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Maersk invests in the Internet of Things
Copenhagen - Maersk has decided to back the Danish startup Onomondo, a global cellular operator for the Internet of Things
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IMO 2020, German shipping will use new fuel
Hamburg - The vast majority of ships in the German fleet will run on the new sulphur-reduced fuel from 1 January at the latest
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MPC stays in the red but foresees growth
Oslo - MPC Container Ships reported for the 9 month period ended 20 september 2019 a minus 11,435 million dollars loss, but the company foresees attractive opportunities and charter rate recovery potential in a IMO 2020 environment
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Maersk to lay off staff
Copenaghen - Danish shipping group Maersk MAERSKB.CO said on Thursday it would lay off staff at its main offices in Denmark and in other countries
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Antwerp and Nigeria sign ports’s agreement
Antwerp - The Port of Antwerp has signed a collaboration agreement with the Nigerian Ports Authority, which manages the 6 ports of Nigeria
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U.S. assures banks on transactions with China company hit by sanctions
Washington - The Trump administration assured U.S. banks on Wednesday that they can temporarily process U.S. dollar transactions on Chinese shipping companies it had previously sanctioned
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GE brings in shipper Maersk’s CFO as finance chief
Boston - General Electric on Monday named finance head at shipper AP Moller-Maersk as its new chief financial officer in the latest top-level change aimed at turning around the U.S. industrial conglomerate
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More space needed at sea, European wind industry says
Copenaghen - The European offshore wind industry needs an area equivalent to the size of Ireland to install enough turbines to reach carbon neutrality by 2050
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Boskalis grows in the Middle East with Horizon
Papendrecht (The Netherlands) - Dutch dredging and heavylift company Royal Boskalis Westminster has acquired the remaining 37.5% in the United Arab Emirates’s Horizon Group
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Gdansk’s new railway connection with China
Gdansk - The port of Gdansk has launched the first permanent railway connection of the Euro China Train
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Maersk loses its chief financial officer
Copenaghen - Two weeks after the departure of Soren Toft, its former chief operating officers, Maersk loses its chief financial officer, Carolina Dybeck Happe
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Hamburg takes Elbe deepening one step further
Hamburg - The Elbe deepening project that will dig the way for fully-loaded mega-ships to access the Port of Hamburg goes on with the building of two new underwater storage areas
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Fire breaks out on another Grimaldi ship
Livorno - Eight months after the fire that led to the sinking of the “Grande America”, flames break out again on a Ro-Ro cargo ship from the same Italian shipowner. This time, the fire has been extinguished.
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Los Angeles and Copenhagen sign agreement on environment
Los Angeles - The Ports of Los Angeles and Copenhagen Malmö Port have entered into a five-year memorandum of understanding to collaborate on sustainability and environmental issues
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Port of Hamburg’s “striking growth”
Hamburg - For Germany’s largest port, seaborne cargo handling in the first nine months of 2019 proved highly “satisfactory”
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Volkswagen starts overseas traffic with LNG carriers
Xiamen (China) - The Volkswagen Group has held the naming ceremony for two ships that will sail with LNG
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CMA CGM inaugurates new CEVA’s headquarter
Marseille - CMA CGM has established the headquarters of its newly acquired CEVA Logistics Swiss subsidiary
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Kalmar and Maktas strike deal to reduce fuel consumption
Helsinki - Kalmar, part of the Finnish company Cargotec, is to supply leading Turkish equipment rental company Maktas with a total of six Kalmar Eco Reachstackers
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Shell Marine secures contract for COSCO
London - Shell Marine, Royal Dutch Shell shipping division, has extended its relationship with China COSCO Shipping Company Limited businesses
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IMO makes “positive progress” on global warming
London - The IMO has agreed a goal based approach to help cut emissions, but there’s still a lot to be done, says the UK Chamber of Shipping