Shipping and Port

A report from NGO Shipbreaking Platform has revealed that out of the 220 ships scrapped in the second quarter of this year, 169 were sold to the South Asian beaches for dirty and dangerous breaking. As per the report, six workers died and another seven sustained severe injuries while breaking ...

MSC Cruises has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Miami-Dade County to build a terminal at PortMiami, Florida. Scheduled to be completed by October 2022, the proposed Cruise Terminal AAA will house the company’s under construction MSC World Class cruise ships, which can carry up to 7,000 passengers. It ...

US-based company Bay Ship and Yacht has secured a contract from Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine (GGZEM) to build a hydrogen fuel cell-powered ferry. Scheduled to be delivered and commissioned by September next year, the passenger vessel will be built in the US and will operate on the San Francisco ...

Jamaica’s House of Representatives has passed legislation to manage ship ballast water. The new Ballast Water Management Bill aims to introduce a number of measures to prevent ships from injecting foreign aquatic species and diseases into the country’s water. To be administered by the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, the bill ...

Japan-based Mitsubishi Shipbuilding has launched Taiheiyo Ferry’s new vessel Kitakami at Enoura Plant, operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) unit Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works.Scheduled to be delivered by next January, Kitakami will replace Taiheiyo Ferry’s one of the three large ships providing regular service between the Nagoya, Sendai, and ...

Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics Network’s member company Globalink has signed a memorandum of understanding with Georgia’s Anaklia City to jointly develop the Anaklia Deep Sea Port and Special Economic Zone (Anaklia SEZ).As part of the deal, Globalink will provide its expertise in the fields of logistics and multimodal freight.Once complete, ...

Rolls-Royce is to offload its unprofitable ship-designing arm, Commercial Marine, to Norway-based technology group Kongsberg Gruppen in a deal valued at £500m.The UK company has been planning to sell the unit since January. The transaction will see Roll-Royce cede the marine products, systems and aftermarket services businesses carried out by ...

Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) has opened a container terminal to expand its cargo handling capacity.Construction of the terminal began in 2015, while the opening marks the completion of an expansion carried out at PAS.   The terminal was built with a $74m investment from Japanese Cooperation Agency (JICA) and ...