We regret to inform that we feel obliged to cancel the ESPO Conference 2020, which was due to take place in one month in Oslo. We came to this tough decision in view of the current situation of the spread of Covid-19 among Europe and the different travel bans that will probably still be in place in May, in Norway as well as in many other EU Member States.

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) is pleased to announce that it has signed the United Nations Global Compact (the "UNGC"), an initiative proposed by the United Nations, and has been registered as a participating company on April 20, 2020. We have also joined Global Compact Network Japan, which is UNGC's local network in Japan.

Freight association believes extension of Brexit transition period still seems likely

As the stalled negotiations between the UK and EU started again this week, the head of the British International Freight Association has described the UK government's insistence that it will not ask to extend the 11-month transition period as a very risky move.

During the current exceptional circumstances, the transport capacity of Viking Line is being utilised for freight traffic. The traffic has been heavy and the demand for sea transports has grown even further since Easter.

The St Kitts and Nevis International Ship Registry (SKANReg) is taking a pragmatic approach to helping shipowners during the Coronavirus pandemic with requests for assistance with operational activities being considered due to worldwide restrictions.

CHIREY Projects, XLProjects member in China, recently transported a number of Railcars from Chinese factory to final users. Products from Railcar industry was known very well by CHIREY Projects, since CHIREY Projects was involved since company established 20 years ago. They had handled all kinds of Railcars products, and able to provide full set services including full supervision services, inland transport, customs clearance, design hoisting tools, ocean shipping, survey services, and so on. One stop of end to end services expert.

Entis Partners with Kaufland: Insect Food Products Reach a New Market of 60 Million People

Entis, the fastest growing insect food brand in the Nordics will expand their distribution into Poland, Czechia, Croatia and Bulgaria through Kaufland, one of the biggest hypermarket chains in Germany. Entis products now being available to over 60 million new consumers is a significant step towards a more sustainable protein production. The company continues to speed up their growth and international expansion with the support of venture capital firm Maki.vc.

Our planet is facing its greatest challenge, and it’s not coronavirus. Asbjørn Halsebakke, Product Manager, Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch, ponders how greater political action could help the maritime industry meet its most ambitious environmental goals.

The move is part of AASTS’ continuous efforts to invest in digital technologies aiming to enhance its added value for students throughout their maritime education

The number of COVID-19 infection cases are growing at an alarming rate. What if something revolutionary could be done? That’s how UVIRESO came to be, an ultraviolet radiation respirator born through a 48-hour hack-a-thon during Hack-the-Crisis LT.

The ultra-violet light technology used to kill the invasive species found in ships’ ballast water tanks can be used to protect seafarers, health workers and first-responders from picking up the coronavirus from surfaces.

C-Job Naval Architects has published new research which shows time-to-market of superyachts can be reduced by up to four-and-a-half months.

The global independent ship design and engineering company believes it can achieve this via a new way of engineering superyachts through what they call the 'Dynamic Platform'. This allows owners to still fully customize their vessel, while reducing engineering time.

Kvaerner ASA has awarded Incus-owned Scana Offshore AS a contract for the supply of mooring equipment to Hywind Tampen, Equinor's new floating wind farm. The contract is Scana Offshore's first hardware contract in the floating wind power market.

• The trade fair was scheduled to take place on June 16-18, 2020.
• Cancellation due to the Covid-19 pandemic

The members of the logistics network BVL and the readers of the trade paper LOGISTIK HEUTE once again named the Port of Hamburg as the “Best Logistics Brand of 2020” in the category of seaports. The port was previously awarded the title in 2017. The winners chosen by the experts and readers were announced yesterday.