The SMM maritime trade fair kicked off in Hamburg on Tuesday. At the opening press conference, prominent representatives from politics and business discussed the current challenges facing the shipping industry.

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Bremen, 09.07.2018 - The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) today christened a new lifeboat for the Maasholm volunteer station with the name Hellmut Manthey. The naming ceremony took place on Sunday, July 8. ...

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Rotterdam, 23 April 2018 - The port of Rotterdam handled 1.2% less cargo in the first quarter of 2018 than in the same period last year. A total of 117.8 million tons were handled, compared to 119.3 million tons in the first quarter of 2017.

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Wilhelmshaven, 07.03.2018 - The Wilhelmshaven-based service company Jade-Dienst GmbH is investing in a new location in the Wilhelmshaven freight village in the immediate vicinity of the container terminal. On an area of 1.1 hectares, the company is...

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Cuxhaven, 22.09.2017 - "RailRoCargo", the joint product of Cuxport, DFDS Germany and TRANSA Spedition, is celebrating a milestone: in September 2017, the five millionth tonne of freight was transported at the Cuxport terminal in Cuxhaven for the...

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Hamburg, 19.09.2017 - The websites of the Hamburg Süd Group, Hamburg Süd Line and the Brazilian subsidiary Aliança have been given a new design. The content is clearly laid out and optimized for mobile devices...

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Hamburg, 08.09.2017 - The German Shipowners' Association (VDR) sees the entry into force of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Ballast Water Convention on 8 September as a further contribution by merchant shipping to the protection of...

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Wilhelmshaven, 30.08.2017 - Eurogate is recording growth at Germany's only deep-water port. Since May, monthly container throughput in liner traffic has doubled: for almost four months now, two major alliances have been...

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Rotterdam, 27 July 2017 - With a 3.9% increase in throughput, the port of Rotterdam can look back on a good first half of 2017. Eight of the ten market segments recorded an increase. The overall growth in throughput was mainly...

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Bremen, 17.07.2017 - It is now official: Bremen will host the logistics trade fair "BreakBulk Europe 2018" next year. During a two-day visit by employees of the organizer Breakbulk Events & Media, the decision was made in the...

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Cuxhaven, 17.07.2017 - The operating company of the new Cuxhaven-Brunsbüttel Elbe ferry looks back on the first 50 days with great satisfaction: more passengers, more cars and also more freight units than in the previous...

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Wilhelmshaven, July 11, 2017 - The Rhenus Group opened a storage area with a capacity for 120 standard containers in the GVZ Wilhelmshaven in the immediate vicinity of the Container Terminal on July 7. This means that the global...

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Hamburg, 25.05.2017 - The Port of Hamburg achieved total throughput of 35.4 million tons (+1.7 percent) in the first quarter of 2017. This result puts Germany's largest universal port slightly above the average growth rate (+1.6...

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Hamburg, 24.05.2017 - The two liner shipping companies Hapag-Lloyd and United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) have merged today. With 230 ships and a combined fleet capacity of around 1.6 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is the fifth largest...

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Hamburg, 15.12.2016 - The German Maritime College Hamburg Foundation has awarded two scholarships to the two best ship mechanic graduates of all German maritime colleges according to its selection criteria, Leonhard Pfeiffer and Lars Ecker. The...

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Oldenburg, 19.08.2016 - In the first half of 2016, the nine seaports of Brake, Cuxhaven, Emden, Leer, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Papenburg, Stade and Wilhelmshaven in Lower Saxony recorded a total handling volume in maritime transport of around 23.8 million...

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Hamburg, 18.08.2016 - Three more container gantry cranes have arrived in Hamburg for Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG's (HHLA) Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB), enabling it to handle the latest generation of mega-ships. ...

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Hamburg, 11.08.2016 - The first half of the year was disappointing for shipping company Hapag-Lloyd: lower freight rates have once again pushed the company into the red. While the transport volume of 3.7 million TEU in the first six months...

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