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04.06.2020

Zero emissions on inland waterways?

A consortium has established Zero Emission Services (ZES), a Dutch enterprise aimed at making inland waterway shipping more sustainable. The founders of ZES are ING Bank, energy provider Engie, the Port of Rotterdam Authority and...

03.06.2020

"MSC Sixin" arrives in Barcelona

The time of the mega vessels: while the "HMM Algeciras" reached Rotterdam, the world's second largest container ship "MSC Sixin" finalises its operations in the Port of Barcelona. After its call at Gioa...

03.06.2020

CMT invests in Ridgewood JV

Carolina Marine Terminal, (CMT), a large privately owned port facility, is investing in Transportation Infrastructure Partners, a joint venture between Ridgewood Infrastructure and Savage. CMT specialises in dry bulk cargoes. The...

03.06.2020

ZIM's new dedicated e-commerce product

The Haifa (Israel)-based shipping company ZIM launches a new service from South China to Los Angeles US West Coast. The name of the new product speaks for itself: ZIM eCommerce Xpress (ZEX). It will deploy five sprinter...

02.06.2020

Carrier reliability better than expected

In its latest global liner performance (GLP) report, the Copenhagen (Denmark)-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence lists the reliability figures of worldwide shipping for the month of April. According to this analysis,...

02.06.2020

Transatlantic service to start from Cork

The Penn Terminal in Pennsylvania and the port of Wilmington in North Carolina will be the destinations of the new service to be launched from the Port of Cork by the Independent container Line (ICL). Ireland's first direct...

02.06.2020

New link between the Netherlands and Russia

On 4 June 2020, the Danish feeder and short sea operator Unifeeder will launch a weekly service between the Netherlands and Russia, connecting the RST South terminal in Rotterdam and FCT & Seafishport terminals in St....

29.05.2020

Perils for crews and idle fleets

The coronavirus pandemic has left a lot of ships lying idle, which has created a number of new challenges, as a new publication of the Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (Agcs) shows. The difficulties include delays in...

29.05.2020

Maiden call in Stockholm Norvik

The first container ship has called at Sweden’s most recent freight port, Stockholm Norvik Port. The unifeeder vessel "SCA Tunadal" claims the port’s maiden container ship call. The container terminal is run by...

29.05.2020

Cutting emissions in Valencia

Captain Nemo reaches for Valencia: The Fundación Valenciaport participates in the Nemo project, which aims to improve air quality and reduce the impact of noise in cities in the European Union. It involves eighteen partners from...

28.05.2020

ZIM sailing into the black?

The Haifa (Israel)-headquartered shipping company ZIM has reported its Q1/2020 results. All major indicators improved in comparison to the same period in 2019, yet a net loss of USD 11.9 million compared to USD 24.3 million in...

28.05.2020

Change of systems in the port of Bordeaux

The French port company Bordeaux Informatique Portuaire + (BIP +), a subsidiary of Union Maritime et Portuaire de Bordeaux, has chosen Ci5, a product of Marseille Gyptis International (MGI), to manage the port's digital flow of...

28.05.2020

Biggest megaship carries more than 19,600 boxes

On its maiden voyage from Asia to Europe, the hitherto biggest ultra large container vessel "HMM" Algeciras carries 19,621 teu, which is a record load. The total capacity of the ship is higher, though. At maximum...

27.05.2020

Container index takes a fall in April

The downturn had been expected. The container throughput of the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute for Shipping Economics (ISL) fell from 110.4 (corrected) to 108.9 in April, down 6.5% from the value of...

27.05.2020

MOL and Wilhelmshaven go for LNG

The Japanese shipping company MOL and the LNG Terminal Wilhelmshaven (LTW) have a common goal: they plan to introduce a floating terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Wilhelmshaven. The two parties just inked a contract...

27.05.2020

Rotor sails save fuel

A new rotor sail operation has been introduced in the Baltic Sea. The ferry operator Scandlines joined forces with Norsepower to install Norsepower’s rotor sail solution on the hybrid ferry M/V Copenhagen. The vessel operates...

26.05.2020

New location in Asia to open

The Austria-headquartered logistics company Gebrüder Weiss's (GW) next air & sea office is to open in the South Korean capital of Seoul on 1 June 2020. Despite the difficulties caused by the coronavirus crisis, this...

26.05.2020

Port of Casablanca shows resilience

Morocco's port of Casablanca has reported its throughput figures for April 2020, the first month under Covid-19 anti-pandemic conditions. Total traffic recorded at the end of the month was at almost 10.5 million t, a surge of 6%...

26.05.2020

Fostering e-bills of lading globally

The Digital Container Shipping Association (Dcsa), in which most of the major carriers seek to standardise their digital activities, has put forward that the current pandemic forges the need to digitise the bill of lading (B/L)...

25.05.2020

Gothenburg resilient against the trend

The Swedish Port of Gothenburg has reported its figures for Q1/2020. Container throughput showed an upswing of 8%, from 188,000 teu to 203,000, while the port authority underlined that "there have been no cancelled calls,...