European shortsea market has ended 2021 on a high with Toepfer Transport reporting the average rates more than doubling during 2021. The German ship broker reported another sharp increase of its Shortsea Index for the...Read more
Höegh Autoliners is pushing ahead with its green transition with an order for multi-fuel and zero carbon ready Aurora vessels. The company has ordered four fixed vessels at China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) and has...Read more
DHL Global Forwarding had to think quick in order to facilitate a shipment of four Azimuth thrusters for a client. Faced with vessel cancellations, the client approached DHL to perform the shipment on a short...Read more
Jumbo Shipping, now part of Jumbo-SAL-Alliance has completed a tailor-made transportation of offshore platform modules for Kiewit Offshore Services. The company’s heavy lift vessel (HLV) Fairmaster was mobilised to transport living quarters module, helideck and...Read more
BigLift Shipping’s fleet was busy delivering cranes from Japan to a number of locations worldwide for Mitsui E&S Group. In four separate shipments, the company delivered 17 rubber tyre gantry cranes (RTG) and nine ship...Read more
DYT Superyacht Transport has taken delivery of its purpose-built semi-submersible vessel, Yacht Servant at the start of the year at Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard on China’s Shandong Peninsula. The vessel has already embarked on her...Read more
Multimodal transportation services provider C.H. Robinson wrapped up a nine-month project involving ocean shipments of oversized cargo from Portugal to the United States. Read more
Hamburg-headquartered F.H. Bertling Logistics has recently handled a transport of a gas turbine generator from Norway to China. The unit measured 20 metres in length, 4.6 metres in width and 7.75 metres in height, with...Read more
Multipurpose vessels (MPVs) could continue to be used to alleviate the supply shortages in the container sector well into 2022, according to the shipping consultancy Drewry. Breakbulk cargoes are also expected to continue seeking available...Read more
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has filed a letter to the UK government seeking investigation into the state of competition within the current deep sea container shipping market.Read more
Wilhelmsen Ship Service has handled and supported a number of pipe shipments from the United Arab Emirates and Oman to the ports in the United States. The company has been working on the project for...Read more
Heavy lift vessel Jumbo Vision and the break bulk carrier Federal Delta have shipped a trio of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) across the Atlantic to the Greater Golden Horseshoe, Canada. The TBMs are destined for...Read more
Akita Offshore Wind Corporation has continued the preparation for the construction of its Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm project with the second components delivery reaching the Akita port in Japan. The company noted that on...Read more
Following in the footsteps of The Coca-Cola Company and likes of Walmart, Home Depot and Ikea, coffee industry has turned to breakbulk vessels to ship supplies to the United States. As Bloomberg reports, a breakbulk...Read more
The Noatum Project Cargo team has managed the delivery of reactors from Schwartz-Hautmont Construcciones Metálicas destined for a new alkylate production facility in Pasadena, Texas.Read more
Conakry Terminals, a unit of Bolloré Ports, recently received four new Konecranes Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes. The four units have been delivered onboard Spliethoff’s P8-Type vessel, the Pietersgracht.Read more
Eemslift Dafne, a 4,200-dwt heavy lift vessel operating in the Amasus fleet recently delivered and unloaded six new automated container carriers (ACC) at the Port of Melbourne. The ACCs were ordered by Victoria International Container...Read more
French freight forwarding specialist FMI Gruppe (Fos Maritime International) has handled the delivery of project cargo from Belgium to Cevital Group’s agro-industrial plant in Bejaia in Algeria. Cevital Group is building a new oilseed crushing...Read more
UTC Overseas offices in Bremen, Germany, and Helsinki, Finland recently completed a large multimodal delivery of nine oversized, overweight gensets to a new power plant in Bremen. Working with a long-time client, planning for the...Read more
