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New Self-Unloading Vessel Begins Construction After Years of Planning Better Environmental Equipment to Protect Sensitive Area CANADA – To most people salt means only one thing, its use as a culinary essential, however to the icy provinces of the far north its use is paramount in keeping the roadways safe during the winter season across Eastern Canada. K+S Windsor Salt supplies every type of its product, even including the fashionable Himalayan pink salt, but has contracts to deliver de-icin...

First Carbon Neutral Ocean Going Container Ship Slated for 2023 Feeder Vessel to Launch Seven Years Ahead of Schedule DENMARK – WORLDWIDE – While many have said that a target of carbon neutrality by 2030 for shipping at large is an impossibility, that is not the view so it seems for the largest container line in the world as AP Moller Maersk announces its first such vessel will launch in 2023, seven years ahead of schedule. Maersk’s methanol feeder vessel will have a capacity of around ...

Large New Truck Order for European Road Haulage Outfit Fuel Efficiency, Safety and Driver Comfort Major Factors LITHUANIA – EUROPE – The expansion of the European Union over the past decade or so has led to a radical change in road haulage in the region. One of the countries which has benefited most from extra transport carriage throughout the EU is Lithuania and evidence of this was confirmed this week by the latest big order for HGVs. One of Lithuania’s leading hauliers is Girteka Log...

Airlines Coordinate Efforts to Disperse Vaccines Throughout Africa and Beyond Air Freight Carriers Form an Essential Supply Chain WORLDWIDE – AFRICA – Until the outbreak of Covid-19 very little was publicly known about the global efforts to eradicate disease. Now, as the work rate quickens,we learn about organisations such as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) which, alongside such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovati...

Charity Awards Celebrate Support for Seafarers in a Terrible Year Nominations Now Open SINGAPORE – UK – WORLDWIDE – In what has without doubt been the most challenging of years for the seafaring community, comes the call for those involved to propose individuals and organisations that have made significant contributions to improving the welfare of seafarers. Leading international maritime welfare charity The Mission to Seafarers has opened nominations for the annual Singapore Awards. At ...

River Thames Looking to Regain Lost Ground with New Shipping Services and Ambitious Plans London Docks Aiming for a Modern Look UK – It seems the River Thames is getting back towards past glories when it comes to the water borne carriage of freight. This week more news that tonnages are increasing, and the potential for future trade is growing. Admittedly a London docker of the past would not recognise the giant container cranes and straddle carriers which move the intermodal tonnages so eff...

Guide to freight transportation and logistics. Freight shipping and cargo logistics via all modes of transport including forwarding, cargo, freight, trucking, air freight, cargo shipping, express freight, freight forwarders, intermodal, container companies, third party logistics providers, maritime, moving, storage, railroads, trucking, customs house brokers, steamship companies, transportation brokers, freight clearinghouses, leasing and capital equipment financing, shipment tracking, shipment...

From Bunkering to Logistics Awards the Weekly Look at Industry News You May Have Missed A Five Minute Read to Take You Around the Globe UK – The UK P&I Club has released its latest ‘Inside Ship’ video, this one exploring the dangers of engine room fires and specifically focusing on shielding of hot surfaces in the engine room. Engine room fires account for something like 50% of such incidents aboard merchant ships and the results generally leave the vessel dead in the water. The Club has...

Another Shipping Company Shows the Way to Longevity 150 Year Anniversary for Danish Tanker Group DENMARK – WORLDWIDE – No business can survive for a century and a half unless it evolves as time passes and today the dry cargo and product tanker group NORDEN celebrates its 150th birthday, a long way from the small Danish steamship owner that started life all those years ago. Founded in 1871 the company now operates from 11 offices across 6 continents as an asset light business foundation spl...

Guide to freight transportation and logistics. Freight shipping and cargo logistics via all modes of transport including forwarding, cargo, freight, trucking, air freight, cargo shipping, express freight, freight forwarders, intermodal, container companies, third party logistics providers, maritime, moving, storage, railroads, trucking, customs house brokers, steamship companies, transportation brokers, freight clearinghouses, leasing and capital equipment financing, shipment tracking, shipment...