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Diana Containerships Sells Post-Panamax Ship

Greek boxship owner Diana Containerships has made the sale of the m/v Puelo, a Post-Panamax vessel.

The 6,541 TEU ship was sold to Japanese shipper MOL for USD 20.5 million.  

Diana plans to use the money to prepay roughly USD 19.4 million of its debt, bringing the company's outstanding debt to around USD 19.5 million, which is to be paid off once the sale of the m/v Hamburg goes through in July 2018.

After the Hamburg sale, Diana Containerships’ fleet will consist of two Post-Panamax and two Panamax container vessels.

The Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center (HVCC) and the Rotterdam Port Authority have entered into a digital cooperation to improve operational processes.

Both ports will exchange relevant data through a digital interface and it will allow shipping companies steer their ships more efficiently and optimize their terminals resource planning.

The joint project was launched at the beginning of 2018 and, as of recently, the HVCC and the Rotterdam Port Authority exchange data directly via IT systems. The information pertains to planned and actual arrival and departure times for ships coming from or heading to either Hamburg or Rotterdam.

According to HHLA, this direct line of communication improves the basis for planning for both ports as well as for the shipping companies that use these ports, thus ensuring the ability to react quickly in the case of schedule changes.

The direct data exchange between Hamburg and Rotterdam is the logical first step towards building a ports network all over Europe, especially in order to increase the ability to react to delays.

The digital cooperation is achieved through an interface, which links the HVCC software with the PRONTO platform used in Rotterdam. This allows real-time data exchange along the lines of the Port Call Standard of the International Harbour Masters’ Association (IHMA).

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has held a float-out ceremony of Costa Venezia, the first Costa cruise ship built specifically for the Chinese market.

Costa Cruises is the Italian branch of Carnival Corporation. The 323-meter-long Costa Venezia will start service in March 2019, with a homeport in Shanghai. Its capacity is over 5,100 guests.

“As our first ship built specifically for the Chinese market, Costa Venezia marks a new era not just for Costa Cruises and Fincantieri but for the Chinese cruise industry as a whole,” Mario Zanetti, president of Costa Group Asia, said.

Costa Venezia will be followed by Costa Smeralda, the new flagship of Costa Cruises, scheduled for delivery in October 2019.

China’s COSCO Shipping Lines has welcomed to its fleet another 14,500 TEU newbuild, COSCO Shipping Denali.

The ceremony for the ultra large container vessel was held at Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding on June 13, 2018.

Flying the flag of Hong Kong, the newbuild has a length almost of 370 meters and a width of more than 50 meters. Its market value currently stands more than 88 million dollars.

The 155,500 dwt COSCO Shipping Denali is the company’s fourth 14,500 TEU containership that will serve the European route. This type is a next-generation environmentally-friendly containership independently developed by Hudong Zhonghua, according to COSCO.