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Four fires aboard container ships, two in port and another two at sea within the last four months, has prompted the TT Club to reiterate its longstanding message for shippers and those facilitating the supply chain to be more diligent over how their cargoes are classified, packaged, packed, declared and handled.The list of explosions and fires extends from Northern Juvenile in the South China Sea in May, to Maersk Frankfurt ...
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Port Houston’s container volume slipped a 5 percent in July compared to the same month last year, handling 325,277 TEUs, as the port dealt with both Hurricane Beryl and a global system outage that briefly impacted operation.Container volume is still up 10 percent year-to-date, reaching ...
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The Canopée, the world's first hybrid propulsion commercial cargo vessel, made its inaugural U.S. visit to Port Canaveral Sept. 4.The specially designed roll on-roll off, or Ro-Ro delivered the European Service Module (ESM-3) module, which will fly on the NASA SLS Artemis-III mission to the ...
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MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Monday that will provide an independent, competitive, and complete network for east/west trades. MSC’s future standalone network will replace the current 2M VSA agreement that MSC has with Maersk.
As MSC assumes full operational control of its network, it ...
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Logistics giant DHL on Sept. 3 released the seventh edition of the DHL Logistics Trend Radar, a biennial report that highlights the foremost social, business and technological trends impacting the industry.Since its inception in 2012, the report provides an in-depth analysis of logistics trends, their ...
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CSX said Aug. 30 that it has secured new five-year tentative collective bargaining agreements with International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers (IBB) and the Transportation Communications Union (TCU).The tentative agreements, which are pending ratification by the unions’ membership at CSX, ...
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The Alette Maersk, Danish shipping line A.P. Moller - Maersk’s new methanol-enabled containership, arrived Aug. 27 at Pier 400 in Los Angeles on its maiden voyage this August.Pier 400 – one of eight APM Terminals locations globally taking part in a ground-breaking electrification pilot – ...
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Höegh Autoliners has launched its first Aurora class vessel, the largest and most environmentally friendly pure car truck carrier, or PCTC, ever built,
Three years since launching the design, the Höegh Aurora, was delivered at a naming ceremony at China Merchants Heavy Industry’s yard in ...
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Galveston Wharves has started more than US$90 million in phased construction work to improve and expand its West Port Cargo Complex and grow its cargo business.Funded by port revenues and a US$36 million Texas government grant, the work will add 30 acres of cargo-handling area ...
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Drewry, the maritime research consultancy, said its Global Container Port Throughput Index increased 3.3 percent month over month from May to June, improving 5.5 percent year over year to 118.5 points.The rolling 12-month average growth rate for global port handling also rose to 4.4 percent ...
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