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24.02.2020

Ship registries now take a closer look

Vessels that violate current United Nations Security Council resolutions (UNSCRs) on trading with North Korea will not be registered with the Palau international ship registry (PISR). Both the government of Palau and PISR...

21.02.2020

Hamburg Süd becomes more Mediterranean

The carrier Hamburg Süd, an affiliate of Maersk, hitherto relied on agents and joint-venture organisations to represent its operations in Italy and Spain. Now the shipping company has set up its own offices in these countries....

21.02.2020

HMM shortly before friendly takeover

As from April 2020, the South Korean shipping company Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) will be operating the "HMM Algeciras", the largest container vessel worldwide. This will ring in the next round of the programme to...

21.02.2020

Port of Hamburg back on track

After the start of the Elbe river dredging, lady luck is back in the port of Hamburg. In 2019, its seaborne cargo throughput rose to 136.6 million t, a modest growth of 1.1%. Nevertheless, container handling stood at 9.3 million...

20.02.2020

Hapag-Lloyd's big leap forward

On the basis of preliminary, not yet validated figures, the Hamburg-headquartered carrier Hapag-Lloyd achieved higher revenues and more profit in the 2019 financial year. The growth in revenues was considerable, by approximately...

20.02.2020

Wallonian inland navigation looks back on year of change

According to statistics in the Belgian province of Wallonia, 39.13 million t of cargo were shipped on the Walloon inland waterways over the year 2019. Volumes were 5.8% below the performance of 2017 and 2018 but remain equal to...

20.02.2020

DP World to delist quickly from Nasdaq Dubai

DP World is to become a private company and delist its shares. DP World’s parent company Port and Free Zone World has offered to acquire the 19.55% of DP World’s shares traded on Nasdaq Dubai, returning the company to private...

19.02.2020

Inland shipping powered by two Swedish ports

Mälarhamnar and Ports of Stockholm have decided to work together to make the greatest possible use of the sea and inland waterways for goods transports. The goal of this collaboration is to enable inland shipping between...

19.02.2020

Trieste drives the modal split ahead

With 62 million t, the Italian port of Trieste handled almost just as many volumes in 2019 as in the previous year. Add to that the 4 million t throughput at the port of Monfalcone. In its own assessment, the port met two...

19.02.2020

Turn of an era in European inland navigation?

It is a coalition of the willing. DeltaPort Niederrheinhäfen, Eon and the Rotterdam Port Authority are joining forces to create the conditions conducive to switching inland shipping in Germany and Europe from diesel to battery...

19.02.2020

New equipment for North Carolina Ports

It is a first for the North Carolina Ports (NCP) on the East Coast of the USA. A new crane will be installed at the Port of Morehead City, a breakbulk and bulk facility. The new Liebherr portals lewing crane type LPS 420 is a...

18.02.2020

Complementing the big alliances

The new partner is from South Korea. After HMM officially joined The Alliance, the shipping company carrier SM Line has agreed with 2M Alliance to co-operate on the Asia-America route starting 1 April this year. The 2M Alliance...

18.02.2020

Big shift by PIL in March

Pacific International Lines’ (PIL) is shifting its regional focus. The shipping company, which was founded in 1967, will withdraw its services from the Transpacific market. As a result of this service re-alignment, PIL’s last...

18.02.2020

More berths for the port of Corpus Christi

The Texan Port of Corpus Christi has been awarded a USD 17 million federal grant for the first phase of the Avery Point Terminal redevelopment. Thus the expansion of Oil Dock 3 (OD3) as the first of four phases in this project is...

Neues Juwel in der Krone?

Die Binnenschifffahrt wird als Verkehrsträger in den USA oftmals ebenso vernachlässigt wie in Europa. In der Folge öffentlicher Investitionen wittern aber auch die privaten Operateure wieder Morgenluft, wie eine frische...

17.02.2020

Spanish ports benefit from trade transformation

The 46 Spanish state ports handled almost 564,6 million t in the course of the year 2019 - a new historical record mark. Over the last decade (2010-2019), port traffic has increased at an average rate of 3% per year, from 432.5...

17.02.2020

HHLA beats 2018's figures in 2019

The Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) achieved a rise in volumes, revenues and operating results in 2019, according to preliminary unaudited figures. In total, 7.6 million teu were handled at HHLA’s container terminals, a...

17.02.2020

Port of Los Angeles under pressure

The port of Los Angeles remains in troubled waters. In January, the Californian port moved approx. 806,000 teu, a 5.4% decrease compared to last year. “We anticipated that tariffs would continue to impact cargo volumes as we...

14.02.2020

ZIM changes its Asia-Pacific service in the North West

ZIM has updated its Asia-Pacific North West product with effect from April 2020. The ZP8 (ZIM Pacific Procyon) will then call the following ports: Nansha – Yantian – Shanghai – Busan – Yokohama – Prince Rupert - Vancouver....

14.02.2020

The port of Rotterdam moved sideways in 2019

The port of Rotterdam handled the same amount of freight in 2019 as the year before. Freight throughput remained practically on the same level with 469.4 million t. Following a good start in the first six months of 2019, growth...