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TEN has 77% of Fleet Under Secured Contracts

Mar 12, 2018

2018 started with TEN operating the largest fleet in its 25 year history, 77% of which in secured contracts averaging 2.7 years with minimum secured revenues of $1.3 billion, said a press statement from the Greece-based company Of the vessels under those fixed contracts…

Responders Tracking Containers Lost off North Carolina

Mar 12, 2018

Responders Tracking Containers Lost off North Carolina The U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA and Environmental Protection Agency are monitoring the tracking and assessment of more than six dozen stray cargo containers lost due to high winds and heavy seas about 17 miles off Oregon Inlet…

Shipping Must Prepare for a Digital Future -Dualog

Mar 12, 2018

Shipping should start to prepare itself for a future where total emphasis will be placed on the efficient and digitised movement of goods along the supply chain rather than on the individual components of the chain such as the ships themselves…

Rail Link Could Drive Germany–Rotterdam Container Traffic

Mar 09, 2018

The Port of Rotterdam could increase its market share in certain regions in South-West Germany by up to 23%, if additional rail connections are created.  This is one of the outcomes of the “HiRo – Market Potential for Container Transports…

CMA CGM Upgrades Indian Sub-continent and Europe Services

Mar 09, 2018

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in maritime transport, is pleased to announce it is reinforcing its offer, starting 2 April 2018, from Indian Sub-Continent, in a partnership with HLC, MSC, COSCO and ONE. With 2 weekly and complementary services…

Diana Shipping Sings TC Contract for m/v Calipso With Glencore

Mar 09, 2018

Diana Shipping, a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Glencore Agriculture B.V., Rotterdam, for one of its Panamax dry bulk vessels…

New Tariffs Threaten Import Growth at Container Ports

Mar 09, 2018

Imports at the nations’ major retail container ports are expected to dip slightly this month, but that’s the result of annual Asian factory shutdowns for Lunar New Year rather than new tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed this week, according…

Port of Oakland Building Online Shipping Portal

Mar 09, 2018

Port of Oakland officials has promised a digital shipping platform by mid-year to speed up global trade flows. The Port said it’s building an online portal for transactions that range from tracking to transporting containerized cargo. The move…

Kiel Gets Second Cruise Passenger Terminal at Ostseekai

Mar 09, 2018

A second handling center for cruise ship passengers and their luggage is being built at Kiel’s Ostseekai Cruise Shipping Terminal.  Artist’s impressions of how the new building will look when complete have been made public for the first…

Maersk to Expand Onshore Services in Port Division

Mar 09, 2018

Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk will begin expanding onshore services at its global port division to accommodate demands from companies like railway operators and freight haulers, according to newspaper Borsen. 'Until now it has been the big shipping lines that have paid our bills…

Virginia Port’s Cargo Numbers Up

Mar 09, 2018

Despite a slight dip in volume of .7 percent in February, The Port of Virginia’s fiscal year 2018 cargo volumes are up nearly 4 percent, or nearly 69,000 TEUs. “February is a short month and our volume was relatively static, in a year-on-year comparison…

Aalto Shipping Company Begins Operations

Mar 08, 2018

Aalto Shipping Company, a new Finnish shipping company, is starting operations. The shipping company is owned by Taaleri and its customers together with the acting management. Aalto Shipping Company has acquired to its fleet two modern…

India Plans Freight Village in Varanasi

Mar 08, 2018

The Inland Waterways Authority of India  (IWAI) proposes to develop a“freight village” in Varanasi, informs the government of India. The objective of the project is to support economic development in the hinterland of the multimodal terminal…

Indiana's Burns Harbor Plans for More Growth

Mar 08, 2018

The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor completed a landmark year in 2017 and is poised for significant future growth as a result of several historic developments.  In addition to handling an 8 percent increase in cargo shipments in 2017, the port doubled the size of its bulk terminal…

Breakwave to Launch ETF for Shipping Futures

Mar 08, 2018

U.S.-based fund manager Breakwave Advisors is launching the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) focusing on freight futures, reflecting growing investor interest in shipping as it emerges from a near-decade long crisis, a regulatory filing showed…

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