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08.04.2020

Lower fees for customers in Barcelona

In order to mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19, the Port of Barcelona is lowering stay rates at terminals. Sensitive to the overheads that weigh on importers, the port has approved a flat rate that reduces the cost of stay...

Saint-Pétersbourg s’arme

Le port de la seconde ville russe a investi en 2019 environ 10 M. d’EUR dans son infrastructure. L’argent a été dépensé pour de nouvelles grues, des véhicules et capacités de transbordement en transport intermodal.

07.04.2020

Carriers sacrifice capacities to save prices

The Copenhagen (Denmark)-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence has put forward its latest estimates on the shipping companies’ potential losses in 2020 and the development in blank sailings. The number of blank deep-sea...

07.04.2020

A good 2019 for Liebherr maritime cranes

The Liebherr group generated a turnover of EUR 11.75 billion in 2019, whereby the maritime crane division posted a turnover of EUR 887 million. This corresponds to an uptick of EUR 175 million or 24.6% compared to the previous...

07.04.2020

Germany's inland shipping improves in 2019

About 205.1 million t of goods were shipped on Germany’s rivers and canals in 2019, up 3.6% from the previous year. In 2018 volumes were reduced by 11% to 197.1 million t due to low water levels. Transport performance also posted...

06.04.2020

Cargo at Guadeloupe Port Caraibes keeps flowing

In accordance with government measures and their adaptations taken by order of the prefect of the French region to deal with the coronavirus epidemic, the Grand Maritime Port of Guadeloupe has been implementing its business...

06.04.2020

MSC posts record performance in Liverpool

The Port of Liverpool’s deep-water container terminal has broken a record. The MSC Federica, which recently docked, exchanged more than 5,400 teu, the highest number seen from a single vessel in Liverpool since the terminal...

06.04.2020

25 years of service for Bremen

The Bremen (Germany)-based port services provider Weserport celebrated its first quarter of a century at the beginning of April this year. Weseport was founded in 1995 as a joint venture of the Rhenus Group, Stute Verkehr and the...

Le point nodal Djeddah

L’invasion de criquets en Afrique de l’Est n’est qu’une des raisons poussant à créer de meilleures liaisons de l’Europe vers l’Afrique de l’Est. Les lignes de l’Europe de et vers le Kenya et la Somalie via la mer Rouge sont...

03.04.2020

The time of the tankers

Vitol Marine Fuels, a subsidiary of the Vitol Group headquartered in Rotterdam and Geneva, has acquired the Singapore-based bunkering specialist Sinanju Tankers Holdings (“Sinanju”). The Singapore bunkering licence holding...

03.04.2020

Cosco Shipping: 2019 results meet expectations

Cosco Shipping looks back on a satisfactory performance in 2019. During the reporting year, the group handled 25.74 million teu in container shipping, +18.1% compared to 2018. Of these volumes, Cosco Shipping Lines carried 18.78...

03.04.2020

Indian Register convoys vessel conversion

International ship classification society Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass), has classed its first vessel under the Lebanese flag. The vessel - which is named "Jouri" - was converted from a vehicle carrier to a...

02.04.2020

Red Sea Gateway opens a new chapter

The Red Sea Gate Terminal (RSGT), a terminal operator representing a partnership between the Saudi Industrial Services group Sisco and the Malaysian Mining Company (MMC), has officially taken over operations in the northern...

02.04.2020

K Line to adjust previous forecasts

The Japanese liner K Line is planning to record the extraordinary loss on valuation of investment securities in the consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending 31 March 2020. These are investment securities...

02.04.2020

Night-time closure for traffic on the Rhine

Inland navigation on the Upper Rhine also feels the effect of the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic from which France and especially the region Alsace are currently suffering. Under these circumstances, the lock operators on...

01.04.2020

A bigger slice of Hapag-Lloyd

Special circumstances demand special measures. In this case, Kuehne Holding, in contrast to earlier statements, has further increased its share in the Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd through its subsidiary Kuehne Maritime....

01.04.2020

Fostering trimodal solutions at duisport

Duisport has developed a trimodal container terminal as part of the new logistics concept for the logport VI location, including the basic conditions for legal approval. The area measures roughly 430,000 sqm and has a 500 m quay...

01.04.2020

Ro-ro terminal at Stockholm in the making

The last two of nine ramps for rolling goods have been installed at the Stockholm Norvik Port. Five were delivered to the recently newly rebuilt Värtahamnen Port and two to the reconstructed Port of Kapellskär. The ro-ro...

31.03.2020

Mixed results for Cosco Shipping Ports

There was a year before corona. In 2019, the Chinese port and terminal operator Cosco Shipping Ports witnessed rising revenues, which surged by 2.7% to USD 1.02 billion, but declining profits, which went down by 7.1% to USD 272.7...

31.03.2020

Obligatory sale of Long Beach terminal pays off

The decision of the committee on foreign investment in the United States to make Orient Overseas International (OOIL) sell its stake in Long Beach happened at the right time - for the seller. Since China’s Cosco Shipping acquired...