Turkish Defense Minister on Monday said his country would “be glad” to help the shipments of foodstuff and fertilizers waiting at Russian ports in the Black Sea. “There are also food and various chemicals in Russia’s ports. The transfer of these is a separate issue apart from our work on Ukrainian...
Gwangyang, South Korea’s second-busiest container port, is anticipating greater export flows to the North American west coast after SM Line decided to deploy larger vessels to its Pacific Northwest Service (PNS).
Yeosu-Gwangyang Port Authority (YGPA) said that its president, Park Sung Hyun, actively promoted Gwangyang to SM Line in the first half of the year, and both sides prepared measures to improve North American import and export logistics, working with SM Line’s Canadian branch.
Accordingly,...
https://container-news.com/sm-line-ups-capacity-on-north-american-west-coast-service/
The port of Shanghai, the world’s busiest container port, may have set a container throughput record for July, its operator Shanghai International Port Group said on Monday on its official WeChat account. Last month, the port handled more than 4.3 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), up 16...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/shanghai-ports-july-throughput-sets-record/
Nigeria’s multipurpose Lekki Deep Sea Port is 95.65% complete, with construction slated for completion by September 2022, the company said. “The wait to behold a deep seaport with a container terminal operated with efficiency and world-class standards in Nigeria is almost over,” the company...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/nigerias-lekki-deep-sea-port-to-start-operations-by-year-end/
It is reported that major business failures were discovered in a state-owned freight forwarder in Qinhuangdao recently, involving nearly 300,000 mt of copper concentrate, and its transaction-related trader has an annual trading volume of 1 million mt of copper concentrate. It is reported that the...
The Qatar Ports Management Company (Mwani Qatar) announced Tuesday that it received 117,317 TEUs and 65,172 tonnes of general cargo in July, a 1 percent year-on-year growth rate. In a statement on its official Twitter account, Mwani Qatar stated that the number of ships it received reached 241...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/qatar-ports-receives-117317-teus-in-july/
The world’s largest container ship with a capacity of 24,116 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) was undocked at the shipyard of its builder Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd, a unit of the world’s largest shipbuilder China State Shipbuilding Corp, in Shanghai on Monday. It marks another...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/worlds-largest-container-ship-undocked-in-shanghai/
Maersk’s Costa Rica Express (CRX) service will make its first call at DP World Southampton, giving Central American fruit suppliers access to the UK and Western Europe.
The main import product for the new service is bananas, which will be transported in reefers.
The Maersk CRX is the third new international shipping service to move to DP World’s UK ports this year, following several new arrivals in 2021. Its rotation is Antwerp (Belgium), Bremerhaven (Germany), Veracruz (Mexico), Altamira...
https://container-news.com/dp-world-southampton-connects-central-america-with-new-service/
Singapore and Rotterdam are working together to have vessels between the two cities run on cleaner fuel by 2027. On Tuesday (Aug 2), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Port of Rotterdam signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to improve collaboration on sustainability and...
Transit of goods via Iran’s commercial ports has increased by 44 percent since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21), according to the head of the country’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO). “Port transit has grown by 44 percent this year, and despite the restrictions...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/transit-through-irans-commercial-ports-increases-44/