Our Maritime Business Magazines

Van der Vlist recently arranged the transportation of a permanent prefabricated office building from an assembly yard in Moerdijk, to be taken to Antwerp. The two floored building of total 25m x 7,5m x 7,0m, weighing in total 120t consisted of 20 separate units which were built up on the manufacturing site. This includes...

Right after the market launch of its Terex Liftace 5-31 reach stacker, Terex Port Solutions (TPS) is experiencing strong demand for the premier model of its new lift-truck generation. The first of the cost-effective, serviceable and ergonomic machines will go to Cuypers Vorkliften NV (Cuypers) in Antwerp, Belgium. Cuypers hires out lift trucks to...

ATP Instone solidifies her position as an authority in the Shipping and Energy industry. On the one hand by setting up a specialised commercial team and appointing new colleagues, while introducing a unique payment model and the continued development of the integration between various booking and crewing systems, ATPI CrewHub. Introducing ATP Instone introduces...

APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles won two awards at the 66th Annual Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) Area Accident Prevention Committee Safety Awards banquet at the Port of Long Beach on 5 March. The first award was the PMA Coast Accident Prevention Awards ceremony in the category of Terminal Operations, Group A, for the...

Wärtsilä’s first unit at Porto do Açu in São João da Barra (RJ), Brazil, is inaugurated. This is the first assembly plant and production unit for generator sets and azimuth thrusters in Brazil for Wärtsilä, the provider of power generation solutions and services for ships and power plants. Covering 4000m2 of floor space, the...

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) presents the first machines of its new-generation lift trucks. The Terex Liftace 5-31 reach stacker is the first machine to be launched. Four models of the new Terex Stackace empty container handler will follow in the spring. The common feature of all these machines: they combine the strengths of their...

Associated British Ports’ Port of Ipswich has welcomed the largest shipment of stone in its history. The MV Arklow Bay arrived in Ipswich, from Belfast, to deliver 8229t of stone for Lafarge Tarmac, close to a thousand tonnes more than the previous record of 7371t. Materials for the construction industry represented around 30 percent...

2015 is an auspicious year for Lithuania’s port and logistics sector: the introduction of the euro is expected to lower costs and increase planning certainty, billions of euros in EU funding will speed up the expansion and upgrade the infrastructure, and a new floating LNG terminal will establish a measure of independence in terms...

Measurements at the Port of Gothenburg show that sulphur emissions from ships have fallen by 80 percent since stricter rules came into force at the turn of the year. At the turn of the year, the sulphur content in fuel was reduced from 1.0 to 0.1 percent in the short-sea shipping area around Gothenburg...

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Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar (NDSQ) has delivered two new Qatari-built mooring tugs to towage operator Nakilat SvitzerWijsmuller (NSW). The delivery of the two ASD 2810 tugs is part of a seven-vessel order that the yard is currently working on for NSW. The first of the new tugs, named Umm Al Shubrum, completed sea trials...

Imtech Marine recently launched a service app, under its service and nav/com brand Radio Holland. The aim of the app is to facilitate owners and operators around the world to quickly find the nearest Imtech Marine/RH service location for service and maintenance, via their smart phone. The app guides the user to the nearest...

The latest vessel to hold the title of world’s largest container ship, the 19,224TEU MSC Oscar, has made its maiden call at the Port of Felixstowe, the Port of Britain. The 192,237 gross tonnage ship, operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), is 395m long, 59m wide and has a draft of 16m. It operates...

Vlaeynatie drove the symbolic first pile into the ground for its new terminal in the Autriche Harbour in Westdorpe, Zeeland. Vlaeynatie’s new warehouse, with an area totalling 32,000m2, will take nine months to build. On completion, Vlaeynatie’s scope of work will primarily be packaging, storage and transfer of products for SQM and its subsidiary...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a new contract from the Meyer Turku Shipyard for a complete turnkey delivery of RoRo cargo access and handling equipment for an environmentally friendly RoPax ferry under construction for Estonian ship operator Tallink. The 49,000gt, 212m long liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual fuel powered ferry complies with the...

This year’s IAPH World Ports Conference will be held in Hamburg. From June 1st – 5th, international representatives from business, politics and science will gather to debate changing demands and alternative actions required in our times of globalisation and climate change. The conference will focus on the smartPORT concept developed by the host of...

The Port of Gothenburg will be the new export port for Volvo cars to Finland, Russia and China. This will result in a new service to Finland and Russia and an increase in volume of around 30,000 cars each year. The Port of Gothenburg has for a long time been the principal export gateway...

Anthony Veder’s 6,500cbm LPG/LEG/LNG carrier Coral Anthelia has been retrofitted with a dual-fuel (DF) engine that enables it to run on boil-off gas when transporting LNG. Having successfully completed its sea trials, the vessel operates in the North Sea and Baltic Sea and regularly loads LNG at the Rotterdam Gate Terminal. “This great result...

The Munkebo Maersk became the largest ship to ever sail up the River Thames as it called at DP World London Gateway, the UK’s newest deep-sea port hub. The 399m long, 60m wide, 195,000t Triple-E class vessel – equivalent in length to almost four football pitches – and capable of carrying more than 18,300TEUs...

Videotel has produced a new training program me which tackles the often complex handling issues involved in the loading or discharge of project cargoes and heavy lifts. This is particularly relevant if ships’ personnel are involved as serious consequences could result if the correct loading and unloading techniques are not strictly followed. The programme covers the planning involved...

Samskip Van Dieren Multimodal will extend its intermodal network from 1 March 2015, by adding rail shuttle services connecting Duisburg, Germany to Malmö, Sweden. The Samskip Multimodal Rail Terminal in Duisburg already handles a large number of rail shuttles to and from Scandinavia. The inclusion of shuttle services to/from Malmö will substantially increase Samskip...

Pacorini Metals invested in a new Liebherr mobile harbour crane, type LHM 420, which started operation in summer 2014. The new LHM 420 has an outreach of 48m and provides a maximum lifting capacity of 84t. Tasks of the crane include container handling as well as bulk operation. A powerful crane set-up ensures high...

BigLift Shipping announces its representative is Asian Independent Shipbrokers for the ASEAN Countries encompassing Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Combining BigLift’s state-of-the-art heavy lift fleet, extensive experience and long track record in the heavy lift market with the young and dynamic team of Asian Independent Shipbrokers (AIS) will offer...

With its international editorial team, business development professionals and top-notch designers, Yellow & Finch Publishers turns out a trendsetting portfolio of independent magazines. Magazines for the Maritime World Now in its tenth year, SuperYacht Industry highlights the finest yacht builders and designers, profiles newly completed yachts and details innovative refits. ShipBuilding Industry provides news...

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) concluded the year 2014 with a high order intake for various diesel-electric Terex Gottwald mobile harbour crane models. In December, TPS was awarded several contracts from existing and new customers. One of the customers was Italian freight forwarder Roberto Bucci (Bucci), who ordered a Model 7 mobile harbour crane in...