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GEODIS said it has signed a cooperation agreement with DOLFINES to develop and market a port-based version of a high-capacity lifting device dedicated to floating offshore wind projects.
Through its subsidiary Sealogis, GEODIS will support DOLFINES – an engineering company specializing in energy industry solutions – in adapting and industrialization of a “Mobile XXL” version of the Offshore Heavy Maintenance Enabler, or OHME, lifting system. This solution will be capable of ...
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Retail sales in March snapped a two-month series of declines, but those gains were moderate, as consumers continued to anguish over rising tariffs, according to the CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor, the National Retail Federation said April 14.
The improved spending “came before the president’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff ...
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TT Club, the international freight transport insurer, is raising awareness the increasing prevalence of credit fraud over the last 12 months.
Fraudulent strategies can be extremely lucrative for international criminals and the global supply chain is typically low-risk due to the remote nature of the actual ...
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The Port of Long Beach has been the busiest port in the U.S. the last six months, as imports surged ahead of anticipated tariffs.
Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 817,457 twenty-foot equivalent units last month, or TEUs, up 25 percent from March 2024. Imports grew 25.8 ...
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C.H. Robinson has performed more than 3 million shipping tasks with its fleet of generative artificial intelligence agents, proprietary tech tools the global logistics provider has built to automate steps across the lifecycle of a shipment and reduce customers’ speed-to-market from hours to seconds.
“That’s 3 ...
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Countries in the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization struck a deal April 11 in London on a global fuel emission standard for the maritime sector that will wield a stick against violators and a carrot for vessels burning cleaner fuels, Reuters reported.
A majority of countries ...
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A Senate bill was reintroduced April 10 that would establish a “unified, federal response” to the rampant spread of cargo theft by criminals who often operate across state and international borders.
The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, reintroduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) ...
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The Port of Corpus Christi moved a record 51.3 million tons of commodities through the ship channel in the first quarter, a 5 percent increase over the year earlier, and driven primarily by increases in crude oil and liquefied natural gas, or LNG, shipments.
The result ...
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South Carolina Ports completed the US$55 million expansion project at Inland Port Greer on March 26, strengthening the port’s statewide intermodal capabilities and connectivity from the Port of Charleston to inland markets.
Upgrades include an expanded container yard to increase cargo capacity by 50 percent, 9,000 ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., or GLS, opened its 67th navigation season on March 25.
GLS joined partner the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp., or SLSMC, at a ceremony for the opening of the binational waterway, which took ...
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