First full services plan of The Alliance with new member 
There is a new core member in the club. The South Korean Hyundai Merchant Marine has entered the Alliance, joining the carriers Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express and Yang Ming. With the FMC acceptance of HMM membership, the Alliance has upgraded its product package. It will be... more
Upgrades for Stockholm Norvik underway
The container terminal of Hutchison Ports in Stockholm Norvik Port is expecting the arrival of two new super-post-Panamax cranes. The container cranes began their journey from Shanghai (China) on 10 January and will arrive for installation at the new port at the end of March... more
CLH Group introduces sustainable newbuilding
The Madrid (Spain)-based CLH Group has made a new tanker part of its fleet. The “Castillo de Arteaga”, which was built in 2019, reduces SOx and NOx emissions by means of a hybrid “scrubber” in addition to a waste water treatment system certified by the international maritime... more
Colombia greets largest ULCV so far
Coming from Asia, the almost 14,000 teu container vessel “APL Esplanade” recently arrived at Puerto Aguadulce, a container terminal, which began operations in November 2016 and which is run by its two major shareholders International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) of the... more
Crude oil boosted Corpus Christi's results in 2019
The Texan Port of Corpus Christi is looking back in joy on its year 2019. 122.2 million t of cargo were registered throughout the whole year. This is a rise of 13% or 16 million t compared to 2018. This significant growth is attributed by the port authority to increases in... more
New connection from Turku
A new ro-ro connection has been established between the port of Turku and the port of Rotterdam. The route between the Finnish and the Dutch port will be operated by “M/S ML Freyja”, which was built in 2017. The vessel is more than 191 m long and has a gross tonnage of more than... more
A trio for battery hybrid LNG powered PCTC
United European Car Carriers (UECC), which is jointly owned by Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and Wallenius Lines, recently gathered with representatives from Japan Marine Science, MUFG Bank, DNV GL, SDARI, CSSC and CSTC at the Jiangnan Shipyard 2020 in Shanghai (China) to... more
Terminal de Flandres starts "cold ironing" operations
At the port of Dunkirk, the “APL Singapura”, a container ship belonging to CMA CGM, was the first vessel to use the cold ironing facilities at the port of Dunkirk’s Terminal des Flandres. Present at the inauguration ceremony were Christine Cabau Woehrel, CMA CGM group... more
MOL enhances LNG carrier fleet
The second LNG carrier out of four vessels built in China for the Yamal LNG project has been named “LNG Merak”. The naming ceremony for the LNG carrier, which was jointly ordered by MOL and China Cosco Shipping, was recently held at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding. The Yamal... more
CMA CGM tidies up its global portfolio
CMA CGM’s investment in Ceva Logistics, new technologies and fleet expansion measures have left their mark. CMA CGM has signed an agreement with China Merchants Port Holdings to sell, for USD 968 million, ten container terminals to Terminal Link, the two partners’ joint... more