United Heavy Lift, a provider of ocean transport services for heavy lift, breakbulk and project cargo has completed its F900 Eco-Lifter MPP newbuilding program. The company has taken delivery of the 19th vessel in the...Read more
Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG is going full steam ahead with its 13,000 dwt Lakermax multipurpose newbuild fleet. Following the delivery of BBC Leer, the first in the series of fifteen vessels, the company...Read more
BBC Chartering has put its newly built 13,000 dwt multipurpose triple-decker, BBC Leer, into service as it sailed from the Taizhou shipyard in China. The vessel headed to the Morimatsu facility in Nantong according to...Read more
Thecla Bodewes Shipyards has delivered another multipurpose (MPP) dry cargo vessel to the Vertom Group. The yard has officially handed over the 7,280 dwt Vertom Anette at the Harlingen facility. Read more
the first LakerMax deliveredLeer-based Briese Group will take delivery of its first LakerMax newbuild from Taizhou Sanfu Heavy Industry, China. The BBC Leer is the first of fifteen 13,000 dwt multipurpose triple-deckers that will be delivered to the...Read more
Project heavy lift carrier, AAL Shipping, has expanded its order of Super B-Class vessels with two new 32,000 dwt units. Counting the recently delivered AAL Limassol, the order at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company in...Read more
Drewry's OpinionThe multipurpose (MPP) shipping sector has not been spared from the disruptions in traffic flows in the Panama and Suez Canals. According to shipping consultancy Drewry, weather-related restrictions on the Panama Canal and the recent...Read more
Finnish shipping company Langh Ship has bolstered its fleet with the arrival of the MPP Sofia, the third of three purpose-built 7,800 dwt multipurpose (MPP) vessels constructed in Ningbo, China. Following a celebratory naming ceremony,...Read more
Shanghai Shipbuilding Research and Design Institute (SDARI) has worked with Toepfer Transport to develop two multipurpose (MPP) vessel designs. Called OCTOPUS 12.6 and OCTOPUS 12, the vessels feature ground-breaking green technologies. Read more
The JSI Alliance comprising Jumbo Maritime, SAL Heavy Lift and Intermarine has recently completed its scope of project cargo transport in the Basrah Refinery Upgrading Project for JGC Corporation.Read more
Project heavy lift carrier, AAL Shipping (AAL), has cut the first steel for the last vessels in a series of six Super B-Class heavy-lift MPP vessels. The steel cutting, held on April 8, marked the...Read more
Delfzijl-based Pot Scheepvaars has placed an order with its compatriot shipbuilder Royal Bodewes for a single 6,000 dwt multipurpose (MPP) vessel. The two companies have signed a building contract for the 1A Swedish-Finnish Ice Class...Read more
Toepfer Transport ReportSimilar to its counterpart from Drewry, Toepfer Transport’s MPP Index, has been propped up by traditional market movements and the effects of the Houthi militia attacks in the Red Sea. It all resulted in the...Read more
Drewry's OpinionThe Drewry Multipurpose Time Charter Index has continued its gradual climb during the early period of 2024. The consultancy stressed that the ongoing Red Sea situation is giving the fleet a significant utilisation boost. Read more
Port of Waterford, the closest Irish bulk port to mainland Europe has recently handled the longest-ever project cargo import into the country. Multipurpose vessel BBC Citrine with a length of 153 metres delivered wind turbine...Read more
Maritime logistics conglomerate Wagenborg is continuing the expansion of its multipurpose vessel (MPP) fleet with the construction of another EasyMax. The company said that the first sections of the fourth EasyMax MPP have been transported...Read more
Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co has continued its fleet expansion as the third OTECO 9000 general cargo vessel, ECO Trophy, was added to the company’s fleet. It is the third of a total of ten...Read more
Swire Projects, a projects and heavy lift shipping services division of Swire Shipping, recently delivered project materials for a Canadian company’s mine expansion in the Arctic. The company deployed its ice-fitter multipurpose vessel, the 12,700...Read more
COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers’s multipurpose vessel, the MV Green Kemi, has completed its maiden voyage to Finland. The vessel, also the largest in the world carrying pulp with an ice classification, sailed into the port...Read more
Wagenborg has given itself a Christmas present in the form of a fifth EasyMax multipurpose vessel order at the Royal Niestern Sander shipyard. The two companies agreed to start the construction of another 14,000 dwt...Read more
