Coffee gets a smooth ride on the rails

A fire on the Silver Sun at a dry dock in Antwerp trapped 25 people due to heavy smoke but was quickly controlled, prompting a medical emergency plan.

The relative good behaviour will be related to the EUR 1,000 per person fine that Antwerp-Bruges and North Sea Port have secured before court earlier this week.

Rotterdam and Antwerp-Bruges, which are Europe’s two largest container ports, have both suffered declines in their throughputs for the first nine months of 2023. Overall traffic at both ports was also down on the same period of 2022.

The Netherlands and Colombia are preparing a treaty to intensify bilateral cooperation in the fight against drugs trafficking.

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG has mandated the Management Board to draw up and prepare the sale of up to 100% of DB Schenker AG

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola globally, is switching to intermodal from trunk road haul in the UK, in a contract with Maritime Transport, with GB Railfreight as rail haulier