The charter rates continue their upward trend and have now broken through the 10,000 dollar barrier. While the rates are up 61% year-on-year, shipping broker Toepfer Transport says the current levels do not represent record...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – We4Sea and Inmarsat have secured the fleet-wide uptake of We4Sea’s web-based vessel performance monitoring service with the Roll Group. The heavy-lift shipowner placed the order after having trialled the cloud-based ship performance...Read more
AAL Shipping (AAL) is improving its safety and operational standards to meet the latest 2020 IMO Intact Stability Code standards, which currently are only mandatory for new vessels. “Nevertheless, we decided to harmonize these new...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Shipping consultant Drewry has partnered with Freightender to combine Drewry’s combining ocean freight cost benchmarking and procurement support services with Freightender’s cloud-based procurement technology platform.Read more
PRESS RELEASE – German shipping and logistics group Harren & Partner is strengthening its management team with Nils Aden joining the group as Managing Director on 1 May 2021.Read more
PRESS RELEASE – AAL Shipping has demonstrated the lifting and cargo intake capability of its mega-size A-Class fleet with the transport of a heavy lift barge from Taicang, China, to Papeete, Tahiti. The barge weighed-in...Read more
The Norwegian Maritime Authority has visited the Eemslift Hendrika in Ålesund and published pictures of the damage on board. The ship got into difficulties due to shifting cargo on Monday 5 April, which caused it...Read more
Jumbo Shipping, the Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and engineering contractor, and SAL Heavy Lift, the German breakbulk and project cargo specialist, are commencing operations with their joint venture. The Jumbo-SAL-Alliance combines both fleets and...Read more
The crew change crisis caused by Covid-19 restrictions continues to cause challenges, despite some improvement in the numbers, the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization has warned. Currently, some 200,000 seafarers are waiting to be...Read more
DHL Industrial Projects is supporting Dunakeszi Járműjavító Kft with the transport of the largest order of rolling stock in the history of Hungary. A total of 676 coaches are being transferred from the production site...Read more
Geodis is the latest freight forwarder to charter tonnage to alleviate the container capacity shortage on the major Asia-Europe trade lane. The first exclusively operated 1,000 TEU vessel is scheduled to arrive in Hamburg on...Read more
Jumbo has completed the transport part of its largest transport and installation job to date. Using its heavy lift vessels as well as subcontracted deck carriers forty monopiles, 120 monopile sections and forty transition pieces...Read more
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
Global maritime transport is expected to drop by 4.1% this year as a result of the coronavirus, reports UNCTAD. However, the organisation expects maritime trade growth to bounce back in 2021 and increase by 4.8%,...Read more
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
PRESS RELEASE – C.H. Robinson Project Logistics has transported 18 air coolers from Oklahoma to the Port of Houston and onto ocean vessels bound for the Middle East. The transport was carried out for one...Read more
IMO’s plan to legislate a 40% reduction in maritime CO2 emissions within ten years has resulted in a mixed response from shipping organisations. The environmental movement, on the other hand, has sharply criticised the plan...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Spliethoff has acquired an additional P14-type vessel. The vessel is renamed Plantijngracht (former name: ‘St. Pauli’) and reflagged to the Dutch register. The vessel is currently in Algeciras to undergo maintenance and...Read more
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
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
