The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) Board has approved the renovation and realignment of the Port of Savannah’s Ocean Terminal docks to accommodate expanding container operations, shifting most breakbulk cargo to Colonel’s Island Terminal in Brunswick.Read more
The Bremen branch of Hansa Meyer Global Transport handled the door-to-door transport of steel plates, weighing a total of 2,800 metric tonnes, from China to Germany.Read more
Ports & TerminalsBreakbulk throughput in the Port of Rotterdam was up by 15 percent in the first nine months of the year, compared to the first three quarters of 2021. The increase was similar within the RoRo...Read more
Port of Antwerp-Bruges has see its breakbulk volumes grow in the third quarter of 2022 together with the total throughput of the unified port. The port unveiled in its third-quarter report that conventional breakbulk grew...Read more
Cargo-partner’s project cargo team transported a 14,5 metric tonne, privately-owned yacht. Cargo-partner handled the end-to-end transportation of the yacht, from Tianjin, China to the Port of Durban, South Africa.Read more
Sucafina, a sustainable “farm to roaster” coffee company, recently became the first company in 30 years to to ship coffee in breakbulk. To address transit times, shipping costs and container shortages, Sucafina explored options that...Read more
Between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022, the 2022 financial year, there was a 103.7% increase in break bulk cargo in the Port of Virginia, compared to the previous year. A total of 172,734...Read more
Logistic Integrators (LIPL) has recently wrapped up, what it called a niche project, moving railway wagons from Hyderabad to Chennai Port and further to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The three units each measured over 20 metres...Read more
InterviewEnergy is high on the agenda, energy transition is high on the agenda, says Twan Romeijn, business manager breakbulk & offshore industry at the Port of Rotterdam, when we met him at Breakbulk Europe.Read more
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