The Alliance also has Australia in its sights 
Competition among shipping lines around Australia is in full swing. Hapag-Lloyd, as part of The Alliance, has announced the start of two new routes from Southeast Asia to Australia. The new services SEA and S2A offering weekly direct sailings between Thailand, Malaysia,... more
Baltic Ports Organisation focuses on port sustainability
The Baltic Ports Organisation (BPO) has been welcomed into the world ports sustainability programme following the signing of the WPSP declaration by Bogdan Ołdakowski, BPO secretary general. Guided by the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals, the programme aims to enhance... more
Eurogate Tanger expands its capacities
The Eurogate Tanger Terminal (EGT), close to Gibraltar in Morocco, has decided to upgrade its equipment. The capabilities of four ZPMC ship-to-shore (STS) cranes will be expanded from the beginning of 2020 and completed in Q2/2021. With a quay length of 812 m, a terminal area of... more
Reaching new heights in Rostock
A quartet of dignitaries was invited to the official inauguration ceremony for the new heavy-duty crane that was held in the port area of Liebherr (Rostock, Germany) a few days ago: Christian Pegel, energy minister, Stefanie Wohlfahrt and Patricia Rüf of the Liebherr family and... more
Ulrichs in the starting block
At BBC Chartering, Ulrich Ulrichs has now taken over the CEO position from Svend Andersen as announced in May this year. The shareholders gave tribute to Andersen's job at BBC, operator of multipurpose and heavy lift vessels. Ulrichs has many years of experience in shipping,... more
Four new services raise throughput in port of Hamburg
In the first half of 2019, the port of Hamburg raised its container throughput by 7.5% to 4.7 million teu. This upswing is due to the four new liner services that were introduced between Hamburg and ports in the USA, Canada and Mexico at the beginning of this year. Now a total... more
New service sets sail from Asia to the US Gulf region
The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Maersk and ZIM have launched a new joint service from Asia to the US Gulf. The new service deploys ten ships of 4,500 teu capacity on the following rotation: Xiamen (China) – Yantian (China) – Busan (South Korea) – (Panama Canal transit)... more
Rotor sail for hybrid vessel
The Danish-German ferry operator Scandlines is working with Norsepower Oy, a clean technology and engineering company which specialises in wind propulsion technology, to install Norsepower’s rotor sail solution on board the “M/V Copenhagen”, a hybrid passenger ferry.... more
Risks for container terminals underestimated
The UK-headquartered TT Club recently published an analysis of the risks faced by container terminals. The group provides insurance to port authorities, terminals and stevedores on a global scale. This particular analysis focuses on the top ten risks in container terminals,... more
Investing in the port of Novi Sad
The logistics company P & O Port Dubai (UAE), which bought the Serbian port of Novi Sad in May 2019, will invest around EUR 29 million in the port company to develop the facility. The construction of a new 189 m vertical quay wall, new silo capacities, new handling equipment... more