Coordinated efforts create outlet for Oregon agricultural producersPiggybacking on the success of the Upriver Container Barge-Rail Shuttle program, Northwest Container Service announced they would increase rail service from twice a month to weekly starting in April…
EUROGATE can look back on a good financial year, 2015. Despite difficult market conditions the European terminal operators Group increased its net profit by 13.4 percent to EUR 73.5 million (prior year EUR 64.9 million). Container handling at…
Tideworks Technology Inc., a full-service provider of terminal management and planning software solutions, announced that GB Group has gone live with Tideworks’ terminal operating system (TOS) at its facility near the Port-au-Prince industrial zone in Haiti…
China COSCO Shipping, the result of a merger in February between the country's top two state-owned shippers, is in talks with CMA CGM and several other major operators to create a new shipping alliance, say reports in local media. Wang Haimin…
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, will supply loose lashings equipment for twelve 19,200 TEU container vessels under construction in South Korea for a European owner. The equipment is planned for delivery during 2016. The order was booked into first quarter 2016 order intake…
As a schoolboy, he had already taken his calculator apart to see how it worked. Today, he’s fascinated by big technology. Marcus Nehls works as the Second Engineer aboard Hapag-Lloyd containership Antwerpen Express. The “grease monkeys” – that’s how the nautical officers on board affectionately…
A record volume of capacity entered the container markets in 2015. But where have the ships been deployed, and which carriers have taken on the most? The shipping consultants Drewry released their container shipping review for the first quarter 2016…
The wording of instructions can potentially widen the scope of liability for marine service providers, warned International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC), citing the recent case of a marine surveyor sued for €1.56 million for alleged poor onboard stowage of a cargo…
Further expected container shipping liner losses throughout the first half of 2016, exacerbated by the awful prevailing spot and contract freight rates will lead to a major trigger point at some stage later this year. This will happen either…
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order to provide loose lashings for five 10,500 TEU Hapag-Lloyd container ships under construction in South Korea by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries. This order builds on a previous contract, which MacGregor announced in September 2015…
Port operator APM Terminals to develop a new transshipment terminal in Tangier, Morocco with an annual capacity of five million TEUs. APM Terminals MedPort Tangier will become operational in 2019, serving multiple trades and will be the first automated terminal in Africa…
MSC and INTTRA enter into a new digital partnership to address SOLAS VGM requirements Container shipping company MSC and ocean shipping electronic marketplace INTTRA have entered a new partnership aiming to introduce a customer-friendly solution to new container weight safety regulations…
Ship owners will need to act now to ensure they comply with new firefighting rules brought into force on January 1, 2016 for all new buildings warns WSS.New amendments to the safety of life at sea convention (SOLAS), which are now in force…
Xeneta, a benchmarking and market intelligence platform for containerized ocean freight, has used its data of global shipping rates to make a startling, and counterintuitive, claim – big volume shippers are not paying the best shipping rates…
DP World Group Chairman and CEO HE Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem recently met the President of France, Francois Hollande and senior government and business leaders at a major investment summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris.France’s attractiveness…