On 17 June the Port of Hamburg was rated Best Global Seaport by readers of the Asia Cargo News trade magazine. After two awards as Best Seaport – Europe in 2015 and 2016, as well as the accolade Best Global Seaport 2018, this is the fourth honour for the Port of Hamburg.

The UAE Shipping Association (UAESA) was founded 12 years ago. But Tahir Lakhani, UAESA Vice-Chairman, indicates that in that time the UAE has been much more conducive to foreign companies than domestic ones, owing to a lack of options for ship finance.

In March, a three-day meeting of maritime industry leaders, government officials, scientists and scholars was held in Singapore to explore the intersections and impacts of maritime heritage. The key message from this first World Congress on Maritime Heritage is a simple one: the oceans are in trouble, and if the oceans are in trouble, so too is the earth. We breathe oxygen produced by the sea and the sea mitigates the impact of inadequately controlled CO2 emissions. This is a water planet, with two-thirds of the earth covered by it. The Congress, organized by the Consortium for International Maritime Heritage (CIMH) and held at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, examined the fundamental importance of the oceans to every facet of human life.

On June 15, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and the United States Department of Energy issued a joint statement affirming their shared desire to strengthen trilateral cooperation on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

For the tenth consecutive year, Finnair has been named Northern Europe’s Best Airline by Skytrax at the World Airline Awards event held today at the Paris Air Show. The World Airline Awards by Skytrax are based on an independent survey of over 21.65 million passenger entries taken between September 2018 to May 2019 and covered over 300 airlines.

World Maritime University (WMU), the maritime university serving the global maritime community, will participate in the upcoming East Med Maritime Conference EMMC 2019, taking place on 19 & 20 June 2019, Beirut, Lebanon.

The Clean Shipping Alliance (CSA) 2020 has welcomed the preliminary results of an independent study presented by CE Delft, a research organisation in the Netherlands specialising in environmental issues, indicating that accumulated concentrations of exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS, or "scrubbers") wash water components are at very low levels and well below applicable regulatory limits.

Panos Kirnidis, CEO of Palau International Ship Registry (PISR) was one of the first speakers to welcome shortsea shipping experts, owners, charters and sector professionals to the 2019 Shortsea Shipping Day at the Piraeus Yacht Club in Greece on Thursday 13 June.

Palau International Ship Registry (PISR) has been recognised by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) as to fully comply with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW).

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The Board of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has expressed concern at the serious incidents involving the Marshall Islands flagged ship Front Altair and the Panama flagged Kokuka Courageous, in the Gulf of Oman. Addressing the issue at the ICS Annual General Meeting in the Faroe Islands, the Board has expressed the international shipping industry's alarm at recent incidents in the region affecting ships and their crews. 


The Centenary session of the International Labour Conference, known as the ‘world parliament of labour’ has opened in Geneva, with a speech from the ILO’s Director-General.

CEVA Logistics and CMA CGM have combined their expertise and service capabilities in Thailand and Laos to launch a new cross-border service for ocean freight containers used by customers across both countries. The new service provides imaginative solutions for both import and export customers and helps them reduce their carbon footprint as empty containers no longer have to be returned to their origin. 

• Measured in tons by rail: + 7.7 percent between Hamburg and European destinations

• + 13.6 percent for container traffic in the first quarter of 2019 in comparison with the same period last year

Russian Railways Open Joint-Stock Company (RZD), Kazakhstan Temir Zholy National Joint-Stock Company (KTZ) and the Belarusian Railway State Association have signed the first-ever joint-stock agreement that stresses the intention of the railway networks of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus to continue integrating rail transit through the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The document was signed by Oleg Belozerov, Director General – and Chairman of the Board of Russian Railways, Sauat Mynbayev, Chairman of the Board of NC KTZ JSC, and Vladimir Morozov, Head of the Belarusian Railways Association. The signing ceremony was also attended by Alexey Grom, President of JSC UTLC ERA.

 

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