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31.08.2020

Port of Brussels only partially hit

It is not surprising that the waterway traffic at the Port of Brussels felt the impact of the global health crisis in the first half of 2020. Thus, clean traffic fell by 13% for the first six months of 2020 (while 2019 was a...

28.08.2020

A favourable H1/2020 for OOCL

The Hong Kong-headquartered Orient Overseas (International) Limited Group (OOIL), which was acquired by Cosco Shipping in 2018, recently reported its results for H1/2020. Remaining in the black, the group achieved a profit of...

28.08.2020

Recent sales in the Swiss maritime fleet

The Geneva office of the law company Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has reported having been involved in the sale of almost half of the entire Swiss maritime fleet. HFW advised Swiss shipowner Massoel Shipping on eight separate...

28.08.2020

Green Laurels for Barcelona

The Port of Barcelona was awarded the lean & green initiative, promoted by the Spanish association of manufacturers and distributors (Aecoc), for reducing its carbon footprint by 20% in a period of five years through "a...

27.08.2020

Enhancing BMT in Algeria

Bejaia Mediterranean Terminal (BMT SPA), operated by Portek International in a joint venture with the Algerian port authority, Enterprise Portuaire de Bejaia, is expanding its equipment. Since its first foray into port...

27.08.2020

TTI Algeciras to change hands

HMM has agreed to sell its 50% stake minus one share in Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTI Algeciras) to CMA CGM. The container terminal in the south of Spain is owned by HMM and HT Algeciras, which is a special...

27.08.2020

Cool chain for Ethiopia

After several years of preparation, the first intermodal transport of perishables from Ethiopia to Europe is underway. The first reefer container with 24 t of avocados was loaded onto a train in Ethipia and will be shipped via...

26.08.2020

Container flows on the rise

The container throughput index of the German RWI – Leibniz institute for economic research and the institute of shipping economics and logistics (ISL) shows a significant upturn from June to July, rising from (corrected) 110.2 to...

26.08.2020

New generation rolls into Le Havre

The Port of Le Havre, a major French container port for international trade and part of the Haropa Ports association, has welcomed four new gantry cranes from China, among the largest in the world, at the France Terminal in Port...

26.08.2020

Remote service for vessels at sea

Machinery Maintenance Connect (MMC) is DNV GL’s remote approach to the machinery planned maintenance system (MPMS). Instead of requiring surveyors to travel to each individual vessel and go onboard, machinery data can be...

25.08.2020

More connections for Koper hub

Austrian provider cargo-partner has expanded its LCL services portfolio via Koper by introducing additional connections from India, Thailand and Vietnam to Europe. The transport of LCL shipments via the port of Koper on the...

25.08.2020

Transpacific rates push MSC into action

In view of rising demand and high rates on the Transpacific, MSC is launching its new Santana service for the North American west coast. The service will start at the end of August in the port of Yantian, part of Shenzen, and...

25.08.2020

Is reefer cargo going to take the lead?

The London-based maritime consultancy considers that seaborne perishable cargo will weather the Covid-19 induced economic storm better than the dry cargo trade. Worldwide seaborne reefer trade recorded growth of just 1.7% in 2019...

24.08.2020

The dirty dozen and the Port of Hamburg

Like other ports of the Northern Europe range, the Port of Hamburg's first six months of the year were hit by the impact of the corona crisis. Total seaborne cargoes were at 61.2 million t, down by 12%. In the container handling...

24.08.2020

Global Ports' uneasy H1/2020

The Russian container terminal operator Global Ports has reported its figures for the first six months of 2020. Its total consolidated marine container throughput went up 8.4% year-on-year to 774,000 teu, whereas there was a 2.4%...

24.08.2020

Asaf calls at Kribi

The direct Asia-Africa (asaf) line recently called the Kribi deep-water port in Cameroon. Asaf, operated by the CMA CGM shipping company, is run in partnership with Maersk and Nile Dutch. As a first-timer, the Kribi Conteneurs...

24.08.2020

Emden and Brunsbüttel join LNG network

The "Engie Zeebrugge" carried out two ship-to-ship-bunkering operations in two German ports recently. In mid-August, the vessel arrived in the port of Emden, where "Titan LNG" delivered just over 1,000 t of...

21.08.2020

ZIM passes threshold

The shipping group ZIM has published its consolidated results for H1/2020. Volumes carried by ZIM went down by 8.4% to 1.3 million teu compared to 1.4 million teu in H1/2019. Yet, the average freight rate per teu over the...

21.08.2020

Swissterminal targets Comco

Swissterminal AG, a logistics service provider headquartered in Frenkendorf close to Basel, is bringing a formal complaint before the Swiss federal administrative court with regards to the planned trimodal terminal Gateway Basel...

21.08.2020

Windy summer season around the Baltic Sea

During the 2020 summer season, Chipolbrok vessels showed an increased presence in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea due to the predominance of wind energy projects in the region. Especially in Poland various wind farm projects are...