Market Briefing from WorldCargo News Online

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LATEST WCN E-NEWSLETTER IN YOUR BROWSER Welcome to the latest eNewsletter from the publishers of WorldCargo News, the world's leading resource for international cargo professionals. Click here to view a sample issue of WorldCargo News and subscription information. Click here for information on advertising in print or online. Market Briefing M2 blow to ECT ECT will lose at least 400,000 TEU/year as MSC shifts its east-west traffic to APM Terminals Rotterdam on Maasvlakte I... Click here for more "Unique" quay to ship heating connection Stena Line, the City of Gothenburg and Goteborg Energi have inaugurated the connection of the district heating network to a Stena Line ship, STENA DANICA... Click here for more World's longest freight train journey A container train has covered a distance of more than 8000 miles between Yiwu on China's Eastern Seaboard and Madrid... Click here for more New record for TCP Paranagua The Rio Grande do Sul container terminal operator has claimed a new handling record... Click here for more Dunkirk 5-year strategic plan The Port of Dunkirk has unveiled its new 5-year strategic plan for the period 2014-18... Click here for more Mundra becomes a TEU millionaire Mundra International Container Terminal (MICT) has hit the 1M TEU annual container throughput milestone for the first time... Click here for more CMB into containers Bulk shipping operator Cie Maritime Belge has entered the container shipping market through the acquisition of Delphis... Click here for more Westerhoud steps down from ECT ECT has announced that Jan Westerhoud has decided to retire from his post as President of ECT with effect from 1 January 2015... Click here for more Green power for APM Terminals Maasvlakte II APM Terminals has signed a two-year, €5M contract with Amsterdam-based NV Nuon Energy for the supply of wind-generated electricity to power the new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II cranes and container handling equipment... Click here for more Remote control cranes for Dammam ZPMC has delivered three STS cranes to HPH in Dammam that can be operated by remote control... Click here for more Lyttleton facing overtime ban Indefinite overtime ban threatens to slow operations from 17 December... Click here for more Gigaliners stall in Europe The European Council and European Parliament have rejected the European Commission's proposal to amend Directive 96/53 to allow cross-border traffic of 25.25m long road trains... Click here for more Bremerhaven logs 1M TEU by rail The container terminals in Bremerhaven have dispatched or received 1M TEU of containers by rail in 2014 up to 11th December... Click here for more Naviland starts Rotterdam-Lyon service The French intermodal company has launched another cross-border intermodal service... Click here for more Duisburg set for 65 Mt in 2014 Performance in the intermodal sector has been particularly strong, offsetting a decline in coal shipments since the summer... Click here for more Belgium hit by 24-hour national strike Shipping and transport in Belgium is again severely affected by industrial action... Click here for more PTP Tanjung Pelepas hits 8M TEU The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) has successfully passed another milestone when it became the first Malaysian terminal to hit the 8 million TEU in a year... Click here for more M2 blow to ECT MSC will move a minimum of 400,000 TEU of M2 business from ECT to APM Terminals Rotterdam on Maasvlakte I... Click here for more Better times for ro-ro operators The market is showing signs of recovery, but vessel owners remain deeply concerned about the European Sulphur Directive.... Click here for more Weighing up the evidence Four years of research by ETS Consulting, based on data from actual box lifts, has provided analysis of containers' gross mass and their centre of gravity*... Click here for more Tank makers maintaining growth Tank container manufacturers are still reporting healthy increases in orders, particularly for special and niche units.... Click here for more Busy times for spreader makers Activity levels are up, although the recent downturn in new crane orders will affect the sector in the next six to 12 months.... Click here for more Kalmar tops the ton Kalmar has built its most powerful reach stacker yet, achieving a new lifting record of 103t.... Click here for more Following the paper trail investments and equipment models show there is plenty of life in the forestry products handling sector.... Click here for more Elme still competitive at 40 Elme has stayed on top by keeping production in-house.... 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