A.P. Moller – Maersk has reported a three per cent decrease in carbon dioxide emissions for its fleet of container vessels and tankers in the last year, with a total reduction of 8.9 per cent in the six years from 2002 – 2007.
Browsing: Ocean Freight
Trans Ocean Distribution, part of the JF Hillebrand Group, has bought Seatrans Manufacturing (Proprietary), which supplies flexitank equipment used for shipping bulk liquids.
JF Hillebrand Group, a German logistics provider to the drinks industry, has bought Trans Ocean Distribution.
What are the key challenges facing the logistics sector in 2007? Claude Boisselet examines five of this year’s major preoccupations.
Atlantic rate rise From the beginning of 2007, Maersk Line is to charge an extra $300 for each container travelling from Europe to North America. Hapag-Lloyd is also raising rates for the North Atlantic and the US West Coast.
From the beginning of 2007, Maersk Line is to charge an extra $300 for every container travelling from Europe to North America. Maersk said that it is no longer able to sustain rate levels due to increasing cost pressures.
The “Emma Maersk”, the world’s largest container ship, made its inaugural call at Felixstowe last Saturday.
Freightliner has signed a new five-year deal with Maersk Line. Freightliner reckons it’s the biggest intermodal rail contract in the UK to date.
Freightliner has signed a new five-year deal with Maersk Line, the container arm of the Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller – Maersk.
U-Freight is rebranding its international ocean freight forwarding activities, under the U-Ocean banner.
