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Funding for Green Port Project MAGPIE

An international alliance of 45 companies, knowledge institutes and port authorities, headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, has been awarded nearly € 25 million in EU funding, reports drycargomag.

Sustainable And Smart Logistics

The consortium will be using this grant to execute 10 pilot projects and demonstration projects that focus on sustainable and smart logistics in port operations. In the years ahead, the transport sector is expected to transition to clean power. At this moment it is...

https://mfame.guru/funding-for-green-port-project-magpie/

AntwerpXL postponed to December 2021

AntwerpXL postponed to December 2021

London, 01 February 2021: AntwerpXL, the award-winning breakbulk and heavy lift event, has been postponed from March 2021 to 7 – 9 December 2021 in a decision made in consultation with the community due the continuing circumstances surrounding the pandemic. The live event, which during its incredible first edition attracted key visitors and exhibitors from across the industry’s biggest, best and most innovative players will be held at the Antwerp Expo in...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/02/01/antwerpxl-postponed-to-december-2021/

Container trade ‘madness’ driving more Asia cargo to other modes

The “madness” of ex-Asia container rates is driving more un-boxing of containerised cargo.
And the resulting bounceback for breakbulk is providing a boon for secondary ports and shortsea shipping, according to chartering specialist Ahlers.
“New opportunities are arising for breakbulk, MPVs [multipurpose vessels] and ro-ro carriers,” the company said.
“Alongside some bigger MPVs being chartered for carrying containers, there is an increase in cargo volumes due to more containerised cargo coming...

https://theloadstar.com/container-trade-madness-driving-more-asia-cargo-to-other-modes/

Breakbulk revival as box shipping prices itself out of the market

Container shipping’s capacity crunch has priced some agricultural and chemical commodities out of the market – in favour of breakbulk.
And the de-containerisation trend could spread to other cargo categories, according to Estonia-based freight forwarder CF&S.
The company recently loaded 700 tons of fertilisers, feed, and chemicals from Xingang to Hamburg in big bags on a multipurpose vessel.
“Due to the huge rise in prices for container sea freight from China to Europe, …

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https://theloadstar.com/breakbulk-revival-as-box-shipping-prices-itself-out-of-the-market/

Innovative Singapore to Dampier roro/liner service due to launch

Pictured: an extract from Google Maps depicting the Port of Dampier; Credit Google Maps

Northern Australia specialist Sea Swift will shortly be launching its new liner service “Dampier Direct”. Connecting Singapore and Dampier, the first service is due in December and will average two sailings a month.

Transit time will be nine days and the service will have a frequency of 20 days. Sea Swift envisages that shipment times will be up to two days shorter than the Fremantle-Singapore route.

Cargo to...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/innovative-singapore-to-dampier-roro-liner-service-due-to-launch/

Swire Shipping’s NAX service to run fortnightly

Swire Shipping has announced it will operate its North Asia Express (NAX) service on a fixed-day, fortnightly and 42-day rotation basis, from November 2020.

NAX will offer a direct container service to / from North Asia and Papua New Guinea and Queensland. Transhipment is available via Hong Kong for all other Asian ports and the rest of the world. There will be a nine-day transit from Hong Kong, China, to Lae, Papua New Guinea.

The NAX service was first launched in July 2015 to provide a direct...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/swire-shippings-nax-service-to-run-fortnightly/

Project cargoes keep AAL’s ships calling US Gulf ports

Project cargoes may not be the fastest movers on the high seas, but they have proved much less volatile than the U.S. container trades during the coronavirus pandemic.

Christophe Grammare, commercial director, AAL Shipping (Photo: Courtesy)

Singapore-based AAL Shipping, one of the world’s largest marine project cargo carriers with 25 vessels, has witnessed a steady increase in ship sailings involving the transport of large capital equipment from Asia to U.S. ports during the first half of 2020....

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/project-cargoes-keep-aals-ships-calling-us-gulf-ports

Port Houston: ‘Worst should be behind us’

Executive Director Roger Guenther believes Port Houston has turned a corner.

“We had nine blank sailings in the month of May,” Guenther said. “But the worst should be behind us. We are aware of seven blank — or canceled — sailings to Houston in June and only three for the month of July.”

Container volume at Port Houston was down 16% year-over-year in May as the coronavirus pandemic continued to negatively impact imports and exports. 

Port Houston handled 222,250 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs)...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-houston-worst-should-be-behind-us

Will wind turbine transporters continue to roll during COVID-19?

The coronavirus pandemic’s global spread earlier this year put the brakes on many U.S. industrial project cargoes, but truckloads of behemoth wind turbine components continue to roll across the nation’s highways.

“Our wind turbine component load count for this year is up 36%,” said Gene Lemke, vice president of projects for St. Cloud, Minnesota-based Anderson Trucking Service (ATS), in a telephone interview with American Shipper. “It’s been a huge bright spot during these difficult times.”

Family-...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/will-wind-turbine-transporters-continue-to-roll-during-covid-19

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