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Hapag-Lloyd’s WSN service is back at Long Beach
Hapag-Lloyd’s WSN service, connecting the West Coast of North America with Australia and New Zealand, will be back at Long Beach, US on its Pacific Northwest rotation on a weekly basis. The first vessel to start the weekly calls at Long Beach will be MV CMA CGM DUTCH HARBOR V.…
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Maersk and SEED Ventures collaborate to improve agricultural exports from Pakistan
Karachi: Maersk Pakistan Private Limited (Maersk) and SEED Ventures have joined hands by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to launch Pakistan Agripreneurship Challenge (PAC). PAC is an Agri-value chain intervention challenge that aims to improve the quality of Pakistan’s agricultural produce and explore new global markets for Pakistan’s agriculture…
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Quadrise and MSC partner on trials of low carbon fuels
POC tests and subsequent operational trials will be conducted with bioMSAR and MSAR fuels on MSC-owned commercial container ships. Quadrise has entered a framework agreement with MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company’s 100% subsidiary, MSC Shipmanagement Limited of Cyprus, for the testing of lower-carbon fuels on one or more container vessels. As part…
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Xeneta container rates alert: long-term shipping rates finally peak, but now stand 112% up year-on-year
Oslo, Norway – Despite another slew of rises in long-term contracted ocean freight rates across key global trade corridors, month-on-month growth is slowing – and spot rates continue to weaken – suggesting prices may have peaked. However, according to the latest Xeneta Shipping Index (XSI®), which crowd-sources real-time data from…
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Visual Capitalist : Visualizing the World’s Largest Container Shipping Companies
Did you know that 80% of the global goods trade is transported over the sea? Given the scale of human consumption, this requires an enormous number of shipping containers, as well as ships to carry them. At an industry level, container shipping is dominated by several very large firms. This…
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Polish port of Gdynia : It is planned to handle additional five million tons of coal in the port of Riga
On July 26 of this year, the Polish Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk and his accompanying delegation of businesspeople, including the managers of the Gdynia Port Authority, paid a working visit to the Port of Riga. In the framework of the visit, the Polish delegation met with the management of…
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NYK and Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha Start Japan’s First 100% Biofuel Supply Trial for Ships
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (hereinafter, NYK) and NYK Group company Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha Corporation (hereinafter, Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha) have started test navigation using Neste Renewable Diesel (hereinafter, NesteRD) supplied by Itochu Enex Co. Ltd. (hereinafter, Itochu Enex) in tugboats operated by Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha. This is the first case in Japan of a…
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MSC sponsors the 6th edition of the Ele Festival in Adiaké, Ivory Coast.
MSC and MSC Foundation sponsor the 6th edition of the Ele Festival taking place 27-30 July in Adiaké, Ivory Coast. MSC is proud to sponsor the Ele festival for the 6th consecutive edition. Taking place in Adiaké, in the South-East of the Ivory Coast, and created in 2017, the festival…
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Port of Rotterdam :A talk with industry experts about the causes and solutions for container shipping
Disruption. A word you hear much too often. Once referred to start-ups that wanted to make life difficult for the established order with smart, digital solutions. Since the start of this century’s roaring twenties, it has mainly become synonymous with disruptions – some would even say chaos – in the…
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Port of Tanjung Pelepas to use AI to improve efficiency
The Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), a joint venture between APM Terminals (30%) and the MMC Group, has entered into an agreement to deploy Innovez One’s AI-powered Port Management Information System (PMIS) to improve efficiency and optimize its scheduling. Port information management systems provider Innovez One said it will…
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