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14.09.2020

Re-setting the sails

After 88 years, the historic four-masted barque "Peking" has returned to its home port Hamburg. The vessel, launched in 1911, is one of the so-called "Flying P-Liners" mainly used in the saltpetre trade with...

11.09.2020

Strong harvest drives Rouen forward

In a context marked by the coronavirus health crisis and in France by the social disruptions of last winter, 9.87 million t of cereals were exported in the 2019/2020 cereal season, a 30% increase compared to the previous year and...

11.09.2020

Dredging works at ECT terminal

In the Dutch Port of Rotterdam, the ECT Delta Terminal, operated by the Hutchison Group, is investing in the depth of its berths. A 500-m stretch of the Amazonehaven port basin at Maasvlakte will be deepened from 16.65 m to 17.45...

11.09.2020

Analysing ship engines digitally

ABB Turbocharging and Kongsberg Digital have signed a cooperation agreement on data collection and ship engine performance analysis. The companies will work towards a common data infrastructure and accelerate the development of...

10.09.2020

New PCTC operational

The Naples (Italy)-headquartered Grimaldi Group has enlarged its fleet by adding the new Pure Car & Truck Carrier (PCTC) "Grande New Jersey". On 4 September, the group took delivery of the fourth of a series of...

10.09.2020

A port basin in Bremenports refurbished

A key milestone in the development of the port: After about three years of construction the new Westkaje in the "Kaiserhafen III" harbour in Bremerhaven (Germany) is complete. With the dismantling of the old quays...

10.09.2020

Marsa Maroc enhances Casablanca terminal

Marsa Maroc is enhancing its TC3 container terminal, located in Casablanca, Morocco, with a total of three rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes. Marsa Maroc is the main operator of ports in Morocco and the concession holder of...

09.09.2020

Opening an office in the kingdom

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) has opened a new unit and a new office in Saudi Arabia. CSM Saudi has been set up to service the needs of its client Saudi Aramco in the areas of energy, oil and gas, training and procurement, but...

09.09.2020

Maersk digests KHG

Maersk has finalised the acquisition of KGH Customs Services, a customs services provider based in Gothenburg, Sweden and serving a range of European customers (See ITJ Daily of 8 July 2020). Karsten Kildahl, regional managing...

09.09.2020

Remote maritime surveys extended

The classification society DNV GL has finished the world's first in-water remote ship surveys using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The in-water bottom surveys using ROVs were carried out on three separate Wilson ASA-managed...

Algésiras garde le cap

C’est notamment la pandémie qui détermine actuellement les actions des décideurs sur les routes et dans les ports correspondants afin de garantir la survie en ces temps difficiles. Le port espagnol d’Algésiras, interface...

08.09.2020

CMA CGM on track in Q2/2020

The Marseille (France)-headquartered CMA CGM reported a noticeable decline in volumes in Q2/2020. Boxes carried during the second quarter of 2020 were down to 4.8 million teu (Q2/2019: 5.5 million teu) or 13.3% compared to the...

08.09.2020

More carriers at the Port of Virginia

New shuttle carriers will be delivered to the Port of Virginia, a deep water port on the US East Coast, to be deployed at the Virginia International Gateway (VIG), which is the port’s second largest terminal and capable of...

08.09.2020

A milestone in Taranto

With the completion of the head of the Molo San Cataldo almost two months ahead of schedule, RCM Costruzioni of the Rainone group adds another facet to the redesign of the seaport of Taranto, Italy. The project implemented by...

07.09.2020

IMO: much is done, but more to achieve

In its fourth greenhouse study, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) states that in the period between 2008 and 2018, maritime trade grew by 40% and the absolute emissions of greenhouse gases decreased by around 5%....

07.09.2020

New normal in the Port of Montreal

Two weeks after the announcement of the truce agreement reached on 20 August between the Longshoremen's Union and the Maritime Employers Association (AEM), the work in the port is back to normal. The delay accumulated by the...

07.09.2020

Niedersachsen Ports with positive surprises

Not all of Lower Saxony's nine sea ports saw a decline in cargo throughput in H1/2020, although total throughput dropped by 11%. All in all, the group of ports handled 24 million t of goods in H1/2020 (27 million t in 2019)....

04.09.2020

A well-filled war chest for DP World

More money for investments: DP World, the Dubai-based terminal and port operator, and the Canadian Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global institutional investor, have announced the expansion their investment into...

04.09.2020

Hapag-Lloyd reshapes EMX rotation

Hapag-Lloyd’s Europe Mediterranean Express (EMX) service is changing its ports of call. As from week 46, the Hamburg carrier will restructure the EMX by adding a direct call in Gemlik, while removing the Izmir call from the...

04.09.2020

K Line's test run to cut emissions

K Line will use a small-scale, marine-use demonstration plant for carbon capture onboard a vessel and conduct research and development on compact facility design, in collaboration with project partners Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and...