Shipping News
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MARAD Announces Four New Marine Highway Project Designations
The designation will enable the provision of federal funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Four new marine highway projects, located in North Carolina, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, have secured project designation from the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Maritime Administration (MARAD). The four projects are North Carolina’s Riverbulk Steel Shuttle, the…
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Hapag-Lloyd : Our service in Africa grows with the confirmed acquisition of the container liner business of DAL
After signing a framework agreement in March, we are happy to announce that we successfully closed the acquisition of the container liner business of German carrier Deutsche Afrika-Linien (DAL) today. All responsible antitrust authorities have approved the transaction. We will now start to fully integrate DAL’s container liner activities into…
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BDRY™ Breakwave Dry Bulk Shipping ETF
BDRY™ provides long exposure to the dry bulk shipping market through a portfolio of near-dated freight futures contracts on dry bulk indices. The first and only freight futures exchange-traded product exclusively focusing on dry bulk shipping. A pure-play exposure to dry bulk shipping, an instrumental part of the global commodity…
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Maersk carries out its first international relay shipments in China
Shanghai, China— With 27 containers from Vancouver, Canada, being loaded onto the container vessel ‘Merete Maersk’, the first batch of Chinese coastal relay of international cargo from a foreign carrier today started its last leg of ocean transportation, en-route from Shanghai’s Yangshan terminal to Tianjin. This move marks a milestone…
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A.P. Moller – Maersk completes acquisition of Senator International
Copenhagen: A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) announces the closing of the acquisition of Senator International, a well-renowned global company in freight forwarding. Senator brings with it a strong organization and a well-developed airfreight network comprising own controlled flights and long-term partnerships with best-in-class airlines, a well-established full container load (FCL)…
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Port Everglades Launches New Trucker Webcams
BROWARD COUNTY, FL — Truck drivers coming to Port Everglades will now have 24/7 live camera access to monitor traffic flows on McIntosh Road, the main thoroughfare in the port’s Southport containerized cargo area. “Certain times of day are busier than others, and these new webcams give truckers the ability to…
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WINDWARD : Dark activity & deceptive shipping – lessons from the Russia-Ukraine conflict
From Hope to Cope in 2022 Report: WINDWARD It is now hard to believe, but the beginning of 2022 offered hope… The world finally seemed to be emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic and the havoc it had wreaked on the global supply chain. The public and private sectors had mostly…
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“Turkey is the only open channel for Italy – Russia trade by sea”
Towards the port of Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, only the shipping companies Arkas and Akkon are active The role of mediator with Russia that Erdogan’s Turkey is trying to give itself in the conflict in Ukraine has its parallelism in maritime trade. The reflection comes from Alice Arduini, owner…
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The war in Ukraine and the rolling stock cause the traffic of the port of Livorno to collapse
The halving of liquid bulk due to the Eni refinery crisis brings the port to -17.2% compared to the first quarter of 2021. Important signs of recovery instead from containers, forestry, ferries, and cruises “The port system of Livorno-Piombino and the Elban ports closes the first quarter with a general…
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Nor-Shipping “full speed ahead”, as 2023 bookings outperform 2019
Nor-Shipping has confirmed that almost half of the available exhibition space at its Lillestrøm base has already been booked for its 2023 programme, taking place 6-9 June. The news, coming only a month after the 2022 show in April, puts next year’s ‘early bird’ sales ahead of Nor-Shipping 2019 (the…
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