Ordering fifteen new units in three months 
Grimaldi has extended the agreement that try Holdings CMI) in late October 2022. In addition to the construction of five new PCTC (pure car & truck carrier) vessels, the group has exercised the option for another five units. With this extension, the Neapolitan company... more
ONE tightens links to Latin America
Ocean Network Express (ONE) is introducing a new Altiplano Service (ATS), which is scheduled to commence in February 2023. Connecting Arica and Iquique, Chile, from Callao, Peru, the new ATS service provides an extended coverage of Northern Chile and complements ONE’s existing... more
British-Dutch traffic enhanced
The shipping line A2B-online is expanding its services and has announced an additional weekly sailing between Rotterdam, Botlek and Teesport, which will start from the end of January 2023. The enhancement will raise the number of sailings on the route to four times per week and... more
Investments for Spanish carrier Trasmed
According to Spanish sources, Trasmed GLE, the Spanish affiliate of the Grimaldi Group, is planning to invest about EUR 45 million in 2023, which will be used for the company’s logistics and infrastructure segments and to support its shipping fleet. Currently, Trasmed has... more
MSC's cold grip in Livorno
In mid-January 2023, Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), which belongs to the MSC group, completed its acquisition of Terminal Darsena Toscana (TDT) in the Port of Livorno, Italy. The seller is the Gruppo Investimenti Portuali (GIP), which also handed over its stake in the... more
“In innovation mode” 
Structural change and the strategy for the future of the Swiss Rhine ports. Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inland ports on the River Rhine, has been affected by changes in the transport industry in recent years. Director Florian Röthlingshöfer reports on how the... more
Global transit times improving
The Ocean Shipping Index from E2 open is based on information from a business network that includes 420,000 interconnected companies managing 13.5 billion transactions and tracking 71 million containers annually. In its issue for Q4/2022, the index reports that, in major... more
Liebherr comes to the rescue
Liebherr recently delivered a new LHM 800 High Rise mobile harbour crane to the port of Esbjerg in Denmark. It arrived only a short time after an incident in the Kiel Canal, in which an LHM 600 ordered by Port Esbjerg was damaged while passing under the Holtenau High Bridge.... more
Dutch inland shipper changes hands
Honkoop Barging, a Dutch provider of inland shipping services in the Benelux region, has sold all its assets to Contargo with effect from 1 January 2023. The management and staff of the inland shipping company and its freight contracts and customer contacts will be transferred... more
Threefold replacement of APAC services
Ocean Network Express (ONE), the Singapore-based conjunction of the three biggest Japanese Container carriers, is launching three new Southeast Asia to Australia services as a direct replacement of existing routes. The new services will commence in early March, subject to... more