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Shipping Sep, 02, 2022 0

Brazil’s Aliança set to build pioneer ocean-going container barges

Maritime operator Aliança Navegação e Logística is building the first two ocean-going container barges in Brazil. A.P Moller-Maersk owns the company. The project, initiated in December 2021, foresees the construction…
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Shipping Sep, 01, 2022 0

World Shipping Council lays out decarbonisation proposals to IMO

Ahead of the forthcoming meetings at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations, the World Shipping Council (WSC) has outlined several mid-term measures that it believes are…
Shipping Aug, 30, 2022 0

Maersk sells its stake in Russian ports business

A.P. Moller-Maersk’s terminals business, APM Terminals, has agreed to divest its 30.75% shareholding in Global Ports Investments (GPI) to long-standing partner Delo Group. Following the announcement of Maersk’s commitment to…
Shipping Aug, 30, 2022 0

SHI lays keel for ZIM’s 1st dual-fuel 15,000 TEU boxship

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has laid keel for Sammy Ofer 15,000 TEU dual-fuel containership at its Geoje yard. The LNG-powered vessel is scheduled to join the Israeli…
Trade Regulations Aug, 25, 2022 0

Brazil changes drawback rules to streamline vessel exports

The Federal Government of Brazil changed the rules regarding the import duty drawback for the production of vessels, reported the Ministry of Economy on Thursday, August 25. Drawback is a…
Shipping Aug, 24, 2022 0

Maersk inks green bio-methanol partnership with Debo

Global shipping company Maersk announced last Friday (8/19) a partnership with Chinese bioenergy company Debo to supply 200,000 tonnes of biomethanol produced from agricultural waste per year. The start of…
Shipping Aug, 23, 2022 0

Heavy losses at yards suggest newbuild prices will remain firm

Shipowners hoping for a cooling in newbuild prices should brace for disappointment. Key yards are still posting enormous losses, despite orders piling in and prices heading north. With orderbooks stretched…
Shipping Aug, 17, 2022 0

Reefer container freight rates to outpace dry box pricing

Reefer container freight rates across global trades rose over 50% in the year to the second quarter of 2022, matching gains made in dry cargo pricing, and are estimated to…
Shipping Aug, 11, 2022 0

E-commerce boom leaves long-lasting effects on the maritime container market

The height of the covid-19 pandemic was a difficult period for global maritime trade. One of the primary issues experienced at the time was the scarcity of containers, which resurfaced…
Ports and Terminals Aug, 11, 2022 0

Lebanese grain buyer refuses shipment from Ukraine due to delay

The buyer of Ukraine’s first shipment of grain since the start of the war declined to accept it. The cause, according to the Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon, was a delivery…