April 20th, 20180France’s CMA CGM has reached an agreement to acquire an equity stake of around 25% in CEVA Logistics.
CMA CGM will subscribe to between 380m and 450m Swiss Francs ($391m-$462m) worth of CEVA securities in connection with the company’s Swiss IPO announced today.
Rodolphe Saadé, chairman and CEO of CMA CGM, commented: “With...
April 19th, 20180Offshore driller Transocean has secured a series of new contracts for the employment of its drilling rigs according to the company’s latest fleet status report.
Semi-submersible rig GSF Development Driller I has been awarded a one-well contract offshore Australia by Quadrant Energy. The contract will start from April...
April 2nd, 20180Enviroports, a new Swiss specialist in maritime waste solutions, is expanding its global network.
Enviroports was conceived in July 2017, and according to Lachlan Larkins, the managing director, the company has spent the last six months building and refining its global network of maritime service partners. The company mainly offers...
March 27th, 20189The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the 1,118 teu containership from Australian ports for three months after the operator failed to ensure crew were paid their wages in full and on time, and that critical equipment was maintained.
AMSA inspected the ship in the Port of Brisbane March 14 after receiving a...
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...
March 13th, 20180Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced the introduction of a new regular service from the Turkish port of Izmir to the Italian city of Trieste primarily aimed at trailers, containers, project and breakbulk cargo.
This new regular service is scheduled to start from Izmir on April 3 and will be operated with two modern conro...
March 2nd, 20180Singapore shipbuilder Triyards Holdings has announced that its Vietnamese subsidiary yard Saigon Offshore Fabrication and Engineering has received a notice of termination for a chemical tanker ordered at the yard.
The vessel is part of three chemical tankers ordered by Swiss-Canadian Maritime in 2015. The other two vessels have...
February 20th, 20180Offshore drilling giant Transocean has revealed several new contract wins in its first fleet status report for the year.
In the US Gulf of Mexico, drillship Deepwater Asgard has been awarded a three-well contract with one-well option by Murphy Oil for operations commencing June, while another drillship Deepwater Invictus had been...
February 18th, 20180An attempt to smuggle bags of cocaine attached to a MSC containership was foiled by officials at the Port of Santos in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Port authorities spotted a diver acting suspiciously in the water near the 2015-built while it was docked at a container terminal.
Police were alerted. The diver escaped but left behind a...
February 16th, 20180Offshore driller Transocean has had to amend a drilling contract with Enquest for the 1997-built semi-submersible rig which will see its backlog reduced by $112m.
The rig, operating in the UK North Sea, suffered an equipment breakdown that could not be repaired in a timely fashion. Enquest, while having the right to cancel the...
