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03.12.2020

Grenaa going greener

Grenaa, a Danish port city on the Kattegat forming the geographical centre of Denmark, is investing in its equipment. In October, the port of Grenaa ordered a mobile harbour crane which has a 54 m long boom and a maximum lifting...

02.12.2020

Drewry sees global recovery

The container port throughput index of the London-based maritime consultancy Drewry has seen positive year-on-year growth for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. "Global recovery has finally...

02.12.2020

Swedish-Finnish action to cut carbon footprint

The Swedish-Finnish Bothnia Bulk project, which combines the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel for two bulk carriers together with other technologies on board and on land, has achieved a significant 50% reduction in CO2...

02.12.2020

Garden City Terminal on the rise

The Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal has marked year-over-year increases for five consecutive months, and 34 out of the past 36 months. Recently, the port moved 363,000 teu in November, a 5.4% increase over the same...

01.12.2020

World trade still in turmoil

According to the report issued by the general customs administration of the People's Republic of China, Iran's trade with China during the first nine months of last year amounted to USD 18.17 billion. In contrast, total trade...

01.12.2020

Spanish ports in 2020 so far

Until and including October, Spain’s state-owned ports handled a total of 420.3 million t of merchandise, about 9.8% less than in the same period of the previous year. The volume of containers in international transit...

01.12.2020

New cargo mark in Iraq

It was Yang Ming's “Mutuality”, a container vessel with a capacity of 6,589 teu that recently set a new record at Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) in Um Qasr, Iraq. The BGT recorded a total of 1,768 moves on the vessel in 17.5...

30.11.2020

Doubling the Cork-Zeebrugge service

The Belgian liner CLdN is adding a second weekly call from the Port of Cork to the Port of Zeebrugge "to cope with the increasing demand on the current route", as the shipping company said in a press release. Adding...

30.11.2020

New Ireland-France service in 2021

In January 2021 DFDS will launch a new freight ferry service between Dunkirk in northern France and Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland. The route will be operated with three ferries, each with a capacity for up to 125 trucks....

30.11.2020

ZIM lands Ladingo

The Haifa-based carrier ZIM that recently teamed up with alibaba.com, has introduced Ladingo’s technology which is expected to improve logistics services to both sellers and buyers on China’s largest e-commerce platform. The...

27.11.2020

A mark in Australia's container exchange

The OOCL “Rotterdam”, with a capacity of more than 8,000 teu and sailing on the North East Asia A3 central service, has set a new record within the Port of Melbourne, Australia, for the hitherto highest container exchange in one...

27.11.2020

MSC lets the sun rise

In order to foster its intra-Asia network, MSC is launching its new weekly Sunrise service, connecting Japan, Korea and Russia, effective from week 49. The Sunrise opens a new route between Japan, Korea and Vladivostok and...

27.11.2020

Weekly barge service on the Rhine

From rail to the river: From January 2021, the Switzerland-based logistics provider and terminal operator Swissterminal, a partner of the DP World network, will launch a regular barge service with two roundtrips each week from...

26.11.2020

New liner service from Singapore

Australia's major privately owned shipping company, Sea Swift, has launched its new Dampier-Singapore liner shipping service, due to start in December 2020. The shipping company appointed the Gulf Agency Company (GAC) as carrier...

26.11.2020

A good digital response to 'smart ports'

The ports of Antwerp, Barcelona, Busan, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal and Rotterdam have joined forces to present their most innovative projects in digitalisation and sustainability. On the 17 and 18 November, the second and...

26.11.2020

Survey of energy efficiency in shipping

With regards to the youngest short-term greenhouse gas emissions measures agreed at the last meeting of the IMO’s marine environment protection committee, the international trade association Interferry is launching an energy...

25.11.2020

Container index climax

The container throughput index of the German RWI – Leibniz institute for economic research and the institute of shipping economics and logistics (ISL) showed a robust improvement in October, rising from (corrected) 119.6 to 122.6...

25.11.2020

Hamburg: turnaround takes time

The big ports worldwide are taking longer to reboost than the carriers. In Q3/2020, the decline in seaborne cargo in Hamburg, Germany’s largest port, reached 8%. The port had lost 16.2% in Q2/2020. Thus, it is too early to speak...

25.11.2020

Ashdod and DP World in negotiations

The first MSC vessel to sail with cargo from Israel directly to Dubai through Egypt’s Port Said carried a special container from Ashdod, Israel's second main port. It was a special shipment of adhesive tapes from the Davik...

24.11.2020

Framework for autonomous shipping

The Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco) is currently preparing the first contract model for the operation of autonomous vessels. The first version is planned to be published in 2021. It will be an adaptation of...