24.08.2021

Gothenburg's traffic recovering slowly

Freight volumes are coming back: Sweden’s Port of Gothenburg handled 411,000 containers in H1/2021 – an increase of 2% compared to the same period in 2020. The addition of new rail destinations in the spring supported the growth...
24.08.2021

DP World strengthens Jeddah

DP World has ordered more than 80 Kalmar Ottawa T2 terminal tractors for its South Container Terminal (SCT) in Jeddah Islamic Port. The delivery of the equipment is scheduled for Q2/2022. Jeddah Islamic Port is the largest...
24.08.2021

India revises inland navigation law

The ship classification society Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) helped draft the inland vessels bill which was recently passed by the Indian parliament. The inland vessels act 2021 repeals the earlier inland vessels act...
23.08.2021

Enhancing ship management in Saudi Arabia

Columbia Ship Management has entered into a joint venture with Spectrum Group, which is based in Khobar on the coast of the Gulf in Eastern Saudi Arabia, with the aim to create a new, technologically advanced ship management...
23.08.2021

Second PCTC runs on LNG and battery

UECC's second LNG battery hybrid pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) has hit the water. It is also the second out of three LNG battery hybrid sistership newbuilds at the Jiangnan Shipyard in China. Hull number H2664 was...
23.08.2021

Omani takes next step on the seas

MOL and Asyad Shipping have welcomed the appointment of the first Omani captain to serve on board an LNG carrier jointly owned by the two shipping companies. The Japanese line MOL has played a role in supporting the...
20.08.2021

Manaus wants more

Super Terminais Comercio e Industria (Super Terminais), a private cargo terminal at the Port of Manaus, Brazil, has ordered three Konecranes Gottwald cranes to serve large container vessels. A river port located at the...
20.08.2021

Growth at Global Ports

Russian terminal operator Global Ports has reported its results for H1/2021. Consolidated marine container throughput went up by 1.9% year-on-year to more almost 790,000 teu while the consolidated marine bulk container segment...
20.08.2021

Stockholm winning against 2020

Freight volumes are catching up at the Port of Kapellskär, Ports of Stockholm's biggest freight port. Up to and including July, volumes grew by 9.6% compared to the same period the previous year. Approximately two million t of...
20.08.2021

Baltic: more unaccompanied traffic

In H1/2021, the Port of Kiel increased its cargo volume and processed 8.25% more goods than in the same period of the previous year. All in all, 3.66 million t of cargo were handled in Kiel H1/2021. Ferry traffic grew...
19.08.2021

Boom continues for Zim in Q2

The shipping group Zim has published its consolidated results for Q2/2021. The volumes carried by the line grew by 44% year-on-year, to 921,000 teu. H1/2020 saw 1.3 million teu handled. The average freight rate per teu over the...
19.08.2021

Zeebrugge taking advantage of Brexit

The port of Zeebrugge’s figures remained stable in H1/2021, overall, with specific trades growing. The total tonnage for the first semester of 2021 increased by 0.6% vis-à-vis the same period last year, to 25.2 million t....
19.08.2021

Freight drives DFDS

It comes as no surprise that the latest growth curve of the DFDS was based “almost entirely on our freight activities, that is to say ferries and logistics,” as the Danish shortsea operator said in a press release reporting its...
18.08.2021

DHL gets drunk on J.F. Hillebrand

DHL, which has been amongst the bidders for prime player J.F. Hillebrand for a while, has now made it. The Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL) has inked an agreement to acquire all of the J.F. Hillebrand Group and its subsidiaries at...
18.08.2021

The run of carriers in the Transpacific

The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence has taken an in-depth look at the current hot spot in Asia–North American west coast (NAWC) trades. After a dip in the number of distinct Asia–NAWC services, due to the...
18.08.2021

New Cagliari terminal operational

The Genoa-based Gruppo Grendi has been setting a new trend since late July, when it commenced operations in its new Mito container terminal in Sardinia. The facility in Cagliari is dedicated to feeder services and the import and...
18.08.2021

Further equipment for Montreal

New cranes for the port of Montreal. Logistec Stevedoring, a dry bulk terminal operator in the Canadian port of Montreal, ordered a Konecranes Gottwald model 7 mobile harbour crane in June. It will be delivered in October and...
17.08.2021

Strong H1/2021 for Port of Houston

Out of the approximately 450 airports, seaports and border crossings in the United States, the Port of Houston ranked third after the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Newark according to statistics of the US Census Bureau. In...
17.08.2021

First dual-use LPG carrier in Japan

The naming ceremony for the LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas)-fuelled LPG carrier "Crystal Asteria", which is being built for Kumiai Navigation, was held at the Sakaide Shipyard recently. The vessel is Japan's first...
17.08.2021

Baltic port of Lübeck exceeds results of 2019

Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) handled 12 million t of goods in H1/2021, making up for the Corona-related shortfalls of 2020. "With an increase of 4% compared to 2019, we have continued our earlier successes,"...
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