April 20 - Malaysian shipping group, Carpenters Shipping, has started directs calls at the Port of Jakarta on its New Guinea Shuttle Service (NSS).
Carpenters Shipping, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur-based MBf Holdings, says the container service can also handle breakbulk and project cargoes.
The service calls at Singapore, Port Klang, Jakarta, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Madang, before returning to Singapore.
South Africa-headquartered Vanguard has completed transport of at 50 m-long, 171-tonne cold box from the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia to a copper mine in Solwezi, Zambia.
Total Movements International has successfully coordinated transport of the massive 60 MW barge-mounted power plant, Nusantara II, from Surabaya, East Java, to Kolaka, southeast Sulawesi.
General cargo volumes have dipped 3 percent year-to-date at Port Houston’s multipurpose facilities. However, steel imports increased 34 percent in November.
Portugal’s Laso Transportes will open a new complex worth EUR10 million (USD10.5 million) next year in the Basque Country, Spain.
UK-based Tugdock has been awarded a ‘Statement of Feasibility’ from DNV for its Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP).
Drydocks World, in partnership with GE Vernova, will build and install Ostwind 4 – a 2 GW offshore wind grid connection in Germany.
