By Marek Grzybowski The Greek Sea Cluster is going full ahead. Its foundation is shipowners. The Greeks bet on modern ships with an ever-increasing carrying capacity. They chose the market for bulk carriers and tankers, which turned out to be a bull’s-eye. By entering markets with high profitability, tonnage investments and dominance in selected sectors […]
Amid Record-Low Trans-Atlantic Trade Rates, Shippers Must Seize Opportunities Before Market Rebounds Spot rates on the Trans-Atlantic fronthaul trade from North Europe to the US East Coast (USEC) are plummeting rapidly. According to Xeneta’s platform data, the monthly average rate for a 40-foot standard container (FEU) has dropped dramatically, falling from USD 5,298 (excluding Terminal […]
Znajdź pracę w branży morskiej! Sprawdź potencjał branży morskiej, odkryj możliwości podjęcia zatrudnienia, rozwoju i kariery. Na wydarzenie zapraszamy: uczniów szkół średnich, zwłaszcza ostatnich klas, nauczycieli, studentów, osoby szukające możliwości podjęcia pracy w sektorze gospodarki morskiej, osoby, które są gotowe na przebranżowienie, osoby poszukujące oferty szkoleń i specjalistycznych kursów, dzięki którym mogą podjąć zatrudnienie w sektorze […]
The Global Trade and Supply Chain Summit on September 19th and 20th will host conversations about how to generate positive change for businesses and countries. How might transforming trade fuel economic growth? What are viable solutions to geopolitical tensions? Are there pathways towards new globalisation? The summit will discuss this in several topics on the […]
By Marek Grzybowski The fully cellular containership fleet sized over 1,000 TEU currently totals over 4,816 trading units (26.14 mln TEU) – informed Banchero Costa it the new report. The fleet of 10,000+ TEU containerships currently numbers only 750 units (16% of the total), but accounts for 43% of the TEU capacity. Feeders of 1,000-2,999 […]
By Marek Grzybowski About 6,700 container ships with a carrying capacity of about 330 million tons and a capacity of about 27.6 million TEU at a time pose a challenge for ports. Almost 70 years have passed since the first container ship entered the port. When the ship converted by Malcolm McLean set sail in […]
By Marek Grzybowski In the first quarter of this year Satisfaction with practicing the profession and working conditions of seafarers has decreased, according to the Mission to Seafarers organization. Research shows that job satisfaction at sea has declined in the first three months of this year. Seafarers sailing on general cargo ships rate their industry […]
By Marek Grzybowski Maersk and Hong Lam Marine have successfully completed the world’s first methanol bunkering operation for a Maersk container ship at Raffles Reserved Anchorage, Singapore, the Port Authority of Singapore and Maersk announced at the end of July. But this is not the ship’s first methanol bunker. Stena Line and the Port of […]
Building a resilient Baltic Sea Region – 30 years of BSSSC as a driver for strong regional involvement The BSSSC Annual Conference 2023 will take place in Szczecin, Poland 12 till 13 September. The focus will be on Celebrating 30 years of Baltic Sea Region cooperation, the role of the Regions in the time of crises […]
On 4–5 October this year, Riga will be organising the 14th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). As the first of the four Macro-Regional Strategies in Europe, the Baltic Sea Region Strategy has always been a front-runner, be it innovation ecosystems, sustainability-oriented citizens, or energy security goals. Countries from […]