expanding its ro-ro capacity by 25%. AET is the largest multipurpose terminal in the Belgian port of Antwerp, offering both deep sea and short sea line services and amongst...
26.08.2022

Wilhelmshaven building LNG platform

The new LNG jetty in Wilhelmshaven (Germany) should become operational by winter this year. Three floating work platforms from the construction company Depenbrock are being used for the work so that the heavy working equipment,...
25.08.2022

Analysts expect seafreight volumes to fall

Copenhagen-based maritime analyst Sea-Intelligence sees reasons to assume that the demand-led spikes seen during the pandemic that propelled container shipping to record earnings might be over. Sea-Intelligence has gone over...
25.08.2022

Gothenburg stems the tide

Swedish Port of Gothenburg processed 433,000 teu during H1/2022, 5% more than in H1/2021. The port currently accounts for 52% of Sweden’s container market, compared with 48% at the beginning of last year. All in all,...
25.08.2022

Monrovia more digital

A digitisation project is underway in the Free Port of Monrovia in Liberia to implement new tools to improve supply chain efficiency by paperless customs clearance processes and more efficient terminal operations. Over the...

Relativ erholt

Chinesische Häfen geben der Weltwirtschaft wieder Impulse. Obwohl sich die Staulage insgesamt entspannt hat, ist um die chinesischen Häfen herum noch immer nicht alles Gold, was glänzt. Zwar steigen die umgeschlagenen...
24.08.2022

Second terminal in Abidjan in the making

The Côte d’Ivoire Terminal in the port of Abidjan recently received a range of new equipment. No fewer than six STS gantries and seven RTG gantries were installed. This handling equipment was manufactured by ZPMC in China and...
24.08.2022

Strikes hit European ports

Over 1,900 workers at the port of Felixstowe began an eight-day strike over pay on 21 August 2022. The major UK port handles over four million teu a year. In response, container lines have omitted scheduled vessel calls at the...
24.08.2022

Hutchison Ports banks on Egypt

The Egyptian government and Hutchison Ports recently enhanced their cooperation by initialling agreements for two new concessions to operate container terminals in Ain Sokhna Port and El Dekheila Port. Marking the event, an...
23.08.2022

Hapag-Lloyd improving its fleet

The Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd is set to launch its first retrofit programme in the next five years. The investment volume “will be in the three-digit million range”, the shipping line said in a media release. The goal is...
23.08.2022

OOCL – profits up, newbuildings down

Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), which was taken over by Cosco in 2018, handled 7% less containers in H1/2022 than in the same period last year, that is to say 3.65 million teu, down from 3.93 million...
23.08.2022

Valenciaport steaming ahead to cleaner operations

The latest fleet expansion of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) concerns 13 electric vehicles and four hybrid vehicles. This initiative is part of the gateway’s ‘Valenciaport 2030’ programme, a commitment to zero...
22.08.2022

LNG links NYK to Qatar

NYK has inked a long-term time-charter contract with Qatar Energy, the monarchy’s state energy company, for seven LNG carriers. The new sister vessels will be equipped with an X-DF 2.1 iCER and air lubrication system, both of...
22.08.2022

Investments in South Carolina Ports

Works to upgrade of the Wando Welch Terminal at the Port of Charleston (South Carolina Ports) are coming to a close. The fifteenth and final crane was recently moved into position along the waterfront. With five cranes to a...
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