Spliethoff adds 10th P-type heavy-lift vessel
PRESS RELEASE – Spliethoff has acquired another P14-type vessel on Tuesday 15 December 2020. The vessel is renamed ‘Pottersgracht’ and reflagged to the Dutch register.Read more
dship Carriers launches new multipurpose vessel MV Ronnie
dship Carriers is expecting a new vessel, the F-500 type multipurpose vessel MV Ronnie. The vessel has just been launched at the yard and is designed to reduce fuel consumption and increase stowage flexibility. Read more
Wagenborg secures 3-year paper trade contract to US
PRESS RELEASE – Wagenborg Shipping has signed a 3-year shipping contract to transport large paper volumes from the Baltic to the US East Coast.Read more
Marguisa appoints Wasa Projects as agent in Brasil
PRESS RELEASE – Marguisa Shipping Lines has appointed Wasa Projects & Chartering as its general agent in Brasil as of January 2021. The appointment is part of an ongoing expansion plan with full container services...Read more
ALS transports drilling rig in 121 packages
PRESS RELEASE – Abnormal Load Sevices (ALS) has transported a drilling rig in 121 packages totalling a volume of 6,750 cubic meters and 1,705 tonnes. Despite Covid-19, the company was able to deliver the cargo...Read more
Drewry launches time charter index, rates keep rising
Drewry has launched the Multipurpose Time Charter Index, which tracks one-year period charter rates across a basket of vessel types and sizes and forecasts the market movement over the coming month. The vessel types include...Read more
Charter rates keep rising
Charter rates for multipurpose vessels keep rising bit by bit since the sudden fall at the beginning of the year. Day rates increased by 114 dollars to USD 6,729 this month, Toepfer’s multipurpose shipping index...Read more
P&O Maritime to expand its breakbulk business
P&O Maritime Logistics has just secured two new contracts for its deck carrier Topaz Amur, after three years of delivering large project cargoes from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Caspian Sea. With more...Read more
UAL starts direct service between Netherlands and East Africa
PRESS RELEASE – Universal Africa Lines is starting a new, direct service between Northwest Europe and East Africa, with calls planned in Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenia.Read more
2,000 redundancies at Maersk, Safmarine and Damco cease to exist
Maersk is laying off 2,000 employees as a result of the large-scale reorganisation that started at the beginning of September. The end of Damco had been in sight for some time, but the Danish shipping...Read more
SAL buys Intermarine to expand its Americas business
SAL Heavy Lift has bought a majority stake in Intermarine. Together, the companies want to become an “unrivalled shipping setup” within the Americas and cross-Atlantic trade. Former BBC Chartering CEO Svend Andersen has been brought...Read more
CLdN ramps up capacity between mainland and UK
PRESS RELEASE – CLdN is ramping up preparations for the end of the Brexit transitional phase on 31 December 2020 by introducing additional capacity on its UK routes. As from last week, 25% extra capacity...Read more
UHL and Marguisa create joint venture to continue Africa services
United Heavy Lift and Marguisa have established a joint venture called United Marguisa Lines to continue their joint services to Africa. “The first year of the joint sailings has proven valuable to many clients and...Read more
Blue Water Shipping target of hacker attack
Blue Water Shipping has been the target of an attempted hacker attack but with the help of experts, the company was able to prevent an actual breach of the system, the freight forwarder announces on...Read more
Turn crisis into opportunity with the Project Cargo Summit 2020 Online
The world economy has taken a massive hit, but as entrepreneurs and economists will often tell you, crises also present opportunities. During the online edition of the Project Cargo Summit 2020 on the 23rd and...Read more
Rhenus moves heavy components using Antonov aircrafts
PRESS RELEASE- Rhenus Projects USA has transported a steam turbine rotor and a couple of rotor casings using Antonov AN-124 aircrafts. Both shipments required additional engineering to safely load the components. Read more
Throughput port of Rotterdam falls sharply, but less than feared
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam decreased by 9.1 per cent in the first half of the year compared with 2019, amounting to 218.9 million tonnes. Container throughput was only 3.3 per cent down on...Read more
Drewry: charter rates won’t recover until end of 2021
Charter rates for multipurpose ships are not expected to recover back to pre-Covid-19 levels until the end of 2021, with the recovery anticipated to take even longer if the global pandemic is not contained, says...Read more