The Marcura Group, a Dubai-based group of companies focused on providing business solutions to the global maritime industry, today announced that Hans-Christian Mordhorst has been appointed as the Group’s Chief Commercial Officer and Non-Executive Chairman of its flagship company, DA-Desk FZ-LLC, effective February 15, 2021.

The Railway Industry Association (RIA), the French Railway Industry Federation (FIF) and ASSIFER, Rail Industry Association (a member of Federazione ANIE) announced as main event partners featuring an extensive webinar programme

France-based water treatment specialist BIO-UV Group is advising yacht owners and crews to ensure their vessels are compliant with the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention and USCG regulation.

A BIO-SEA system has been retrofitted to a 37m yacht.

* Cranes are identical to previous Liebherr STS crane supplied in 2020
* New cranes will enable greater efficiency in container handling
* Partnership with SEA-invest since 2012

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Caption: Liebherr STS at SEA-invest’s Antwerp Container Terminal

The City of Lappeenranta is one of the first cities to join the EU Green City Accord. In Finland, the agreement has previously been signed by three cities and in Europe by 18 cities in total.

With the slogan “Transport for EU Recovery”, ESPO, together with 31 organisations has issued a Statement on the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

GEODIS, a leading global supply chain operator, provides its customers with guaranteed space in an ultra-tight sea freight market from China to Europe.

The Finnish State Railways (VR) fleet received two additional locomotives. On behalf of Trans-Trading Hamburg, the Lübeck Port Company (LHG) recently converted two Vectron locomotives numbers 35 + 36, each weighing 90 tonnes and measuring at 19,04 x 3,05 x 4,44 meters.

A survey, part of the Interreg Europe funded project SMOOTH PORTS activities, among participants shows which measures to reduce CO2 in the Port of Hamburg are also promising from a business point of view.

A special shipment of essential medical supplies  from Poland has arrived in the UK by truck, promoting the TIR system to firms who continue to struggle with Brexit paperwork, delays and a shortage of customs brokers and transit guarantees.

• The 2020 business year, a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic
• Slump in business through trade fair cancellations
• A further developed business model and new digital formats mean that Messe München is better able to cope with future challenges

Supporting the commercial adoption of ammonia as ship fuel

The Korean Register (KR) has published a technical report outlining the safety regulations and resulting design implications for ammonia fueled ships.  The report provides essential information for industry stakeholders such as shipowners, shipyards, and equipment companies for the construction of ammonia-fueled ships.

Star Shipping completed a wind mill project where they shipped 165 packages of 50MV wind power generation accessories. The port of loading was Lianyungang, China and port of discharge was Port Qasim, Pakistan.

John Roger Nesje, CEO Scanreach

“There are as many, and more, upside economic consequences of a great safety culture as negative financial consequences of poor safety practices. It’s quite obvious which side shipping companies should be on, and our mission is to help them,” says John Roger Nesje, chief executive of Norwegian wireless technology pioneer Scanreach.

2021_Photocredit Michael Zapf.This year the leading international maritime trade fair SMM was held as a purely digital conference for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic – and it was a great success. For four days, SMM DIGITAL's two online streams with 60 hours of programming and more than 160 speakers drew numerous viewers to their screens.

2021_Photocredit Michael Zapf.