Japan joins the Hong Kong convention 
The IMO’s treaty for safe and environmentally-sound ship recycling has received another boost. Japan is the 10th country to adhere to the Hong Kong convention, which covers the design, construction, operation and maintenance of ships and preparation for ship recycling in... more
Globalports continues its comeback
During 2018, Globalports continued to focus on the recovery of the Russian container market. The group’s marine container throughput increased by 12.2% year-on-year in 2018, slightly outperforming the market growth of 10.0%. The group also reported strong growth in bulk... more
Duisport holds its course in difficult conditions
Despite a cooling economic climate, the duisport group reported a turnover of EUR 278.6 million in FY 2018, up 11.6% or EUR 28.9 million compared to the EUR 249.7 million generated in 2017. The operative result (ebitda) grew by 4.9% (from EUR 40.5 to EUR 42.5 million). Total... more
Singaporean foot in Gdansk 
PSA International intends to participate in the purchase of the largest box terminal in Poland, which plays a key role as a gateway to Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. more
RMI: 15 years of qualship 21 certification
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has been recognised on the US coast guard's qualship 21 roster for 2019-2020. The USCG programme rewards vessels for commitment to safety and quality when calling at ports in the United States. Only flag states which maintain a port... more
Svitzer for Suez
The towage operator Svitzer recently inked a ten-year agreement with the Egyptian port of Suez. The company will provide two newly built 70T ASD tugs for supporting the operations in Port Said and the Suez Canal. Svitzer has been operating in Egypt since 2005 for Egyptian... more
Cosco also goes for Anfield
The Big Five are in the game: Five global shipping lines are all now calling at Liverpool following confirmation that Chinese giant Cosco Shipping is to ship via the port. The carrier will take slots on an existing Canadian service via Montreal with OOCL. It joins MSC,... more
More barges to/from North Brabant
The port of Rotterdam Authority, the Multimodal Coordination Foundation and Brabant Advice Centre (MCA Brabant) have just signed a partnership agreement. The objective of the partnership is to increase container transport volumes on inland waterways between Rotterdam and North... more
UAL feels the wind beneath its wings
Against the backdrop of the oil & gas industry’s recuperation, the carrier Universal Africa Lines (UAL) recently witnessed a special event – three of its vessels, the “UAL Cologne, UAL Houston and the Lieke” were in the port of Antwerp (Belgium) at the same time. UAL,... more
New equipment for MICT in the Philippines
Four new hybrid rubber-tyred gantries (RTG) have been acquired by the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), the flagship of International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI). The new RTGs, manufactured by the Japanese company Mitsui Engineering &... more