09.06.2022

Alternative fuels employed in Southampton

The container terminal of DP World at Southampton is going to eliminate fossil diesel from its operations entirely and transit to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Diesel previously accounted for 90% of the terminal’s emissions...
08.06.2022

Better units for Montreal's future

In Canada, the focus on eco-friendly vessels is prime concern for the Montreal Port Authority (MPA). The new class of 2,500-teu vessels like the “CMA CGM Montreal” fit into this strategy and, at the same time, provide extra...
08.06.2022

More green equipment for NTB Bremerhaven

The NTB North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven will soon receive a further 27 hybrid Kalmar straddle carriers for its container terminal, ordered in two batches in 2021 and 2022. The delivery of both orders is scheduled to take place in...
08.06.2022

Finnlines: all good things come in threes

The Chinese shipyard China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Jiangsu) has delivered the third hybrid ro-ro vessel for Finnlines. Each of the three ships is 238 m long, with a cargo capacity of 5,800 lane metres. Consequently, the...
07.06.2022

ASL expands its assets

The Hong Kong-based carrier Asean Seas Line (ASL), founded in 2011, is planning to expand its fleet. Four newbuilds with a capacity of 1,100 teu each will be launched at China State Shipbuilding Corp's leasing unit, CSSC...
07.06.2022

Financial partnerships for fleet expansion

Columbia Finance Solutions, the financing arm of the Columbia Group, has taken a stake in Ahorn Capital, a Hamburg-based platform for institutional and professional investors. The partnership will widen the range of financing...
07.06.2022

A jacket via Cherbourg

The jacket construction that is to support the electrical substation of the Fécamp offshore wind farm has just entered the port of Cherbourg. This jacket is 60 m high and weighs 1,200 t. It was towed on the Stralsund barge, which...
03.06.2022

Spanish Ports on pre-pandemic levels

From January to April 2022, the Spanish ports (Puertos del Estado) handled a total of 180.3 million t of goods, an uptick of 5.4% compared to the four first months of 2021 and almost on the same level as in 2019 (-0.8%). All...
03.06.2022

Military transport for the Middle East

In May 2022, Jacksonville Port Authority’s (Jaxport) Blount Island Marine Terminal handled cargo for the South Carolina-based 841st transportation battalion and the Virginia-based 597th transportation brigade. The vessels...
03.06.2022

First electric push boat christened

After a naming ceremony held in Berlin’s Westhafen, “Elektra”, the first emission-free pusher tug, is now ready for action. After almost two years of construction at shipyard Hermann Barthel in Derben (Germany), the first...
02.06.2022

Stable deterioration of reliability

The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence reports that global schedule reliability is continuing its trend of 2021. In April 2022, schedule reliability declined further by -1.3 percentage points compared to March...
02.06.2022

Karachi: new gateway for Uzbekistan

It is a first for the Pakistan International Container Terminal (Pict), an affiliate of the International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) operating in the Port of Karachi. It has just handled the first export shipment from...
02.06.2022

Hapag-Lloyd now really African

The deal is officially closed: Hapag-Lloyd is taking over the container liner business of German carrier Deutsche Afrika-Linien (DAL). The carriers had agreed on the framework agreement in March 2022, and the transaction has now...
01.06.2022

Which cure for the maritime crisis?

Four government advisors and decision makers representing four global regions were present on Fiata's panel entitled “Moving Forward: What are the Solutions to the Maritime Crisis”, a side event of the Fiata HQ Meeting in Geneva...
01.06.2022

ONE also expanding its fleet

Another round of ten Very Large Container Ships (VLCS) is in the pipeline. The Ocean Network Express (ONE), headquartered in Singapore, recently inked two ship building contracts at the same time. One contract was signed with...
01.06.2022

New hybrids on Grimaldi's seas

It was of course Malta that hosted the breaking of the champagne bottle. The christening ceremony for “Eco Malta”, the latest ro-ro vessel delivered to the Grimaldi Group, took place in the port of Valletta. It is the sixth unit...
01.06.2022

Upgrade for Timor Port

New equipment has been acquired for the Tibar Bay deep sea port close to Dili, the capital city of East Timor. Timor Port, a subsidiary of Bolloré Ports, recently received two tugs, two STS gantries and four RTG gantry cranes....
31.05.2022

Index shows clear decline in China

In April 2022, the container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) declined to 122.8 points from 123.3 points (seasonally...
31.05.2022

On how a carrier can buy back stocks

At its 2022 annual general meeting, Evergreen International, a corporate shareholder (4.96%) in Evergreen Marine, launched a request via its representative, lawyer Chu-chun Wu. He said that "Evergreen Marine should buy back...
31.05.2022

Trois-Rivières managed 2021 well

Canada’s Trois-Rivières Port Authority (TRPA) has reported its 2021 results. The port, located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, welcomed 217 vessels, recorded cargo traffic of 3.9 million t and...
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