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17.09.2020

Technology upgrade at P&O Ferrymasters

P&O Ferrymasters, an affiliate of DP World, has launched a new track and trace service for its container customers. The service will allow customers to receive real time updates on the precise location of their goods as they...

16.09.2020

Iumi's marine market trends

The International Union of Marine Insurance (Iumi) recently presented its analysis of the latest marine insurance market trends for 2019. Marine underwriting premiums for 2019 were estimated to be USD 28.7 billion, which...

16.09.2020

More capacity between Central Italy and Sicily

By adding another vessel, the Italian Grimaldi Group enhances its freight and passenger transport connections between Central Italy and Sicily. Effective now, this additional ro-pax ship between the ports of Livorno and Palermo...

16.09.2020

Combining port activities under one brand

At the river Tees, the operator AV Dawson has combined its logistics business in one new port facility. The new brand Port of Middlesbrough is actually an historic one, bringing a name back to the area from over 100 years ago....

15.09.2020

Industrial imports via Tec Plata terminal

To consolidate its position as an alternative to the port of Buenos Aires, the container terminal of Tec Plata (ICTSI Argentina) started handling imports for the logistics hub Buenos Aires La Plata Free Zone (BAZFLP). In July...

15.09.2020

Bremenports: H1/2020 better than expected

Bremen’s port throughput in Q1/2020 showed a less severe decline than had been feared at the beginning of the pandemic. All in all, total throughput from January to June 2020 amounted to 34.5 million t, 4.3% down from the same...

15.09.2020

Swiss deep-sea ships get public guarantee

On 11 September 2020, the Swiss federal council approved an amendment to the regulation on guarantees for loans to finance Swiss deep-sea vessels. The revised regulation will enter into effect on 1 November 2020. In 2019, a...

14.09.2020

Doubling Greece–Italy services

The Turkish subsidiary of Denmark’s DFDS has enhanced its shipping services between Patras and Trieste. Operating on indirect routes between these two ports since 2018, the Greek line of DFDS will launch a separate service with...

14.09.2020

Compensation of trade flows in Vancouver

In the Canadian Port of Vancouver, throughput in the first six months of 2020 moved sidewards. From 1 January to 30 June 2020, cargo flows decreased by 1.1% from 72.4 to 71.7 million t compared to the same period in 2019....

14.09.2020

Re-setting the sails

After 88 years, the historic four-masted barque "Peking" has returned to its home port Hamburg. The vessel, launched in 1911, is one of the so-called "Flying P-Liners" mainly used in the saltpetre trade with...

11.09.2020

Strong harvest drives Rouen forward

In a context marked by the coronavirus health crisis and in France by the social disruptions of last winter, 9.87 million t of cereals were exported in the 2019/2020 cereal season, a 30% increase compared to the previous year and...

11.09.2020

Dredging works at ECT terminal

In the Dutch Port of Rotterdam, the ECT Delta Terminal, operated by the Hutchison Group, is investing in the depth of its berths. A 500-m stretch of the Amazonehaven port basin at Maasvlakte will be deepened from 16.65 m to 17.45...

11.09.2020

Analysing ship engines digitally

ABB Turbocharging and Kongsberg Digital have signed a cooperation agreement on data collection and ship engine performance analysis. The companies will work towards a common data infrastructure and accelerate the development of...

10.09.2020

New PCTC operational

The Naples (Italy)-headquartered Grimaldi Group has enlarged its fleet by adding the new Pure Car & Truck Carrier (PCTC) "Grande New Jersey". On 4 September, the group took delivery of the fourth of a series of...

10.09.2020

A port basin in Bremenports refurbished

A key milestone in the development of the port: After about three years of construction the new Westkaje in the "Kaiserhafen III" harbour in Bremerhaven (Germany) is complete. With the dismantling of the old quays...

10.09.2020

Marsa Maroc enhances Casablanca terminal

Marsa Maroc is enhancing its TC3 container terminal, located in Casablanca, Morocco, with a total of three rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes. Marsa Maroc is the main operator of ports in Morocco and the concession holder of...

09.09.2020

Opening an office in the kingdom

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) has opened a new unit and a new office in Saudi Arabia. CSM Saudi has been set up to service the needs of its client Saudi Aramco in the areas of energy, oil and gas, training and procurement, but...

09.09.2020

Maersk digests KHG

Maersk has finalised the acquisition of KGH Customs Services, a customs services provider based in Gothenburg, Sweden and serving a range of European customers (See ITJ Daily of 8 July 2020). Karsten Kildahl, regional managing...

09.09.2020

Remote maritime surveys extended

The classification society DNV GL has finished the world's first in-water remote ship surveys using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The in-water bottom surveys using ROVs were carried out on three separate Wilson ASA-managed...

08.09.2020

Algeciras staying on course

Many decisions taken these days to secure survival of maritime shipping routes and the concomitant services in gateways in these challenging times are dominated by government measures to contain the outbreak of Covid-19. The...