21.01.2019

Baltic Sea ports set up new cooperation project

Small and medium-sized ports on the southern Baltic Sea coast are working together on a project named South Baltic transport loops. The main focus will be on the waterside development and expansion of partner ports. Moreover,...
21.01.2019

APL enhances Latin American connections

The CMA CGM affiliate APL is adding Guayaquil and Ensenada as ports of call to its Condor Express service (CDX). With the extension to the port cities of Ecuador and Mexico, exporters from those countries gain access to two new...
21.01.2019

2018 - favourable for Spanish ports

Spanish ports generally performed well in 2018, although full year figures have not been published as yet. According to the data published by Puertos de Estado, a total of 502.5 million t were moved in the first eleven months of...
18.01.2019

Dare to think big

The joint venture was first called the Oman International Container Terminal; it was founded twelve years ago by Hutchison Ports, the government of the Sultanate of Oman, Steinweg from the Netherlands and Omani investors. Now its...
18.01.2019

Drewry with less confidence in ULCVs

“We believe that the industry’s supply-demand balance will benefit from a reduced appetite for ultra large container vessels (ULCVs), said Simon Heaney, senior manager, container research at the London-based maritime consultancy...
18.01.2019

Ocean Alliance on course up to 2027

The CMA CGM Group, Cosco Shipping, Evergreen and OOCL have signed a contract to continue their cooperation until 2027. In addition, the partners will introduce, inter alia, the "Ocean Alliance Day 3 product" for Asia...
18.01.2019

From Bilbao into the Caribbean

After some complicated manoeuvres, a fully erected crane was loaded onto a ship at the port of Bilbao (Spain). The equipment is bound for a container terminal in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea. The twelve hour loading operation...
17.01.2019

Liverpool - permanent substitute for Felixstowe

The 2M alliance, comprised of Maersk and MSC, has confirmed that the port of Liverpool (UK) will become a permanent call on its TA4 service, connecting Europe with the USA. The decision follows the introduction of a temporary...
17.01.2019

More leviathans for Synergy to manage

The Latin American conglomerate, Synergy Group, has taken delivery of the "Ever Gifted", an new ULCV constructed by the Japanese shipbuilder Imabari Shipbuilding. Currently under Synergy’s technical management on...
17.01.2019

Major chemical player expands in port of Antwerp

Ineos, a London-headquartered group of companies in the chemical business, has chosen the port of Antwerp as the location for a EUR 3 billion investment. The British chemical group plans to build a propane dehydrogenisation...
16.01.2019

Taking next blockchain technology step

The pilot blockchain project that the carrier Zim ran over the last year is now entering its next phase. The blockchain technology-based paperless bills-of-lading platform has been tested for trade activities on multiple shipping...
16.01.2019

More about scrubbers and sulphur

The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020), a group comprised of around 30 companies in the commercial shipping and cruise industries formed in late 2018, has contracted Maritime AMC (Mamcl) to provide secretariat services for...
16.01.2019

Clarkson paints sceptical picture of shipping in 2019

Research undertaken by London-headquartered Clarkson revealed that the growth rate of the demand for world maritime transport rose by 2.7% to 11.9 billion t in 2018, compared to 4.2% in 2017. The ton per mile (tpm) growth,...
15.01.2019

ITF against cartels

The International Transport Forum has published a report in which it presents its arguments against extending the EU’s cartel law exemption for shipping alliances.
15.01.2019

Triest's 300th anniversary to spread over 2019

Trieste was granted free port status by the German Emperor Charles VI on 18 March 1719. In the following three centuries, the Italian port played a fundamental role in trade relations between the Old World and the Orient. The...
15.01.2019

16 new eco-friendly RTGs for Manila

16 new hybrid rubber-tyred gantries (RTG) recently went into service at the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), the flagship of Philippines-headquartered International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI). MICT is...
15.01.2019

Four more Evergreen offices in the new world

Taiwan-based Evergreen Line recently expanded its network of offices in the Latin American region. The carrier has just opened an agency in Colombia, following the establishment of other offices in Peru, Chile and Mexico over the...
14.01.2019

SCPA expands facilities for agri-exports

The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) has just opened the new C&M Hog Farm’s transload facility. The platform supports the handling of soybeans and other local US products bound for overseas markets via Inland Port...
14.01.2019

Fleet augmentation for CMA CGM

The “Fort de France” is the first of four containerships that will go into service on the French West Indies trade for the shipping group CMA CGM. The 219 m long newbuild, with a capacity of 3,500 teu, is specially adapted for...
14.01.2019

Dunkirk looks back on 2018 with joy

The port of Dunkirk, which recently presented its 2018 results in Lille (France), was delighted with last year’s figures and its achievements from 2013 until now. The port's 2018 throughput came in at 51.6 million t, 3%...
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