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
Brussels - European shipowners welcome the agreement reached on Brexit. “Our primary concern on the short term, the frictionless trade, seems to be taken care off”
Stockholm - ABB Marine, part of the Swedish-Swiss robotics, automation and electrical group, has won its first marine automation system contract for a cruise ferry in China
Genoa - Steel giant ArcelorMittal has spent 150 million dollars overall in enlarging its fleet, with the acquisition of a fourth vessel.
Genoa - Since November 9th 2018 a digital procedure system has been operational at the PSA Voltri-Pra Terminal
Genoa - It took a moment for office workers at the port of Bremen to take it in when the ship first docked, back in the summer of 2015. Accustomed to containers and cranes, many had never witnessed barrels being unloaded from a 32-meter schooner
London - A new ice-breaking tanker capable of navigating the Arctic on its own is set to load its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipment from Russia’s fast-expanding Yamal facility
Genoa - Banca Carige confirmed on Monday it will get up to 400 million euros ($451 million) from the country’s biggest banks and private investors to meet a European Central Bank year-end deadline to boost its capital
Los Angeles - Virgin Hyperloop One, the company that has developed a full scale hyperloop system, announced today that Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO of DP World, has been elected as its new Chairman
Oslo - A small tourist company in Northern Norway, Brim, has announced the launching, in August 2019, of the first battery powered tourist ship for the Arctic
Stockholm - Swedish HH Ferries has inaugurated the two Aurora and Tycho Brahe ferries that operate fully on battery power. They operate on the route between Helsingborg, in Sweden, and Helsingør, in Denmark, with departures every 15 minutes
Toulouse - French plane manufacturer Avions de Transport Regional and Air New Zealand have signed an agreement to explore the possibility of using hybrid or electric aircraft on New Zealand’s domestic and regional routes.
Beijing - China’s foreign trade jumped year-on-year to €3.4 trillion in the first 10 months of 2018. Imports surged 20.3 percent while exports grew by 12.6 percent
Genoa - On October 30, 2008, the Ligurian coast was swept by huge waves that were awe-inspiring but also caused great damage and great concern to residents
Oslo - An oil tanker and a Norwegian navy frigate collided off Norway’s west coast on Thursday, injuring eight people and triggering the temporary shutdown of a North Sea crude export terminal, Norway’s top gas processing plant and several offshore fields
Zhuhai, China - General Electric and Rolls Royce are the two finalists to supply engines for a new long-haul jet developed by a Russian-Chinese joint venture that aims eventually to switch to a Sino-Russian engine, a chief designer of the aircraft said
Oslo - The Norwegian Maritime Authority, NMA, the government agency responsible for shipping’s environmental and safety standards in Norway, has proposed to ban the use of scrubbers in the world heritage fjords
Frankfurt - German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd expects an increase in transport volumes to last for the remainder of 2018 after volume growth and a modest recovery in freight rates helped push operating profits 12 percent higher in the first nine months
Rome - “The government will use all the available tools to support this strategic project,” has said Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte during the question time in the House of Representatives
Venice - The AS Fatima container ship will dock at the port of Venice, Vecon terminal, on November 9th, thus inaugurating the new “feeder” express service that will connect the lagoon airport with the port of Piraeus on a weekly basis
Shanghai - Nine ocean carriers and terminal operators have signed a memorandum of understanding to form the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), an open digital platform based on distributed ledger technology
London - Italian refiner Saras is constructing a ship-refueling terminal at its Sardinia plant and will market a new, cleaner marine fuel ahead of a major regulatory change in 2020
Valencia - The port of Valencia, one of the largest in Europe by volume, has joined the TradeLens project, a technological solution developed by IBM and Maersk, to apply to the global supply chain the blockchain technology
Hamburg - The German shipbuilding industry has assured it will support the Japanese government’s fight against the subsidy policies by South Korea
London - The cost of shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) has hit $200,000 a day, exceeding a 2012 peak of $180,000 a day
Brussels - The European Commission will invest 111 million euros in the port of Naples. The financing is provided through the Cohesion Policy funds
