Ports and Logistics
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Maersk family to take greater control of the group
As the dust settles on tricky annual results and the announcement of a new chairman of the group, it has…
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Ships calling British Columbia will be given whale guide
Pilots boarding ships in British Columbian waters will hand out booklets identifying where whales are likely to be in the…
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Guangzhou Port IPO approved
China Securities Regulatory Commission has approved an IPO application from Guangzhou Port, with the port expected to go public this…
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DB Schenker buys into American online trucking startup
The ongoing digitisation of the freight transport industry continues with news German logistics giant DB Schenker has bought a $25m…
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ICTSI relinquishes running Brunei terminal
A state-backed entity will take control of Brunei’s top container terminal in a week’s time. Muara Container Terminal has been…
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Beijing’s anti-smog plans include steel cuts and shifting coal shipments from Tianjin
Amid record levels of pollution Beijing is looking at taking drastic measures including banning coal at the northeastern port of…
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Boxes slide off Maersk boxship in New York
APM Terminals suffered an embarrassing incident at its New Jersey terminal yesterday. A crane operator at its terminal at the…
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Wildcat strike causes chaos in Chittagong
The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) has sought the shipping minister’s intervention to help bring a strike by…
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Coscocs establishes terminal acquisition fund
China Cosco Shipping Corporation (Coscocs) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Greeland Holding Group, a major real estate company…
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Peterson announces plan for new port in Cameron, Louisiana
Energy logistics firm Peterson announced it has signed a partnership deal with Port Cameron LLC to develop a port and…
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Dredging approaches to Hamburg port moves a step closer
The port of Hamburg has welcomed a decision at a court in Leipzig to dismiss environmentalist concerns about dredging the…
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SAAM completes Puerto Caldera deal
Chilean multinational port services company SAAM has completed its acquisition of two concessions at Puerto Caldera in Costa Rica after…
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Spain braces for series of port strikes
With Madrid pushing dramatic port reforms, dockworkers across the country have lined up strikes on February 20, 22 and 24.…
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Hamburg port awaits key dredging ruling
A court in Leipzig will make a decision today that could threaten the very future of the great Hanseatic port…
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Boskalis and Van Oord jv awarded dredging contract in Brazil
Dutch shipping company Royal Boskalis and its joint venture partner Van Oord have been awarded a contract by The Brazilian…
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Maersk presents ‘unsatisfactory’ annual results, expects $1bn liner improvement in 2017
In what is likely to be the final annual results as a combined energy and shipping conglomerate, Maersk Group today…
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Former SAP CEO nominated to chair Maersk
Having helmed one of the world’s largest shipping companies through its greatest corporate restructure in a generation, Michael Pram Rasmussen,…
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Sharaf and Ben Line form new global port agency
Consolidation seen across so many maritime sectors in the last couple of years has reached the port agency business. Sharaf…
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Fick fires back in Seattle port row
Ted Fick has fired back in a war of words with his ex-employers, the Port of Seattle. Fick resigned last…
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Prepared to go anywhere, providing it be forward
Another day, another headline – forwarders under threat! Death of the middleman! Automate or the industry won’t need you! Kate…
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