INTTRA, an ocean shipping marketplace, has generated 16% growth in 2016 over 2015 in container orders, which include bookings, shipping instructions and shipping orders, and is more than five times the industry rate.
Global engineering group Cavotec has been awarded orders reaching US$10.6 million for its marine propulsion, shore power supply, and crane electrification systems, highlighting the Group’s pivotal position in the global Ports & Maritime segment.
UAE-based Sharaf Shipping Agency and Singapore’s Ben Line Agency have combined to create a new global agency that will focus on the wet and dry bulk shipping and commodity markets
Maersk Line and the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) have agreed to settle a competition case that could have cost the shipping company USD 12 million due to it and other shipping lines’ use of price announcements to the Russian market.
The Algerian government has approved plans for the construction of a new USD $3.3 billion deep water port facility at the industrial zone of El Hamdania
DP World Limited has revealed that it handled 63.7 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the full year of 2016, with gross container volumes growing by 3.2% year-on-year on a reported basis, and 2.2% on a like-for-like1 basis
Jamaica has taken the first step towards becoming a viable maritime hub after launching a bid to be elected to Category ‘C’ with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council on February 2, 2017.
Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd will enter a slot purchase agreement for Hamburg Süd’s volumes on the East-West trades to be shipped on vessels in the 2M shipping alliance network between Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Line.
A group of seafarers on board a ship held at the Port of Fawley were found to be without warm clothing for days and their wages unpaid for three months
Liebherr Maritime Cranes has reported on its very own ‘Italian Job’ after delivering a total of nine mobile harbour cranes, four reachstackers, three rail mounted gantry cranes and one ship-to-shore container crane to various ports in the country during 2016, breaking its record for maritime equipment deliveries.
Drewry’s latest Container Insight Weekly has focused on US President Donald Trump raising fears of protectionism and reduced trade, questioning whether his rhetoric is just hot air and to what extent his trade liberalism will benefit trade.
Sierra Leone’s Freetown Port has made significant strides in matching international trading standards with the installation of a brand new x-ray container/cargo scanner
