Container index takes a fall in April 
The downturn had been expected. The container throughput of the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute for Shipping Economics (ISL) fell from 110.4 (corrected) to 108.9 in April, down 6.5% from the value of the same period last year. In the Chinese... more
MOL and Wilhelmshaven go for LNG
The Japanese shipping company MOL and the LNG Terminal Wilhelmshaven (LTW) have a common goal: they plan to introduce a floating terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Wilhelmshaven. The two parties just inked a contract to build and charter an LNG terminal ship that... more
Rotor sails save fuel
A new rotor sail operation has been introduced in the Baltic Sea. The ferry operator Scandlines joined forces with Norsepower to install Norsepower’s rotor sail solution on the hybrid ferry M/V Copenhagen. The vessel operates between Rostock, Germany and Gedser, Denmark. The... more
New location in Asia to open
The Austria-headquartered logistics company Gebrüder Weiss's (GW) next air & sea office is to open in the South Korean capital of Seoul on 1 June 2020. Despite the difficulties caused by the coronavirus crisis, this project was completed as scheduled, the company said... more
Port of Casablanca shows resilience
Morocco's port of Casablanca has reported its throughput figures for April 2020, the first month under Covid-19 anti-pandemic conditions. Total traffic recorded at the end of the month was at almost 10.5 million t, a surge of 6% compared to the same period in 2019. Imports... more
Fostering e-bills of lading globally
The Digital Container Shipping Association (Dcsa), in which most of the major carriers seek to standardise their digital activities, has put forward that the current pandemic forges the need to digitise the bill of lading (B/L) in shipping as well. André Simha, global chief... more
Gothenburg resilient against the trend
The Swedish Port of Gothenburg has reported its figures for Q1/2020. Container throughput showed an upswing of 8%, from 188,000 teu to 203,000, while the port authority underlined that "there have been no cancelled calls, and none are planned." The handling of... more
Container capacity in Koper to grow
The company Kolektor has won the contract for the extension of the container terminal in Koper. With its partners Grafist and Adriaing, it intends to start construction work in the summer. The extension of the Pier I involves the building of additional 98.5 m of quayside and... more
Antwerp is on the brink
Throughput in the first quarter of 2020 compensated the decline in April. The Port of Antwerp's total cargo traffic increased by 0.4% in the first four months of this year compared to the same period in 2019. Container flows show an annual growth of 6.1% in teu, yet consequences... more
