Regions

France-based BIO-UV Group reports that its ballast water treatment system BIO-SEA has successfully passed all land and shipboard testing and is now IMO G8 approved without any operational restrictions.

PSA Cargo Solutions and Hyundai Motor Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-innovate supply chain and cargo mobility solutions through a newly-launched Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICS).

Seafarers are invisible victims of Covid-19. Thanks to local restrictions and logistical challenges, hundreds of thousands have been stranded at sea – marooned on vessels for, in some cases, months beyond agreed contracts.

Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Gdynia, Poland, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICTSI, has joined the EU-backed COMODALCE project, designed to improve intermodal rail operations.

Swedish technology entrepreneurs and academia have formed a consortium to research on an artificial intelligence (AI), semi-autonomous ship operation support system for a more energy efficient sea voyage.

A world’s first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering trial has been completed in South Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Korean Register (KR).

Japanese car maker, Honda, has halted car production temporarily at its Swindon plant in the UK today, owing to port delays and a shortage of components.

The container shortage is not just affecting Asia ports, but also inland exporters in the US and in a number of European countries.

Hapag-Lloyd has joined Maersk in upping its 2020 earnings forecast as the container shipping market performs far better than expected.