Ocean Network Express (ONE) is pleased to announce that the company has entered into a partnership with Rutgers Business School (RBS) in June 2021. Being the first of its kind in ONE’s global partner network, this partnership will enable ONE to gain direct outreach to RBS’ academic resources while striving… Read more »
P&O Ferries’ second ship on Zeebrugge to Hull route arrives in UK for first time as capacity is doubled to meet growing demand
THIS picture shows the newly introduced second ship on P&O Ferries’ Zeebrugge-Hull route arriving today at the Humber port for the first time. The integrated ferry and logistics business has added MV Freya to its schedule on the North Sea Lo-Lo route in response to rapidly growing demand from British… Read more »
Xeneta container rates alert: grim economic outlook spurs slight fall in long-term ocean freight rates
Long-term contracted ocean freights fell for the second consecutive month, and are now 1.3% down year-on-year, as the ramifications of Coronavirus continue to shake the foundations of the global economy. According to the latest XSI® Public Indices report from Oslo-based Xeneta, rates fell by 1.8% in June, following on from… Read more »
BG Freight Line introduces tri-weekly Dublin-Liverpool service to meet growing demand in the Irish Sea
BG Freight Line has taken a positive step by adding an additional weekly service call to meet the growing demands of container traffic between Liverpool and the Irish Sea hub. The newly announced service will call between Liverpool and Dublin on a tri-weekly basis, ensuring a regular facility to the… Read more »
DP World Southampton welcomes giant banana boat
Shipping company Maersk has changed its UK call on the ECUBEX South America reefer service (known as the Banana Boat) to Southampton’s DP World terminal. The move to DP World Southampton ensures that speed to market and improved product shelf life is maintained for one of the UK’s biggest banana… Read more »
EU Block Exemption Regulation renewal ignores views of shippers, says GSF
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 »
