Ports and Logistics
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Construction to widen and deepen Houston Ship Channel begins
Port Houston, tucked inland from the northwest corner of the Gulf of Mexico, has broken ground to start construction to…
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Dutch to vaccinate close to 50,000 seafarers
A Covid-19 vaccination program for seafarers will begin in the Netherlands in mid-June, the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners (KVNR)…
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Sweden’s first inland shipping shuttle service gets underway
Scandinavian countries are pressing ahead with ever greater numbers of inland container services as governments push for the movement of…
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Four out of 10 boxes rolled over, schedule reliability at an all-time low
In the space of a year the box rollover ratio at CMA CGM Australian subsidiary ANL leapt by 30%. At…
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Bipartisan legislation introduced to improve resiliency of US ports
Legislation has been introduced in the US Congress to help upgrade ports to meet the challenges of extreme weather events,…
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DP World set to run DR Congo’s first deepsea Atlantic port
Dubai-headquartered terminal operator DP World has amended its 30-year port concession deal with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as…
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American ports fail to make the grade on efficiency
No American boxport is among the top 50 most efficient in the world, a new study reveals, in another damning…
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MOL to set up hydrogen-ready gear at Kobe terminal
Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Mitsui E&S Machinery have agreed to commence a joint study to introduce hydrogen-fueled cargo…
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Port of Antwerp to lead PIONEERS consortium
The Port of Antwerp is the lead body in a new European Union-funded project called PIONEERS (PORTable Innovation Open Network…
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Yokohama crowned world’s most efficient container port
The Japanese port of Yokohama has been crowned as the world’s most efficient box facility in a new study launched…
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Logistics giant DSV charters 1,800 teu boxship to move cargoes on frenzied Asia-Europe tradelane
The incredible tightness of available slots on almost all tradelanes has forced one of the world’s largest logistics operators to…
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Carbon neutral project kicks off at Esbjerg
Denmark’s Port of Esbjerg has announced a joint co-innovation project with digital technology company Atos to create a carbon neutral…
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Samskip establishes air freight division
Samskip, best known for its European shortsea box offerings, has launched an air cargo division based at Schiphol Airport in…
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Top German steel mills work with Rotterdam port to develop hydrogen supply chains
German steel companies thyssenkrupp Steel and HKM and the Port of Rotterdam are investigating setting up international supply chains for…
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Port of Corpus Christi and Stabilis in LNG bunkering tie-up
The Port of Corpus Christi and Stabilis Solutions have entered into a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the use of…
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Sweden maps details of new box facility
Nordic construction and engineering company Peab has secured a SEK249m ($29.5m) contract from SCA Logistics to build a new container…
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Port of Montreal dockworkers back on the job after Senate passes legislation
Striking dockworkers at the Port of Montreal, Canada’s second-largest port, were ordered back to work, after the Senate of Canada…
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Port of Savannah to boost capacity
After reporting a volume increase of 15% in its fiscal year to date (July 2020 to March 2021), the Georgia…
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Bratislava to develop LNG terminal
Plans for the development of a €40m LNG terminal at Slovakia’s Port of Bratislava on the river Danube have been…
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ITF calls Canada’s back-to-work legislation an ‘illegal assault on human rights’ of Montreal dockworkers
Liberal and Conservative members of Canada’s federal government teamed up this week to pass legislation through the House of Commons…
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