16.02.2022

USD 60 million for Tra Pac Jacksonville terminal

Ceres Terminals and Jaxport have inked an agreement on investing USD 60 million over a 20-year-timeline in the lease and modernisation of the Tra Pac Jacksonville container terminal in Jacksonville, Florida. In a separate...
16.02.2022

New loop for dual-fuel road-railway ferry

Russia's first dual-fuel road-railway ferry, named after the Polish-Russian Marshal Rokossovsky, is preparing for its next trip. After having successfully completed its voyage from the seaport of Tuzla, Istanbul, to the seaport...
15.02.2022

Danish fleet expands

The fleet of ships sailing under the Danish flag continues to grow. A political strategy initiated more than a decade ago has increased the total tonnage of Danish vessels by 43%. As recently published by the Danish Maritime...
15.02.2022

More capacity for a tight market

Hamburg-headquartered Dships has taken delivery of the last out of four newbuilds. The F-500 "MV Charlie" follows the multipurpose heavy lift vessels “MV Mick”, “MV Keith” and “MV Ronnie” as part of the fleet expansion...
15.02.2022

Still rough times at sea

Women and minority groups are still particularly exposed to bullying and harassment at sea. This fact is confirmed in a survey conducted out by Cecilia Österman and Magnus Boström of the Kalmar Maritime Academy of Linnaeus...
14.02.2022

Swiss Port of Basel on its way back

2021 saw a comeback of cargo flows in the Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inland ports on the River Rhine in Basel. The port authority’s three hubs handled 5.41 million t of goods in 2021, 5.5% more than the...
14.02.2022

Fresh blood for Briese

BBC Chartering, an affiliate of the Briese Group from Leer (Germany), is enlarging its fleet. The new ‘BBC Ukraine’, an F-500 type multipurpose and heavylift vessel co-owned by Briese Schiffahrt and Swiss investors  was...
14.02.2022

Maritime trade back to pre-pandemic levels

In 2021, international maritime trade recovered to pre-pandemic levels and reached 12 billion t transported, corresponding to approximately 1,5 t per inhabitant of the earth. According to the latest weekly report by analyst...
11.02.2022

Normalisation on the seas within sight?

The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence has analysed the emerging endemic Covid period and, since there is no historical precedent fully describing this situation, compared it to the period of the US West Coast...
11.02.2022

ZIM charters more units

Haifa-based ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has entered into a new charter agreement with Navios Maritime Partners for a total of thirteen container vessels. Out of these, five are second-hand vessels and eight will be...
11.02.2022

Digital tool to ease Brexit difficulties

Ferry operator P&O Ferries has launched a new digital product to assist freight customers in dealing with Brexit complexities. The digital ‘travel wallet’ provides a possible answer to the next set of border requirements...
10.02.2022

Hydra with new heads

New piracy hot spots are forming, according to an IMB report.
10.02.2022

More North America for Maersk

A.P. Moller-Maersk will buy USA-based Pilot Freight Services from ATL Partners, a sector-focused private equity firm in New York and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) in Canada. The transaction will cost...
10.02.2022

Habben Jansen expects congestion to end

Optimism is Rolf Habben Jansen's third motto, caution his second one. More punctual shipping connections and lower transport costs are on the horizon if additional terminal employees can be recruited, amongst other things, he...
10.02.2022

Exploring the Thames

A new study has revealed that the River Thames has an enormous untapped potential for handling light freight. The ‘Light Freight on the River Thames’ report was commissioned by the Thames Estuary Growth Board and the Port of...
09.02.2022

Barcelona handles ever-more ULCVs

Huge containerships are also leaving their mark on the port of Barcelona. Between January and November 2021, the number of calls from ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) with a capacity of more than 20,000 teu increased by 78%...
09.02.2022

Grendi Group pushy in 2021

The Genoa-based Gruppo Grendi’s performance improved in 2021, with turnover surging to EUR 68.6 million (+19% compared to 2020). Since the group established its home port in the terminal of Marina di Carrara, between La Spezia...
09.02.2022

Additional office for the Indian Register

On 1 February the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) opened an office in Coimbatore, in India’s southernmost federal state of Tamil Nadu. The industrial city has a diversified manufacturing sector, including more than 25,000...
08.02.2022

Spanish ports on the rise

According to provisional data published by the Spanish state ports authority (Puertos del Estado), they handled 532.2 million t of merchandise, a surge of 5.3% compared to 2020. All sectors recorded increases. While conventional...
08.02.2022

DPW London and Southampton terminals thrive

DP World’s two ports in UK handled a combined volume of almost 3.7 million teu in 2021. In detail, the London Gateway hub saw throughput of more than 1.8 million teu, a 15% increase on the annual record set last year. DP World...
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