The recommendation by the European Commission to renew the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) for a four-year period from April 2020 has been slammed by the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF), the voice of businesses importing and exporting goods around the world. James Hookham, Secretary General of GSF said: “We are disappointed… Read more »
FTA Northern Ireland: Logistics industry concerns over sulphur surcharge for Irish Sea shipping routes
FTA Northern Ireland is concerned that businesses shipping goods via the Irish Sea are set to be faced with additional surcharges from shipping lines, which will make the cost of doing business with GB and Europe more expensive for Northern Irish businesses. The additional transport costs – estimated by FTA… Read more »
Maersk to pilot a battery system to improve power production
A containerized 600 kWh marine battery system will be installed in a trial on board the Maersk Cape Town in December 2019 to improve vessel performance and reliability while reducing CO2 emissions. “This trial will provide a greater understanding of energy storage that will support Maersk in moving towards further… Read more »
Metal exporting goes up 77% in last 3 years
Sackers have seen impressive growth of 77% in international trade since 2016, that’s averaging 21% year on year. Sackers are experts in processing scrap metal and sorting it into purer groups within ferrous and non-ferrous categories. The goods are sold for recycling to manufacturers. Their international sales are made up… Read more »
Samskip to connect Portugal and the UK direct
Samskip has launched a new, direct weekly service connecting Portugal and the UK, introducing its own vessel to sustain links between Tilbury, Lisbon and Leixões and its multimodal hub port of Rotterdam. The Netherlands-based group introduced a 1,000TEU container ship on charter from November 1. It will sustain a UK-Portugal… Read more »
Britcon completes £1.6M contract for shipping firm
Britcon (UK) Ltd has successfully completed and handed over a new £1.6 million warehouse and office facility for Viking Shipping Services Ltd at its HQ site in Selby, Yorkshire. The civil engineering and building specialist completed the design and build contract on budget and within a tight timeframe of just… Read more »
Ocean Network Express joins TradeLens blockchain-enabled digital shipping platform
Ocean Network Express (ONE), together with Hapag-Lloyd, joins TradeLens, the blockchain-enabled digital shipping platform jointly developed by A.P. Moller – Maersk and IBM, to benefit shippers and drive greater innovation. CMA CGM and MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company also recently announced joining TradeLens. ONE is constantly strengthening and expanding its coverage… Read more »
Hyundai Merchant Marine to join THE Alliance
Members of THE Alliance, Ocean Network Express (ONE), Hapag-Lloyd, and Yang Ming announced a fourth member, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), a South Korean container liner shipping company to join THE Alliance as a full member. Through this, the members of THE Alliance have also decided to establish a new cooperation… Read more »
Maersk introduces Maersk Spot, a new fully online product that simplifies the buying process for customers
Shipping a container has been a complex process for many years. Manual and inefficient, the buying and booking process has been often full of surprises. With the launch of Maersk Spot, Maersk aims to introduce a truly online product that can break the cycle of overbookings and offer a much… Read more »
Is digitisation the key to preventing cross-border landed costs from disrupting international ecommerce?
In a time of continued economic and political uncertainty – where threats against global trade either quickly materialise or fizzle out as part of hardline foreign policy negotiations – companies involved in international trade must now contend with an unprecedented amount of uncertainty and risk as the ‘new normal’. However, Johannes… Read more »
