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17.05.2019

Shipowners call on WTO for free trade

The international chamber of shipping, the Asian shipowners’ association and shipowners’ associations in the EU have all expressed concern over recent protectionist measures at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva and presented...

16.05.2019

Schulte Group introduces Innoport

The Schulte Group has launched Innoport, a dedicated venture capital unit which identifies investment opportunities in the global maritime start-up ecosystem to equip entrepreneurs with smart capital. The Innoport team, based...

16.05.2019

Cargotec picks start-ups as partners

Cargotec has chosen seven start-ups as partners as an outcome of the rainmaking trade & transport impact programme, a maritime start-up collaboration platform. The purpose of this programme is to address the largest...

16.05.2019

APL goes for the Sandwich Islands

The CMA CGM affiliate APL is adding Honolulu (Hawaii) as a port of call to its Eagle Express X (EXX) service. Directly connecting central China, Korea and Japan to Hawaii, the fortnightly call to Honolulu will be offered by the...

15.05.2019

LNG sees itself at the top of the class

A study has found that using LNG as a marine fuel can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 21%.

15.05.2019

Arkas Line/Hapag-Lloyd VSA starts operations

Arkas Line and Hapag Lloyd have concluded a new vessel sharing agreement (VSA) that is now being implemented after the Westmed Black Sea service (WBS), formerly operated by Emes Feedering, was taken over by Arkas Line and Hapag...

15.05.2019

New mega ro-ro vessels to run on LNG

The fledgling Swedish company Wallenius-SOL (see ITJ Daily from 26 April) has ordered the first generation of LNG-powered ultra-large ro-ro vessels designed by Knud E Hansen. An up to four vessels order has been placed with...

15.05.2019

Strong April for the port of Long Beach

The US port of Long Beach witnessed a peak in container throughput in April 2019. Dockworkers at the port's marine terminals moved 628,121 teu last month. The previous record was 619,512 teu in April 2006. Imports in April...

14.05.2019

More equipment for the port of Maputo

Maputo, the capital and major port of Mozambique (East Africa), was the site where Liebherr recently handed over two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes type LHM 550 to MPDC for bulk handling operations. The port city on the...

14.05.2019

Port of Cork: recognition for fundraising efforts

The port of Cork (Ireland) and its partners were ‘highly commended’ at the recent Seatrade Awards in the ‘deal of the year’ category in recognition of their work in securing the funding for the development of the new CCT in...

14.05.2019

London remains the hot spot for arbitration

Research of the maritime-focused law firm HFW has underpinned the impression that London (UK) continues to dominate the market for maritime arbitration - despite suggestions that Brexit would see activity shift to emerging...

13.05.2019

Containers push up revenues

In 2018 Marsa Maroc, the Casablanca-based leading Moroccan port operator, managed to increase its revenues to MAD 2.7 billion (approximately EUR 250 million). The corporation said that this was due substantially to growing...

13.05.2019

Southeast Asian expansion of APL's JTV service

The CMA CGM affiliate APL has announced that the Japan Thailand Vietnam (JTV) service is extending its port rotation to the Philippines and within South China. The service will now be calling at three additional ports in Manila...

13.05.2019

Intermodal leads the way in HHLA's Q1/2019

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) reported satisfactory results in the first three months of the year. Improvements in container transport and property management led to a revenue of EUR 347.6 million (+10.3%). The...

13.05.2019

Result significantly up in the first quarter

The German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd closed Q1/2019 with a significantly higher operating profit, as earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) increased to EUR 214 million (compared to EUR 51 million in Q1/2018). The group’s net...

10.05.2019

A new tool to prepare the testing of ballast water

The Japanese group MOL will launch the “ballast catch viable organism sampler” on 15 May 2019. The device, jointly developed by MOL Engineering and the Satake Corporation, saves workload in preparing samples of ballast water...

10.05.2019

Ocean's new Asian service calls at Hamburg

As the first containership in the new Asia service Loop 7 by the Ocean Alliance, the “Taurus”, which has a capacity of almost 14.500 teu, has berthed in the port of Hamburg (Germany). The new Asia-North Europe service Loop 7...

10.05.2019

PSA to build in Halifax and Pennsylvania

Singapore-headquartered PSA International has won the bid for the container terminal Halterm in the port of Halifax. It is currently the largest container terminal on the east coast of Canada. Among the other bidders were...

09.05.2019

Haropa – Port of Le Havre in good shape

Tonnage led the way, the results followed. The port of Le Havre (a member of the Haropa association, which is made up of the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris), improved its results, having posted a solid throughput in 2018....

09.05.2019

Shipnext and Boot Upventures to collaborate

Boot Upventures and Shipnext, a digital shipping marketplace and transport network, are to cooperate. Shipnext automates cargo-to-ship matching, freight trading, contracting and documentation processes on a single user-friendly...