Paris - ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, said on Tuesday it was “absolutely critical” that Europe protect itself with measures to restrict imports of steel and remedy weaknesses in its existing system
Copenaghen - New integration in the dry bulk sector. Maersk Broker and Wonsild Dry will merge from the beginning of 2019. Wonsild’s “Dry” division will become a “fully integrated part” of Maersk Broker Bulk Chartering
Copenaghen - The Alfa Laval Gas Combustion Unit (GCU) has been chosen for boil-off gas management on more than half of the LNG carriers built during 2018
London - Theresa May’s postponement of the parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal, in order to seek more concession, leaves the UK’s ports anxious to know “what they might need to prepare for and when it may be needed.”
Brussels - The European Commission has approved a German aid scheme to promote the shift of freight traffic from road to rail. The scheme has an overall budget of €350 million and will run from 2018 to 2023.
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Seoul - Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, has received an order to build a liquefied natural gas ship for a Greek company
London - No decision had been taken yet, partly as it would also require Chinese regulatory approval.
Katowice - Half-way through crucial talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggled over how to share out the cost of curbing global warming and struggled to pare down a sprawling text. The two weeks of talks, which began at the start of the week, are billed as the most important U.N. conference
Brussels - The European Union has joined Japan in trying to resolve the shipbuilding subsidies’ issue in South Korea
London - Nordea Bank aims to increase shipping finance activities to the growing liquefied natural gas industry, executives at one of the world’s biggest shipping financiers said
Moscow - Despite complicated ice conditions, year round cargo navigation trough the Arctic Route is expected to reach 30 million tons, Russia’s TASS news agency wrote
Seoul - Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., a midsized shipbuilder, has received a US$77 million order to build a LNG carrier writes South Korea’s Yonhap news agency
Zagreb - Workers from the biggest Croatian shipbuilding group Uljanik started yet another mass strike on Monday. This is the fourth major strike this year in the company that is facing financial problems and uncertain future
Monaco - Scorpio Tankers has announced that it will purchase exhaust gas cleanings systems for 42 of its vessels in 2019 and for 10 of its vessels in 2020. The value of these agreements is estimated to be $79.6 million, but the manufacturers involved have not been revealed
Oslo - The technology group Wärtsilä has successfully completed a further round of test procedures of its automated dock-to-dock solution
Oslo - Norway’s MPC Container Ships has announced that it has exercised options to equip additional five vessels with exhaust gas cleaning systems (”scrubbers”) and that charters for six scrubber-retrofitted vessels have been agreed
Oslo - Allowing ship-to-ship transfers in Norwegian waters from Yamal in Arctic Russia, one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas terminals, undercuts Europe’s energy diversification efforts, the U.S. State Department said on Friday
London - Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine has won a significant contract to deliver the propulsion system to nine vessels to be built by Nanjing Jinling Shipyard Co in China for the Italian Grimaldi Group
Kiev - Two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, Berdyansk and Mariupol, are effectively under blockade by Russia as vessels are being barred from leaving and entering, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Volodymyr Omelyan, said on Thursday
Moscow - Tensions between Russia and Ukraine in the Azov Sea should not significantly affect Russia’s grain exports because it is low season, TASS news agency quoted the Russian agriculture ministry as saying on Thursday
Hamburg - Rhenus PartnerShip, the specialist for inland waterway shipping, took over the inland waterway shipping company, ČSPL, a.s., from the ARGO corporate group
Beijing - The total value of goods carried by the logistics sector surged to 231.5 trillion yuan (about 33.3 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first 10 months, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said in a statement
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Piraeus - Diamond S Shipping and Capital Product Partners have announced the merger of their product and crude tanker fleets. The new Diamond S Shipping Inc. fleet will contain 68 vessels, made up of 43 tankers from Diamond S Shipping and 25 from Capital Product Partners
Trieste - Assicurazioni Generali announced that, following the authorization request submitted by the Company, IVASS - the Italian insurance regulatory agency – with its instruction of 19 November 2018, authorized the Company to extend , starting from December, 31, the scope of the Group’s internal model
