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Wallem Supports Polish Tall Ship’s Call to Hong Kong

Oct 31, 2018

Wallem Ship Agency was appointed to handle the recent call of the full-rigged Polish tall ship, the S.V. Dar Młodzieży to Hong Kong.The tall ship arrived in Hong Kong on October 26, 2018 and was berthed at China Merchants Wharf until 29th October…

Gothenburg Port Container Traffic Up by 20%

Oct 31, 2018

Freight volumes passing through the Port of Gothenburg during the year to date are as follows. Container traffic is up 20% compared with the preceding year, and energy product flows remain consistently strong.A press release from the deep-water…

Kalmar Supports Port of Long Beach Electrification

Oct 31, 2018

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed a contract to supply a fully electric Kalmar Ottawa T2e electric terminal tractor to Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) for a six-month demonstration period. The order was booked in Cargotec's 2018 third…

Hicks takes the Helm at LR Americas

Oct 30, 2018

Lloyd’s Register (LR) announced that John Hicks is President of Americas Marine & Offshore. Hicks returns to the U.S. after two years of leading LR’s Global Passenger Ship Center in Trieste, Italy as Global Passenger Ship Sector Manager and Italy’s Marine Manager…

BBC Chartering Joins Seaboard to Create “Andino Service”

Oct 30, 2018

As part of their mission to improve services for shippers moving cargo between the US Gulf Coast, Jamaica, and ports in Ecuador, Peru and Chile, Seaboard Marine and BBC Chartering are pleased to announce a new strategic cooperation which will be marketed as “Andino Service…

Martin Bencher expands in North America

Oct 30, 2018

Scandinavian based Shipping and Freight Forwarding company Martin Bencher expands in North America with an office in Vancouver, BC, Canada.A press release from the project logistics company quoted  Peter Thorsoe Jensen, CEO MB Group as saying…

Hyundai Merchant Marine Mulls Fleet Capacity of 100 million TEUs by 2022

Oct 30, 2018

The South Korean container carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has chalked out an ambitious blueprint for expansion.The ocean carrier's CEO C.K. Yoo presented HMM’s target of building up its capacity to 100 million TEUs and posting USD 10 billion in annual revenue by 2022…

UK Tax Regime Continues to Provide Stability for Shipping

Oct 30, 2018

International accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens has outlined a number of unexpected changes introduced by the UK Budget 2018 which could have implications for the shipping and offshore maritime industries. But it stresses that…

Bulk Sector Prospects Perking Up

Oct 30, 2018

The bulk sector is navigating its way out of the doldrums but market correction has come at a price, delegates attending Bulk Terminals 2018 learned last week.Speaking in Hamburg at the annual conference of the Association of Bulk Terminal Operators…

Global Ship Lease Merges with Poseidon Containers

Oct 30, 2018

Global Ship Lease, Inc., Poseidon Containers Holdings LLC and K&T Marine LLC has announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for a stock-for-stock transaction representing a total transaction value of over $780 million…

JAXPORT Sets Container Volume Record

Oct 30, 2018

JAXPORT’s public seaport terminals achieved record growth in container volumes, recording double-digit growth during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018. JAXPORT moved nearly 1.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (or TEUs, the industry standard for measuring containers)…

Number of Indian Seafarers Jump by 42.3%

Oct 30, 2018

The number of seafarers in India has seen an unprecedented growth of 42.3% due to various policy level changes brought in by the Government in the last four years, said a Minister in India.According to Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State for Shipping…

Eagle Marine Services Announces Rebrand to Fenix

Oct 29, 2018

Eagle Marine Services (EMS), an EQT Infrastructure III-owned container terminal which is one of the largest in the Twin Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, today announced the launch of a new corporate brand identity and name.Effective immediately…

COSCO Shipping Ports Revenue Surged by 62.6%

Oct 29, 2018

COSCO Shipping Ports said that its revenue  for the three months ended 30 September 2018  surged by 62.6% to US$253.0 million. The net profit for the same period rose by 11.8% to US$75.1 million.The  ports operator in a press release also said…

Sailors’ Society Celebrates 200 Years

Oct 29, 2018

Maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society’s 200th anniversary events continued with the annual ING wine-tasting evening, which this year raised a glass to the charity’s 200th anniversary.This was the sixth annual wine-tasting hosted by ING at its London headquarters…

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