Container handling at Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG’s (HHLA) container terminals fell 5.3% year-on-year (y-o-y), from 1,462,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2025 to 1,544,000 TEU. The throughput volume at the Hamburg container terminals was 1,374,000 TEU, down 6.6% on the 1,472,000 recorded in the same period last year. In a statement issued yesterday (13 May), HHLA said the results were primarily due to the ‘subdued start to the year as a result of the harsh winter’, which it said had ‘negatively impacted all shipping regions,’ although the operating situation ‘largely stabilised’ over the course of the first quarter. A further […]

A lack of coordination among European ports could hinder the Port of Bilbao’s €100 million onshore power supply investment, Andima Ormaetxe Bengoa, Director, Operations, Commercial, Logistics & Strategy, has said. As previously reported by ship.energy, the project will see 11 connection points capable of supplying renewable electricity installed at the Spanish port, with the first connection set to open in the coming months. Speaking at the Coastlink conference in Hull, UK last week, Ormaetxe Bengoa said the port was not sure if it had ‘advanced too early with the investments’ in the onshore power supply infrastructure. ‘The problem is that each port […]

Finnlines and the Port of Långnäs have opened a new passenger terminal in Åland that will serve the former’s hybrid Superstar RoPaxes. The new terminal, which was opened on Friday (8 May), serves Finnlines’ Superstar-class vessels, M/S Finnsirius and M/S Finncanopus, which operate on the Naantali–Långnäs–Kapellskär route. The shipping company noted that the terminal will cater to ‘growing demand for passenger services’ and added that it ‘significantly streamlines’ passenger movement between the ship and the terminal. ‘The new terminal brings the ship and passengers tangibly closer together and speeds up and streamlines the travel chain,’ said Marco Palmu, Head of […]