Dry bulk

CN has recently announced that it plans to acquire 1500 new generation, high-capacity grain hopper cars, with delivery starting in January 2021.

The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index was down on 20 July 2020, weighed by weakness across capesize and panamax vessel segments.

Wood pellets have become a highly sought-after product and are being used more and more for industrial heating purposes, replacing the outdated use of fossil fuels, and are exported out of the Port of Belledune.

A new report from EastGate contemplates the state of the dry bulk industry half way through a difficult year.

Conoship International and KenzFigee have collaborated to offer a cost-efficient transhipment crane barge combination to meet the specific needs of the dry bulk and break bulk transhipment market.

Diana Shipping Inc. has recently announced that it has entered into a time charter contract with ST Shipping and Transport Pte. Ltd for one of its panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Selina.

CD Cargo has signed an agreement on increasing energy efficiency with the Ministry of Industry and Trade as part of its new socially responsible commitment.

Despite the impact of the coronavirus crisis on global production and logistics chains and a pandemic-driven drop in demand, the Port of Antwerp remained 100% operational.

In 2016 Kuenz was awarded a contract with APM Terminals, a subsidiary of Maersk Group, to deliver 42 ASCs to a new automated terminal in the Port of Tanger, Morocco.

CN has recently announced that it has achieved another monthly record in June, moving 2.7 million t of Canadian grain.

Singapore-based Trust Energy Resources Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Tata Power, has announced the sale of its three ships.

SwiftBulk Holding Co. Ltd has partnered with FUELTRAX to install EFMS and FUELTRAX Vision on its kamsarmax dry bulk carrier vessel, the Thestelia K.

DB Cargo UK has announced a new, 5-year ‘hook and haul’ contract to transport supplies of sustainable biomass to Drax.

Coal sea port of Shakhtersk (CSPS), a key logistics asset of East Mining Company, shipped 2.2 million t of coal between January and May 2020, which is 700 000 t or 47% more than the volume of the same period last year.

MacGregor has secured an order to provide cargo handling cranes for four 62 000 DWT general cargo ships to be built in Asia.