Environment and Sustainability

Can Hong Kong Keep its Business?

Annual container volumes at the Port of Hong Kong have fallen below 20 million TEU for the first time in 13 years despite a 14.3% rise in throughput to 1.8m TEU to produce the best monthly growth of the year in December.

DP World Joins UN Emergency Teams

DP World will provide pro bono expertise and resources to help the humanitarian community respond to major disasters after joining Agility, Maersk and UPS to become part of the Logistics Emergency Teams (LET)

IMO Charts Pollution Successes

A new exhibition at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is charting the collaborative work that has been undertaken in its role as the United Nations agency responsible for the safety and security of international shipping and the prevention of pollution from ships

TT Club Guidelines Released

TT Club has issued specific guidelines on packing and securing coiled materials in containers as part of its on-going campaign to improve standards of the safe packing of unit loads, including shipping containers, specialist freight transport insurer

DP World Creates New Competition

DP World has begun operating a multi-purpose container, bulk, and breakbulk terminal at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, as “the premium alternative” to other ports in Eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast, according to its GM

Watch: Lifeboat Saves Carrier Crewmember

Stunning footage captured on Friday (January 13 2017) shows the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Tynemouth rescue a stranded seafarer off the coast of Sunderland

ECSA Pressures European Commission

European Community Shipowners’ Associations has stated that ship recycling yards in third countries, countries outside the EU, should get EU recognition “to raise standards worldwide and respond to demand”

Panama Canal Rejects Added Costs

The contractor’s consortium that built the Panama Canal Expansion have claimed that they require USD $2 billion in additional costs and overruns

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