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24.08.2020

The dirty dozen and the Port of Hamburg

Like other ports of the Northern Europe range, the Port of Hamburg's first six months of the year were hit by the impact of the corona crisis. Total seaborne cargoes were at 61.2 million t, down by 12%. In the container handling...

24.08.2020

Global Ports' uneasy H1/2020

The Russian container terminal operator Global Ports has reported its figures for the first six months of 2020. Its total consolidated marine container throughput went up 8.4% year-on-year to 774,000 teu, whereas there was a 2.4%...

24.08.2020

Asaf calls at Kribi

The direct Asia-Africa (asaf) line recently called the Kribi deep-water port in Cameroon. Asaf, operated by the CMA CGM shipping company, is run in partnership with Maersk and Nile Dutch. As a first-timer, the Kribi Conteneurs...

24.08.2020

Emden and Brunsbüttel join LNG network

The "Engie Zeebrugge" carried out two ship-to-ship-bunkering operations in two German ports recently. In mid-August, the vessel arrived in the port of Emden, where "Titan LNG" delivered just over 1,000 t of...

21.08.2020

ZIM passes threshold

The shipping group ZIM has published its consolidated results for H1/2020. Volumes carried by ZIM went down by 8.4% to 1.3 million teu compared to 1.4 million teu in H1/2019. Yet, the average freight rate per teu over the...

21.08.2020

Swissterminal targets Comco

Swissterminal AG, a logistics service provider headquartered in Frenkendorf close to Basel, is bringing a formal complaint before the Swiss federal administrative court with regards to the planned trimodal terminal Gateway Basel...

21.08.2020

Windy summer season around the Baltic Sea

During the 2020 summer season, Chipolbrok vessels showed an increased presence in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea due to the predominance of wind energy projects in the region. Especially in Poland various wind farm projects are...

20.08.2020

Unifeeder broadens DP World's portfolio

The Unifeeder Group, a part of DP World since 2018, has opted for further acquisitions. The Unifeeder ISC platform managed the purchase of Transworld Feeders FZCO, Avana Logistek Limited, including its subsidiary Avana Global...

20.08.2020

Scandinavian Shuttle Service now in operation

CMA CGM's new container service, providing an additional link between Gothenburg and Hamburg, will initially deploy the vessel "Aries J" with a capacity of over 1,000 teu. The service includes a weekly call at...

20.08.2020

Baltic Sea Bridge reaches first milestone

Since the end of March, Mukran Port Terminals has been operating, in cooperation with DBO Bahnoperator, a fixed sea link, flagged Baltic Sea Bridge, as part of the New Silk Road between Asia and Europe. With the Mukran port...

19.08.2020

POLB's peak in July

The rebound in US container traffic has reached the West Coast. In the Californian Port of Long Beach, the month of July marked the peak of box throughput in the port's 109-year history. Terminals handled more than 753,000...

19.08.2020

Yang Ming's H2/20020 on the rise

Benefiting from strong freight rates and relatively low fuel costs, Keelung-headquartered Chinese shipping group Yang Ming was able to improve its figures despite the corona impact. For H1/2020, the company’s consolidated...

19.08.2020

LNG for three PCTC

As previously reported (see ITJ Daily of 22 June), European Car Carriers (UECC), jointly owned by Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and Wallenius Lines, will build three LNG battery hybrid powered generation PCTC with China...

19.08.2020

APM strikes in Aarhus

The Aarhus Logistics Centre (ALC) is selling its container terminal in Aarhus to neighbouring APM Terminals Operations and transferring its port areas with effect from 1 September 2020. The terminal was established by ALC in the...

18.08.2020

Balanced cargo streams in Oakland

July turned out to be a good month for the Port of Oakland close to San Francisco (USA). Containerised import shipments jumped 6.4% in July compared to 2019 totals. The step up followed a 1.9% increase in June. The good news...

18.08.2020

Flemish channels find their swing

Flemish Waterways, Port of Antwerp, Port of Ostend, Port of Zeebrugge and North Sea Port as well as the Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services and the Common Nautical Management (CNM) have joined forces to introduce the...

18.08.2020

Work starts on pier extension in Koper

Construction work for the extension of the southern part of pier I in the Slovenian port of Koper has begun. The quayside is expected to be completed in March 2021; it will bring the quay to a length of 695 m. The first phase of...

17.08.2020

Maritime arbitration - a centred business

London continues to dominate the market for international maritime arbitration, according to an analysis presented by the law firm HFW, accounting for more than 80% of all cases worldwide.London handled 1,737 maritime...

17.08.2020

Hapag-Lloyd weathers H1 well

The Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd improved its financial result significantly in H1/2020, but lost volumes. While revenues rose by 2,5% to EUR 6.4 billion (EUR 6.2 billion in H1/2019), earnings before interest and taxes...

17.08.2020

Weekly Tarros Line East Med service

The Tarros Group has added the Italian port of Ravenna as a new node in its network, making the hub part of the new Tarros container service to and from several Eastern Mediterranean destinations. The shipping group has thus...