Rotterdam “ready for 30,000 TEU container ships”

The container segment sees a 3.3% increase in throughput (31.5M to 32.5M tonnes) and a 2.0% rise in TEU (3.3M) for the first time in three years.

MSC has confirmed the safety of the twenty-five crew members aboard the MSC Aries, seized on April 13 in the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian authorities.

In 2023, CO2 emissions in the port dropped one-third compared to 2016, reaching 20.3 Mton, lower than 1990 levels, mainly due to decreased emissions from coal-fired plants.

New members have joined the Singapore-Rotterdam Green & Digital Shipping Corridor (GDSC), as it gears up for pilot projects to encourage the use of eco-friendly fuels.

The decision to declare general average indicates that the owners of Dali expect the salvage operations to result in extraordinarily high costs.

MSC Aries, owned by a company run by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer, has been seized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.