June 22 - Dubai-based project forwarder, Fleet Line Shipping (FLS) has delivered 12 furnished caravans, each measuring 12.3 m x 3.5 m x 3.5 m from Karachi, Pakistan to the Rumaila oil field in Basra, Iraq.
The units were shipped on 12 flatbed containers, owned by FLS, from the Port of Karachi via Jebel Ali, UAE to Umm Qasir, Iraq on board a container ship.
FLS' Iraq office was responsible for the Customs clearance on arrival and transported the caravans overland to the project site.
Shanghai Shipbuilding Research and Design Institute (SDARI), in collaboration with DNV and Toepfer Transport, has developed two state-of-the-art multipurpose vessel designs: Octopus 12.6 and Octopus 12.
Colonel’s Island Terminal at the USA’s port of Brunswick had its busiest month ever for ro-ro cargo during March 2024 handling 77,236 units, an increase of 21 percent over the same month of last year.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has joined global public-private partnership the First Movers Coalition (FMC), which is working to scale the most critical, emerging climate technologies required to decarbonise the world’s heavy-emitting sectors.
Total cargo throughput of the port of Antwerp-Bruges amounted to 70.4 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 2.4 percent compared to the same period last year, with container throughput increasing and the general cargo sector showing signs of recovery.
DEME has been awarded two contracts by Prysmian for the engineering and installation works for the IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore grid systems in the Netherlands.
Finnish shipping company Meriaura has transported offshore template structures for Subsea7 using its CO2 emissions reducing Eco Voy-transport concept.
