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spokesperson. SAL also


enjoys a synergy—Hoffmann’s word—with Intermarine,


“The amount of wind power equipment moving across the


docks is up significantly through March compared to the same period last year.” -- Bill Hensel, Port Houston


North Americas service. “For SAL, it is to a great


extent transportation of wind- turbine components, as well as shipments of the more technically challenging large offshore foundations, which takes up quite a bit of capacity in our fleet these days,” he says. Atlantic Container Line


Enormous tube bundles hang out at Port Houston’s Turning Basin Terminal. (Port Houston photo)


notes brisk business, too, at its core ports of New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, Halifax, Liverpool, Hamburg and Antwerp. “We have been seeing


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AAL expands fleet with two more G-Class HL MPVS


AAL Shipping (AAL) is taking delivery of two additional ‘G-Class’ multipurpose heavy liſt vessels, expanding its core fleet to 720,200 total deadweight (DWT). The Pacific Action and AAL Gladstone have both served in the AAL fleet in the past and re-join later this month – the former renamed this week, ‘AAL Gibraltar’. These versatile and relatively young vessels feature a total cargo intake of 35,705 cubic meters, four large cargo holds, three tweendecks and a maximum liſt capacity of 240 tonnes – ideal for trading all manner of project heavy liſt, breakbulk, steel and dry bulk commodities. They join one of the sector’s


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largest and youngest fleets that already consists of two sister vessels, AAL Genoa and Pacific Alert (TBN AAL Galveston) and will operate worldwide in support of AAL’s well established monthly liner services, regular trade routes and tailormade tramp chartering solutions. “‘We are delighted to have secured these vessels,” says


Kyriacos Panayides, Managing Director of AAL. “Large heavy liſt multipurpose ships of this caliber and liſting capability represent a small fraction of the global MPP fleet and AAL is uniquely well experienced in optimizing their operations and harnessing their strengths to generate value for our customers’ global trading demands. They will add much needed capacity to a portfolio of multipurpose shipping services that have grown exponentially over the past 12 months.” ‘Since February 2020,


the company has built a scheduled monthly liner service between Europe, Middle East and Asia, a regular monthly tramp service


between Asia and


the Americas and frequent sailings from Asia to Europe – all this in addition to its Asia- Australia Liner Services and global Tramp Chartering operations. “The


25,800


G-Class dwt


are MPVs,


large that


complement our fleet profile,” said Marc Willim, General Manager of AAL’s Chartering


Team. “Global trading is only now emerging from the negative impact of COVID and also important multipurpose cargo sectors like oil and gas are still pressured. However, there


is growing optimism


and the recent surges in the container and commodity markets have demonstrated the


importance of being


flexible and ready to serve cargo demand and from wherever it may come.” Willim observers that


the company is seeing market economies begin to strengthen and rebuild in confidence across Europe, Middle East, Asia and the Americas and trade war machinations of 2020 resolve. “Energy, steel, infrastructure,


bulk and general cargoes are all trading worldwide,” he said. “Carriers like AAL, that have the expertise, trade route infrastructure and fleet capability to parcel these big and small cargoes on the same sailings and deliver worldwide will be in a position to offer shippers timely solutions and highly competitive economies of scale.”


which handles what he calls a “good mix” of industrial machinery and oil and gas components, especially in the


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