VideoHitting the mark with the right service is what seems to be the main focus for the multipurpose shipping specialist AAL. Like many others, the company has been forced by the market environment to shift...Read more
VideoOnly days after Jeroen De Ryck, global business unit manager, projects & machinery at Ahlers praised the positive and healthy outlook for 2022, the war broke out in Ukraine, leaving the company in a precarious...Read more
Port of Rotterdam saw the breakbulk throughput during the first quarter of the year reach 8.4 million tonnes, jumping 19 percent above the figures reported in the first quarter of 2021, despite the effects Russian...Read more
As container shortage, available space and port disruption continue to plague the supply chain, breakbulk has risen as the best alternative for market players to keep their cargo moving. Multipurpose vessels are expected to continue...Read more
The current market dynamics have played right in the hands of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) and its breakbulk capabilities. The port saw a 46 percent rise in breakbulk volumes compared to the...Read more
Post-Covid recovery is kicking into gear for certain breakbulk industries as governments pour money in domestic infrastructure in order to bring their economies back on track. The recovery is also strongly driven by the new...Read more
Worldwide, it is one of the most important ongoing evolutions: the energy transition. For supply chains in the breakbulk industry and for ports around the world, this transition has an enormous impact as well. With...Read more
Freight forwarding and project logistics specialist deugro expects the upcoming Christmas season to put additional stress on the container market, and subsequently the MPP segment as well. Read more
Breakbulk throughput volumes at the Port of Antwerp have shown a jump during the first nine months of the year. Breakbulk has grown by 62.7 percent reaching 8.3 million tonnes during the period that came...Read more
Port of Rotterdam has certainly put the pandemic behind it as its breakbulk throughput figures for the year so far have passed throughput in 2019, which was a record year. The port has reported an...Read more
It is less than a week to go until experts from across the chain join us in ProMedia Studios in Rotterdam for the next edition of the Project Cargo Summit. In the lead-up to the...Read more
The Drewry Multipurpose Time Charter Index (MPV Index) jumped almost 7 percent in August, beating the shipping consultancy’s forecast of a slower rise. To remind, the shipping consultancy Drewry expected the index to edge up...Read more
The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) resumed limited cargo and vessel operations, beginning with breakbulk vessel cargo, September 2, 2021, just four days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana as a category...Read more
Breakbulk sector has not been spared by the Covid-19 pandemic that has impacted the world. However, there are whispers of roaring twenties, a new commodities super cycle as signs of economic recovery emerge.Read more
North Sea Port reported a drop in breakbulk transhipment volumes during the first half of the year that actually showed signs of partial recovery. Read more
The UK-based shipping consultancy Drewry expects charter hire rates for the multipurpose and heavylift fleet to continue to rise from their current peak for the remainder of the year. Read more
The Port of Antwerp’s breakbulk volumes for the first six months of 2021 have risen to the levels achieved in the first half of 2019. Following a period of adversity, breakbulk continued its growth during...Read more
The UK-based shipping consultancy Drewry noted continued rise in rates across all sectors lifting its Multipurpose Time Charter Index by 7.1 percent in June. Read more
ShippingPRESS 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
ShippingPRESS RELEASE – Targeting the local mining industry, Wallenius Wilhelmsen will start monthly calls in Arica port in Chile. “Within easy reach of Southern Peru’s mining hub, the Chilean port is strategically located for shipments...Read more
