April 2021
Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and engineering contractor Jumbo Shipping has launched an alliance with SAL Heavy Lift, the German-based breakbulk and project cargo specialist. They will combine their fleets and all commercial activities with a single commercial entry point in over 20 countries, including marketing of 30 project cargo vessels with lifting capacities up to 3,000 tonnes.
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Forth Ports Tilbury has signed a deal with Tarmac to build the UK’s largest construction aggregates terminal as part of the £250 million Tilbury2 scheme. The multimodal terminal will use the latest technology to discharge the world’s largest deep-sea vessels and deliver materials by rail into Central London without the ...
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UK P&I Club has launched a training video based on a real-life case of damage to a maize cargo due to a failure to conduct basic loading checks. It depicts an incident where a bulk carrier loaded a full cargo of yellow maize in bulk; the previous cargo had been ...
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Hutchison Ports BEST terminal in Barcelona has the first container ship using LNG, theCMA CGM Scandola on the MEX 1 service between Asia and the Mediterranean. The vessel is 366m long, 51m wide and has a capacity of 14,800teu.
BEST is working together with the Port Authority of Barcelona on several ...
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United European Car Carriers (UECC) launched the first of three LNG-battery hybrid pure car and truck carriers PCTCs at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai on 12 April.
Glenn Edvardsen , chief executive of UECC – a joint subsidiary of NYK and Wallenius Lines - described the new vessels as “ushering in ...
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SEKO Logistics has opened regional distribution hubs in Baltimore and Charlotte, North Carolina on the US East Coast.
The new Baltimore operation offers over 160,000sq ft of warehouse space for clients in the medical, ecommerce and defence sectors and includes specialist inspection and acceptance, packaging and labelling, reverse logistics, and last ...
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Global maritime trade fell by up to 10% in the first eight months of 2020 with losses of up to $412 billion, according to Oxford research published on 14 April, which used algorithms and tracking data to follow 100,000 vessels.The Oxford team, led by Jasper Verschuur a graduate student in ...
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The Port of Boston said it would be ‘big ship ready’ in the autumn as three new low profile neo-panamax cranes began their journey from Shanghai, China, heading for the Conley Container Terminal. The cranes, along with a new berth and a deepened harbour, will allow Boston to handle ships ...
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KLM Cargo has partnered and its equipment supplier Trip & Co have designed a cargo seat bag to allow in-cabin freight to be transported safely and without risk to damage of interior fittings.
During the Covid-19 pandemic began the Dutch carrier resported to carrying medical relief goods and PPE material on ...
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The latest UK trade figures, which showed a £65bn fall in the value of British exports in February, make grim reading, says broker. ParcelHero. It says PM Boris Johnson’s claim that his deal will leave Britain ‘prosperous and dynamic and contented’ looks increasingly far-fetched.Head of consumer research, David Jinks described ...
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