Dry bulk news updates

Peel Ports Great Yarmouth has passed three certification surveillance audits with flying colours.

Terex’s new crane by Demag, the Demag® AC 45 City crane is designed to deliver in confined spaces.

Wallem has updated its brand identity to highlight the beginning of a strategy change in its service offering.

ESL Shipping has published its Sustainability Report for 2018, with a key highlight being the company's 50% saving in CO2 emissions.

On 10 April, Euroports added a new Mantinsen crane to its Leftbank terminal.

Industry in the port of Rotterdam released less CO2 into the atmosphere in 2018 compared to previous years.

Scorpio Bulkers has entered into agreements to sell and leaseback six ultramax vessels to AVIC International Leasing Co., Ltd.

TenderEasy’s freight procurement tool allows customers to realise sustainable freight tendering/RFQs and optimisation across air, land and sea.

ALLU and MAPEI have formed a new joint venture, ALLU MAPEI Circulus, for the recycling of concrete.

The Port of London Authority has invested in a new dry discharge system at its CEMEX Northfleet Wharf, which is to secure traffic on the river Thames.

The tunnel is part of the company’s multi-billion pound project to extract polyhalite, a form of natural fertilizer, from Woodsmith mine near Whitby.

GTMaritime launches GTMailPlus.Continuity, a web-based service that gives users access to emails even when end-to-end services ship-shore are offline, so that businesses can continue as usual.

The deal will expand the breadth of Mitchells Group’s service offering, allowing it to supply small capacity systems to local farmland through to large commercial port terminals.

ClassNK has released a cyber security management system for ships that provides guidance on ensuring, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving the cyber security management system of companies and ships with the goal of safe navigation.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has detailed how it will continue supplying the Lufeng power plant with coal.

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has received the ‘Maritime Service Provider’ Award at the International Maritime Awards 2019.

STARCLEAN’s innovative system solutions for material handling were showcased at BAUMA.

This is EuroChem’s second successful transaction in the debt capital markets in less than a month.

Diana Shipping has commenced a self tender offer to purchase up to 3.125 million of its own shares.

Belships has announced the final result of Kontrari and Kontrazi’s offer to acquire all issued and outstanding shares in the company.

2019 has been characterised so far by a stream of negative news concerning dry bulk demand, notably in the iron ore markets. Will Tooth, Analyst at Maritime Strategies International, uncovers some pockets of positivity.

Wisdom Marine Group has acquired a new eco-ship, MV Amis Queen.

ClassNK’s subsidiary Ship Data Center Co., Ltd launched its IoS-OP (Internet of ships open platform) on a global scale at the Sea Asia Exhibition on 9 April 2019.

Diana Shipping is to hold a conference call and webcast to review the company’s financial results for the first quarter.