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03.07.2020

New cranes at Regensburg

The intermodal operator Bayernhafen, Germany, is enhancing its equipment. As the largest freight transport and cargo handling hub in all of Bavaria, Regensburg is the chosen location of the company that has five more inland port...

02.07.2020

MSC goes instant

The Switzerland-headquartered MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has added a new tool to its e-business platform myMSC. The instant quote function provides for real-time shipping rates for container bookings. Currently, the...

02.07.2020

Floating crane in New York harbour

For multiple deployment in the New York harbour, Sims Metal Management made flexible use of a Liebherr mobile harbour crane type LHM 600 to load scrap and unload salt. The crane is placed on a floating barge and can be moved to...

02.07.2020

A trio for fair bunker prices

With regards to the volatile charges for bunkering in the transport market, an initiative which the maritime consultancy Drewry and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC) started last year to define fair principles and a clear...

01.07.2020

Q3/2020 in the doldrums, Sea Intelligence expects

In its latest issue 106 of its Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, the Copenhagen (Denmark)-based maritime intelligence provider Sea-Intelligence refers to the recent revision of the IMF's outlook for the global economy,...

01.07.2020

AEO for APM in Barcelona

APM Terminals Barcelona has taken a further step to ease up handling processes. The terminal has obtained the authorised economic operator (OEA) certificate for customs procedures, a declaration issued by the Spanish tax agency...

01.07.2020

Maiden voyage of HMM "Oslo" in UK

The HMM "Oslo", the biggest vessel ever to call at DP World Southampton, has completed her maiden voyage to the UK. The ULCV arrived at Southampton from South Korea having called at ports in China, Singapore and...

30.06.2020

CMA CGM brings Turkey closer

CMA CGM is adding a call in Taranto (Italy) to its Turmed service from 10 July. The service links Turkey, Tunisia and Europe via the group’s Malta hub. Four 1,100 teu vessels will be deployed. From July on, Italy and Turkey will...

30.06.2020

Giants for giants

72 monopile foundations for the Danish offshore wind farm "Kriegers Flak", which is under construction and will be run by Vattenfall, are currently being loaded in the port of Rostock (Germany). The wind farm, located...

30.06.2020

Fresh funding for Ports of Lower Saxony

According to a draft for the supplementary budget for 2020, the German regional government of Lower Saxony is planning to provide EUR 20 million in additional funds for a “special port programme” with the aim of speeding up...

29.06.2020

New times for the Port of Melbourne

The “CMA CGM Ural” is the container ship with the largest capacity to call the Port of Melbourne to date. The 299 m long vessel is one of six currently deployed on the South-East Asia - Australia trade route called the ‘AAX1’. It...

29.06.2020

Cargo Gulf links Middle East with Asian markets

The Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) Cargo Gulf, established in 1985, now operates a new Arab Gulf-Indian Subcontinent liner service (AGISC), linking Pakistan and India directly to markets in the upper Persian Gulf. ...

29.06.2020

Oldendorff joins Australian association

Shipping Australia, the country's major national shipping association, has expanded its membership. The latest company to join is the international dry bulk shipping company Oldendorff Carriers. Headquartered in Germany,...

26.06.2020

Uptick at the ports of Rio Grande do Sul

In some parts of the globe, Covid-19 did not stop business development. The growth rate in the ports of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), reached 4.5% from January to May 2020, compared to the same period the year before.In these five...

26.06.2020

World container flows on hold

The container throughput index of the German RWI – Leibniz institute for economic research and the institute of shipping economics and logistics (ISL) hardly moved at all from April to May, falling from (corrected) 107.8 to 107.7...

26.06.2020

Laurels for the Porto do Açu

The Porto do Açu, located half-way between Rio de Janeiro and Vitoria on the Brazilian coastline, has won the world ports sustainability award from the international association of ports and harbours (IAPH´s world ports...

25.06.2020

DP World completes acquisition in Ukraine

Dubai-based terminal and port operator DP World recently finalised its acquisition of a 51% stake in TIS Container Terminal in the port of Yuzhny, Ukraine. The relevant authorities have given their green light. This project...

25.06.2020

Certifications and talks in Hamburg

The Altenwerder container terminal operated by Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) in Hamburg has further reduced its carbon emissions. TÜV Nord, which certified the facility’s climate neutrality for the first time in 2019, has...

25.06.2020

Green light for dredging at Rijeka

In the Croatian Port of Rijeka, a contract for the dredging of the south berth at Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT) has been signed. The works, an investment of HRK 78 million (EUR 10.3 million) also supported by...

24.06.2020

Paving the way for methanol in shipping

A consortium of European maritime research and technology corporations, amongst them the Port of Antwerp, Lloyd's Register, the Swedish Maritime Administration and Heinzmann, have launched the so-called "Fastwater"...