iContainers, the 100 percent online global freight forwarder, said it has opened a new branch in the shipping hub Port of Rotterdam, marking the Spanish company’s fourth global establishment. In the last two years, the Barcelona headquartered…
National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri), the exclusive oil shipper for Saudi Aramco, made a net profit of 327.8 million riyals ($87.4 million) for the three months to Dec. 31. That compares with 566.4 million riyals in the fourth quarter of 2015…
Overseas exporters chartering foreign vessels to supply goods to India will have to pay a service tax on freight from Sunday, a government notification said.It will be the same as the 4.5 percent service tax that India currently levies on free-on-board (FOB) cargoes…
A new report from the Danish Maritime Forum presents tangible ideas that have the potential to enable real progress on some of the most pressing issues in the maritime industry.How do we decarbonize shipping? How do we embrace new technologies…
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has signed a new port agency contract with Team Tankers International for the US East Coast and Caribbean region - its first in the Americas.The chemical tanker specialist has called on ISS to provide full…
The chairman of Taiwan's Yang Ming Bronson Hsieh has ruled out a merger with a boxship rival. According to him, the world's ninth-largest shipping firm has never considered the possibility of merging with another operator and does not intend to do it now…
Paramilitary gendarmes firing in the air sealed off access to Ivory Coast's main port on Wednesday, forcing companies including cocoa exporters to close down, as weeks of unrest in the security forces showed no signs of easing.President Alassane Ouattara…
Corvus Energy will provide newly-designed lithium-ion energy storage systems (ESS) for a hybrid rubber-tired gantry crane (RTG) designed by CCCC Shanghai Equipment Engineering (CCCCSEE). The new ESS solution from Corvus is a smaller, ultra high power…
The port of Antwerp handled over the past year 214 057 529 tons of goods. Which is 2.7 more than the previous year. Container volume up 4.1%: At 4.1% the growth in container volume is even more pronounced: after 12 months the figure stood at 117…
French container shipping major CMA CGM has upgraded its SEAS1 and SEAS2 services, now providing two departures per week between Asia and the East Coast of South America. The group will thus provide two departures per week between Asia and the East Coast of South America…
Siren Marine, a vessel monitoring and tracking technology, and a pioneer of the Connected Boat revolution, has announced that Carlton Schumacher has been retained to fill the director of sales position and Aaron Pape was selected to be business operations manager…
Associated British Ports (ABP) has contracted OceanWise to install Port-Log across all of ABP's 21 UK ports.The project has not required any of ABP's existing sensors to be replaced. A major benefit of Port-Log.net is its ability to accommodate…
Through its operating company Fugro Subsea Services, Fugro has recently been awarded Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status, highlighting its role in the international supply chain. The demanding and extensive accreditation process began…
CargoSphere announced eSUDS (electronic - Smart Upload and Diagnostics Solution), designed to allow ocean carriers, through an automated, digital framework, to systematize the process of distributing freight rates to customers online in real-time…
Kiel posted record cargo and passenger handling figures in 2016. For the first time some 6.5 million tons were loaded or unloaded last year - an increase of 5.3 % over the previous year and the port’s best-ever result so far. Ferry services…
