Key deals

Marine gears manufacturer Reintjes has taken over all the marine activities of Antwerpse Motorenwerke (AMW), the company which has been the sole representative for the sale of Reintjes products in Belgium since…

The ports of Shanghai and Hamburg have agreed a port partnership which aims to further develop goods traffic between China and Europe via the two ports. It is of particular interest to…

Lloyds Register classed fleet has reached an all-time high of 113.8 million gt, surpassing the previous record of 113.7 million gt set in 1979. Taking into account Lloyds share of the world…

Germanys Short Sea Shipping Promotion Centre anticipates that more than 150 million t/km of freight transport will shift from road to sea in that country over the next three years. The change…

Only months after their ambitious proposal for a £ 600m container terminal at the Port of Southampton was rejected by the British Government, Associated British Ports has been given the go-ahead to…

The UK Port of Felixstowe has broken its all-time weekly record for the number of containers transported through the port by rail, handling 7,006 boxes in a week at the end of…

English Nature, the UK Governments independent conservation agency, launched a consultation last month on the future of the coasts and seas around England.

The Port of Marseilles has posted a 9% increase in container throughput during the first four months of this year. The main growth came at Fos container terminal, where east-west volumes rose…