Maritime Magazine

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Martin Imbleau

The Montreal Port Authority (MPA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Imbleau to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Imbleau held several senior management positions at Énergir, where he developed extensive experience in such various fields as energy, environmental and major infrastructure project management. More recently, he held the position […]

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Federal Kushiro first vessel to call the Port of Trois-Rivières in 2021

Trois-Rivières – The Federal Kushiro is the first vessel to call the Port of Trois-Rivières in 2021. It docked on January 1 at 3:48 a.m., after a 13-day crossing of the Atlantic. The vessel, with its 23 crew members of Indian nationality, left the port of Alcoa’s calcined petroleum coke plant located in Lake Charles,

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The Atlantic Spirit wins Montreal’s Gold-Headed Cane

  Montreal, January 1, 2021 – At 2:59 p.m., the Atlantic Spirit was the first ocean-going vessel of 2021 to cross the Port of Montreal’s downstream limit at Sorel without a stopover. True to a tradition dating back over 180 years, the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) is awarding the Gold-Headed Cane to its master, Captain Oleksandr Popov.  The port

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L’Atlantic Spirit remporte la Canne à pommeau d’or de Montréal

  Montréal, le 1er janvier 2021 – À 14 h 59, l’Atlantic Spirit a été le premier navire océanique de l’année 2021 à franchir, sans aucune autre escale, la limite des eaux du Port de Montréal à la hauteur de Sorel. Fidèle à une tradition de plus de 180 ans, l’Administration portuaire de Montréal (APM) décerne donc la Canne à

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Acquisition sparks creation of Interlake Maritime Services

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, OHIO – Interlake Holding Company announced yesterday the purchase of the assets of Pere Marquette Shipping Company and Lake Michigan Car Ferry Company in an acquisition that includes two working Great Lakes vessels, the Articulated Tug-Barge Undaunted-Pere Marquette 41 and the S.S. Badger, a historic passenger-and-car ferry.    The acquisition signals the creation of a new business entity, Interlake Maritime Services, which will manage the new businesses along with The Interlake Steamship Company and its fleet of nine

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Collaborative technologies for maritime transport at economies of scale (Forum)

by Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Adam Roark, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Michele Sancricca, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Almir Zerem, RISE, Hanane Becha, UN/CEFACT, Erminio Di Paola, HERE Technologies, Henk Mulder, IATA Never has the need for digital data sharing and processing at scale been more apparent than now. The growth

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The European shipping industry applauds last-minute Brexit deal

  Following the last-minute deal reached between the UK and the EU, the European shipping industry applauds the efforts of both EU and UK negotiators for their perseverance to secure this agreement.   The European shipping industry has been urging policymakers on both sides to avoid a no-deal scenario at all costs. EU-UK supply chains

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Hapag-Lloyd commande six grands porte-conteneurs GNL bi carburant

  Hapag-Lloyd a annoncé aujourd’hui avoir signé une commande de six très grands porte-conteneurs propulsés au GNL Dual Fuel pour un coût total d’environ 1 milliard de dollars. Cette commande s’inscrit dans une tendance croissante des transporteurs mondiaux à prendre des mesures de décarbonation pour respecter l’échéance de l’OMI consistant à réduire les émissions totales

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