Manila - Esben Poulsson, chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping, has called for a comprehensive revision of the IMO STCW Convention which governs global standards for the training and certification of around two million merchant seafarers
Marseille - CMA CGM has risen the bunker surcharge. From December 1st and “until further notice” the amounts will increase on all lines except the connections from and to Taiwan almost twice
Trieste - F incantieri and Shanghai’s Boashan district government have signed an agreement to create a hub dedicated to the development of cruise shipbuilding, as well as the broader maritime sector
Brussels - The European Commission should carefully consider allowing the EU Consortia Block Exemption Regulation to expire in April 2020, writes the OECD-funded International Transport Forum in its last report
Portland, USA - The German shipping company MST Minerals Schiffahrt Spedition und Transport GmbH (MST) will have to pay a fine of 3.2 million dollars in the US for “obstruction of justice” and “concealing environmental violations”. The allegations relate to the years 2016 and 2017
Beijing - A growing number of Chinese investors are likely to shift to Europe with the United States triggering trade tensions with China, a key survey reported by the China Daily has found
hanghai - More than 1,000 firms from 58 countries along the Belt and Road will attend the inaugural China International Import Expo (CIIE) to be held in Shanghai
Henderson, Australia - Shipbuilder Austal Ltd said on Thursday its Australian business had detected and responded to a data breach in which some staff email addresses and mobile phone numbers were accessed
The market of vehicles that operate on water’s surface with no crew, the so called unmanned surface vehicles, will reach a world value of 1,020 billion dollars by 2023 according to research firm Markets & Markets
Oslo - ABB Marine, part of the Swedish-Swiss robotics, automation and electrical group, and Norway’s research firm Sintef Ocean have undertaken groundbreaking research to test the viability of fuel cells as an energy source for ship propulsion
Beijing - German logistics giant DHL Express announced on Friday that it will increase its investment in China, including expanding service facilities in Hong Kong and Guangzhou
Plymouth, England - The French multinational company Thales Group, specialised in electrical systems for the transportation, aerospace, defence and security markets, has opened its Maritime Autonomy Centre at Turnchapel Wharf, Plymouth
Southampton - The Sailors’ Society’s Crisis Response Network (CRN) provided support to its 100th case this week, with piracy, death at sea and abandonment accounting for almost two-thirds (59 per cent) of those supported
Brussels - The European Commission has approved new government support terms to the liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal at the Klaipeda port, after the Lithuanian authorities changed some of the conditions it got approval for already in 2013
Berlin - Germany will likely be a buyer of liquid natural gas (LNG) from the United States in the medium term, the government official tasked with trans-Atlantic relations said on Friday, but not as a result of any threats from Washington
Cagliari - Cagliari Cruise Port reached a monthly record in October by welcoming 10 ships and a total of almost 50 thousand passengers
Marseille - The French shipping group CMA CGM has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Finnish short sea cargo carrier and logistic firm Containerships
Dubai - Port operator APM Terminals Bahrain plans to raise almost 12 million Bahraini dinars ($32 million) through its planned initial public offering. The company will offer 18 million shares
Antalya, Turkey - A Turkish ship will start drilling for oil and gas in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said, a move that could create tensions with neighboring Cyprus and Greece over jurisdiction
London - The lack of price clarity for fuels that comply with new global shipping rules to reduce sulfur emissions are complicating preparations before the regulations take effect in 2020, the head of Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, said
Brussels - The European Commission has announced a 300 million euros of EU-funded initiatives, which include projects to tackle plastic pollution, make blue economy more sustainable and improve research and marine surveillance
Antwerp - Euronav, the Belgian tanker company engaged in ocean transportation and storage of crude oil, claims scrubbers are a “loop hole which makes enforcement of the sulphur ban extremely complex, difficult to enforce and likely to facilitate non-compliance”
Istanbul - Global mobility solutions provider Thyssenkrupp Elevator has unveiled one of its biggest ever projects in the Middle East: a total mobility solutions package of 143 passenger boarding bridges (PBBs) and four elevators in the new Istanbul Grand Airport, in Turkey
Paris - The Italian and French shipbuilding industry associations, ASSONAVE and GICAN, signed a common Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap for Shipbuilding and ship supply