Despite the ailing economy, freight throughput in the port of Rotterdam grew by 1.7% in 2012. A total of 442 million tonnes of cargo went through the port. Hans Smits, President and CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority: “Although the growth is limited, it is another record for Rotterdam. Container
Baltic Reefer Group Ltd. and the Seatrade group of companies are pleased to announce the establishment of a new joint venture that will operate under the name of “Reefer Alliance”. “Reefer Alliance” will start operating as of the 1st January 2013 and will bring together the marketing and sales of bo
Gerardo A. Borromeo, President and Kuba Szymanski, General Manager of InterManager issues the Presidential End Year Address as 2012 comes to a close. There is no doubt that the shipping industry continues to be challenged on a number of fronts given the prevailing global economic overhang. Shipping
DeepOcean AS (“DeepOcean”), a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group, has been awarded a call-off under the current long-term frame agreement for offshore Light construction and survey services for Statoil. Estimated contract value is more than NOK 100 million. The frame agreement includes services covering
The UK’s new deep-water port celebrated the arrival of the first ship, which delivered an early Christmas gift of four new automatic stacking cranes. The very first ship to dock at London Gateway was the Wieniawski, which began its journey in China several weeks ago and completed its journey last we
It’s undeniable, that the port expansion trend in the Turkey and Black Sea region are continuing at steady pace. For Turkey only investment figures of 6.2 billion USD have been published. The 2nd Annual Port Expansion Summit 2013 (14 – 15 March 2013, Istanbul, Turkey) will feature the most prominent
Seatech Engineering has entered into a new contract with shipbuilder Crist S.A to prepare the workshop documentation for fish farms supply vessel design, which will be build for EWOS Group. The team of highly remarkably experienced engineers, designers and naval architects will provide the Project d
The 2012 cruising season was again a record year for the member ports of the Atlantic Alliance. A total passenger volume of 2.2 million throughout the 15 ports equated to a 10 percent increase compared to the previous year (2011: 2 million passengers). At the same time, the number of port calls rose
Scana Industrier ASA has through its subsidiary Scana Skarpenord, been awarded contracts to deliver actuators and control systems to customers in South Korea and China for FPSO and LNG/LPG applications. The value of the contracts is 15 MNOK. Scana Skarpenord has through its strategic positioning emp
The port of Antwerp is expected to have handled 183.8 million tonnes of freight this year. This represents a drop of 1.8% compared with 2011, when the volume was 187.2 million tonnes. All things considered, these figures are a mild reflection of the state of the economy and of the shipping industry.
All 22 hostages from the MV Iceberg 1 have now been released from pirate captivity. They had been held since the Iceberg 1 was pirated on 29 March 2010, a period of two years and nine months. The former hostages are now recovering from their ordeal and are receiving food and medical care. On 21 [&he
CMA CGM MARCO POLO, the world’s largest containership berthed yesterday morning at Malta Freeport’s Terminal Two North Quay. With a carrying capacity of 16,000 TEUs, CMA CGM MARCO POLO has exceptional dimensions, a length of 396 metres, a width of 54 metres, and a draft of 16 metres and is equipped
GDF SUEZ continues to develop its small scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) activities in North West Europe following the award by Fluxys of additional berthing and storage capacity long term rights at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal. GDF SUEZ will have access to these capacities after the completion of th
Ulrich Bauermeister, managing director of Rostock Port Development Company, states that Warnemünde remains the most popular German cruise port also in 2013. The company operates the passenger port at the mouth of river Warnow since 2001 and has continuously developed it ever since. A new record of p
