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MPVs heading for brighter future

In-Depth01 Aug 2018

Prospects appear good for project carriers that can provide ‘premium’ services

Earlier this year, Chile’s Port of Corral, in which SAAM Group and Inversiones Portuarias each have a 50% stake, took delivery of two new barges to transport wood chips, representing an investment of around US$4M.

Euroports boost for Tarragona

In-Depth01 Aug 2018

Euroports has increased its paper and pulp storage capacity in the Port of Tarragona in Spain by 25%, bringing its total pulp and paper storage capacity at this terminal to 30,000 m2.

Handling the bounty of the forests

In-Depth01 Aug 2018

New products and sales are being reported by suppliers for lumber and pulp handling

Peel Ports slams Felixstowe and the "southern ports imports gateway supply chain model"

Peel Ports slams Felixstowe and the "southern ports imports gateway supply chain model"

News17 Oct 2018

Peel Ports has upped the stakes in its bid to get east-west carriers to call at Liverpool2

Konecranes wins Khalifa automated stacking crane deal

Konecranes wins Khalifa automated stacking crane deal

News15 Oct 2018

Konecranes has booked its second big port automation deal in the Abu Dhabi port

Double stacking intermodal first in Kenya

Double stacking intermodal first in Kenya

News14 Oct 2018

Kenya is the first country in Africa to introduce double stack container rail services. K...

CLS sorts out problematic shipment to Houston

News23 Oct 2018

CLS (Caribbean Logistics Solutions) stepped into save a project cargo shipment, after intended discharge at the Port ...

New Chairman for Interferry; Kurt Nagle to step down from AAPA; new Commissioner for Oakland

News23 Oct 2018

Interferry, the trade association representing the worldwide ferry industry, has named a new Chairman and Board membe...

Shift2Rail awards 19 grants following its 2018 Call for Proposals

News22 Oct 2018

19 projects worth €152.6M will be funded under the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking 2018 Call for Proposals for Research ...

Coup for Marseille-Fos with Chinese industrial investment

News22 Oct 2018

What is touted as the largest Chinese industrial investment for a new factory in France has taken another major step ...

Samskip boosts intermodal rail over Amsterdam

News22 Oct 2018

Samskip has launched direct intermodal train services between Melzo and Amsterdam

Saving fuel costs with accurate berth arrival times

News22 Oct 2018

A joint study by the Port of Rotterdam Authority (HbR) and leading Dutch research institute TNO has found that if sea...

E2open to acquire INTTRA

News22 Oct 2018

E2open, a provider of cloud-based, on-demand software for supply chains, has announced the acquisition of INTTRA, the...

COSCO to trial Liverpool with feeder call

News16 Oct 2018

The Port of Liverpool has announced it will receive a vessel call from COSCO on Wednesday, 17th October

Pressure on Djibouti intensifies

News14 Oct 2018

The High Court of England and Wales has extended the restraining order against Port de Djibouti it issued in August

Dover attacks deep sea port failures

News13 Oct 2018

With reports that even a post-Brexit two-minute delay to every truck at Dover could lead to 17-mile tailbacks, the po...

Caribbean Feeder Services changes hands

News13 Oct 2018

German shipping company Harren & Partner has sold common feeder operator Caribbean Feeder Services, Inc to Spain’s Pé...

SOGET appoints new Board; new appointments at Metro Ports and Port of Södertälje

News13 Oct 2018

CEVA Logistics has a new CFO, Serge Corbel. Damen Shipyards is aiming to build bigger ro-ro and ro-pax vessels throug...

Insights

Dutch sea ports

Insights04 May 2017by Paul Avery

Leading Dutch cargo survey firms have been issued with an ultimatum by trade union FNV Havens.

Cargo surveyors’ ultimatum in Dutch sea ports

Insights05 Apr 2017by Vincent Champion

Leading Dutch cargo survey firms have been issued with an ultimatum by trade union FNV Havens.

Double stacking intermodal first in Kenya

News14 Oct 2018

Kenya is the first country in Africa to introduce double stack container rail ...

Konecranes wins Khalifa automated stacking crane deal

News15 Oct 2018

Konecranes has booked its second big port automation deal in the Abu Dhabi port

Universal Cargo System – an alternative to constantly bigger ship sizes and hugely expensive investments in ports

News09 Oct 2018

FREBS Marine International Ltd believes that its "Universal Cargo System" ...

MCI takes 78% of Hapag-Lloyd reefer order

News10 Oct 2018

Maersk Container Industry (MCI) will supply 8,600 of the 11,100 new reefer ...

Peel Ports slams Felixstowe and the "southern ports imports gateway supply chain model"

News17 Oct 2018

Peel Ports has upped the stakes in its bid to get east-west carriers to call at ...

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Produced by The TT Club and UK P&I Club , this publication is a practical guide to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) code rules for the carriage of packaged dangerous goods by sea.

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Risk Focus: Cyber - Considering threats in the maritime supply chain

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Evaluation Guide: Selecting An Intermodal Management Solution

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