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• 20 September 17 USCG to present Amver Awards to Dutch ship owners at Europort 2017 Amver Awards will be presented to no fewer than 31 Dutch shipping companies on the first day of this year’s Europort show in Rotterdam. Between them, these ship operators manage a total of 165... Read more ›
• 23 November 16 Drewry: Asia-West Africa trade needs capacity rationalisation Capacity rationalisation in the Asia-West Africa trade is needed in order to achieve a freight recovery, analyst Drewry has argued. Although the third quarter is traditionally one of the strongest periods of the year,... Read more ›
• 10 November 16 Large vessels blamed for slowest shipping growth since 2009 A UN organisation has blamed the use of increasingly large vessels for the shipping industry’s worst year since the financial crisis. Seaborne shipments increased by 2.1% last year – the slowest growth in the... Read more ›
• 08 September 16 53 Hanjin vessels denied port access According to Business Korea, the company’s 53 vessels – 48 container ships and five bulk carriers – were stranded indefinitely or blocked from ports at home and abroad. One vessel was seized by the... Read more ›
• 01 August 16 Hong Kong port operators call for additional berths The Hong Kong Container Terminal Operators Association (HKCTOA) is urging the government to provide additional barge berths and back up land to “restore the competitiveness” of Hong Kong Port. Container volumes fell by as... Read more ›
• 29 June 16 Peel Ports partners with MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has committed vessel support to Peel Ports to help make marine trials at Liverpool2 a success. Berthing and marine trials began last week with MSC Nederland, and will be followed... Read more ›
• 23 May 16 Wärtsilä joins LNG project Wärtsilä has announced it is to join Project Forward, a concept developed in May 2015 to facilitate LNG propulsion and help meet emission regulations. The project, which is led by Athens-based Arista Shipping and... Read more ›
• 09 May 16 Maritime Simulator Network – Activity 3 Nine Simulator Centres connected, four more to come Mikael Hägg and Reto Weber of Chalmers University of Technology is leading the work on validating STM in simulators. What is the progress to date? Mikael:... Read more ›
• 22 April 16 CMA to Delay Multiple Mega-Ship Move As a result of the current Transpacific market situation and in order to optimise the use of its fleet, the CMA CGM Group has decided to postpone its project to deploy 18,000 TEU-capacity vessels... Read more ›
• 01 February 16 Port of Gladstone reaches 100 LNG vessels Maran Gas Mystra berthed at the Queensland Curtis LNG facility on 6 January to become the 100th LNG vessel arrival into a berth at the port. Methane Rita Andrea was the first vessel to... Read more ›