The gates to the new ro-ro terminal in Stockholm have opened. On 9 November, the Stena Line vessel “Stena Flavia” was the maiden call at Stockholm Norvik Port. The new ro-ro terminal run by Hutchison Ports Stockholm offers...
The ITIC - International Transport Intermediaries Club, managed by Thomas Miller – has repeated its warnings for ship and port agent members to be aware of approaches from people traffickers attempting to smuggle illegal...
The Bergen-based Norwegian shortsea operator Wilson has reported its Q3/2020 results. Turnover in the quarter amounted to EUR 63.7 million, 6.5% less than in the same period in 2019 (EUR 68.2 million). Its operating profits...
The extension of the South End Container Terminal, operated by PSA Halifax, at the Port of Halifax in Canada is now operational. The first vessel to call the new terminal is the “Zim Tarragona”. With the extension, the...
In the Netherlands, Tharsis Sea-River Shipping has inked a contract with two partners of the wind-craft industry, e-Conowind and NG shipyard, about a new wind-assist installation. The Dutch companies contracted to install two of...
Unter Pandemie-Bedingungen zu arbeiten, ist für kein Unternehmen der Branche leicht. Im Allgemeinen gelten die Unternehmen, die sich dem digitalen Austausch verschrieben haben, als Gewinner. Dass das differenziert zu sehen ist,...
In the Polish port of Gdynia, the terminal operator Hutchison Ports marked the milestone of having handled 4 million teu since the commencement of operations in March 2006. The 4 millionth container was discharged from MV...
Filipino port and terminal operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has released its unaudited consolidated financial results for the first nine months of 2020. Revenues from port operations amounted to...
Another step forward in the efforts to expand multimodal connections between ports in France: About a year after launching its operations between inland ports Rouen and Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Marfret's container rail service is...
Total throughput in the port of Krems an der Donau remained stable at around 1.1 million t from January to September 2020 (-0.5% compared to the previous year). River-based throughput increased by 30% to 416,000 t, which includes...
Chinese carrier Cosco Shipping has placed orders for seven new container vessels with a capacity of 23,000 teu each. The overall investment is estimated at USD 1.1 billion. Cosco's affiliate Orient Overseas International...
Northern England's Teesport has recently handled the “Balt VI”, a first vessel of the new cargo service operated by Containerships, an affiliate of CMA CGM, from the Baltics. The service from Klaipeda was launched in October...
Bargelink, the marketplace for European inland shipping and the Freighttech company Timocom have formed a strategic partnership to combine their assets. Every month, around 700 barges and up to 200,000 t of freight are...
The wave of good news from carriers continues. Japan’s Ocean Network Express (ONE) reported a profit leap of 326% for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2020, which runs from April 1 to March 31. The Singapore-based...
The Spanish Port of Algeciras has been running a pilot project in cooperation with Maersk Line, APMT, Marmedsa, and the digital platform portxchange to optimise port calls and thereby reduce emissions. The aim of the pilot is to...
Florida-based Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) has reported the results of its fiscal year 2020 that runs from 1 October till 30 September. About 1.28 million teu were handled, down 5% from 2019, which was a record year....
The Japanese shipping company MOL inked charter agreements for three icebreaking LNG carriers with LLC Arctic LNG 2, in which the Russian company Pao Novatek holds the largest share, through a wholly owned MOL subsidiary on 28...
Eight new hybrid rubber-tired gantries (RTG) were recently delivered to the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), the flagship of the Filipino terminal and port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc....
The maritime industry in general is changing fundamentally as vessels transform into sophisticated sensor hubs, generating data and connecting through satellites in an expanding interconnected web. To enable the uptake of...
The ports of Croatia, Iceland, Slovenia and Spain are statistically the ones that have suffered the most from the decrease in the number of ship calls throughout the European Union, Norway, Iceland and the United Kingdom since...
