A Swedish cargo shipping operator welcomes two hybrid newbuilds to its fleet as a Japanese yard launches an LNG-fuelled car carrier. Orders have meanwhile been placed for multi-purpose cargo vessels to be built in India and the first methanol-fuelled Ro-Ros for operation in Japan. Indian yard secures export orders for commercial vessels Indian state-owned shipbuilder […]
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Construction approved for new port in Maharashtra, India
The Indian Union Council of Ministers chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have approved construction of a new port at Vadhavan near Dahanu in Maharashtra state. The project will be undertaken by Vadhavan Port Project (VPPL), a special purpose vehicle formed by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port...
Antwerp Euroterminal to install shore power connection facilities
Antwerp Euroterminal (AET) in Belgium has unveiled plans to install shore power connection facilities for use by ships. The installation will be operational in 2026. Once completed, it will be the first vessel shore power connection to be established in Belgium. Two fixed shore power connections...
Wallenius Wilhelmsen sells Melbourne International RoRo and Auto Terminal
Shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Melbourne International RoRo and Auto Terminal (MIRRAT) for AU$332.5 million (US$221 million) to Australian Amalgamated Terminals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Australian logistics company Qube Holdings. Wallenius Wilhelmsen will continue to utilize MIRRAT following the transaction, ensuring services to its customers will not […]
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DP World invests €130 million in Romanian port expansion
UAE-based port operator DP World recently opened three new facilities in Romania. The country’s Black Sea port of Constanta is now home to two new facilities following a €65 million (US$71 million) investment: a five-hectares project cargo terminal for heavy, large and complex cargo, and a new...
Channel Islands launch tender process for ferry services
The States of Guernsey and Government of Jersey’s joint procurement process for passenger and freight ferry services is beginning its next phase. The two Islands are now inviting formal tenders from applicants with the necessary experience and capability. The joint tender exercise commenced on May...
Wallenius Lines, Greencarrier to commence new Baltic Sea Ro-Ro service
Swedish transport operator Wallenius Lines and international logistics specialist Greencarrier will establish a new maritime connection that will carry freight between Södertälje, Sweden and Gdynia, Poland, via the Baltic Sea. The two companies formed and will jointly own the recently launched business Lakeway Link with the aim of offering maritime freight transport as an alternative […]
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Stena Line vessels to get 30 per cent greater capacity following refit
Stena RoRo, on behalf of sister company Stena Line, has entered into a conversion agreement with China Merchants Jinling (Weihai) Shipyard for the installation of an additional cargo deck, increased thruster capacity, and preparations for shore power on board each of the Ro-Ro vessels Stena...
New Ro-Ro terminal opens at Texas’ Beaumont Port
US engineering firm McCarthy Building Companies has completed construction of a new Ro-Ro terminal at the Port of Beaumont on the Texas Gulf Coast. The Main Street Terminal 1 project included demolition of a failed dock structure and construction of a new general cargo dock. McCarthy said that, in...
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Stena Line boosts the capacity of two RO/RO freight ferries
Two RO/RO freight ferries operated by Sweden’s Stena Line are each to undergo conversions that will increase their capacities by 30%, not through a midbody insertion stretch, but through the addition of an additional cargo deck,
The vessels are the 196 meter long, 2001-built Stena Foreteller, which currently operates on the Belfast-Liverpool route, and the 195.3 meter long 2003-built Stena Forerunner, which currently operates on the Rotterdam=Harwich route.
The conversions will be carried out in...