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Hapag-Lloyd AG

Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transport company. It was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line and North German Lloyd.

Container ships operators’ ranking as of February 2021

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) February 22 – APM-Maersk, member of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, is the world’s biggest container ship operator as of...

Hapag-Lloyd expects very strong earnings growth in the first quarter of 2021

Hapag-Lloyd has got the year off to a very good start thanks to exceptionally strong demand for container transports, which has led to a much higher level of...

Lebanon’s Tripoli port eyes Gulf markets

Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) February 2, 2021 – Last Sunday, the Northern Lebanese port of Tripoil received the large container vessel Teno, which is...

Tanger Med reports overall tonnage up 23% in 2020

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 26, 2021 – Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA) has reported that overall tonnage handled in 2020 was 81 million...

New Tanger Alliance terminal (TC3) at Tanger Med Port Complex now operational

Tanger Alliance, a subsidiary of Marsa Maroc, Contship Italia, Eurogate International and Hapag-Lloyd, received its first container vessel on January 1st, 2021...

Tanger Alliance signs long-term credit facikity of €133 million

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 12, 2021 – Tanger Alliance, a joint venture of Marsa Maroc, Contship Italia, Eurogate International and Hapag...

Hapag-Lloyd orders six ultra large container vessels of 23,500+ TEU

Order placed at Korean ship yard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Vessels will be powered by LNG Dual Fuel Delivery starts in April 2023 1 billion...

Tanger Alliance receives first vessel

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 29, 2020 – Tanger Alliance has received its first vessel in container terminal three (TC3). Tanger Alliance, a...

AdsP del Mare Di Sardegna declines Pifim concession bid

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 24, 2020 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Di Sardegna (AdSP – Sardinian Sea Port...

Contship Italia Group releases new business plan targets 2021-2024

Contship Italia Group, the Italian container terminal and intermodal branch of Eurokai, today unveils a raft of new initiatives aimed at enhancing its national...

Hapag Lloyd chooses Malaga as a port of call on the regular line

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 – Malaga has started its activity as a port of call for the German company Hapag Lloyd, in...

Hapag-Lloyd updates forecast for financial year 2020

Performance of container shipping market and Hapag-Lloyd in Q3 much better than anticipated Compared to Q2 much stronger demand and higher revenues in Q3...

THE Alliance resumes regular Genoa port services

From 7 September the services of THE Alliance between the Far East and the Mediterranean, which had been the subject of blank sailing due to the collapse of...

Hapag-Lloyd delivers good half-year result, but uncertainties due to COVID-19 pandemic remain

Volumes significantly down in Q2, significant reduction in bunker cost // Measures of the Performance Safeguarding Program (PSP) already having an impact //...

CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd resume services to Beirut port

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 20, 2020 – International shipping companies CMA CGM of France and Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd have resumed services...

Ports of Genoa: Covid-19 Update – Issue 28/2020 – Global trade is growing in the shadows of the market

Ports of Genoa: Covid-19 Update – Issue 28/2020 – Global trade is growing in the shadows of the market – August 14, 2020 Traffic volumes on...

A positive surprise: Beirut port container terminal reopens

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 12, 2020 – Container shippers are resuming calls of their ships to Beirut only four days after the explosion there, that...

Hapag-Lloyd looks to restart Beirut port services

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 12, 2020 – The German shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, has told its customers that the Beirut container terminal...

Analysis – The aftermath of the Beirut port obliteration

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 7, 2020 – The port of Beirut, Lebanon’s busiest port, is not going to recover for many months after what is...

Hapag-Lloyd, MSC diverts ships from Beirut to Tripoli

Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 6, 2020 – The German shipper Hapag-Lloyd AG has announced that it will divert any vessels destined for Beirut port...

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