Antwerp receives its first Silk Road train

“We do not sell these products ourselves; it is the demonstrators themselves that decide who they partner up with,” the port said in the statement to WorldCargo News.

This decision is in response to the need to adapt to a new normality, driven by the necessity to circumnavigate Africa.

The Ocean Alliance with its 40 services across the main east-west network would dominate in all trade lanes apart from the transatlantic.

Chief Executive Officers of COSCO, CMA CGM, Evergreen, and OOCL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to extend the OCEAN Alliance until 2032.

As demand in Europe for cross-border transportation fell in 2023, due to the recessionary effects of high energy prices and the Ukraine war, rail-road combined transport also fell, and the situation was aggravated by rail network problems, states Hupac

Tuesday (13 February) saw disgruntled farmers use their tractors to blockade roads around Europe’s second largest container port, Antwerp, severely disrupting traffic flows into the port and affecting overall cargo-handling operations.