On 11th September 2020, Ocean Harvesting Technologies, a Swedish pre-commercial renewable energy company striving to be a market leader in wave energy technology, announced a €300 000 investment from Lundin Foundation. The investment matches a €300 000 grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to provide Ocean Harvesting Technologies with the required funding to prototype the next development phase of the company’s novel InfinityWEC technology.

After 88 years the historic four-masted barque PEKING returned to its home port. Monday morning, the former sailing cargo ship left the shipyard “Peters Werft”, where it was successfully restored on behalf of the Hamburg Maritime Foundation (Stiftung Hamburg Maritim). At her interim berth at Bremerkai, the PEKING will be converted into the main attraction of the future German Port Museum by the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation (Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg).

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF), the voluntary association of oil companies, has today announced that it has overhauled its committee structure in order to focus its resources on identifying and mitigating issues of highest-risk to its members and to the marine industry as determined by its re-energised strategy.

Key industry media to host a programme of web events

Following the cancellation of the Posidonia Exhibition this October, the organisers are bringing together leading maritime media and organisations during what would have been Posidonia exhibition week for a series of web conferences and forums under the banner "It’s time to talk". At this critical time, it is an initiative that creates an opportunity for the maritime community to debate the crucial issues and the many challenges it is facing.

Global Freight Management also arranged a car import from Sharjah International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. This very special “super” car was handled with all the needed care and security for their customer, this was also for their German customer. They were responsible for unloading the car from the special airline, car ULD plate, and customs clearance. They arranged everything on time and with a smooth delivery, which made their customer very happy! Everything was supervised by Global Freight Management's Managing Director Mr. Fabian van Donk. The model of the car was a gray McLaren 675LT with dimensions of 455 cm X 210 cm X 119 cm and totla weight of 1,350 kg. The car value was € 190.000

First global Logistics Egypt continues its support to the Oil &Gas sector for their movements across the world. This time from Egypt to the UAE, specifically to Abu Dhabi where the client’s premises were located. The job was awarded to them after proposing a cost effective transport solution from door shipper address in Fayoum City using Damietta port as the port of loading with 350 kms distance between the two points (to Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi) the shipment was loaded as one lot in 11x40’FR.

Palanga Airport is preparing for an important reconstruction in the autumn of 2021, as the runway of the airport will be reconstructed and other works will include renewal of the taxiway and other parts of the apron. The search for a contractor for these works will be announced this week and the contract will be signed with a selected partner in the second quarter of 2021. Reconstruction works are scheduled to start in September next year, during which time the airport will be suspended for the shortest necessary period - 45 days.

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says that recent announcements by some container shipping lines that they will discontinue low sulphur fuel surcharges will be welcome news for its members.

Hendrik Veder Group boosts sustainability with its process approach

HendrikVeder Group has announced that it will produce, certify and supply heavy hoisting equipment for a project undertaken by Boskalis in India. The process approach from Hendrik Veder Group enables companies to use their lifting and hoisting equipment more efficiently, so they operate more sustainably.

The global trade fair business is slowly coming back to life. SMM 2021 is getting ready for its rescheduled date in February. The maritime industry is looking ahead to the gathering with great anticipation. The detailed concept developed by the organisers of SMM ensures a great trade fair experience with utmost safety for exhibitors and visitors.

four metre-long drone has recently flown a 3D-printed spare part for the Troll A platform’s lifeboat system from Equinor’s Mongstad base to the offshore installation 80km away. The trial project, believed to be the first of its kind involving freight taken to an offshore platform, took the drone about one hour as it flew at a height of just over 1,500m. The part had been redesigned, modelled and printed because it is no longer manufactured and is hard to obtain. The drone, a Camcopter s-100 unit, has been thoroughly tested in a range of applications, and has clocked up around 70,000 flying hours in defence and coastguard services. Weighing more than 100kg, it can carry up to 50kg of cargo at speeds of more than 150km/h.

• CEVA will standardize and simplify global operational processes with integrated logistics execution platform CargoWise
• This major investment will accelerate companywide digitalization as part of CEVA Logistics’ IMPACT 2020 plan.

INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund (“the Fund”), the largest private equity investment fund in the Baltic region, has completed the acquisition of a stake in MBL Group (“MBL” or “the Company”), a leading European manufacturer of medical mobility devices, headquartered in Denmark.

Already at the beginning of October, the second largest city in Norway - Bergen - will be accessible by a direct flight from Vilnius. Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline that continues to develop routes in Lithuania, will operate passenger flights twice a week.

Multitrade Spain, in a joint cooperation with Trans Pacific Projects Pty. Ltd. in Brisbane, Australia, have recently delivered 2 passenger boarding bridges (PBB’s) at Brisbane’s New International Cruise Ship Terminal. The PBB’s were produced in Spain to the highest standards and requirements of the receiver.