India framing 10-yr action plan to increase domestic steel shipping container manufacturing capacity
Special Secretary (Logistics) Pawan Agarwal said one of the “serious” issues that the country is facing in creating an ecosystem for container manufacturing is availability and costing of special steel used to make those
‘Sky’s the limit’ for already lofty container-ship charter rates
Alphaliner: ‘New significant milestones have been achieved on the rate front’ NEW YORK : Just when you thought container shipping couldn’t get any hotter, it has. Liners are desperate for more ships to handle
Biden’s ambitious GHG cuts will target shipping
NEW YORK : President Joe Biden on Thursday officially announced the new target for the US to achieve a reduction of up to 52% from the 2005 level of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2030.
Climate change: Shipping industry calls for new global carbon tax
Implementing a new tax will be complex, says Guy Platten, secretary-general of the International Chamber of Shipping The global shipping industry is calling on the world’s governments to tax its carbon emissions. Groups that
No cracking signs in exports flow despite emergence of Corona’s fresh wave, says FIEO President
NEW DELHI : In the history of Indian exports the year 2020-21 was undoubtedly the most topsy turvy with the first wave of Corona massively destabilising the goods flow particularly in the first quarter.
Ship Operators Move Toward LNG to Pare Emissions
Natural gas-powered vessels are becoming more popular as a halfway measure as a search continues for non-carbon-based fuels SHANGHAI : CMA CGM’s first LNG-powered container ship at its launch in Shanghai in 2019. Though
Allcargo to immediately uplift 500 oxygen concentrators from Singapore to Maharashtra
To supply from Singapore free of cost as the state battles a very severe second wave of the pandemic. MUMBAI : Allcargo Logistics today announced that it will be immediately transporting 500 oxygen concentrators
Dubai’s DP World sees strong first quarter 2021 container volumes, led by India and Australia
The company’s Jebel Ali terminal posted a 2.6% year-on-year rise in goods handled DUBAI : DP World on Thursday said it handled 18.9 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container