25.11.2019

Global container throughput keeps rising

In the course of the month of October, the container throughput index released by the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) kept going up moderately by 0.6...
25.11.2019

Piraeus-Rijeka intermodal express service is up and running

Led by Cosco Shipping and railfreight partner Ocean Rail Logistics, a new service recently started from the Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT), the Croatian subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc....
25.11.2019

First SNG-run vessel on its way

The 2017-retrofitted ‘Wes Amelie’, a 1,036-teu feeder container ship operated by Unifeeder, will become the first vessel in shipping to run on synthetic natural gas (SNG) generated by wind energy. MAN Energy Services, Wessels...
22.11.2019

Defensive record

Whilst 2018 saw the global maritime shipping industry suffer a growth downturn, Unctad has ascertained light on the horizon for the years through to 2024. The political framework will not improve, however, and change in the...
22.11.2019

ZIM also improves its results in 2019

The Haifa (Israel)-headquartered ZIM Shipping Integrated Services is one of the carriers that saw improved earnings in the course of 2019, getting close to balanced financial results. Reporting on the first nine months of 2019,...
22.11.2019

APM Terminals in Barcelona enhance safety measures

The APM Terminals in the port of Barcelona unveiled their technological initiative to improve safety at their container terminals during the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, which ended on 21 November. Sergi Domínguez...
22.11.2019

More equipment for more goods in Antwerp

In Antwerp, the Belgian logistics and transportation company Zuidnatie Breakbulk has ordered two mobile harbour cranes. Founded in 1870, Zuidnatie has a long history in the port. The current order includes two Konecranes models,...
21.11.2019

Hamburg's comeback?

Besides a moderate downturn in bulk cargo handling, the port of Hamburg (Germany) looks back with pleasure on its cargo handling performance in the first nine months of 2019. At 104 million t, total throughput went up by 3.2%....
21.11.2019

Caucedo terminal in the Dominican Republic enhanced

The Caucedo terminal in the Dominican Republic has ordered 38 Ottawa T2 terminal tractors. The terminal, run by DP World, also has a free zone at its disposal. It is located in Punta Caucedo, 25 km from Santo Domingo, which is...
21.11.2019

Rotor wind sails in the Baltic Sea

Since October, the “Copenhagen” is being refitted at the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk (Poland). In addition to the regular inspection by the maritime classification society Lloyd’s Register, the ferry, which has been operating...
20.11.2019

Deeper in the red: Yang Ming results in Q3

Keelung-founded Yang Ming Marine Transport witnessed lower revenues and a larger loss in Q3/2019 than in the same period last year. Operating revenue during the third quarter of 2019 amounted to 37.78 billion NTD (New Taiwan...
20.11.2019

Short sea fleet on a green wave

The Arkon-Shipinvest shipping company, a joint venture with Rhenus, is expanding its fleet of approx. 120 units. The plan is to set up an own ecological short sea fleet. The group has placed orders for the first four...
20.11.2019

MOL with new navigation system

The Japanese carrier Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) combines its efforts along with Furuno Electric to foster their advanced augmented reality (AR)-based navigation system. The AR navigation system provides visual support to...
19.11.2019

Laurels for Matadi Gateway Terminal

The Matadi Gateway Terminal (MGT), approximately 150 km upstream from the Atlantic on the Congo River, was recently cited as the best investment project in the infrastructure sector in the Democratic Republic (DR) of the Congo....
19.11.2019

Hapag-Lloyd looks back on 2019 in joy, so far

In the first nine months of 2019, the Hamburg (Germany)-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd’s transport volume rose by 1.2% to 9-01 million teu (same period in 2018: 8.9 million teu). Revenues went up to approximately EUR 9.5 billion...
19.11.2019

New TOS operational in the port of Baltimore

A new terminal operating system (TOS), introduced by Ports America Chesapeake (PAC), was recently launched at the port of Baltimore’s Seagirt and Dundalk marine terminals. The new Navis N4 system is the first time the port has...
19.11.2019

New safety devices at the LSCT in La Spezia

Three new emergency medical devices have recently been installed at the La Spezia container terminal. The LSCT equipped the workplace with three defibrillators, strategically positioned in three different areas of the terminal....
18.11.2019

Healthy ambitions

A very important new chapter in shipping is set to be opened in the next few weeks, with IMO 2020 entering into force. The experts who gathered for the latest Euromed Congress agreed that shipowners should bank on various...
18.11.2019

Maersk's recent optimism justified

The remodelling of the group seems to be paying off for A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Although some operational figures went down, profitability, especially in new fields of activity, was good in Q3/2019. While general revenues decreased...
18.11.2019

180,000 more vehicles to pass through the port of Lübeck

In cooperation with the Grimaldi shipping company Finnlines, the Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) in Germany has secured a gigantic cargo loading contract. In the coming three years, LHG will handle some 60,000...
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