March 19th, 20180Containerline Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is launching of a new rail freight service between Seville, Spain, and the Atlantic, beginning April 4.
The service is expected to run daily between Seville’s inland maritime port – Puerto de Sevilla – and the port of Sines in Portugal, with a capacity of more than 100 teu per...
November 27th, 20170CEPSA from Spain have sold the 2004-built , a suezmax that notched up significant interest from buyers. Clarkson Research reports the Spanish company received around five bids for the South Korean built ship and in the end selected Greek owner Eurotankers’ $18.8m offer.
“entiment is definitely on the rise for crude tonnage of this...
August 16th, 20174Salvors Resolve Marine have been called in to assist in controlling a fire onboard a Bibby Line bulker.
Crew were evacuated on Monday off the which is carrying fertilizer and is now drifting to the south of the Canary Islands.
The fire was first reported on Sunday onboard the UK-flagged vessel, but the ship was denied entry to Las...
August 15th, 20175Crew were evacuated yesterday off a fire-ridden bulk carrier carrying fertilizer off the Canary Islands.
The fire was first reported on Sunday onboard the UK-flagged , owned by Bibby Line, but the ship was denied entry to Las Palmas.
Yesterday morning the ship suffered a series of explosions and two Spanish search and rescue...
June 6th, 20170Shipping lines are having to reroute calls in the Mediterranean area as dockers in Spain yesterday kicked off a fortnight of intermittent strikes. The Spanish government, under pressure from the EU, has been trying to push through port reforms, something that dockworkers have protested against.
Dockworkers will stop working every...
May 19th, 20170Spanish politicians passed a controversial port reform bill yesterday, at the behest of the European Union. The new law however has proven deeply unpopular with local dockworkers who have threatened a renewed wave of strikes.
The decree aims to liberalise hiring in a sector strictly controlled by the unions who have called for four...
May 15th, 20170The Spanish government passed a decree on Friday aimed at liberalising the country’s ports. This is the second time it has tried to promulgate what has become a contentious law which has already been rejected by parliament and prompted threats of widespread strikes.
The law has been amended since its last iteration.
Spain has...
May 12th, 20170Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has firmed up plans to purchase a terminal in Spain which was operated by compatriot Korean line Hanjin Shipping which was declared bankrupt earlier this year.
HMM said in a filing it will buy a 100% stake in the Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTIA) in Spain for KRW117.6bn ($104.02m). A formal...
March 9th, 20170A high profile bribery scandal in Guatemala that involved a former president of the Central American nation and damaged Maersk’s whiter than white image it tries to portray has forced the firm to take legal action.
In 2015, APM Terminals, Maersk’s port unit, spent around $1bn buying out Grup Maritim TCB – a Spanish terminal...
March 3rd, 20170Shipping lines are having to make contingency plans as a wave of port strikes loom across Spain.
Over the past weeks, labour disputes have escalated in Spanish ports as a consequence of announced government plans to reform the Spanish Ports Act and change the existing labour system in ports in accordance with European Union...
