19.03.2019

New generation of PCTC for UECC

The Norwegian shipping company United European Car Carriers (UECC) will construct two new generation PCTC for China Ship Building Trading and Jiangnan Shipyard Group. The contract also includes an option for two further vessels....
18.03.2019

Fairway clear for larger vessels in Kinshasa

The maritime port of Matadi, on the river Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reported a major success recently. The door to a new opportunity was opened by the dredging of the river Congo by the Matadi Gateway...
18.03.2019

New vessel to speed up FRS service

The FRS group is introducing a new vessel to operate the Melilla - Motril route. The ro-pax ship, "Golden Bridge", will start operations on the line next May. The vessel, with an overall length of 186 m and beam of up...
18.03.2019

Different ways to St Petersburg

Since 2015, DFDS has been running its freight ferry service between Kiel (Germany) and St Petersburg (Russia) on a slot-charter basis in cooperation with Finnlines. In September 2017, DFDS streamlined its services from Kiel by...
18.03.2019

ONE growing fresh fruit

In the first of two new programmes, the container shipping alliance ONE worked with New Zealand avocado grower Avanza on CA reefer container exports for the full season running from September 2018 to January 2019. The avocado...
18.03.2019

Contship Italia taking bull by the horns

In its 50th anniversary year, the operator Contship Italia has entered into negotiations with MSC for the sale of the latter’s 50% stake in CSM Italia Gate, the company that controls the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT). MCT is...
15.03.2019

US seaports support diesel emissions reduction act

In a recent hearing before the US Senate's environment and public works committee which is currently examining the 2019 diesel emissions reduction act, Kurt Nagle, president and CEO of the American Association of Port...
15.03.2019

Port of Virginia pushing intermodal in depth

The port of Virginia was the first US port to accept megaships from China in 2016, after they passed through the newly-widened Panama Canal. As the country's competing ports have since caught up, the commercial channels in...
15.03.2019

Mixed bag of results for European ports in 2018

Last year, the EU’s 15 most important container handling ports grew by 4.8% in teu terms (2017: 4.6% after 2% in 2016). Among the top 15 ports, Gdansk recorded the highest increase (+23.3%), followed by Piraeus (20.9%) and...
14.03.2019

2019 now offers +4%

The year may be just two months old; the thoughts of the maritime consultancy Drewry on the sector’s further progress this year are already running at full speed, however.
14.03.2019

New tool for ship management at Lisbon and Setubal

The Finnish company Wärtsilä has completed the installation of a digital tool called vessel traffic service (VTS) for the management of ship traffic in the ports of Lisbon and Setubal (Portugal). It has also trained the personnel...
14.03.2019

Four cranes for two of Yilport's Latin American terminals

Yilport Holding, headquartered in Turkey, now number twelve in the ranking of global container terminal and port operators, recently ordered four mobile harbour cranes for two terminals in Latin America. Two of the cranes...
14.03.2019

Big Four for biofuel

It is an unusual coalition: Ikea Transport & Logistics Services, CMA CGM, the Good Shipping Program and the Port of Rotterdam will cooperate in an innovative partnership to test and scale the use of sustainable marine...
13.03.2019

First maritime LNG terminal in Chennai in service

Alternative fuels are finding favour in India: GAC recently handled the first tanker that berthed at the newly constructed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Kamarajar Port, Ennore, in Chennai (India). The Marshall...
13.03.2019

European shipowners fix five-year-priorities

The European Community Shipowners’ Associations (Ecsa) recently made public its strategic priorities for the EU shipping policy, which will guide the association’s activities vis-à-vis international and European regulators for...
13.03.2019

MSC gets firmer grip on logistics

MSC, the world's second largest liner shipping company, is turning its eyes towards freight forwarding and logistics. The Geneva (Switzerland)-based carrier is acquiring a stake in the enterprise Atlantic Forwarding....
12.03.2019

Marseille Fos investing in blockchain technology

The Marseille Fos port authority is investing in a blockchain technology pilot scheme that aims to demonstrate enhanced freight logistics on the Mediterranean-Rhone-Saone (MeRS) axis in France. The pilot project was launched at a...
12.03.2019

Double-digit growth for tanker container fleet

As of 1 January 2019, the global tank container fleet rose to 604,700 units worldwide, compared to 552,000 on 1 January 2018. The International Tank Container Organisation (Itco) said the increase equated to a 10.8% year-on-year...
12.03.2019

ICTSI continues on steep upward trajectory

The Philippines-based port and terminal operator International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) handled a consolidated volume of almost 9.74 million teu in 2018, 6.4% more than the 9.15 million teu in 2017. The volume...
08.03.2019

CCS introduces new module to cater for Brexit

In order to anticipate the effects of Brexit, the managing company of the Cargo Community System (CCS) at the port of Dunkirk (France), has mandated MGI to conduct a study on the cross-Channel ro-ro flows. Taking into account...
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