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Gary G Burrows

HMM takes delivery of first 16,000 TEU containership HMM Nuri

HMM announced on March 22 that HMM Nuri, the first of eight 16,000 TEU-class newbuild containerships, starts its first voyage from the port of Busan in Korea. HMM’s 16,000 TEU container vessels have been built at the Ulsan shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and are scheduled to be delivered from this March throughout the second quarter of 2021. HMM Nuri will be deployed on the Far East Europe ... [+]

Maersk introduces on rail container tracking for North America region

On March 22, Maersk introduced container tracking on rail services. The service allows shippers to track when the container is loaded/unloaded from rail i.e start and end of the journey. This has been enriched to show the last station that the container departed from and also when the container arrives ... [+]

Amazon Air commences gateway operation at Toledo Express Airport

The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority is proud to welcome a new Amazon Air gateway at Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport (TOL). Amazon Air’s Toledo Gateway is anticipated to create more than 50 new jobs and will service daily flights, supporting fast, free shipping for Amazon customers in Ohio and ... [+]

CP, KCS agree to combine

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited and Kansas City Southern announced on March 21 that they have entered into a merger agreement, under which CP has agreed to acquire KCS in a stock and cash transaction representing an enterprise value of approximately USD$29 billion. Following final approval from the Surface Transportation Board, ... [+]

New February Record is Set at Port of Virginia

The Port of Virginia® in February set a new record for monthly TEU volume having handled nearly 249,000 TEUs and in doing so set a new record for February cargo volume. February’s record TEU volume was more than 40,000 TEUs ahead of Feb. 2020 and was driven by heavy ... [+]

Coronavirus, Brexit impact the arrival of foreign companies to the Netherlands in 2020

In 2020, the Netherlands managed to attract significantly fewer foreign companies than in previous years. This is evident from the annual results of Invest in Holland and the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) over 2020. Last year, 305 foreign companies, including Beyond Meat, Chargebee and Sekisui Polymatech, chose to set ... [+]

Emirates SkyCargo and DCAA sign MoU for transport of Dangerous Goods

Emirates SkyCargo and the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority have signed an MoU to streamline processes for the transportation of Dangerous Goods (DGs). The MoU was signed by Mohammed Abdulla Lengawi, Executive Director, Aviation Security and Accidents Investigation Sector, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Budoor Al Maazmi, Emirates Cargo Government Business ... [+]

GPA Program provides work-based training

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Hapag-Lloyd acquires Africa specialist NileDutch

Hapag-Lloyd and NileDutch have signed a sale and purchase agreement where Hapag-Lloyd acquires all shares of the Dutch container shipping company Nile Dutch Investments B.V. (NileDutch). With over 40 years of expertise, NileDutch is one the leading providers of container services from and to West Africa. The company is present ... [+]

PSA & Duisport invest in multimodal logistics

PSA Northeast Asia Supply Chain Pte Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of global ports group PSA International, has inked an agreement with the German multimodal logistics company Duisburger Hafen AG, trimodal logistics hub and Europe's largest hinterland hub, to form a joint venture company Multimodal Investments Pte Ltd (MIPL) headquartered in ... [+]

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