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07.12.2020

BGT record in Basra

The 6,600 teu containership ‘Yang Ming Mutuality’ sailed from the Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) in Um Qasr (Iraq) recently, having set a new turnaround mark. BGT recorded a total of 1,768 moves on the vessel in 17.5 hours,...

07.12.2020

Cooperation in Canada bears fruit

The first outcome of a cooperation agreement signed in 2018 and aimed at improving both their own gateway’s and their common services, the port authorities of Montreal and Trois-Rivières recently announced the rollout of three...

07.12.2020

Southampton doing a Felixstowe

The freight forwarder Westbound Logistics has pointed out that congestion and delays in the port of Southampton have been exacerbated recently. "We’re witnessing similar issues to those we’ve been experiencing in...

04.12.2020

New agent for Brazil-Africa services

The Madrid (Spain)-headquartered Marguisa Shipping Lines, the shipping company of the Sea & Ports group, has appointed Wasa Projects & Chartering as its general agent in Brazil as of January 2021. This is part of the...

04.12.2020

Strengthening ties with the Caribbean

The Dutch company Vertraco Shipping and Bergé, as its representative agent in Spain, intends to intensify commercial activity between the Iberian peninsula, the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. This will be done...

04.12.2020

ONE investigates container loss

The Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express (ONE) is currently assisting owners and managers of the container ship "ONE Apus" (IMO: 9806079; Japanese flag) with investigations into the loss of containers overboard...

04.12.2020

Jade Weser Port sticks to price level

The port fees in Germany's deep-sea container port at Jade Weser Port Wilhelmshaven will remain unchanged at the current for the coming year as well. The supervisory board of the port operator JadeWeserPort Realisierungs recently...

03.12.2020

Hong Kong banks on reefers

The Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA) is investing in its perishables business which has a value of USD 3 billion a year. 60% out of the fruit handled at HKSPA’s terminals annually are transported onward to Mainland China....

03.12.2020

Dispute in Bremen?

In Germany, the port and logistics association Bremische Hafen- und Logistikvertretung (BHV) has criticised the decision of Bremen's senate on the assumption of costs for losses incurred by the Jade-Weser-Port Container-Terminals...

03.12.2020

Grenaa going greener

Grenaa, a Danish port city on the Kattegat forming the geographical centre of Denmark, is investing in its equipment. In October, the port of Grenaa ordered a mobile harbour crane which has a 54 m long boom and a maximum lifting...

02.12.2020

Drewry sees global recovery

The container port throughput index of the London-based maritime consultancy Drewry has seen positive year-on-year growth for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. "Global recovery has finally...

02.12.2020

Swedish-Finnish action to cut carbon footprint

The Swedish-Finnish Bothnia Bulk project, which combines the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel for two bulk carriers together with other technologies on board and on land, has achieved a significant 50% reduction in CO2...

02.12.2020

Garden City Terminal on the rise

The Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal has marked year-over-year increases for five consecutive months, and 34 out of the past 36 months. Recently, the port moved 363,000 teu in November, a 5.4% increase over the same...

01.12.2020

World trade still in turmoil

According to the report issued by the general customs administration of the People's Republic of China, Iran's trade with China during the first nine months of last year amounted to USD 18.17 billion. In contrast, total trade...

01.12.2020

Spanish ports in 2020 so far

Until and including October, Spain’s state-owned ports handled a total of 420.3 million t of merchandise, about 9.8% less than in the same period of the previous year. The volume of containers in international transit...

01.12.2020

New cargo mark in Iraq

It was Yang Ming's “Mutuality”, a container vessel with a capacity of 6,589 teu that recently set a new record at Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) in Um Qasr, Iraq. The BGT recorded a total of 1,768 moves on the vessel in 17.5...

30.11.2020

Doubling the Cork-Zeebrugge service

The Belgian liner CLdN is adding a second weekly call from the Port of Cork to the Port of Zeebrugge "to cope with the increasing demand on the current route", as the shipping company said in a press release. Adding...

30.11.2020

New Ireland-France service in 2021

In January 2021 DFDS will launch a new freight ferry service between Dunkirk in northern France and Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland. The route will be operated with three ferries, each with a capacity for up to 125 trucks....

30.11.2020

ZIM lands Ladingo

The Haifa-based carrier ZIM that recently teamed up with alibaba.com, has introduced Ladingo’s technology which is expected to improve logistics services to both sellers and buyers on China’s largest e-commerce platform. The...

27.11.2020

A mark in Australia's container exchange

The OOCL “Rotterdam”, with a capacity of more than 8,000 teu and sailing on the North East Asia A3 central service, has set a new record within the Port of Melbourne, Australia, for the hitherto highest container exchange in one...