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Sea Freight News Snippits

  • Feb 5, 2021
  • 1 min read

The Port of Liverpool's deepwater container terminal set a new record in December, for the second time in 2020. The vessel Tamara (MSC) docked and discharged 5,956 teu, beating the port's existing record of teu from a single ship by 496 teu.


Felixstow port will become the largest UK port to deploy 5G technology.


Shanghai port posted a new record container volume of 43.5 million teu last year (2020), retianing the tilte of the world's busiest container port for the 11th year in a row.


The contianer lines are expected to porvide more capacity out of Asia over the Chinese New Year holiday, beginning 12th February 2021, than in any previous year.

 
 
 

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