Feeder operators

Hamburg Q1 throughput suffers, but port has faith ‘things will pick up’

Germany’s largest port, Hamburg, saw throughput at its container terminals in the first quarter decline 6.6% decline, year on year, to 2.2m teu.
However, there could be worse to come in quarter two as a result of consumer lockdowns in Europe and the subsequent plunge in transhipment cargo for the Baltic.
Trade with China accounted for around a quarter of Hamburg’s 9.3m teu last year, so volume was particularly impacted by the …

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Hapag-Lloyd suspends three Baltic feeder services as volumes collapse

Hapag-Lloyd is to suspend three of its six North European feeder services, as volumes in the region continue to collapse.
According to a customer advisory from Japanese carrier ONE: “The current Baltic services GTE, SDX and REX will be suspended from the end of May for a period of approximately six months by our partner Hapag-Lloyd”.
In fact, the GTE (Gothenburg Express), which runs between Hamburg, Frederica, Oslo, Helsingborg and Gothenburg, has …

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Anger from feeder lines over new lashing rule from dockers’ union

Six European feeder and shortsea lines are challenging the extension of a “dockers’ clause” covering container lashing operations in ports to Europe.
The dockers’ clause stipulates that lashing operations must be undertaken by International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)-affiliated unions and originally became part of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) agreement between an International Maritime Employment Council (IMEC) negotiating group and the ITF in February 2018, and has been...

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Unifeeder expands global footprint with takeover of shortsea rival Feedertech

Unifeeder has expanded its global reach and closed the gap on market leader X-Press with its acquisition of a majority stake in Singapore-based feeder and shortsea operator Feedertech Group.
DP World-owned Unifeeder will buy a 77% stake in Feedertech, with the Singapore registered company’s chairman, Ali Maghami, retaining the remaining 23%.
Founded in 2003, Feedertech operates liner and ad hoc feeder services under that name and a regional shortsea network under the …

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Hapag-Lloyd and ONE set to operate joint feeder services round the world

Hapag Lloyd and it’s the Alliance partner Ocean Network Express (ONE) have agreed to operate feeder services around the world together.
Under the terms of a “bilateral strategic feeder network cooperation agreement”,  the lines will share space on their respective feeder vessels.
It began with the joint launch of the Bohai Express service in August and is to be extended to the intra-Europe trade this month with the launch of the North Sea …

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