The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the shipping of perishable products, and this at the time of the peak harvesting and export season for deciduous fruit in the southern hemisphere.
Wärtsilä is to upgrade Cyprus Ministry of Shipping’s 11-year old VTMIS serving the country’s ports. The contract includes a five-year equipment maintenance clause.
P&O Maritime Logistics (POML), part of DP World, recently ordered two 90mlong combined bulk/container ships from the Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding yard in China.
This month, HMM held a naming ceremony for the HMM ALGECIRAS, the world’s largest container ship, at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo shipyard in Geoje, Korea. The vessel was then loaded at the Port of Qingdao in China for its first commercial sailing.
The Japanese Government is spending an estimated JPY223.5B (US$2.1B) on a range of measures that are designed to help its manufacturers relocate their production out of China. While 90% (JPY200B) of the funds will be assigned to groups setting up in Japan, JPY23. 5B will be available to those manufacturers selecting other third-party nations.
Maersk Line has issued an advisory stating that from 8 June 2020, “Maersk will implement a ‘no verified gross mass (VGM), no loading’ policy across all Philippines ports”
Finnlines has entrusted SeaQuest Marine Project Management Ltd with construction supervision for three ro-ro newbuildings at China Merchants Group’s Nanjing Jinling Shipyard. The order for the vessels, with Finnish/Swedish ice class 1A Super, was placed in 2018.
This month, APL added a trucking service to extend the reach of its Eagle Express X service (APL EEX) to shippers in Haiphong, Guangzhou, Yantian, Xiamen and Xingang.
