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A Hamburg Sud containership hit a ferry pier on June 20 in Santos, Brazil. The vessel suffered a small hull breach and creasing to port side hull plates.

Following the challenges that shipping industry is dealing with due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) urges industry to pay attention on cyber security investments.

Port of Braunschweig and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) joined an agreement, so as to promote an environmentally friendly inland waterway shipping in hinterland container transport between Hamburg and the inland port in Lower Saxony.

Hamburg Süd launched its new Remote Container Management (RCM) technology assisting their reefer container shipments, which will help customers keep track of their containers and their deliveries.

During the 2019 SAFETY4SEA Hamburg Forum, Poul Woodall, Director (Environment & Sustainability), DFDS A/S, talked about 2020 and its consequences for Maritime GHG emissions, highlighting that there is no doubt that Sulphur dioxide harms both human health and the environment.

The second SAFETY4SEA Forum in Hamburg successfully concluded on Tuesday 8th of October, 2019 at Lindner Hotel Am Michel, Hamburg. The event, organized by SAFETY4SEA, was sponsored by Aquametro Oil and Marine, Diaplous Group, HudsonAnalytix, NAVTOR, PRIMARINE, RISK4SEA, SQEMARINE, T&T SALVAGE.

Hamburg Süd announced that it christened the 'Polar Ecuador' container ship in Antwerp. The ship belongs to a group of four structurally identical vessels in the 'Polar' class that have been built for Hamburg Süd by the Chinese shipyard Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding. The 'Polar Ecuador' will operate in Hamburg Süd’s North Europe - Mexico/Caribbean service (EMCS), which connects Antwerp and other European ports in Ireland, Great Britain and Germany with Mexican and Caribbean ports. 

Hamburg Süd and the China Navigation Company, which is part of the Swire Group, completed the sale of Hamburg Süd’s dry bulk shipping business, which includes Rudolf A. Oetker (RAO) and the bulk activities in Furness Withy (London and Melbourne) and Aliança Navegação e Logística, to China Navigation Company.

Hamburg-based Nauticor, a unit of Linde, reported that the world’s largest LNG bunker vessel, the 7,500-cbm Kairos was officially christened at the Hamburg Cruise Center Steinwerder. The vessel began being constructed in 2016. The vessel was delivered in October 2018, according to Nauticor.

Hamburg Süd announced that it will present its future use of Remote Container Management. Using satellite and mobile radio technology, RCM enables the monitoring of the refrigerated container and the condition of the cargo inside it, including its location, temperature profile, relative humidity, and concentrations of oxygen and CO2.