Moscow - Russia’s ship giant Novatek has confirmed plans for a new Arctic LNG transhipment hub. “Establishing an efficient Northern Sea Route shipping model is one of our key priorities to realize our long-term strategy,” says Leonid Mikhelson, Novatek’s chairman of the management board
Hamburg - The Port of Hamburg saw a 7.5 percent decline in total cargo throughput. Total throughput dropped to 32.7 million tons from 35.4 last year. Total throughput covers general cargo throughput (22.7 million tons, down 1.8 percent from last year) and bulk cargo throughput (10 million tons, down 18.2 percent)
London - Britain is determined to tackle the problem of illicit money flows, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday, after a report by lawmakers said Russian money laundered by British financial institutions harms national security.
Athens - Greece and representatives from its European and International Monetary Fund creditors have reached an initial agreement on the country’s reform progress under its final bailout review, the finance minister said on Saturday.
Porto Cervo - Federagenti, the Federation of Maritime Agents, has launched a truly multifaceted alliance to prevent and combat the emergency. Crews and officers on ship duty will participate in real time monitoring and reporting of concentrations of plastic waste
Viareggio - The leisure shipbuilding sector is among those with the highest growth rate in the Italian economy. The value of new builds in 2017 amounted to 2.3 billion euro, with a growth of 14%. The biggest contribution comes from the inboard motor segment.
Porto Cervo - Shipping is the sector that attracts the most foreign investments in Italy, between acquisitions, mergers and partnerships. Over the last ten years almost sixty companies have been either totally or partially acquired, or subsidised
Gioia Tauro - SOS calls for the port of Gioia Tauro, just as the Italian government launches the port’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The calls for help originate from the Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Ugl-Mare and Sul trade unions. “The current situation - they explain in a release - is beyond belief”
Consorzio Servizi Navali Industriali (CSNI Scarl) and Marinoni, a company that specialises in flooring and fire prevention systems, have developed cutting-edge solutions that aim to improve the design of ships in order to increase their level of comfort
La Spezia - On the anniversary marking the events connected to the voyage described in the Hollywood movie Exodus, the Port System Authority has issued a call for the design of a memorial and an exhibition at the Pagliari Dock
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Genoa - The magazine has been published in English and Italian.
Athens - EU leaders will meet their six Balkan counterparts for a summit on Thursday, part of the bloc’s renewed drive to bring the region closer and counter growing influence there from other powers.
Genoa - The Bureau Veritas Italia Group has held onto its positive trend from 2017 and even accelerated in the first quarter of 2018 with a turnover of €23.5 million, up 10.6% compared to the same period of the previous year. The positive trend is confirmed by the hiring of 40 new staff members since the beginning of the year
Basel - In the first quarter of 2018, freight traffic in Switzerland’s Rhine river ports amounted to 1.33 million tonnes, up 13.7% from 1.17 million tonnes in the first three months of last year. The increase is in part a consequence of comparison with the first quarter of 2017
Rome - A framework cooperation agreement was signed in Rome between ASTAG, the Swiss association of road haulage and passenger transport operators, and Trasportounito, an Italian association strongly rooted in the world of small and medium-sized companies that transport goods and passengers
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Gioia Tauro - With a favourable opinion from the auditors, the Port Committee, which met at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Gioia Tauro, approved the final balance sheet for the 2017 fiscal year. The body closed its financial management, for the year, with a surplus of over €77 million
Maroussi - Greece-based owner of containerships and bulk carriers Euroseas has spun off its drybulk fleet into a separate company. Named EuroDry Ltd., the new company has applied for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market
Gorinchem - Damen has officially delivered on-time a complete 19-vessel order to Amur Assets Shipping, a joint venture set up by Combi Lift to support its role in the construction of the Amur Gas Processing Plant “Gazprom” 150 km from Russia’s border with China
Miami - Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest leisure travel company, on 5th May officially opened its second cruise terminal at the Port of Barcelona with an inauguration ceremony attended by government, business and community representatives.
Monaco - Gaslog, an international owner, operator and manager of liquefied natural gas, LNG, reported a “record quarter of revenues and EBITDA”. On the back of these results, the company has announced a 7.1% increase in the company’s quarterly dividend to 15 cents per share.
Beijing - The world’s leading logistics company DHL has introduced biweekly scheduled flights between Incheon in South Korea, Wuxi in Jiangsu province in China and Frankfurt in Germany to cater to a growing airfreight demand between North Asia and Europe particularly in electronic products
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Portsmouth - The technology group Wärtsilä announces that its acquisition of Transas, a global company headquartered in the U.K., has been finalised. Transas is a global market leader in marine navigationsolutions that include complete bridge systems, digital products and electronic charts
Derby, England - The chief executive of Britain’s Rolls-Royce (RR.L) said he hoped to “soon” be able to provide an update on the outcome of a strategic review of the company’s commercial marine business. The company said in January that it could sell the loss-making commercial marine unit
Berlin - A top German minister urged EU states to agree a common stance to negotiate with the United States on trade, acknowledging differences with France, after President Donald Trump extended a temporary reprieve for the EU on steel and aluminium tariffs.
Beijing - The board of directors of Cosco Shipping Ports Limited presents the unaudited condensed consolidated results of the Company and its subsidiaries for the three months ended 31 March 2018.
