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Freeport handles record 3.31m shipping containers in 2018

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Malta Freeport Terminals handled a record 3.31 million TEU shipping containers in 2018 and will this year be steaming ahead with an ambitious investment programme in equipment and facilities in a concerted drive to increase the Terminals’ capacity to...

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GDL CONVENTION in Crete

Gollcher was invited to attend for the first Conference organised GDL for their world-wide network of Agents. The event was held in Crete between the 15th and 18th November. Karl Gollcher and Christian Zammit represented Gollcher. GDL (Global Defense Logistics) is a premier Global defense logistics...

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MSC AND MOBY TO CONFIRM A 4+4 MAXI ORDER IN CHINA

The new ferries will be manufactured at GSI and CSTC shipyards: two of them will be deployed by GNV while the left two will be joining Onorato’s fleet, continuously getting closer to Aponte   After long lasting negotiations, MSC group, in partnership with Moby, submitted Guangzhou Shipyard...

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MSC plans ferry service from Freeport

Grandi Navi Veloci, acquired by MSC Group in 2010, hopes to start offering a passenger service regularly from Malta in the near future.   Mario Aponte, managing director of MSC Malta Seafarers Co. Ltd, said yesterday that GNV already offers a twice weekly freight service from the...

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Top Six Largest Boxships

Starting with the latest addition to the global fleet of super-sized containerships, the recently-christened 21,413 teu OOCL Hong Kong has taken the title of the largest ship in the world based on its advertised nominal container intake. However, the sea giant features 191,317 in dwt capacity, considerably lower from...

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