The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) solution to two of France’s leading ports, Calais and Boulogne. Calais is the leading port in France for passenger traffic and the second largest port in Europe for RoRo vessel traffic, while Boulogne-sur-Mer is the leading fishing vessel port in France. The Wärtsilä VTS will effectively manage vessel traffic in these busy harbours to deliver greater operational efficiency and safety. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in October 2019 by Région Hauts-de-France, the government entity responsible for this tender.

The Port of Aarhus is the first in Denmark to make a decision to grant a discount to green ships.

The largest container ship to ever dock in Florida has arrived at PortMaimi. The 1,199-foot long, 167-foot wide, 13,344-TEU CMA CGM Magellan arrived on December 12.

In early December, a Danish record left Danish Crown in Horsens and drove along the E45 motorway to the Port of Aarhus, where it was loaded onto a container ship. Thus, almost one month before the end of the year, the Port of Aarhus has broken its own record, which was set last year: 540,363 containers (TEUs), the equivalent of one container per minute, 365 days of the year.

A planespotting site having no analogues in the country has been officially opened in the territory of Vilnius Airport. From now on, every Vilnius resident or guest of the capital aspiring to look at aircrafts will be able to do this safely and free of charge: the site will be open to everyone on a 24/7 basis, whereas security in it will be ensured by Vilnius Airport and police officers.

Flow Water Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Hadfield says there are lessons to be drawn from the haulage industry where companies taking an early environmental lead become market leaders

The Synergy Group's commitment to ship management excellence was recognised at the prestigious 2019 Lloyd's List Europe Awards hosted at the Hilton Park Lane hotel in London last night.

Building on its role as the officially recognised representative of road transport employers’ at the European Union level, IRU assumed today the chairmanship of EU’s road transport SSD Committee and nominated Ms Florence Berthelot, General Delegate of the French National Federation of Road Transport (FNTR), as chair.

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a strategic development agreement with Chinese state-owned shipbuilder CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company Limited Huangpu Wenchong. The five year agreement is aimed at the joint development of a hybrid powered dredger, but could possibly extend to other hybrid vessels as well. The agreement was signed on December 3 at the Marintec conference and exhibition in Shanghai.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held high level military meetings in Sochi last week, noting that as part of the state defense order this year, the Navy will receive more than 480 different types of new equipment.

Despite the support strike in Finland, passenger load factor growth remained strong

The Waste Cleaner 66 – billed as the world's most powerful all-electric boat designed for cleaning up pollution in inland waterways and harbours – will be unveiled by EFINOR's Sea Cleaner subsidiary at the International Nautic Boat Show in Paris-Porte de Versailles 7 to 15 December.

After China, in 2018 the port and trading hub Singapore was the Port of Hamburg's second strongest partner country for seaborne container handling. The number of containers transported between the two ports reached 380,000 TEU. A total of 4.3 million tons of seaborne cargo were transported between Hamburg and Singapore in 2018. In the first nine months of 2019, container transport between Hamburg and Singapore rose to 305,000 TEU, a 4.1 percent advance on the same period of 2018.

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· 14,000 wreaths flown to US military cemetery in Luxembourg

· Second consecutive year that CEVA has supported Wreaths Across America