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The European Parliament is expected to vote on the 13 March, on the political agreement for the revised EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) and Federation of European Private Port Companies and Terminals (FEPORT) welcome…

Arklow Villa is among the short-sea trading vessels of Arklow Shipping that operate a contract for the Portuguese suppliers to import powdered cement from Lisbon to Workington in the UK, writes Jehan Ashmore. The contract involves monthly deliveries of the…

A partnership of cargoship brokers and travel agents have announced their cooperation in EcoClippers first new sail liner ferry service from the Netherlands to Portugal, via ports in the UK and France. The start port for EcoClippers will be Amsterdam…

CLdN Ro-Ro, the Luxembourg based logistics specialist for sea, rail, and road, announced that the MV Delphine as Afloat reported a year ago has since been successfully fitted with a rotor-sail wind propulsion system. Delphine (along with Celine), is one…

The Southeast of Ireland is set to benefit from the arrival of 21 cruise vessels to the Port of Waterford this season. The cruise tourism season, which operates from April to October, will, says the Port of Waterford, offer the…

Trade in products be it ranging from alcohol to steel and more could be displaced directly to Northern Ireland as a result of this week’s Windsor Framework deal reached between the UK and EU, hauliers say. The Irish Road Haulage…

Shipping company WEC Lines has expanded its existing service into the Port of Liverpool with a new series of weekly calls to the UK port from northern Spain, Portugal, north Africa and the Canary Islands. The Dutch (Rotterdam based) company…

The United Kingdom and the European Union yesterday announced a much long-awaited new deal for post-Brexit trading arrangements for goods travelling from the GB entering Northern Ireland. The historic deal reached was in a bid to conclude a row that…

A brand new Irish flagged cargoship having completed sea trials in the North Sea, has been delivered to shipowner Arklow Shipping, with the vessel having called to northern Spain yesterday is this evening bound for the Mediterranean, writes Jehan Ashmore.…

The Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) has released it Unitised Traffic Report for Q4 2022 (see attachment) and an Executive Summary as outlined below. The fourth quarter of 2022 was defined by a slowdown in unitised traffic on the island…

The Marine Survey Office (MSO) of the Irish Maritime Administration has completed a review of security risk assessments for vessels and ports engaged in domestic shipping operation on the Irish coast. This review was conducted as part of the obligations…

Next month the 2023 Maritime UK Awards are to be held in Hull, East Yorkshire in the north east of England on Thursday 9th March. Held for the first time since September 2019, will see the Maritime UK Awards be…

The 7th Green Shipping Summit which aims to bring the maritime community towards an innovative future has begun in the Netherlands. The event which continues today and held in Rotterdam (Europe’s largest port) is to focus on rebuilding and reinvesting…

Shipping company Finnlines is expanding its Ireland-Belgium freight service between Rosslare and Zeebrugge. A second ro-ro vessel has been added to the route, Iarnród Éireann, port authority for Rosslare Europort, has said. MS Finnpulp will join MS Finnwave on the…

Maersk shipping group has filed a claim for compensation against the owners and operators of the container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in 2021. The Danish shipping group, regarded as the largest in the…

EcoClipper, a Dutch sail cargo company are developing a new breed of cargo carrying sailing ship, the first of which will be a 59m square-rigger with a capacity of 500 tonnes. While development is ongoing, EcoClipper has renovated the 1912…