Dry bulk

Damen Shipyards and Turkey’s Feyz Group have signed a contract for the delivery of three new Damen Combi Freighters 3850 for delivery in early 2025.

The Memorandum of Understanding builds on the ongoing partnership between AD Ports Group and Saab on maritime surveillance technology

Cargo liquefaction still remains the greatest contributor to loss of life associated with bulk carrier losses while grounding remains the main cause of ship losses, according to the recently published Bulk Carrier Casualty Report 2013-2022 from INTERCARGO.

The biggest names in breakbulk, project cargo and heavy lift will be exhibiting at AntwerpXL when it returns to Antwerp Expo 28 – 30 November 2023.

Today GSC, a nationwide provider of 3PL services, announced the acquisition of MacMillan-Piper, one of the largest and most established specialty transloaders in the Pacific Northwest.

Fortescue’s first shipment from its newly built Iron Bridge operations will soon be on its way to Vietnam, marking the first time the company has exported a high-grade magnetite product.

NYK Bulkship is set introduce a wind-assisted ship-propulsion unit on a bulk carrier engaged in a long-term charter contract with Cargill.

Diana Shipping Inc. has entered into a time charter contract with Cobelfret S.A., Luxembourg, for one of its Kamsarmax dry bulk vessels: the m/v Myrto.

Himalaya Shipping Ltd has successfully taken delivery of the fifth of twelve Newcastlemax dual fuel newbuildings the company has on order from New Times Shipyard.

Associated British Ports (ABP) Port of Hull has welcomed the delivery of a new Volvo L150H to its dry bulk handling facility North Gap.

ERG has commenced the construction of the FIOL 1 Railway in Bahia, capable of transporting 60 million t of cargo annually, and received endorsement from the President of Brazil.

ZHD Stevedores has ordered its first all-electric transshipment crane CBG 500 E from Liebherr, for bulk handling in the area of Rotterdam and the ZHD terminals in Dordrecht and Moerdijk.

Takoradi Port recently received its biggest ever bulk ship, assisted by Bedeschi S.p.a. which supplied all the conveyor lines for the terminal, two shiploaders, and one eco-hopper.

Marubeni has announced plans to acquire stake in Norway-based Klaveness Dry Bulk AS, in order to participate in digitally driven dry bulk operations.

SCHADE has published a case study of the installation of one of its Cantilever Reclaimers and an associated belt conveyor in Gorazdze, Poland.