RoRo operator Wallenius Wilhelmsen has announced plans to construct four more Shaper Class pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) vessels. These 9,300 CEU dual fuel ships are designed to run on alternative fuels like methanol...Read more
French shipowner, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has ordered rotor sail technology from Norsepower to cut emissions of its RoRo fleet that will be ferrying Airbus aircraft components in the future. Read more
Logistics solutions provider CLdN is further growing its offering in oll-on / roll-off (RoRo), load-on / load-off (LoLo), and breakbulk handling, as it acquired the Distriport Terminal from Broekman. Distriport occupies a 22-hectare site on...Read more
Roll-on/Roll-off specialist, Wallenius Wilhelmsen has recently signed a significant multi-year shipping contract with Korea’s leading construction machinery company. The new agreement, which has a duration of three years, plus a two-year extension option, is valued...Read more
Godby Shipping, a privately owned shipping company with eight RoRo vessels in its fleet has agreed on a new charter deal with DFDS. Its RoRo vessel MV Midas will go on a time charter to...Read more
DHL Global Forwarding, Industrial Projects division has joined Esgian Shipping, the Oslo-based provider of analysis and benchmarking services of global shipping segments. DHL is said to have signed up for both RoRo and MPP services...Read more
There are growing concerns within the shipping community, including marine underwriters, about fires breaking out on car carriers and RoRos with the assertion that many of these fires are attributable to electric vehicles. In response, the...Read more
Pushing forward with its net-zero agenda, RoRo shipping specialist, Wallenius Wilhelmsen, has signed a letter of intent for the delivery of four 9,350 CEU methanol-capable and ammonia-ready vessels. The company has secured individual options for...Read more
While limited by certain vessel characteristics, more and more market players are turning to the High & Heavy divisions at major RoRo operators for the transport of their breakbulk and project cargo. A Japanese construction...Read more
Transportation services provided Höegh Autoliners has exercised the option to construct additional four new multi-fuel and net zero carbon ready Aurora class RoRo vessels.Read more
Dutch heavy haulage and logistics service provider Van der Vlist has recently handled the delivery of heavy machinery from The Netherlands to Finland. The company shipped three Komatsu HD785-8E0’s from its home base in Groot-Ammers...Read more
Pressure on the multipurpose vessel charter rates from other sectors like containers, RoRo and drybulk continues, as reflected in the new charter rates assessment by Drewry. The consultancy noted its Multipurpose Time Charter Index has...Read more
UECC is set to provide a new link for the automotive and high and heavy and breakbulk cargoes sailing between the Port of Pasajes in Spain and the Port of Cuxhaven in Germany. Starting May...Read more
CEVA Logistics has signed a 10-year lease with its parent company CMA CGM for four of Eastern Pacific Shipping’s LNG dual-fuel hybrid deep-sea vessels. Originally, CEVA is looking to connect its automotive customers with more...Read more
Breakbulk throughput in the Port of Rotterdam dipped significantly in the first three months of the year, mainly due to the fact that container carriers are dipping back into the sector. Read more
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has been contracted to deliver RoRo equipment for two dual-fuel LNG pure car and truck carriers (PCTC) on order by Sallaum Lines. The RoRo shipping specialist has ordered the two vessels...Read more
There is a certain cool factor every time an oversized cargo is transported on a vessel. It often includes serious engineering, heavy lifting and precise stowage plans. Being high on the list is also seeing...Read more
People of the Industry“With the present market disruptions, options are continuously shifting and changing. Right now the number of carriers to specific areas is going down, not up, that makes our job very interesting,” states Anton Plompen, marketing...Read more
BLRT Repair Yards’s Lithuanian yard has welcomed the Roro cargo vessel, the Delphine, which is the largest car carrier vessel they have repaired to date.Read more