»Nantong port five-month container volume up 17pc2014-07-04

The Port of Nantong in eastern China's Jiangsu province posted a 17.1 per cent year-on-year increase in container volume to 267,900 TEU in the first five months of the year, reports Xinhua.

»Wuhu port's five-month box volume increases 21.8pc2014-07-04

The Port of Wuhu in eastern China's Anhui province posted a year-on-year 21.8 per cent increase in container volume to 143,000 TEU in the first five months of the year, reports Xinhua.

»Incoming Hapag-Lloyd chairman confident of IPO in 20152014-07-04

German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd's designated chairman Michael Behrendt said he was confident that market conditions would support plans for an initial public offering (IPO) at the end of next year, according to a German newspaper.

»First of 9,400-TEU ships in 28-ship series is sent to CMA CGM2014-07-04

The CMA CGM Danube, first in a series of 28 new vessels under construction for the French shipping line, is undertaking its maiden voyage from China on a bareboat charter to CIMC.

»Evergreen takes chartered 13,808-TEU newbuilding from Enesel2014-07-04

Evergreen has received the 13,808-TEU Thalassa Niki from Greek owner Enesel, the sixth ship in a series of 10 neo-overpanamax ULCS ordered by Enesel in July 2012 from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).

»MacGregor's expanded winch portfolio wins offshore order from Marco Polo2014-07-04

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a contract with the Marco Polo Shipyard Pte Ltd with their facilities in Batam, Indonesia, to supply deck equipment for two 76m, 9,000kW anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels with bollard pulls of 150 tonnes, to be constructed for Marco Polo Marine. There are options for two further vessels.

»Urgent preparation needed now for 2015 sulphur regulations2014-07-04

Urgent preparation needed now for 2015 sulphur regulations.

»Rolf Habben Jansen to become Chief Executive Officer of Hapag-Lloyd2014-07-04

Rolf Habben Jansen, who has been a member of the Hapag-Lloyd AG's Executive Board since 1 April, has assumed the position of CEO effective 1 July.

»APM Terminals buys 22 Hans Kuenz rail-mounted gantries for Maasvlakte2014-07-02

APM Terminals is exercising an option to purchase 22 automated, rail-mounted gantry cranes from Austrian crane maker, Hans Kuenz GmbH and ABB of Sweden for the deepwater Maasvlakte II terminal to boost capacity to 2.7 TEU million, according to Shipping Gazette.

»Zhanjiang port container volume up 49pc2014-07-02

Southern Guangdong seaport of Zhanjiang saw its container throughput surge 49.27 per cent year on year to 196,500 TEU in the first five months of the year, representing a highest growth among the Beibu Gulf ports, reports Xinhua.

»Hiab is moving to a dealer based distribution in New Zealand2014-07-02

Hiab, part of Cargotec, and New Zealand Trucks, a subsidiary of Hellaby Equipment Limited, have signed a Distribution Agreement and Asset Sale Agreement for the distribution partnership in New Zealand. The parties have agreed not to disclose the value of the transaction which occurs on 1 July 2014.

»Wärtsilä receives repeat order from Prestige Cruise Holdings for compr2014-07-02

Two vessels have been added to the five-year maintenance agreement that was signed between Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, and US-based Prestige Cruise Holdings, Inc. (Prestige), the parent company of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. The agreement now covers eight vessels with a total of 35 Wärtsilä engines.

»Cargo diversion from USWC with 40pc heading for Canada2014-07-02

There appears to be substantial cargo diversion away from US west coast ports as the longshoremen's labour contract expires on June 30, prompting shippers to fear the disruption of union militants to pressure employers, according to Shipping Gazette.

»Evergreen named Best Intra-Asia Shipping Line at Shanghai gala2014-07-02

Taiwan's Evergreen Line has been awarded Best Shipping Line - Intra-Asia by Cargonews Asia in the 28th Annual Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA) in Shanghai, according to Shipping Gazette.

»A new ocean shipping container service from Gdansk to Mexico2014-07-01

The Port of Gdansk Authority has launched a new ocean shipping container line. The Maersk Line service has linked Gdansk with Latin America. The voyage will take 24 days, with vessels making calls at the ports in Mexico, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany.

»Damen, MTU and SVITZER will launch the world¡¯s first RSD CNG tug in 20162014-07-01

Three leading companies have teamed up to bring the first ever Reverse Stern Drive (RSD)® Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) tug to the market. Damen Shipyards of the Netherlands, German engine manufacturer MTU Friedrichshafen, a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce Power Systems, and Denmark¡¯s SVITZER have embarked on the pioneering project with the official launch of the new eco-friendly tug planned for 2016.

»Wärtsilä to deliver generating sets for two new offshore vessels to en2014-07-01

Wärtsilä has received an order to deliver generating sets for two new well intervention vessels for Siem Offshore A/S from Norway. The vessels are built by Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft (FSG) in Flensburg, Germany. The order was signed in the end of May 2014.

»Panama Canal Pacific lock chamber is filled with concrete2014-07-01

With the arrival of a second set of rolling gates, the Panama Canal expansion has managed to fill one of the monoliths on in the middle lock chamber on the Pacific side with 2,000,000 cubic metres of concrete, according to Shipping Gazette.

»Russian shipping market changing to meet new challenges, says DELO Group2014-07-01

Over the past three years, DELO Group, one of Russia¡¯s leading private transport companies, has implemented a major investment programme, including investment in rail and other adjacent port infrastructure, construction of stevedoring and inland storage terminals for oil products, construction of the KSK grain terminal, acquisition of 50% of the NUTEP container terminal from its JV partner and subsequent expansion programme turning the terminal into one of the leading container terminals on the Russian Black Sea coast and in Russia as a whole.

»'K' Line to order two additional new next-generation 7,500 TEUs2014-06-30

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd ("K" Line) has decided to order two additional new next-generation 7,500 TEUs with delivery 2017 to add to a recent identical eight-vessel shipbuilding contracts with delivery from 2015 to 2016 from Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co. Ltd, according to Shipping Gazette.