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Saint-Nazaire - French shipyard Chantiers de l’Atlantique, formerly known as STX France, has boosted its production capacity by 30% having inaugurated the extension of the pre-assembly area. The construction work on the extension was launched in July 2017
St. Petersburg - Maersk intends to develop refer rail service in Russian from sea port into hinterland. According to Maersk Russia, the line has already made test shipments of perishables by rail. Thus, import fruit was dispatched from St. Petersburg to Novosibirsk
London - Scottish marine salvage group Ardent is adapting the tanks it used to refloat the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship wrecked off the Italian coast in 2012, to decommission North Sea oil platforms
Oslo - Northern Norway’s small port of Honningsvag will host between 150 and 160 ship-to-ship transfers of liquefied natural gas cargos from Russia’s Yamal by mid-2019, the local council that owns the port told Reuters on Tuesday
Brussels - Two new studies published by the European Commission highlight the increasing importance of EU exports for job opportunities in Europe and beyond
Hamburg - Peter Tschentscher, mayor of Hamburg, wants its city’s port to become the spinal chord of China’s Belt-and-Road strategy
Beijing - Russia shipped record volumes of crude oil to China in October as independent refiners continued to fill import quotas, while Iranian oil shipments fell on uncertainty over Washington’s imposition of sanctions on Tehran
Geneva - Global growth in merchandise trade is likely to slow further this quarter, the World Trade Organization said on Monday, as it published a quarterly indicator showing declines in all seven of the drivers of trade that it tracks
EU state aid regulators approved on Monday the sale of German lender HSH Nordbank, once the world’s largest ship financier, to private equity funds J.C. Flowers and Cerberus
Marseille - CMA CGM has made a pre-announcement of a public tender offer for shareholders wishing to exit their investment in CEVA Logistics, the Swiss based supply chain company the French shipping giant wants to takeover
Paris - France-based port community system operator Soget wants to offer an integrated e-freight corridor with Great Britain, based on a digitalized anticipation of information flows related to cross-Channel goods
Brussels - The European Union will declare in approving the Brexit deal with Britain on Sunday that any future arrangements regarding Gibraltar must be discussed directly with Madrid.
Oslo - Russia’s Yamal LNG plant, owned by Novatek, has announced this week that an LNG tanker was transferring its cargo of gas to another vessel off the tip of northern Norway
Paris - French container shipping group CMA CGM said its third-quarter volumes had outperformed the industry, supported by brisk trans-Pacific activity that suggested no negative impact so far from U.S.-Chinese trade tensions
Marseille - The french liner shipping company CMA CGM reacts again to the oil price development and adjusts its bunker’s recovery measures
London - The British Ports Association fears that Brexit could lead to border checks and hamper Britain’s international trade
Hamburg - Hapag-Lloyd has disclosed details of its new mid-term Strategy 2023. Following a period of consolidation, the liner shipping industry has changed significantly. Hapag-Lloyd is more than two times larger than it was in 2014 in terms of transport capacity
La Spezia - Rimorchiatori Spezzini, a subsidiary of the Scafi group which operates the towing service in the port of La Spezia, contracted the Dutch Damen Shipyard Group for two new Damen ASD tugs 2411
Valencia - In the last twelve months, container traffic in the Valencian area has increased by 4.78% and the port of Valencia has consolidated its centrality in the Mediterranean for traffic between Asia, Europe and America. In October only, container traffic has advanced an 11.15%
London - In response to recent Chinese bans on certain types of solid waste imports, Britain has set up a new scheme to improve the quality of its waste paper exports to China
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Athens - The Greek shipping company Costamare has announced the acquisition of the buys the remaining 60% stake in five 14,000 TEU containerships from co-investor York Capital. The units were original ordered together
Hamburg - In the first nine months of the year, cargo handling in the port of Hamburg was below the previous year’s level due, according to the Port Authority, to less bulk cargo and a slight downturn in container handling
London - British petrochemicals company Ineos is in exclusive talks with ConocoPhillips to buy North Sea oil and gas fields worth $3 billion from the U.S. energy company
Hamburg - Containers that rush with almost 1,200 kilometers per hour through a tube system in the port of Hamburg - with electricity from solar plants. egotiations are currently under way between the Port of Hamburg and the Californian company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies