22.06.2020

Digital Seaport Solutions for maritime trade

Fundación Valenciaport, Infoport Valencia and Híades Consulting have jointly launched Seaport (Ship Efficient Approach at Port) Solutions. Its aim is to improve the efficiency of ship calls in ports through shared digital...
22.06.2020

UECC's next hybrid newbuild on the horizon

The building of UECC's second LNG Battery Hybrid powered pure car truck carrier (PCTC) is underway. The steel cutting ceremony took place recently at Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. Due to the current Covid-19 crisis, the...
19.06.2020

Where? When? How much?

Governments’ measures to contain the outbreak of Covid-19 have also had a massive impact on the shipping industry. The market research institute Alphaliner says that 13% of the global maritime fleet has been laid up.
19.06.2020

Barcelona's throughput up to May 2020

The Port of Barcelona has published its figures for the first five months of the current year. Overall, freight traffic fell by 17.2%, totalling 23.75 million t of cargo. Containers recorded a 20% drop with almost 1,158,000 teu...
19.06.2020

Trois-Rivières's strong year 2019

The Canadian Trois-Rivières Port Authority (TRPA) has reported its results for 2019. Over the past year, Trois-Rivières welcomed 260 vessels and handled 4.2 million metric tonnes (mmt) of cargo - a record for the port. In 2018,...
19.06.2020

Global supply chain project on the horizon

The e-PI-centre project to make supply chains more resilient is underway. Under the coordination of Port of Antwerp, a consortium of 36 partners representing ports, forwarders, cargo owners, logistics providers, knowledge...
18.06.2020

Georgia Ports heartened by May results

In container traffic, the month of May at Georgia Ports (GPA) performed better than expected. The Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal handled more than 337,000 teu last month, down 9.7% or 36,000 teu from May 2019. GPA...
18.06.2020

New vessel for MSCL's strategic service

A new 8,200 dwt multi-purpose cargo vessel is being built for Mauritius Shipping Corporation (MSCL) at the Huanghai Shipyard in China. The order was placed with Wärtsilä in April 2020. Reliability was cited as a major factor,...
18.06.2020

More equipment for DR Depots

DR Depots have ordered nine empty container handlers and one Kalmar Gloria reachstacker. All units are scheduled for delivery in Q4/2020. DR Depots, a subsidiary of the DR group of companies established in 1980, is a Dutch...
17.06.2020

Interview in Trieste: "No alternative to Zeno D’Agostino"

At the beginning of June, the president of the Eastern Adriatic Port System in Trieste (Italy), who had been in office since November 2016, was removed and Mario Sommariva was appointed acting head. He explained to ITJ reporter...
17.06.2020

A silver lining in Virginia

The Port of Virginia’s cargo streams slowed down significantly in May due to the impact of the pandemic: the number of cargo handled decreased by more than 59,000 teu in comparison to the same period in 2019. The total amount of...
17.06.2020

New berth inaugurated in Koper

A new ro-ro berth, which was completed just few weeks ago, has been inaugurated in the Adriatic Port of Koper. The event was attended by Slovenia’s minister of infrastructure Jernej Vrtovec. The new berth will primarily serve the...
17.06.2020

Green policy in the Ports of Auckland

In the Ports of Auckland, the hitherto largest soil-based vertical garden has been installed on its new car-handling building on Auckland’s waterfront. This unique garden system was invented by the New Zealand company Hanging...
16.06.2020

RAL-Eimskip cooperation is operational

Icelandic shipping company Eimskip and Greenland’s national carrier Royal Arctic Line (RAL), have put their new joint service into operation. RAL‘s new vessel “Tukuma Arctica” currently sails from Denmark to Iceland....
16.06.2020

Bad May in the Port of Los Angeles

In May, the US-West Coast port of Los Angeles moved almost 582,000 teu. This corresponds to a 29.8% decrease compared to the same month last year, though May 2019 showed an extraordinary result. Five months into 2020, overall...
16.06.2020

Another cargo only ferry service

The Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Navigation (CLdN) has launched a new ro-ro service between the ports of Santander, Liverpool and Dublin. CLdN will operate one sailing per week from Santander to Liverpool, followed by a call...
15.06.2020

Shipping united at Fednav

Montreal (Canada)-headquartered Fednav is restructuring its shipping businesses under one management unit. The marine department, led by executive vice-president Tina Revsbech, will unite the traditional chartering and operations...
15.06.2020

Bremen criticises terminal operators

The Bremische Hafenvertretung (BHV), which represents logistics, port and transport companies from Bremen and Bremerhaven, has expressed its concerns about a possible cooperation between terminal operators Eurokai and BLG...
15.06.2020

UAL to start new service

The first sailing of Universal Africa Lines on its new Mediterranean and Black Sea service to West Africa will be performed by the heavy lift carrier M/V “UAL Fortitude”. The vessel is equipped with 2 x 180 t cranes and has a...
12.06.2020

Difficult times ahead for car carriers

The research and data mining company Vessels Value has analysed the development of the demand for maritime vehicle carriers in 2020. Demand globally is down 18% year on year so far. In detail, some markets (Japan exports and...
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