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European Commission Gives Conditional Backing to Hapag-Lloyd, UASC Merger

Nov 23, 2016

The European Commission on Wednesday said it has given its conditional approval to a merger between German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd and the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC). The merger would create a combined company worth about 7 to 8 billion euros ($7…

Restrata, Agility Partnership in Training at REP, Iraq

Nov 23, 2016

Restrata, a global leader in consultancy and training services, has partnered with leading logistics provider Agility to offer specialised training for oil and gas sector employees at the Rumaila Energy Park (REP) in southern Iraq.The REP's…

NYK Buys Stake in NY/NJ's Largest Terminal

Nov 18, 2016

NYK subsidiary NYK Ports, together with Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III (MIP III), has invested in Maher Terminals, which operates a terminal in the U.S. port of New York and New Jersey. On November 16, 2016, NYK Ports acquired a 20 percent share of Maher…

ISS Opens New Head Office in London

Nov 18, 2016

Maritime and logistics service provider Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has officially opened its new head office in London.Based in Fenchurch Street in the heart of the City, the new office for ISS’ leadership team has been opened to bring…

V.Group Acquires Selandia Ship Management Group

Nov 16, 2016

V.Group has acquired Selandia Holdings Pte. Ltd and its subsidiaries comprising the Selandia Ship Management Group as part of its strategy to offer clients high quality outsourced marine services from Asia. Founded originally in Mumbai, India in 1995…

Hunter Maritime Acquisition Launches IPO

Nov 15, 2016

Hunter Maritime Acquisition Corp. announced the commencement of its initial public offering of 15,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit. Each unit consists of one Class A common share of the company and one-half of one warrant, each whole…

Vorih Appointed President, OMEGA Engineering

Nov 12, 2016

Joe Vorih has been appointed President of OMEGA Engineering, Inc., a pioneer in the design, manufacture, and distribution of process measurement and control products. Vorih's priority will be to transform OMEGA from the best-known direct provider…

Descartes Acquires 4Solutions

Nov 11, 2016

Descartes Systems Group, provider of software solutions for logistics-intensive businesses, has acquired 4Solutions, an Australia-based provider of cloud-based business-to-business (B2B) supply chain integration solutions. “We continue to…

Carisbrooke Joins Forces with Nova Marine

Nov 07, 2016

The commercial short sea bulk activities of traditionally shortsea ship owners Carisbrooke Shipping Ltd and Nova Marine Carriers SA will be expanded and consolidated effective January 1, 2017. Notwithstanding both groups’ commercial networking offices…

APL Gears Up as Part of Ocean Alliance

Nov 04, 2016

As part of the CMA CGM Group, APL will join the league of the world’s largest container shipping lines in the OCEAN Alliance from April 2017. Navigating forward as a member of the world’s third largest container shipping Group, APL is poised…

Eimskip to Acquire Nor Lines

Nov 02, 2016

Eimskip has entered into an agreement to acquire the Norwegian shipping and logistics company Nor Lines. The business, with about 200 employees and an estimated annual turnover of approximately EUR 110 million, will be restructured in order to be aligned with Eimskip’s current operations in Norway…

NYK, MOL and K Line to Merge Container Shipping Businesses

Oct 31, 2016

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha will establish a new joint-venture company to integrate the container shipping businesses.The shippers have agreed, after the resolution by the board of directors of each company…

Buckeye to Acquire 50% of VTTI Marine Terminal

Oct 25, 2016

Buckeye Partners LP, which operates pipelines and other transportation and storage assets for liquid petroleum products, said it bought a 50 percent stake in the marine terminal company  VTTI BV for $1.15 billion. VTTI is a unit of Vitol Group…

Odfjell Sells Its Share in Oman Tank Terminal

Oct 17, 2016

Odfjell SE announced that Odfjell Terminals B.V. (OTBV), the joint venture holding company that owns and operates substantially all of Odfjell's tank terminals worldwide, has entered into an agreement to sell its 29.75 percent indirect ownership in Oiltanking Odfjell Terminals & Co…

Strategy Adjustment at Royal IHC

Oct 16, 2016

As a result of persistently poor market conditions, Royal IHC fine-tunes its strategy by further boosting knowledge-intensive activities  Persistently poor market conditions force a fine-tuning of strategy  The management intends to reduce around 425 permanent and temporary contracts…

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