Paris - Dry bulk freight rates for the smaller sizes of ship are likely to rise significantly over the next three years as demand is expected to outstrip supply, a shipping analyst said Thursday. New orders for Handysize, Handymax and Supramax vessels were at extremely low levels
Oslo - A ferry owned by Norwegian operator Norled is the first in the world to experiment with autodocking technology. Equipped with Wärtsilä’s innovative autodocking system, the 83-meter ferry Folgefonn concluded three months of testing with harbor docking trials in April
Genoa - It’s called Seabourn Ovation and it’s the latest extra-luxury cruise ship to be built in Genoa, at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Sestri Ponente. 40,350 tonnes gross tonnage, about 210m and 28m wide, Seabourn Ovation can reach a cruising speed of 18.6 knots
Genoa - Ansaldo Energia has signed contracts in Tunisia for the construction of an electricity power plant and related services for a total of €240 million. The contract, signed with the Société Tunisienne de l’Élecriticité et du Gaz (STEG), relates to the construction of an open-cycle gas-fired power plant
Genoa - The history of Phase, the last mechatronic company that’s remained 100% Italian could have taken a different turn as early as 2008, when Venturini and his team – cramped in their old factory - asked the Municipality of Genoa for authorisation to open a new plant
Genoa - It’s difficult to believe that electric cars will ever replace traditional automobiles when it takes infinitely longer to recharge a battery than to fill a tank with petrol. Even the “fast” recharging stations take between forty minutes and an hour to give an electric car a range of just over 200 kilometres
London -With the delivery by Meyer Werft of Norwegian Bliss, the largest ship in Norwegian Cruise Line’s fleet, the company’s management has completed one of the stages of its development plan. NCL emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean and Italy in particular
Bremerhaven - Meyer Werft delivered Norwegian Cruise Line’s new flagship, Norwegian Bliss at a ceremony in Bremerhaven. It is the third ship in the Breakaway-Plus class and will be followed by an additional vessel to be delivered next year
Milan - At least for the moment, the sale of the Interporto di Venezia to Gabriele Volpi, entrepreneur of logistics and second largest shareholder in Carige, is off. In a press release, the court-appointed liquidators of the companies in the Marghera logistical complex
Rome - The closing of the sale of Italo Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (Italo) shares to Global Infrastructure Partners III Funds was signed in execution of the sale contract signed on 11 February 2018. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo was confirmed as the company’s chairman
Frankfurt - The German bank KfW IPEX-Bank has become the first German bank to join the Responsible Ship Recycling Standards initiative. With a lending volume of EUR 13.9 billion ($17 billion) in 2017, KfW IPEX-Bank is one of the top five ship financiers in the world
Paris - A French judge on Wednesday placed tycoon Vincent Bollore under formal investigation over allegations his company undercharged for work on behalf of presidential candidates in two African nations in return for port contracts
Lübeck - German shipping company Oldendorff Carriers has decided to further expand its Babycape fleet by buying four and taking two bulkers on a period charter. The four vessels, as informed, have been bought from companies controlled by Interorient Navigation from Cyprus
Genoa - It lasted four hours, and those who were present at the assembly say that there had not been such a heated debate in some time. The agenda was the future of Assiterminal, the association of Italian terminal operators, the latest issue in the clash between Confcommercio and Confindustria
Rome - Transport unions have “declared a state of unrest for all workers employed at Fedex and TNT”. FILT CGIL, FIT CISL and Uiltrasporti have explained that with the merger between the two companies, “Fedex has launched a collective redundancy procedure, equivalent to 315 structural redundancies”
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Genoa - In the ranking of countries in competitiveness, drawn up each year by the World Economic Forum, in the infrastructure category, Italy is in 27th place with 5.4 points (out of 7), while Spain is in 12th place with 5.9 points
Brussels - “The European Commission needs to adopt a strong industrial and manufacturing policy based on reciprocity, otherwise our European maritime technology industry won’t survive competition from Asian shipyards,” warned Marian Krzaklewski, rapporteur of the European Economic and Social Committee
Paris - Ports play an important role in reducing the global carbon footprint of maritime shipping, says a new report by the International Transport Forum. Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping currently represent around 2.6% of total global emissions
Civitavecchia - Over 150 people participated at the forum “Shaping the Port of The Future“ organized by The MediTelegraph and On The Mos Way, in Civitavecchia (port of Rome).
London - Dutch-based transport company A2B-online Container B.V. has added a fourth weekly sailing on its service between Hutchison Ports London Thamesport and Moerdijk in The Netherlands. The new sailing was inaugurated on Wednesday April 18 by the first call of the A2B Spirit (ex-Norfeeder)
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Genoa - The share of traffic to and from Med ports grows.
Civitavecchia - The port of Barcelona is still number one when it comes to cruise passenger numbers in the Mediterranean, but it seems that it can now feel Civitavecchia breathing on its neck, threatening to take over: it has increased to 2.4 million passengers, less than 300,000 off the record held by the Catalan port
Vienna - The European Union, says its Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, will accept the Tyrol’s government-proposed fixed quota of one million trucks a year, only at “certain well-specified conditions.” Any limits to the freedom of passage would need to be justified
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Rome - Fincantieri is ready to establish a maintenance and refurbishment hub in Australia for international cruise ships, if it wins the contract for the construction of a fleet of nine new frigates for the Australian Navy, a project worth 35 billion Australian dollars (around €23.5 billion)
Brussels - The European Commission has contacted Italy on the issue of ports, as it has done with other EU countries, with the aim of ensuring equal tax treatment for all. That is the position expressed by a spokesperson for the EU Commission