May 29th, 20190P3, the mooted alliance between the world’s top three carriers, which regulators scuppered in 2014, has been revived digitally with news yesterday that CMA CGM and MSC...
May 28th, 20190Norwegian weather intelligence specialist StormGeo has appointed Carsten Mortensen as non-executive chairman to its board of directors. Mortensen was most recently in...
May 27th, 20190Maersk has decided to invest in Marseille-based smart container creator Traxens meaning the world’s three largest containerlines are now onboard as shareholders in the...
May 24th, 20190French liner CMA CGM has ordered 50,000 Traxens trackers to monitor a portion of its containers. CMA CGM was the first investor in Traxens seven years ago, helping...
May 17th, 20193Wallem Group CEO Frank Coles compared the Boeing 737 Max disasters to maritime last month at the Maritime CEO Forum, a theme he came back to when speaking at the...
May 15th, 20190The Port of Rotterdam issued a white paper today on smart shipping in which it revealed details of a new smart container experiment it is carrying out with...
May 14th, 20190CMA CGM, Evergreen, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Yang Ming and ZIM have joined the new Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) as members, following in the footsteps...
May 14th, 20191Hamburg’s Schulte Group has launched INNOPORT, a dedicated venture capital unit to identify investment opportunities in the global maritime startup ecosystem. The...
May 13th, 20190European innovation project Flagships has been awarded EUR5m ($5.6m) from the EU to support the construction of two hydrogen fuel cell vessels in France and...
May 10th, 20190A box of oysters delivered to Belgian clients earlier this week marks another landmark moment on the voyage towards autonomous shipping. The shipment of seafood went...
May 7th, 20190Reuters is reporting that Volkswagen has put ship engine manufacturing giant MAN Energy Solutions up for sale. Cummins, Wartsila and private-equity owned Jenbacher have...
May 2nd, 20191FreightHub, Europe’s first digital freight forwarder, has raised $30m in its Series B financing round. Rider Global, a venture fund founded by logistics experts, took...
May 2nd, 20199Mr Prospector doesn’t mind taking a few cheap shots at the broking community, but admits their role in the industry is not going to be usurped by technology anytime...
April 29th, 20192Maersk has launched an industry-first customs clearance online shipping management platform in seven European countries - Germany, France, Denmark, The Netherlands,...
April 29th, 20190The first step in making a change is acknowledging the need for change and by that marker, the maritime industry should by now be well along with the process of digital...
April 26th, 20190CMA CGM has followed in the footsteps of Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, debuting yesterday an online instant box booking system, bringing container shipping one step closer to...
April 25th, 20190The news from the Quarry Bay, Hong Kong headquarters of Wallem Group is coming thick and fast under new CEO Frank Coles, who took the reins of the 116-year-old company...
