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Seaports are critical infrastructures to keep supply chains moving and economies across the world functioning. This becomes especially visible in times of global crisis. A great variety of business and government actors interact in port communities to ensure multimodal flows of vital medical and food supplies, critical agricultural products, energy streams and other goods and ... […]

The world’s largest container ship HMM Algeciras, with a capacity of 24,000 20-foot standard containers (TEU), will call at HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) this Sunday, 07 June 2020. The ship is expected to arrive with the evening’s high tide at around 7 p.m. The HMM Algeciras is on its maiden voyage and will call ... […]

While merchant shipping crews who arrive in Victoria are generally banned under pandemic restrictions from disembarking to stroll the streets, one group of seafarers has no choice but to be detained, hustled to shore and locked up under guard. They are the crew members of ships that carry pine logs to China from the south-west ... […]

A mega project to build China’s southernmost province of Hainan into a world-class free trade port was unveiled on Monday, giving the country’s Hawaii-like island an ambition to compete with other ports such as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Singapore and Dubai. The 35,000 square kilometer tropical island with 9.5 million residents will embrace ... […]

The recent Covid containment measures also forced the seamen’s club ISC The Bridge in Oostvoorne to close its doors. However, as of 2 June, the centre can gradually return to facilitating seafarers. During phase 1, the drivers of The Bridge will be provisioning crew members with a variety of basic necessities. Seafarers to remain on ... […]

China is planning to build its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering point for international vessels docking at the south Chinese city of Shenzhen, state news agency Xinhua reported. Investors including state energy giant PetroChina, Shenzhen Gas and Shenzhen Yantian Port Group entered an agreement on Wednesday to build such a facility able to supply ... […]

China Tianjin Container Freight Index (TCI), an indicator of northern China’s international container freight rates, remained at 546.55 points. The statistical samples of TCI cover 19 international shipping routes departing from the port of Tianjin to ports in Europe, the Mediterranean, America, Asia and the Persian Gulf. As a sub-index of the Tianjin Shipping Index, ... […]

Oil product stockpiles rebounded to a record high at the Port of Fujairah as of June 1, led by gains in heavy fuels used in marine and power industries. The total stockpiles climbed 6.5% in the week ended June 1 to 30.71 million barrels, according to data released June 3 by the Fujairah Oil Industry ... […]

Navis, part of Cargotec Corporation, the provider of operational technologies and services that unlock greater performance and efficiency for leading organizations throughout the global shipping industry, announced today that it has been designated as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company for 2020. Using validated employee feedback gathered with Great Place to Work’s rigorous, data-driven methodology, ... […]

Senior Australian infrastructure leaders Glenn Thornton and Paul Brown will join Port of Newcastle’s (PON) executive team on 9 June as the organisation enters a major growth phase. Mr Thornton – who joins the Port from global engineering professional services consulting firm WSP, where he was the NSW Region Director and Project Director Advisory for ... […]