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.

To provide European consumers with reliable delivery at an affordable price from North America, GEODIS is launching a new, guaranteed 4-to-6-day B2C delivery service from the United States to 27 European countries for companies seeking to develop their international online sales.

WOC’s Geographic Diversity Continues to Grow with Membership of NSC, Leading Shipping Company from Russia

Northern Shipping Company (NSC), a 150-year-old company, strengthened its commitment to responsible and sustainable operations by joining the World Ocean Council (WOC) – the Global Blue Economy Business Organization – as the first WOC Member from Russia.

2 September 2020 – (LONDON) From today, the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) is including a remote vessel inspection option as a temporary tool within its Offshore Vessel Inspection Database (OVID), the inspection protocol for offshore vessels. The option to use remote inspections within OCIMF’s Ship Inspection Report (SIRE) programme was successfully rolled-out in August 2020, following a robust management of change process.

Mack Brooks Exhibitions has today announced the postponement of SIFER, which was scheduled to take place at the Lille Grand Palais Exhibition Centre, Lille, France from 30 March to 1 April 2021. The new dates for the next SIFER, 12th International Exhibition of Railway Technology, are 26 - 28 October 2021. This decision was taken following a series of exhibition postponements and a knock-on effect on the 2021 rail exhibition calendar, in light of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis globally. Subsequently, extensive conversations with exhibitors and partners over recent weeks and months have shown that there is a clear preference of participants to postpone the show from March to October next year. SIFER will continue to occupy the three halls of the Lille Grand Palais exhibition centre.

With the first call of the “HMM HAMBURG”, another ship of the so-called “Megamax-24 class” headed for the port of Hamburg last night. The "HMM HAMBURG" is one of 12 new container ships of the South Korean liner shipping company HMM (formerly Hyundai Merchant Marine) that are being delivered since April. The mega-carrier is expected to berth at HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai until September 3rd, 2020.

iSpec creator Remy InfoSource and Trent Port Services have signed a partnership agreement to offer port operators a turnkey procurement solution that reduces costs and frees up in-house resources for core operations

Trans-Trading coordinated two port handlings in Hamburg  within two days on one Vessel. The vessel was the BBC PIA

The scope of work for both shipments were port handling, export customs clearance, and coordination between terminal and vessel/carrier