The port of Hamburg welcomed 20 000 TEU vessel

The port of Burchardkai at Hamburg's Terminal received MOL Triumph on May 15, it is the first container-ship with capacity of over 20 000 tons. The vessel was delivered to  Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) in March, and is applied in THE Alliance’s FE2 service between Europe and Asia. 

Hamburg container terminal has 2 berths for handling  MOL Triumph, with 13 cranes in operation at Burchardkai port. Up to the 9 of these cranes will work in parallel on the new 20 000 tons vessel. 

The container-ship is scheduled to leave on May 18. 

​​H​oegh Autoliners Keeps Scrapping Its Vessels

​The Norway-based shipping line has already sold 17 RoRo vessels for green recycling. The last one was pure car and truck carrier MV Höegh Triton built back in 1988. That was the second oldest vessel Hoegh had in fleet, the other one was 1987-built City of Mumbai, also was scrapped in January. All the vessels went for recycling to China - Jiang Men City Zhong Xin Shipbreaking & Steel Co. Hoegh Autoliners strives to renew it's fleet with eco-friendly ships. According to the official information, it's RoRo fleet encounts 50 vessels all over the world. 

K Line Merging Subsidiaries

Japanese shipper Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) will merge two of its ship management subsidiaries, Taiyo Nippon Kisen and Escobal Japan. The companies are planned to be renamed K Line RORO and Bulk Ship Management.

The move will “realize more secure and environmental-friendly services that will meet the day-by-day increasing demand for reduction of environmental load toward a sustainable and livable world,” K Line said.

K Line's updated structure will have three ship management companies: K Line Ship Management Company (containerships, tankers and gas carriers), K Line LNG Shipping (UK) Limited (LNG carriers), and Taiyo Nippon Kisen (car carriers and dry bulk carriers).

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Canada welcomes its largest vessel

On May 5, Global Container terminals (GST) Deltaport, located in Port of Vancouver, has accepted Antwerpen Express, the biggest container ship to call Canada. Antwerpen Express, owned by German-based company Hapag-Lloyd, was brought into Alliance’s Transpacific mainline West Coast PN3 service. The 13,200 TEU vessel was built in 2013 by Hyundai Heavy Industries. As for  GCT Deltaport - it handles heavy transpacific boxships  and is using post-Panamax cranes.