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16.07.2019

New balance

Contship Italia, a container terminal and intermodal operator, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the face of ongoing change. Marketing and communications director Daniele Testi talked Christian Doepgen through the firm’s...

12.07.2019

Five partners for e-commerce

The small kingdom of Belgium is a major European foreign trade hub. Now four major maritime and aviation gateways have set up an alliance for faster and more efficient customs-clearance procedures in international trade. The...

28.06.2019

Inland seaport at Rotterdam enhanced

The port of Rotterdam authority (the Netherlands) will invest about EUR 3.5 million into the further development of the Dordrecht Inland Seaport Wilhelminahaven. The existing mooring buoys will be replaced by five new...

28.06.2019

APM presents its plans for Barcelona

APM Terminals recently presented the company's short and middle-term projects as well as its latest investments in Barcelona, which amount to EUR 47 million in total. The event brought together the representatives of the port...

28.06.2019

Haropa commits to port development abroad

The port of Le Havre, part of Haropa, and the French development agency (AFD) have joined forces to assists ports in developing countries. While the shipping sector plays a key role in the economic growth of these countries, the...

27.06.2019

Ready, steady, LN-Go

Hapag-Lloyd is implementing the world’s first conversion of a large containership to LNG. The line aims to pave the way for ships to become more friendly towards the environment.

27.06.2019

From the southern gateway to Switzerland

In Italy, the Contship Italia Group and La Spezia Port Authority recently welcomed a delegation of clients of the Swiss freight forwarder Lamprecht at Contship’s flagship gateway La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT). Contship,...

27.06.2019

Pilot to improve the transport of dangerous goods

A consortium has been founded to explore the use of blockchains in tackling the significant risks and challenges associated with the declaration and handling of dangerous goods. According to the CINS, nearly 25% of all...

27.06.2019

Honours for CMSA and OPC in Latin America

The terminals Contecon Manzanillo (CMSA) in Colima (Mexico) and Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana (OPC) in Cortes (Honduras) both run by ICTSI, were certified internationally with the seal of “fair logistics” by the Texas-based...

26.06.2019

Two new faces on the board at Port Trois-Rivières

The Trois-Rivières port authority has appointed Marie-Josée Gervais and Guylaine Laporte as members of its board of directors for a mandate of three years. Gervais, a former high-level triathlete and professional cyclist, is...

26.06.2019

RBH service to connect south China, Thailand and Vietnam

ALP, the CMA CGM affiliate, will launch the Bangkok-Haiphong (RBH) service that will provide weekly connectivity between South China, Thailand and Vietnam. An express service from South China to Thailand, the RBH service will...

26.06.2019

Back to a rise in trade volumes in 2019?

According to the current flash estimate, the container throughput index of the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) rose to 138.5 in May. Furthermore, the...

25.06.2019

American Club reports "good start into 2019"

The American Club made solid progress in many areas in 2018 and started 2019 on an encouraging note. Tonnage growth in 2018 was similar to that of the previous year. P&I entries increased by about 8% and those for FD&D by...

25.06.2019

MOL intensifies its LNG commitment

The Japan-based carrier MOL has entered, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, into a short-term charter agreement for a LNG carrier with Gail (India). Gail is a state-owned natural gas processing and distribution company in India...

25.06.2019

More LNG power for Containerships

As the second LNG-powered ship for Containerships, an affiliate of the CMA CGM Group, the “Containerships Polar” is now being deployed in the redesigned BALT 2 service. At the beginning of May, the 1,380-teu vessel started...

24.06.2019

Matson builds its largest con-ro ship to date

The US carrier Matson recently christened the largest combination container / roll-on, roll-off ship ever built in the United States in a ceremony at the Nassco shipyard in San Diego (CA, USA). The new vessel is named “Lurline”,...

24.06.2019

Guyana: a new hot spot for business

In the Latin American country of Guyana the economy is growing apace. Due to the productivity of offshore drilling projects, the country’s gross domestic product alone is set to double by 2020. Crane Worldwide Logistics has...

21.06.2019

50,000 trackers at sea

There is a plethora of discussions concerning the technical details of container trackers in the maritime shipping industry. CMA CGM is now going the whole hog and deploying Traxens trackers on all of its 50,000 containers;...

21.06.2019

More dividends for HHLA's shareholders

The Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA, Germany) will raise the dividend per listed class A share to EUR 0.80. This figure is 19.4 % higher than in the previous year. EUR 56 million will thus be distributed to the shareholders...

21.06.2019

New service launched by BG Freight Line

In a partnership with Maersk, Netherlands-headquartered BG Freight Line is starting a new weekly service on the Waterford-Rotterdam route that will act as a deep-sea feeder for businesses in Ireland. BG Freight Line is part...