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18.02.2021

Wallenius SOL calling Lübeck

The Wallenius SOL (WSAB) shipping company has added Lübeck (LHG) to its roundtrip between Finland and Antwerp on the northbound route. Once a week, the vessels "Fionia Sea" and "Jutlandia Sea" take turns to...

17.02.2021

Hutchison Ports invests in Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia, the Royal Commission in Jubail and Yanbu and Hutchison Ports have inked an agreement to invest and operate JCPDI Port, which consists of multipurpose terminals within the Jazan City for Primary and Downstream...

17.02.2021

More services call London Gateway

Two new major international shipping services, linking the key economies of western Europe with the eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and Russia, have opted for London Gateway as their new UK port of call. The first is the...

17.02.2021

Port of Basel resilient in 2020

In the Swiss Rhine ports, goods throughput in 2020 fell by 15.5% compared to 2019. After 2018 with its low water levels, 2019 was a strong year, regaining lost ground and increasing its throughput by an impressive 30%. Therefore,...

16.02.2021

Duisport scores in key segment

The major European inland port and hub duisport witnessed segmental growth in a difficult year 2020. Container handling went up by 5% 4.2 million teu (4 million teu in 2019), a new record mark. With a share of around 55%,...

16.02.2021

CMA CGM serious about air division

A long-held dream has come true. The French shipping group CMA CGM Group is establishing its own specialised airfreight division.The carrier's first move to buy a 30%-stake in the Group Dubreuil, owner of the long-haul airlines...

16.02.2021

HMM also scores

Like the other big carriers, HMM took advantage of the cargo boom in the pandemic year of 2020. The South Korean group, formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine, was able to achieve an operating profit in 2020 of USD 831.1...

15.02.2021

Antwerp and Zeebrugge embrace

It is a unification from A to Z. The cities of Antwerp and Bruges have reached an agreement to merge their respective ports. The unification process is expected to take one year. The ports will operate under the double name of...

15.02.2021

Containers in Cork unaffected

The southern Irish Port of Cork has reported its results for 2020. Total traffic passing through the port was down by 2% to 9.2 million t, due to "the challenges posed by Covid-19 and the cancellation of cruise calls to Cork...

15.02.2021

Jaxport bounces back too

The global recovery of the automobile manufacturing industry is also driving growth in the Jacksonville Port in Florida (Jaxport). In the first quarter of its fiscal year, which started in October 2020, the port’s vehicle...

15.02.2021

Michelin banks on wind transport

Michelin recently signed a transport commitment with Neoline as a test initiative to help decarbonise the group's logistics operations. The commitment concerns the trans-Atlantic trade on cargo ships with tyres loaded in...

12.02.2021

Hapag Lloyd turns mega

It’s no mean feat: carrier Hapag-Lloyd is breaking new ground in financing by securing USD 889 million in loans for its next projects. The Hamburg-based shipping company was able to conclude two debut transactions according to...

12.02.2021

New service links Turkey with Spain

Ekol Logistics has introduced a new intermodal connection between Turkey and Spain. The Denmark-headquartered DFDS operates the ro-ro services that Ekol plans to use in this connection. The company will use Izmir’s Port of...

12.02.2021

Enhancements at Felixstowe

The British Port of Felixstowe has completed its upgrade in order to make Hutchison Ports fit to accommodate larger ro-ro vessels. The redesign of facilities at the port includes the lengthening of No.3 ro-ro berth and the...

11.02.2021

Alternative units for open seas

Given the limited space in a tight sea freight market from China to Europe, Geodis has launched a number of services with alternative units. The first, a 1,000 teu capacity vessel, is scheduled to arrive in Hamburg on 28...

11.02.2021

A vessel ahead of schedule

Yang Ming, a member of The Alliance, took delivery of another 11,000 teu new chartered vessel ‘YM Target’ this month. With the support from the ship owner, ‘YM Target’ has joined Yang Ming’s global fleet nearly three months ahead...

11.02.2021

New equipment for Antwerp

Antwerp Container Terminal (ACOT), a member of the SEA-invest Group, has placed an order for two Liebherr ship-to-shore container cranes. The cranes are identical to one already delivered in 2020. SEA-invest is active in 25...

10.02.2021

DP World balanced in 2020

Container volumes continued to flow via DP World in 2020. Throughout the first year of the pandemic, DP World handled 71.2 million teu, volumes developed sidewards (+0.2% on a like-for-like basis). This was possible due to a...

10.02.2021

Strasbourg stands up to pandemic

The inland Ports of Strasbourg in France, which will move to new headquarters in 2021, maintained their services throughout the pandemic in 2020. River traffic stood at 6.8 million t, down 9.5% from 2019. The shutdowns in 2020...

10.02.2021

Resilience at Trois-Rivières

The Port of Trois-Rivières has reported its annual results. In 2020, the Canadian port handled a volume of goods of 3.3 million t, down from 2019, but in line with the forecasts. The 2.9 million t of dry bulk traffic...