US extends Jones Act to cover offshore wind industry
The United States House of Representatives has adopted new legislation that extends the Jones Act to also cover offshore wind-related activities. This means that all transports between a US port to a point within 200...Read more
Chipolbrok and Crane Worldwide create new door-to-door heavy-lift service
Crane Worldwide Logistics in Japan and Chipolbrok are joining forces to create a door-to-door heavy-lift service for clients shipping cargo between Europe, the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Middle East, Asia and the Americas.Read more
Dominion orders Huisman crane for first Jones Act installation vessel
Dominion Energy has selected Huisman Equipment to fabricate the crane for the United States’ first Jones Act compliant offshore wind installation vessel. Huisman joins a consortium of offshore wind industry leaders to build the vessel,...Read more
Sif scraps Vinyard offshore wind farm from order book
Dutch Sif Group has definitively cancelled the order for the delivery of the foundations for the first large American offshore wind farm, Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts.Read more
DSV and BBC sued for USD 97 million for using confiscated port in Cuba
American Sugar is suing Goldwind, DSV Panalpina and BBC Chartering under a controversial law for using its confiscated port in Cuba. The sugar trader demands USD 97 million in damages, the exact amount the port...Read more
Wallenius Wilhelmsen ships 39-metre long drag conveyor for Intrame
PRESS RELEASE – Wallenius Wilhelmsen has transported a 39-metre long drag conveyor across the Atlantic for Spanish manufacturer Intrame. Together with other parts of a dismantled asphalt plant, the cargo was transported over sea from...Read more
Maersk ships millions of masks to North America… by air
Maersk Special Project Logistics (SPL) has shipped 53.3 million N95 facial masks from Asia to North America between April and May. Not wit its container vessels, but by air, using multiple full Boeing 747-400F and...Read more
AAL moves generators for Siemens
PRESS RELEASE – AAL Shipping ahs transported two 350-tonne Siemens generators for gas-fired power plants in Europe and Iraq. The units were built at Siemens energy hub in North Carolina in the US. Read more
Dachser Peru moves locomotives from Houston to Lima
PRESS RELEASE – Dachser Peru has delivered two locomotives to a major railroad customer in Peru. Weighing over 180 tons each, the units were initially received at the Port of Houston and then delivered to...Read more
Roll Group assists Jan De Nul with first US offshore wind farm
PRESS RELEASE – Roll Group is assisting Jan De Nul with the construction of its first offshore wind project in the US, the 12 MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind. For Dominion Energy, this is a...Read more
Barnhart spreads 362-tonne column across two bridges
PRESS RELEASE – Barnhart has moved a 60-metre long column weighing 362 tonnes from Freeport to a fracking unit at a refinery in Texas. The column was so large that the company had to use...Read more
Boskalis buys Ardent Americas to expand US salvage business
PRESS RELEASE – Boskalis has acquired maritime emergency response specialist Ardent Americas to expand its presence in the US salvage market. Ardent Americas acts under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA90) for the provision of...Read more
OPEC+ agrees on record production cut
OPEC and its allies have agreed to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels per day starting May 1st. The record cut is aimed at stabilizing the oil price which has dropped dramatically due to...Read more
Oil prices jump 20% after Trump tweets about production cuts
Oil prices have jumped by over 20% to USD 31,62 (Brent) after Saudi Arabia called for an emergency of OPEC and its allies including Russia and President Donald Trump tweeted about possible production cuts of...Read more
Geodis creates air and rail services for urgent shipments
PRESS RELEASE – Geodis has established a number of air charter services to assist cargo owners with urgent shipments between China, Europa and the United States during the ongoing Coronavirus crisis. Rail alternatives are also...Read more
Roll-Lift and ATCO deliver engines in Aruba for Martin Bencher Group
PRESS RELEASE – Roll-Lift USA and ATCO have moved six Wärtsilä engines in Aruba for freight forwarder Martin Bencher group. Martin Bencher Group arranged the overall planning and shipping of the engines from the USA to...Read more
Demand growth for multipurpose shipping wiped out by coronavirus
There’s little chance left that multipurpose and heavy-lift vessels will see any demand growth this year following the outbreak of the coronavirus. “Any anticipated recovery will not be sufficient to offset contractions of the first...Read more
DSV opens cargo air bridge between US and China
PRESS RELEASE – DSV has opened a new air cargo service between Shanghai and Huntsville, Alabama in response to the decrease in the daily airfreight capacity as a result of the coronavirus. Due to the...Read more