June 2020
A group of shipping industry players have launched the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping - ABS, A.P. Møller - Mærsk, Cargill, MAN Energy Solutions, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, NYK Line and Siemens Energy. The centre, which will be based in Copenhagen, Denmark, will work with industry, academia and authorities to create overviews of decarbonization pathways, accelerate the development of selected decarbonizing fuels and powering technologies, and support the ...
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Brittany Ferries is to stage a limited return of scheduled passenger services with five ships carrying passengers from Monday, 29 June and a further three ships covering four routes re-opening in July.
Services from Portsmouth to Caen, Bilbao resume on 29 June, as will those from Plymouth to Roscoff and Rosslare ...
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Council-owned Portsmouth International Port has appointed international engineering and project management firm Royal HaskoningDHV to help deliver its long term master plan.
From July consultants will engage with customers and stakeholders, looking at current market trends and growth forecast, to deliver a the plan for the entire port authority harbour area, ...
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Shareholders of Lufthansa Cargo parent company Deutsche Lufthansa voted to accept capital measures and participation by the German state Economic Stabilisation Fund (WSF) at an extraordinary general meeting on 25 June.
The package provides for stabilization measures and loans of up to €9 billion including a €5.7bn “silent capital contribution” ...
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Dubai-based Emirates SkyCargo is operating ten of its Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft with economy class seats removed allowing for up to 17 tonnes or 132 cubic metres of additional cargo capacity per flight on top of the 40-50 tonne cargo capacity in the belly hold. The modified planes are being ...
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Just days after DP World London Gateway welcomed the world’s biggest container ship, the HMM Algeciras, it was turn of brother port DP World Southampton to welcome its largest ever vessel, the HMM Oslo at 399.9m, 61.5m wide and with a capacity of 23,820teu.
Technically, the two are not in fact ...
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Airport handling company Swissport says it will cut 4,556 jobs in the UK – over half its 8,500-strong workforce - blaming the effects of the corona crisis. The company emplys cargo handlers as well as staff dealing with passenger bagge and check-in.
Chief executive Jason Holt said the drastic measure would ...
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CLdN is to introduce a weekly triangular ro ro-service between Santander, Liverpool and Dublin. It will cater for unaccompanied, containers and project traffic. CLdN’s UK sales manager Mike Lewis, said that ports in the north were able to offer hugely reduced waiting times, storage and efficient onward routes. It brings ...
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DHL co-founder Bill Robinson passed away on 10 June. Born in 1938, He founded the carrier in 1969 while employed as a driver for a local courier company with Larry Hillblom Adrian Dalsey, Robert Lynn and other workmates, offering an alternative to the mail and airfreight to move business documents ...
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UPS has launched a new range of recylable packaging for shipping individual bottles of spirits and wine, to help producers in the UK and Ireland reach new customers. Designed in conjunction with Smurfit Kappa and distributor Macfarlane Packaging, it addresses the challenge of packing bottles that come in a range ...
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