The owner of the container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for some time in March, has made...Owner Ever Given makes new offer to compensate Suez Canal blockage
Ukraine’s heavy cargo market is growing as a result of increased industrial activity and the recovery of the Covid-19 pandemic....Ukrainian project cargo market set to grow
Friede & Goldman has developed a new feeder concept for the offshore wind industry called BargeRack. The system eliminates motions...Friede & Goldman aims to increase uptime of installation vessels with barge rack
Collet becomes first company to use a Blade Lifter in the UK
Collett & Sons is the first transport company to use a Blade Lifter on a UK wind farm. Working in partnership with P. Adams Transport, the company has been appointed to manage and transport all...Read more
AAL services over 30 shippers in one sailing
PRESS RELEASE – The AAL Kembla recently set sail from Rotterdam to Shanghai loaded with 15,000 tonnes of breakbulk and steel commodity cargoes, including private yachts, a mobile harbour crane, 16 power transformers, a dredger...Read more
Drewry expects further rate rises during the summer
Drewry’s Multipurpose Time Charter Index increased to USD 8,339 per day in May, representing a rise of 4.3% compared to the 2.5% rise seen in the previous month. The index is up 28% since the...Read more
Charter rates rise above 10,000 dollars
The charter rates continue their upward trend and have now broken through the 10,000 dollar barrier. While the rates are up 61% year-on-year, shipping broker Toepfer Transport says the current levels do not represent record...Read more
Jan De Nul installs subsea cable that connects Crete to Greek mainland
PRESS RELEASE – For the very first time in history, the island of Crete has been connected to the Greek mainland by means of a subsea electricity link. Jan De Nul Group installed the 135-km...Read more
Shortage of maritime officers to reach decade high by 2026
Diminishing attractiveness of a career at sea, coupled with rising man-berth ratios and continued fleet growth will lead to the highest shortfall of officers to crew the world’s merchant fleet in over a decade by...Read more
Roll Group to monitor all its vessels’ performance with Digital Twin
PRESS RELEASE – We4Sea and Inmarsat have secured the fleet-wide uptake of We4Sea’s web-based vessel performance monitoring service with the Roll Group. The heavy-lift shipowner placed the order after having trialled the cloud-based ship performance...Read more
Pioneering Spirit lays over five kilometres of Baltic gas pipeline a day
According to Allseas, daily production rates on the Pioneering Spirit exceed expectation with the vessel able to install more than five kilometres of the Baltic gas pipeline every day. The 105-kilometre-long 32-inch Baltic Pipe is...Read more
Heerema’s Balder completes offshore removal of Morpeth TLP
Last month, Heerema’s deepwater construction vessel Balder completed the offshore removal of the Morpeth tension-leg platform (TLP) on behalf of Eni US Operating Company. The removal consisted of the 2650-short-tonne topside, 2500-short-tonne hull, and 1300...Read more
PCJ presents the third online Project Cargo Summit!
Project Cargo Journal returns with the third edition of the Project Cargo Summit Online. From our studio in the port of Rotterdam, we will talk extensively with industry leaders about the opportunities in on- and...Read more
Deugro delivers time-critical petrochemical equipment
Deugro successfully delivered 21 tonnes of petrochemical equipment by air freight charter from Shanghai, China to Singapore. The 225 cubic meters of extremely urgent and time-critical cargo contained equipment for an LPG Treatment Unit (LTU)...Read more
“Captain’s orders caused container ship Ever Given to run aground”
The captain’s orders were the main cause of the Ever Given grounding in the Suez Canal on 23 March. This is what the chief investigator of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Sajid Shaisha, has told...Read more
Langowski moves 25-tonne rotary rewinder by rail
Langowski Logistics, a founding member of the New Silk Road Network, recently transported a huge rotary rewinder from China to the Port of Hamburg by rail. The cargo weighed about 25 tonnes and measured 12.2...Read more
EMS Log opens branch office in Lübeck
PRESS RELEASE – EMS Log has opened a new branch office in Lübeck, Germany. The Branch Office North is headed by logistics expert Martin Ollmann.Read more
Heerema: Our ships are ready to install 15+ MW wind turbines
In a recent report, IHS Markit stated that none of the existing wind turbine installation vessels can install next-generation 15+ MW turbines. This is incorrect, says Heerema Marine Contractors’ CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven. ‘Our vessels...Read more