The 66th annual Eisbein Dinner organised last week by the Hamburg Shipbrokers´ Association (VHSS ) cemented its claim to be the world’s largest maritime social event when it drew almost 5,000 people from the industry - including brokers, bankers...

Innovation, Identification, Internationality and Integration were named core themes of this year's SMM in an opening ceremony that included tales of a 189-day struggle across the Pacific Ocean in a rowing boat.

As DNV GL moved to Hamburg for its double anniversary celebration last week the classification society set out some ambitious targets for safety and sustainability.

ClassNK has registered its first German-flagged vessel and received wider authorisation from the German flag to vet its ships.

DNV GL’s ceo of maritime Tor Svensen has indicated that shipping may be returning to “a more healthy balance” of supply and demand, in an address in Hamburg this week.  

The Port of Hamburg reported an 8.6% rise in total throughput in the first quarter to 35.6m t, with volume growth across multiple sectors.

Rotterdam is missing out on 1m teu every year because of “unfair competition” from state-funded rivals in other countries, the port authority has claimed.  

Marenave Schiffahrts has reported a EUR2.2m profit for the first nine months of 2013, down from EUR5.8m in the same period last year.

Hamburg Süd will launch a new South Africa – Argentina/Brazil (SABR) service from July 2013 in cooperation with Nile Dutch.

Hamburg Süd notes an improvement in its 2012 performance, but the results are still not satisfactory and the market will not return to a supply-demand balance until 2015 at the earliest, the company said in a press release today.