Tankers Pile Up Off Europe as Onshore Storage Hits Limit
By Ron Bousso and Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) – Dozens of tankers holding jet fuel and gasoline are at anchor in sea lanes around Europe’s main storage hubs,...
By Ron Bousso and Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) – Dozens of tankers holding jet fuel and gasoline are at anchor in sea lanes around Europe’s main storage hubs,...
AMSTERDAM, March 18 (Reuters) – The Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest, expects the flow of goods over the whole of 2020 to be “clearly below 470 million tonnes last year”...
AMSTERDAM, March 9 (Reuters) – The number of container ships travelling from China to the port of Rotterdam seems to have recovered slightly, as coronavirus measures that had significantly curbed...
Throughput at the Port of Rotterdam remained flat in 2019 amid “significant underlying shifts” in the various commodity sectors served by the Europe’s busiest port. The Port of Rotterdam Authority...
By Bart Meijer ROTTERDAM, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The Port of Rotterdam on Wednesday said it expects sales of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a bunker fuel to increase in...
The Port of Rotterdam reported throughput of 240.7 million tonnes in the first six months of 2019, a new record for Europe’s busiest port. The figure represents a 3.4 percent...
By Alex Longley and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — For a glimpse into what the global oil price might look like one day, a good place to look is the Dutch port of...
The logistics arm of retail giant IKEA has teamed up with French shipping group CMA CGM and others to test the use of sustainable marine bio-fuel oil on board a...
AMSTERDAM, March 11 (Reuters) – Emergency overflow parking spaces for up to 700 trucks have been created near Rotterdam port, Europe’s largest, in anticipation of backups caused by Britain’s departure...
By Isabelle Gerretsen ROTTERDAM, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In Rotterdam, ships from around the world cruise in and out of Europe’s busiest port, a bustling industrial hub that...
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has signed a partnership agreement with an artificial intelligence software startup to help develop autonomous navigation within the port. The Port of Rotterdam Authority says...
A.P. Moller – Maersk, owner of the world’s largest shipping line, has agreed to a joint initiative with independent tank storage operator Royal Vopak to launch a low sulphur bunkering...
The initial clean up of a large heavy fuel oil spill at the port of Rotterdam after a tanker struck a jetty over the weekend is expected to last several...
Odfjell said in a statement that while navigating to its assigned berth for loading, its vessel Bow Jubail made contact with a jetty and accidentally ruptured its hull, causing the release...
SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) – The port of Rotterdam expects to see its first ship-to-ship (STS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation in June, marking an important milestone in the...
By Toby Sterling ROTTERDAM, Feb 16 (Reuters) – The Port of Rotterdam is bracing for a British exit from the European Union without any deal on customs, and looking at measures...
Cargo throughput at the port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port, rose 1.3 percent to 467 million tonnes in 2017, driven by strong growth in the container segment, the port said...
LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) – The Netherlands has given provisional approval to Gunvor to add a fuel upgrading unit at its Rotterdam refinery, according to a document seen by Reuters,...
By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – European shippers are calling for “solutions not fights” to the continuing congestion at Antwerp and Rotterdam’s barge terminals, although they are resigned that it is...
By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — China’s Cosco Pacific Ltd. will pay 125.4 million euros ($143 million) for shares and loans in a container-terminal operator in Rotterdam amid an overseas expansion...
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