14.02.2022

Swiss Port of Basel on its way back

2021 saw a comeback of cargo flows in the Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inland ports on the River Rhine in Basel. The port authority’s three hubs handled 5.41 million t of goods in 2021, 5.5% more than the...
14.02.2022

Fresh blood for Briese

BBC Chartering, an affiliate of the Briese Group from Leer (Germany), is enlarging its fleet. The new ‘BBC Ukraine’, an F-500 type multipurpose and heavylift vessel co-owned by Briese Schiffahrt and Swiss investors  was...
14.02.2022

Maritime trade back to pre-pandemic levels

In 2021, international maritime trade recovered to pre-pandemic levels and reached 12 billion t transported, corresponding to approximately 1,5 t per inhabitant of the earth. According to the latest weekly report by analyst...
11.02.2022

Normalisation on the seas within sight?

The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence has analysed the emerging endemic Covid period and, since there is no historical precedent fully describing this situation, compared it to the period of the US West Coast...
11.02.2022

ZIM charters more units

Haifa-based ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has entered into a new charter agreement with Navios Maritime Partners for a total of thirteen container vessels. Out of these, five are second-hand vessels and eight will be...
11.02.2022

Digital tool to ease Brexit difficulties

Ferry operator P&O Ferries has launched a new digital product to assist freight customers in dealing with Brexit complexities. The digital ‘travel wallet’ provides a possible answer to the next set of border requirements...
10.02.2022

Hydra with new heads

New piracy hot spots are forming, according to an IMB report.
10.02.2022

More North America for Maersk

A.P. Moller-Maersk will buy USA-based Pilot Freight Services from ATL Partners, a sector-focused private equity firm in New York and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) in Canada. The transaction will cost...
10.02.2022

Habben Jansen expects congestion to end

Optimism is Rolf Habben Jansen's third motto, caution his second one. More punctual shipping connections and lower transport costs are on the horizon if additional terminal employees can be recruited, amongst other things, he...
10.02.2022

Exploring the Thames

A new study has revealed that the River Thames has an enormous untapped potential for handling light freight. The ‘Light Freight on the River Thames’ report was commissioned by the Thames Estuary Growth Board and the Port of...
09.02.2022

Barcelona handles ever-more ULCVs

Huge containerships are also leaving their mark on the port of Barcelona. Between January and November 2021, the number of calls from ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) with a capacity of more than 20,000 teu increased by 78%...
09.02.2022

Grendi Group pushy in 2021

The Genoa-based Gruppo Grendi’s performance improved in 2021, with turnover surging to EUR 68.6 million (+19% compared to 2020). Since the group established its home port in the terminal of Marina di Carrara, between La Spezia...
09.02.2022

Additional office for the Indian Register

On 1 February the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) opened an office in Coimbatore, in India’s southernmost federal state of Tamil Nadu. The industrial city has a diversified manufacturing sector, including more than 25,000...
08.02.2022

Spanish ports on the rise

According to provisional data published by the Spanish state ports authority (Puertos del Estado), they handled 532.2 million t of merchandise, a surge of 5.3% compared to 2020. All sectors recorded increases. While conventional...
08.02.2022

DPW London and Southampton terminals thrive

DP World’s two ports in UK handled a combined volume of almost 3.7 million teu in 2021. In detail, the London Gateway hub saw throughput of more than 1.8 million teu, a 15% increase on the annual record set last year. DP World...
08.02.2022

Intercontinental dwell times increased

In its recent analysis, Chicago-based software developer and intelligence provider Four Kites reports that reliability in shipping has again deteriorated over the last year. In total, the average dwell time at the port of...
07.02.2022

Houston excels in container throughput

The Texan Port of Houston's throughput in 2021 amounted to almost 52 million t in total. The port’s previous record cargo tonnage (48.2 million t) dates back to 2019. 3.5 million teu were handled, a 15% increase compared to 2020...
07.02.2022

New PCS in Indonesia

Indian provider Kale Logistics Solutions has rolled out Indonesia's port community system (PCS) in the Port of Rembang. The port, located in the country’s central Java province, uses the system to fast track, streamline and...
07.02.2022

Sea Lead to call at Australian ports

Sea Lead Shipping will start operations within the CA2 service from March 2022. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, the shipping company will deploy a vessel within the CA2 consortium also run by TS Lines. The CA2...
04.02.2022

ZIM reshuffles Latin American services

ZIM is rerouting three services in Latin America. In detail, the liner is introducing a new Venezuela feeder (VEX) and upgrading two existing lines, the Central America Express (LAF) and West Coast Central America (WCA) services....
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