HGK Shipping joins Green Award Inland Navigation 
HGK Shipping, which runs Europe’s largest inland navigation fleet with 350 owned and chartered vessels, is joining the Green Award certification programme. Green Award Inland Navigation promotes safety and sustainability in inland navigation. Jan Fransen, executive director... more
New LNG-hybrid vessels for NYK Line
Swiss marine power company Win GD has supplied dual-fuel X-DF2.0 engines to power two newly delivered car carriers for the Japanese shipping company NYK Line. The engines will be 40% more energy efficient than conventionally fuelled ships in NYK Line’s fleet. With the... more
Scandlines ferry on course
Construction work on Scandlines' new, zero direct emission cargo ferry is progressing according to plan. The Cemre shipyard in Turkey has now cut all the steel plates, and the 36 sections that make up the ferry are expected to be welded together and placed on the slipway by the... more
First zero emission inland container ship launched
Nike has introduced the "H2 Barge 1" at its European Logistics Campus in Laakdal, Belgium. Nike is partnering with the Dutch shipping company Future Proof Shipping (FPS) and BCTN Network of Inland Terminals as part of its strategy to reduce carbon emissions and waste... more
Milestone in Basra
After nine years of operation, Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT), a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services (Ictsi) at the Port of Umm Qasr in Iraq, has achieved a "significant milestone". With the recent unloading operation on the Yang Ming vessel "YM... more
Hanzevast renews communications infrastructure
Dutch Bulk carrier operator and investor Hanzevast Shipping reports that its four handysize bulk carriers “Hanze Gdansk", "Hanze Gendt", "Hanze Genua" and "Hanze Göteborg", each double-hulled, 35.000 DWT vessels with four 30 t cranes, have... more
"ONE Stork" lands in Halifax
The Canadian port of Halifax has welcomed the first of the upsized EC5 vessels. The "ONE Stork", with carrying capacity of 14,000 teu and 364 m length overall, arrived recently at PSA Halifax Atlantic Hub for Ocean Network Express (ONE), a member of THE Alliance.... more
Maritime ties between Abu Dhabi and Karachi
Abu Dhabi-based terminal operator AD Ports Group and Karachi Port Trust (KPT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen regional connectivity and foster economic growth in Pakistan. With this move, the partners will launch a bilateral cooperation and... more
Twelfth service hub opened in Southeast Asia
Damen Services, a Dutch company that provides ship owners with a wide range of support services and products throughout the life cycle of their fleet, has opened its twelfth service hub in Southeast Asia at Damen Song Cam shipyard in Haiphong, Vietnam, which will help to speed... more
Reliquefaction retrofit cuts costs and emissions
Wärtsilä has been chosen to supply the reliquefaction system for a retrofit project on a US LNG carrier vessel converted to operate as a floating storage unit (FSU). The "Energos Grand" is being chartered by New Fortress Energy. The Wärtsilä system allows the... more