The Alliance: changes in spring 2022 
The Alliance will introduce several adjustments to its network in spring 2022. A key change is the split of the hitherto FP2 pendulum loop into the two services FE5, linking Southeast Asia to Europe, and PS7, linking Southeast Asia and South China to the Transpacific West Coast.... more
USD 60 million for Tra Pac Jacksonville terminal
Ceres Terminals and Jaxport have inked an agreement on investing USD 60 million over a 20-year-timeline in the lease and modernisation of the Tra Pac Jacksonville container terminal in Jacksonville, Florida. In a separate transaction, Ceres will purchase the terminal’s... more
New loop for dual-fuel road-railway ferry
Russia's first dual-fuel road-railway ferry, named after the Polish-Russian Marshal Rokossovsky, is preparing for its next trip. After having successfully completed its voyage from the seaport of Tuzla, Istanbul, to the seaport of Kaliningrad, the ferry will be put on the... more
Danish fleet expands
The fleet of ships sailing under the Danish flag continues to grow. A political strategy initiated more than a decade ago has increased the total tonnage of Danish vessels by 43%. As recently published by the Danish Maritime Authority, December 2021 saw vessels with 23.2... more
More capacity for a tight market
Hamburg-headquartered Dships has taken delivery of the last out of four newbuilds. The F-500 "MV Charlie" follows the multipurpose heavy lift vessels “MV Mick”, “MV Keith” and “MV Ronnie” as part of the fleet expansion programme initiated back in 2018. In the... more
Still rough times at sea
Women and minority groups are still particularly exposed to bullying and harassment at sea. This fact is confirmed in a survey conducted out by Cecilia Österman and Magnus Boström of the Kalmar Maritime Academy of Linnaeus University. More than half of all women seafarers state... more
Swiss Port of Basel on its way back
2021 saw a comeback of cargo flows in the Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inland ports on the River Rhine in Basel. The port authority’s three hubs handled 5.41 million t of goods in 2021, 5.5% more than the 5.1 million t in 2020, but less than the 6 million t... more
Fresh blood for Briese
BBC Chartering, an affiliate of the Briese Group from Leer (Germany), is enlarging its fleet. The new ‘BBC Ukraine’, an F-500 type multipurpose and heavylift vessel co-owned by Briese Schiffahrt and Swiss investors was built by Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering... more
Maritime trade back to pre-pandemic levels
In 2021, international maritime trade recovered to pre-pandemic levels and reached 12 billion t transported, corresponding to approximately 1,5 t per inhabitant of the earth. According to the latest weekly report by analyst Clarksons, international trade by sea in 2021 grew by... more
Normalisation on the seas within sight?
The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence has analysed the emerging endemic Covid period and, since there is no historical precedent fully describing this situation, compared it to the period of the US West Coast labour dispute of early 2015, which led to major... more