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SCPA Making All the Right Moves

Dec 29, 2016

What does it take to become – and Stay – a World Class Port in a Post-Panamax world? The South Carolina Ports Authority thinks it has the answers. In late October, the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) reported year-over-year growth during the first quarter of its 2017 fiscal year…

FMC Green Lights Miami Terminal Partnership

Dec 29, 2016

An agreement between two marine terminal companies located at the Port of Miami will go into force on December 31, 2016, permitting those parties to seek cooperation and commonality in both business and operating matters. The U.S. Federal…

Panalpina’s Pinnacle Logistics Excellence Program

Dec 29, 2016

Some gold medals are harder to get than others. Panalpina’s LogEx Gold is one of them. Why? Well, for starters you can’t just go for gold like you could at a world championship in sports. For LogEx Gold, you first have to earn LogEx Bronze – and then LogEx Silver…

Antwerp Port Hits Record Volume

Dec 29, 2016

The port of Antwerp will close 2016 with an expected record volume of more than 214 million tonnes of freight handled. The shipping container volume for its part has risen above 10 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units, i.e. standard containers) for the first time in the history of the port…

Sino-Global Shipping Enters Agreement With COSCO

Dec 28, 2016

Sino-Global Shipping America, a non-asset based global shipping and freight logistic integrated solution provider,  has announced the signing of an Inland Transportation Agreement  with COSCO Beijing International Freight Co in which COSFRE…

GulfNav, SeaQuest Tie Up in Ship Management

Dec 28, 2016

Dubai-based Gulf Ship Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf Navigation Holding, announced on Tuesday a recent tie up with Switzerland’s SeaQuest Group to set up a ship management joint venture and expand operations in the region. According to this agreement…

Transshipments at Port of Gdansk Exceed Last Year's Record

Dec 28, 2016

2016 is not yet over, but the volume of transshipments is already higher than in the previous record year, being currently estimated at more than 36.3 million tonnes.  This is a result which, until recently, would have been out of reach for any Polish port…

Ports of Stockholm Container Volume Zoom

Dec 28, 2016

A new record has been set for the number of containers transported to the Container Terminal at Frihamnen. Never before have so many containers been transported by sea directly to the strongest growing capital city region in Europe and Sweden's largest consumer market…

Chilean Wood Products Export to Shrink in 2016

Dec 27, 2016

Chilean forestry exports will total $5.3 billion by value in 2016, 3 percent less than last year, as supply has increased and the economies of key export markets remain sluggish, an industry body said on Tuesday. The Chilean Wood Corporation…

Master & Commander: Capt. Ted Bernhard

Dec 27, 2016

From a boy who wanted to be a swashbuckler like Errol Flynn to a Maine Maritime graduate to hopping aboard a grain ship bound for Egypt, Captain Theodore “Ted” Bernhard has led a quintessential maritime life. A ship driver with 37 years of maritime experience…

India Rolls out Sagarmala Development Company for USD 15 Bln Maritime Push

Dec 26, 2016

India's Minister of Shipping Nitin Gadkari has said that projects worth Rs. 1 Lakh Crore (USD 15 Bln)  under Sagarmala programme are at various stages of implementation and development.  He was speaking to the press at a ceremony  to inaugurate…

Wan Hai Join TBS Service with “K” Line

Dec 26, 2016

Taiwan's Wan Hai Lines Ltd will expand further on its already extensive south-east Asia network by joining Thailand-Belawan Service (also known as TBS) on 7th of January 2017, to provide a direct service from Thailand to Belawan. The service will be jointly operated with 'K' Line…

Freight Rates Jump after Hanjin Collapse

Dec 26, 2016

The cost of transporting containers from ports now shows signs of recovery after the fall of Hanjin Shpiping Co after a period of down play, says a report in Business Korea. It appears that the strategy of Maersk Line, the world’s largest…

Incheon Port Cargo Volume Crosses 2.5mln TEUs

Dec 26, 2016

Incheon Port's annual container volume surpassed 2.5 million TEUs as of December 16, the largest-ever volume in the history of Incheon Port, in 11 years since hitting 1 million TEUs in 2005 and in three years since reaching two million TEUs in 2013…

Rickmers Sells Vessel to Survive

Dec 26, 2016

Rickmers Maritime Trust has completed the sale of a vessel in connection with the settlement of senior loan facilities that German lender Commerzbank's Singapore branch extended to a unit of the trust. 'The Trustee-Manager wishes to announce…

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