Tag: shipping
Amazon enters the forwarding business with discount prices
Amazon goods distribution center in Brandenburg The US online mail order company is now getting into the procurement of goods for its marketplace partners. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Amazon disputes the…
Continued traffic jams in container shipping
Container port in Shanghai In terms of trade in goods, the omicron wave has so far primarily posed a threat to China. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Traffic jams on international container…
Rotterdam has to dismantle a bridge for Jeff Bezos
Konigshaven Bridge The 40 meter high bridge is too low for Jeff Bezos’ superyacht. Now she may have to go. (Photo: Reuters) Rotterdam Ships have been sailing under the Koningshaven…
Greek shipowners are the beneficiaries of the gas crisis
Greek liquid gas tanker at the LNG terminal Greek shipowners opted for LNG transport early on. It’s now paying off. (Photo: Bloomberg) Athens The gas crisis is forcing Europe to…
How liquid gas terminals want to go green
Berlin In view of the ongoing gas supply crisis, the construction of LNG terminals in Germany is becoming the focus of the debate. The developers of such terminals, which can…
Storm surge “Nadia” causes severe damage in northern Germany
Storm low “Nadia” at the Dagebüll ferry terminal The ferry dock for the ships heading to Amrum and Föhr was hit by the storm. (Photo: dpa) Hamburg Storm depression “Nadia”…
Container bottlenecks are getting worse – 564 ships are waiting in front of ports
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Trading in shares of the owner of MV Werften suspended
Hong Kong On the Baltic Sea, the construction of a huge cruise ship is about to be completed. But the future of the MV shipyards with more than 1900 jobs…
Trading in shares of the owner of MV Werften suspended
Hong Kong Trading in shares of the owner of MV Werften in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bremerhaven on the Hong Kong stock exchange was suspended on Friday. According to Genting Hong…
Trading in shares of the owner of MV Werften is suspended
Hong Kong Trading in shares of the owner of MV Werften in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bremerhaven on the Hong Kong stock exchange was suspended on Friday. Genting Hong Kong had…
Maritime coordinator: lobbying against German interests
Claudia Müller The Greens politician has a good reputation, but is now confronted with a massive conflict of interests. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Right at the beginning of her term of…
Next corona wave for cruises – quayside calm
Dusseldorf Forced stay in Lisbon instead of New Year’s Eve in Madeira: Almost 3,000 people on board the German cruise ship “Aida Nova” had to break off their trip in…
Next corona wave for cruises – quayside calm
Dusseldorf Forced stay in Lisbon instead of New Year’s Eve in Madeira: Almost 3,000 people on board the German cruise ship “Aida Nova” had to break off their trip in…
Container port that nobody wants to go to: Shipping companies ignore Oakland
San Francisco The slump comes as a surprise: While container shipping in the USA experienced a great boom in the run-up to Christmas and there was a shortage of goods…
Bitcoin is primarily an object of speculation
Bitcoin and US dollars Because Bitcoin fluctuates strongly and is therefore itself highly risky, it fails as a hedging instrument. (Photo: Reuters) That Bitcoin does not serve as a safe…
Emergency merger of the German North Sea ports threatens the port of Hamburg
Hamburg 114,000 jobs in the metropolitan region depend directly on the port industry. (Photo: ddp, Getty Images, Hapag-Lloyd (M)) Wilhelmshaven On this gloomy November day in the Jade-Weser-Port there is…
Emergency merger of the German North Sea ports threatens the port of Hamburg
Hamburg 114,000 jobs in the metropolitan region depend directly on the port industry. (Photo: ddp, Getty Images, Hapag-Lloyd (M)) Wilhelmshaven On this gloomy November day in the Jade-Weser-Port there is…