French Guiana adopts new port technology 
After the Indian Ocean (Mayotte), the Caribbean (Martinique) and the Pacific (Papeete and Nouméa), French Guiana is now also taking the port system Ci5 and Smart Ports on board. For France’s overseas departments and territories (the DOM-TOM's), 2021 will have been the year of... more
Oldendorff Carriers outsources ship management
Synergy Marine Group has signed an agreement to manage part of Oldendorff Carriers' bulk carrier fleet. The contract begins with the technical management of 17 Oldendorff bulk carriers comprising nine post-panamax vessels and eight ‘babycapes’. Dexter Jeremiah, managing... more
Acciaierie d'Italia opts for huge portal cranes
Taranto-headquartered steel manufacturer Acciaierie d'Italia requires the strongest possible equipment to handle its bulky and heavy materials. The group recently inked a contract with Liebherr about four new LPS 800 portal cranes for handling raw materials used in steel... more
Spanish ports on their way back
Spanish ports grouped in the ‘Puertos del Estado’ entity handled 442.2 million t of goods between January and October this year, 5.4% more than in the same period of 2020. The pre-pandemic level hasn’t yet been reached, however (–5.1% versus 2019). Conventional general... more
Inchcape opts for a digital logistics partner
Inchcape Shipping Services and Horizon Air Freight are taking the joint digital path. Customers of Inchcape’s last-mile spares logistics and door-to-deck delivery throughout the Americas can now use the Horizon World Track portal, which gives them real-time updates on all their... more
Sino-Finnish MoU for naval technology
The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has inked an MoU with the China Classification Society and the Tianjin Port Group to co-develop China’s next-generation intelligent tugs, in line with CCS intelligent ship standards. The project’s scope includes delivering situational... more
Yang Ming’s growing capacities
The shipping company Yang Ming, founded in 1972, started operating the ‘YM Together’, a newly-built 11,000 teu container vessel chartered from Shoei Kisen Kaisha and built by Imabari Shipbuilding in Japan. The ship will be deployed in Yang Ming’s PN3 trans-Pacific operation... more
Déjà vu: danger zone Gulf of Guinea
The European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA) is one of the maritime organisations concerned about the surge of piracy attacks in the Gulf of Guinea. The latest incident, in South Nigeria, which involved a suspected pirate vessel and the Danish frigate ‘Esben Snare’... more
First Dutch snaps up all shares of S5
A rapid concentration is taking place in the “Port Services” industry. After taking over the agency activities of the Royal Burger Group and Jardine, First Dutch has now acquired the S5 Agency World (S5)'s shares of Marmedsa Noatum Maritime and Kanoo Shipping, becoming the sole... more
Traffic reshuffle around British isles
Ro-ro traffic between the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and UK has declined significantly post Brexit and is now running at its lowest level since early 2015, according to latest nine-month statistics. ROI-GB volumes were down 20% during Q2 and Q3 of 2021 compared to 2019 figures... more