09.02.2021

Good start for Long Beach

Following its historic peak year 2020 with 8.11 million teu handled, the Port of Long Beach has reported its busiest start of an annual year so far. The port handled more than 764,000 Teu in January. Imports grew 17.5% to...
09.02.2021

Two stronger links instead of one

Two links instead of one: The Naples-headquartered Grimaldi Group has rearranged its connections between Italy and Greece. In the coming weeks, the daily Ancona-Igoumenitsa-Patras link will be further enhanced, with two...
09.02.2021

Italian software goes north

Italian IB group from Rapallo, a provider of ship performance and operation control software, has opened a technical and commercial branch office in Leer, Lower Saxony (Germany). Under the Info Ship brand, it is due to develop...
08.02.2021

VCFI confirms development

The Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) has begun the new year with a growth of 10.41% in line with the second half of 2019. The demand in the shipping market is also reflected in the low share of the idle fleet, which...
08.02.2021

The cold drives LNG transits

In January, the Panama Canal set a new record in transits and volumes of LNG carriers. The transformation of the energy market was reflected by 58 LNG passing the Neopanamax Locks over the whole month, totalling 6.74 million...
08.02.2021

Port of Kapellskär won in 2020

2020 was a good year for the Swedish Port of Kapellskär, Ports of Stockholm’s largest freight port. Despite the worldwide pandemic, freight volumes in 2020 increased 9% compared to the previous year. Freight volumes at Port...
05.02.2021

At the gates of London

You can move a great distance whilst staying in the same corporation, as Dutchman Ernst Schulze did in September 2019, moving from Ecuador to become CEO of DP World in the UK. He spoke to ­Christian Doepgen about developing...
05.02.2021

ONE's great leap

Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express has published its results for its Q3, which covers the period of October to December 2020. ONE’s fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31. The quarter saw a particularly strong...
05.02.2021

New terminal in Alexandria

The Egyptian authorities of the Port of Alexandria plan to enter into a long-term partnership with CMA CGM to operate and manage Pier 55. The negotiations in Egypt were headed by CMA CGM chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saadé. In...
05.02.2021

Carrier reliability hits rock bottom

The Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence provider Sea-Intelligence has published the figures on carrier schedule reliability in December last year. In its latest issue of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, CEO Alan...
04.02.2021

A fresh breeze for Helvetia

'Trudy' and "Helvetia', the deep-sea vessels owned by the Swiss Confederation, have been taken over by the Briese Schifffahrt Group. The transaction totalled CHF 15 million. Many investors resident in Switzerland...
04.02.2021

QSL expands in North America

The Quebec-headquartered terminal operator QSL has acquired Empire Stevedoring. Based in Montreal, Empire specialises in port terminal operation, stevedoring, marine services and transport. The takeover will increase QSL's...
04.02.2021

Waving the performing flags

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published the latest Flag State Performance Table (2020/2021). According to its findings, the largest flag states – including the Marshall Islands, Hong Kong (China), Singapore...
03.02.2021

Big Data for K Line's fleet

K Line and Ship Data Center (Ship DC) have agreed to share operation data of all the vessels of its fleet that are equipped with “Kawasaki integrated maritime solutions” via the Internet of Ships Open Pplatform (IoS-OP) promoted...
03.02.2021

Carrier HMM to be sold

It was the state of South Korea that invested heavily in HMM, at the time still Hyundai Mechant Marine, through its subsidiary Korea Development Bank (KDB). The state-owned unit, amongst others, bought up to KRW 1 trillion...
03.02.2021

More quay space for shippers

As part of its restructuring programme, the Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) will handle all forest products at the Skandinavienkai and Schlutup terminals in future. This reorganisation creates free areas at the Nordlandkai,...
02.02.2021

Haropa coming back

Resilience is key in the difficult global economic context of Covid-19. The French port association Haropa comprising Le Havre, Paris and Rouen ended 2020 with overall maritime and river traffic volumes of 108 million t, 6% down...
02.02.2021

More containers handled in Guadeloupe

The Grand Port Maritime de la Guadeloupe (GPMG) was not spared the effects of the global health crisis. Yet, although most indicators were down compared to 2019, container traffic recorded a growth of 6%. Between September...
02.02.2021

Sealand: From Wilhelmshaven to Alexandria

Sealand, a Maersk company, has launched a new liner service. It connects Germany's only deep-water container port Wilhelmshaven with various destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean. From Wilhelmshaven, the vessels call at...
01.02.2021

Slight setback in ports worldwide

In December 2020, the flash estimate for its container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and...
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