Maersk Logistics, part of the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group, has announced the global launch of a carbon footprint reduction service. The new offering — SupplyChain CarbonCheck — is a consulting service aimed at supporting companies in reducing carbon emissions from their supply chains, according to a release. Source:The HINDU
Police in Mexico have seized about 11 tonnes of cocaine from a Hong Kong-flagged ship, the Esmeralda, which arrived in the port of Manzanillo, Mexican authorities said yesterday. It was one of the largest amounts of cocaine seized in the country, and the second major haul of drugs in a month, the attorney-general's office said. Police found the narcotics...
House and Senate negotiators on the fiscal 2008 Defense appropriations bill have agreed to significantly boost the Navy's shipbuilding accounts while trimming money from the Army's Future Combat Systems. The increase to at least three major Navy ship programs marks a victory for House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha, D-Pa., who has ...
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (KSE:042660), the world's third-largest shipbuilder, said Thursday it has recently secured deals valued at US$900 million to build four liquefied natural gas carriers. With the latest contracts, the shipbuilder has won $17.1 billion worth of orders this year to build 122 vessels, exceeding its 2007 target of $1...
Maersk Logistics, part of the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group, announced the global launch of a new carbon footprint reduction service. The new offering – the SupplyChain CarbonCheck™ - is a consulting service aimed at supporting companies in reducing carbon emissions from their supply chains. The service is the first of its kind developed by a logistics provider...
Holland Maas Shipping (HMS) and Evergreen start their own feeder service to Russia. The service BAL1-Service will connect the Northern German ports of Bremerhaven and Hamburg with Sint-Petersburg. The first sailing from Bremerhaven was offered with the 925 teu Tongan. This is a new container ship which HMS charters from the german owner Ernst Komrowski. A...
A subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has started commercial operations at the Tartous International Container Terminal, the first specialized container terminal in the Port of Tartous in Syria. Tartous International Container Terminal jsc (TICT) took over operations of the Tartous terminal on 28 October 2007, and servi...
On October, 23 of the current year DP World Antwerp, Conti Lines and Rickmers-Linie decided to enter into a joint venture agreement. The new company will be called DP World Breakbulk NV, reports the press-service of Rickmers-Linie. The joint venture company will operate a common user general cargo terminal at the Churchilldock in the Port of Antwerp. ...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi