Panama and Cuba, both in the midst of growth and international expansion, are examples of two different economic models that are helping to attract foreign companies through government initiatives providing investor security. Seeking to…
Jan De Nul Group signed a contract with Dong Energy from Denmark for the transport and installation of 36 monopiles and transition pieces for the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 2 in German territorial waters. Additionally, the Group was also awarded the supply…
Through its long-standing relationship with GAC worldwide, Pacific Drilling has appointed GAC North America – Logistics to provide centralized warehousing and distribution services to its two offshore rigs in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.A portion of GAC’s 181…
Driven by strong imports, The Port of Virginia handled 216,672 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in its strongest June cargo performance on record that helped to push the port to a solid finish for fiscal year 2016.“We finished fiscal year 2016 in positive territory…
Cosco has decided to transfer its containers to the port of Koper in Slovenia from Piraeus in order to deal with the Greek railway strikes. Cosco has got around the problem created for its freight forwarding network by Greek railway workers’…
Hapag-Lloyd remains the market leader among liner shipping companies in Canada. In the past year, the shipping company saw its market share increase to over 18%. Hapag-Lloyd is the largest liner shipping company in terms of throughput…
PRESS RELEASE -- Currently, the HISYAM 6 - a 41 meter long and 8 meter wide operational transport vessel – is being deployed in the Straits of Malacca located between the Malaysian peninsular and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.However, in order to get there…
Recognized for a third time in a row, Al Sharqi Shippping is awarded yet another year as a top customer for CMA CGM Logistics service provider Al Sharqi Shipping informs it has been recognized yet again as one of container shipper CMA CGM’s top customers for 2015…
Ruscon is integrating its terminal operations close to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in order to increase the efficiency of the operation.Ruscon’s Novorossiysk and Yug terminals have been co-operating and using shared software since…
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has been awarded the NYK Liner agency in Australia. Part of the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha Group, one of the world’s leading transportation companies, NYK Line container services has appointed ISS to represent…
Global oil and shipping markets reacted nervously on Tuesday after an international arbitration court ruled against Beijing's claims across large swathes of the South China Sea, fuelling geopolitical tensions in the vital waterway. A tribunal in The Hague…
India’s position to 35th rank in the latest bi-annual World Bank Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report will open many corridors of opportunities as industry will witness swift growth in international as well as inter-state freights, an effect…
With the strong commitment to provide seamless services to the customers as India’s prime facilitator of international trade, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), in the last one year, has focussed on ‘Ease of Doing Business’ says a report in the Hindu…
Paragon Shipping Inc is at cyclical lows, as the entire drybulk shipping sector has suffered and, along with the container and LNG sectors. Michael Bodouroglou, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paragon Shipping Inc. has…
Claims for shortage of bulk cargoes have become common in some Vietnamese ports and can lead to the arrest of the vessel by the receivers, says Gard Alert. Two of the ports frequently involved are Phu My (Cai Mep) in the south and Cai Lan in the north…