MAERSK has commenced a high volume west coast of South America feeder service that calls at ports in Balboa, Callao, Arica, San Antonio and Lirquen. The service now deploys three vessels ranging in size from 4,200 TEU to 4,800 TEU, which replaces the 2,500-TEU ships used previously on the loop, reports Alphaliner. It said the three larger vessels de...
Hainan P O Shipping expanded its trans-Pacific service to include a weekly call at the Port of Oakland. The vessel POS Hong Kong made the first call Monday at the Oakland International Container Terminal. The weekly service links Oakland with Hong Kong, Yantian, Xiamen, Ningbo and Shanghai. The service includes an integrated feeder network from outl...
Maersk Line said it will raise ocean freight rates from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent to northern Europe and the Mediterranean twice during the first quarter of 2011. The Danish carrier announced a general rate increase of $200 per 20-foot container and $400 per 40-foot and reefer container effective Feb. 1. This will be followed by a...
Damen has been tasked with developing the first environmentally friendly ferry design for the Dutch shipping company Rederij Doeksen. Based in Harlingen, Rederij Doeksen operates passenger and car ferries between Harlingen and the Dutch Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. This will be the first time Gorinchem-based Damen has specifically de...
Diana Shipping Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has approved the partial spin-off of its interest in the Company’s majority-owned subsidiary Diana Containerships Inc., of which Diana Shipping currently owns approximately 55% of the issued and outstanding common stock. Diana Shipping will distribute 2,667,066 shares of common stock of D...
During first half of 2011 Odfjell and our partner National Chemical Carriers Ltd. Co. (NCC) of Saudi Arabia will bring four newbuildings into our joint coated pool. Odfjell has entered into an agreement with SLS Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Korea, to acquire two coated 44,000 dwt IMO II parcel tankers. The agreed price per vessel is about USD 42 million. The ve...
China Shipping Development Co., Ltd., a marine cargo transportation service provider in the country, December 22 posted an announcement that the company and its solely owned unit China Shipping Development (Hong Kong) Marine Co., Ltd. inked USD 351.2 million contracts to manufacture five oil carriers for independent third parties. In detail, China Shipp...
Bangkok: The hijacking of a Thai general cargo vessel on the early hours of Christmas day has brought the number of seafarers held captive by Somali pirates to over 600. The 20,377 dwt, Thor Nexus, was hijacked in the early hours of 25 December 450nm of the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean according to EU Navfor. The vessel was on her way to Bangla...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi