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ONE, HMM and Yang Ming Confirm the Alliance Partnership

Press Release – Ocean Network Express – September 9, 2024 Ocean Network Express (ONE), HMM and Yang Ming Marine Transportation are pleased to...

Container ship topples three gantry cranes in Turkey’s EVYAPPORT

Izmit, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 23, 2024 – Over $50 million are the damages on port infrastructure from the collision of Hong Kong-flagged giant...

Update: OCEAN Alliance extended until 2032

Shanghai, China (Ports Europe) February 29, 2024 – The four leading ocean carriers, founding members of the world’s largest shipping network OCEAN...

Global shippers cease business in Russia

London, United KIngdom (PortSEurope) May 2, 2022 – Leading global container shipping lines have ceased working with Russian ports. France’s...

Alliance MD2 service returns to APM Terminals Barcelona

The Alliance, a shipping alliance between Hapag Lloyd, Ocean Network Express (ONE), Yang Ming and HMM, has once again entrusted APM Terminals Barcelona with...

Container ships operators’ ranking as of March 2021

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) March 22 – Danish A.P. Moller-Maersk Group is the largest container ship operator in the world, according to Statista, a...

Container ships operators’ ranking as of February 2021

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) February 22 – APM-Maersk, member of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, is the world’s biggest container ship operator as of...

Yang Ming sets up subsidiary in France

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 7, 2021 – Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation, a Taiwanese shipping company, has established a new subsidiary...

THE Alliance resumes regular Genoa port services

From 7 September the services of THE Alliance between the Far East and the Mediterranean, which had been the subject of blank sailing due to the collapse of...

PSA Pra’: new EMA container service

First ship of the new containerized maritime service EMA (East Mediterranean – America) managed by the shipping companies ONE / COSCO / OOCL / Yang Ming...

Marseille port gives ESI Awards to environmental shippers

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 17, 2019 – On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, Hervé Martel, President of the Executive Board of the Port of Marseille...

Marsa Maroc breaks container traffic record in 2018

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Marsa Maroc has broken its container traffic record last year, closing 2018 with a turnover up MAD 2.7...

THE Alliance shipping alliance reduces use of Italian ports in 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 22, 2019 – The shipping consortium THE Alliance, which consists of the German navigation company Hapag-Lloyd, the...

Livorno port’s links to US East Coast to be modified

Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – Livorno port will no longer be connected to the East Coast of the United States through the...

First vessel from The Alliance consortium arrives in Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 6, 2018 – The first ship of the new MD1 Service from the Far East operated by the shipowning consortium The Alliance...

Spediporto members to benefit from extension of delivery vouchers

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 8, 2018 – Spediporto, the association of the Genoese forwarders, is to guarantee an extension of delivery vouchers....

Yang Ming starts Koper port service

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – Yang Ming, a Taiwan-based shipper, has set up a new weekly service between Koper and the ports of Piraeus...

China’s Yang Ming sets up unit to service Mediterranean region 

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Chinese company Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation has set up a new regional centre in the Mediterranean...

Top 10 container firms control 90% of global container fleet

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Over 87% of the fleet capacity of the 67 largest global container transport companies is controlled by...

Hapag-Lloyd, Yang Ming, Maersk to update container services at Odessa port in May

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – Odessa port is planning a significant expansion of its activities. The Odessa container terminal (OCT), which is...

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