G6 shipping alliance added Halifax port to Asia Suez Express Service

As per G6, Halifax port was decided to be included to Asian shipping service, knows as Asia Suez Express Service.
It is expected that such change will reduce transit time from Canada to Asia and Mediterranean ports and back.
New port rotations are currently known as following:
Laem Chabang – Singapore – Colombo – Damietta – Cagliari – Halifax – New York – Savannah – Norfolk – Halifax (new) – Cagliari – Damietta – Jebel Ali – Singapore – Laem Chabang
First vessel will depart July, 6th from Halifax to Laem Chabang. As for Budapest Express - it is scheduled to arrive to Halifax August, 4th.

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EU Approves Public Funding for New Calais Terminal

The European Commission has decided that public funding of 270 million EUR to build a new terminal in the Port of Calais is in accordance with EU regulations. The new facility should further EU transport policy without imbalancing competition.

Based on the financial analysis done by France, it is evident that the terminal operator’s income would not be enough to cover the investment cost over 50 years. Public funds were thus needed in order to carry out the project.

The new facility is expected to help the Port of Calais deal with traffic blockades and strikes, as MyFerryLink workers feel their jobs might be in jeopardy.

First successful operation of container widening went through!

Recently the one of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) container ships MSC Geneva has been under process of widening. This is the first of three ships planned to be improved. It was trailed last month and now is ready to go between China and South America.
The premiere of the first widened containership  was celebrated with 150 guests. It also included a special tour of the ship in Shanghai.
Let us remind you, the ship was totally cut and completely changed it's structure. It's capacity grew with additional 30% of space and about 6000 containers instead of 4872.
This project seems to have a big future.