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 Hyster-Yale boosts telematics offering Hyster-Yale Group has acquired Speedshield Technology Pty Ltd's telematics installation and distribution businesses in the US and the UK... Click here for more Hoist Liftruck opens in Indiana Hoist Liftruck has opened its new facility in East Chicago Indiana, where it will build its full range of Hoist liftrucks and pneumatic tyre machines for Toyota.... Click here for more Maersk's CRX to call at Mariel Maersk Line will start calling at the Cuban port of Mariel on the westbound leg of its CRX (Central America/Europe) service by the end of this month.... Click here for more New reefer machinery joint venture Kingtec Technologies and Denso Corporation have formed a joint venture company to design and market transport refrigeration systems, including reefer machinery.... Click here for more Hamburg launches ChainPORT At a press conference in Hamburg this week leaders from the Ports of Los Angeles, Busan, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Singapore, Shenzen, Hamburg and the Global Institute of Logistics launched SmartPORT, a global initiative to connect and promote best practices between ports.... Click here for more Platooning trucks - successful Dutch trial NXP and DAF trucks have successfully demonstrated self-driving technologies in automated trucks... Click here for more New vessels for Royal Arctic Line The first of five new geared vessels has been delivered to Royal Arctic Line in Gdansk... Click here for more Tideworks live in Haiti The GB Group has gone live with the Tideworks TOS at its terminal near Port-au-Prince in Haiti... Click here for more LA/Long Beach draw a line on weighing Though they likely have more weighbridges than any other port complex in the world, terminal operators in Los Angeles and Long Beach say they are "incapable" of providing Verified Gross Mass services that meet the new SOLAS requirements.... Click here for more Warning from ITIC on liability International Transport Intermediaries Club has warned that the wording of instructions can potentially widen the scope of liability for marine service providers, citing the recent case of a marine surveyor sued for €1.56M for alleged poor onboard stowage of a cargo... Click here for more Bollore Transport & Logistics established The Paris-based Bollore Group has restructured and grouped all of its freight logistics, port management and energy activities, comprising SDV, SAGA, BLP, Bollore Africa Logistics (BAL) and Bollore Energie (BE), under a single entity.... Click here for more Softship on the cloud Softship has launched SAPAS, a new cloud based software service for port agents.... Click here for more Water instead of carbon dioxide SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have announced in Stockholm that they are launching an initiative to solve the carbon dioxide problem in the Swedish steel industry... Click here for more Heavy penalties for Dutch coldstore majors The Dutch anti cartel body ACM has imposed heavy fines on four prominent coldstore warehouse operators for violating competition legislation. Kloosterboer, H&S Coldstores, Eimskip and Samskip have been penalised an aggregate €12.5M... Click here for more OCEMA develops VGM "Best Practice" guidelines The Washington (DC)-based Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association adopted a recommended Best Practice for the acceptance and transmission of the Verified Gross Mass (VGM) and a VGM process map... Click here for more CMH(I) could be renamed China Merchants Port Holdings China Merchants Holdings (International) (CMHI), which is majority controlled by China Merchants Group but listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, could be renamed China Merchants Port Holdings Company Ltd.... Click here for more Wallonia protests road tolls "disorder" Belgium's Wallonia region has proposed that Satellic, the private Belgian consortium managing the road toll project, should be fined €275,000 per day "until it gets the system working properly"... Click here for more Dunkirk points to modal shift The Port of Dunkirk has revealed that last year inland moves by road were in an absolute minority, with 52% of tonnage conveyed by rail, barge or pipeline... Click here for more Unsubscribing You can change your selection of content in your Market Briefing from WorldCargo News Online, or unsubscribe at any time. 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This comprehensive 245 page study is an in-depth analysis of capacity constraints, productivity, selectivity and flexibility of different container handling systems in terminals of different types and sizes: common-users or dedicated; hub centre (transshipment and/or relay) or import/export vocation; gateway or feeder port; intermodal rail or truck distribution inland; with or without CFS, etc. Click here for more information Upcoming events FEATURED EVENT Breakbulk Russia 2016 The First Annual Breakbulk Russia Exhibition & Conference will take place alongside TransRussia and be held 19-20 April 2016 in the same location within the TransRussia exhibition hall. 19-20 April 2016 IEC Crocus Expo Moscow, Russia Click here for more information Breakbulk Russia 2016 19-20 April 2016 IEC Crocus Expo Moscow Russia Click here for more information TOC Asia 2016 20 - 21 April 2016 Marina Bay Sands Singapore Click here for more information European Supply Chain Day 2016 21 April 2016 Various Pan-European Click here for more information TransRussia 2016 19-22 April 2016 Crocus Expo, Pavilion 1, Moscow Russia Click here for more information Multimodal 2016 10-12 May 2016 Halls 3/3A NEC Birmingham UK Click here for more information Oil Rail & Ports Conference 15-16 May 2016 Tehran Iran Click here for more information BreakBulk Europe 2016 23-26 May 2016 Antwerp Expo, Antwerp Belgium Click here for more information TOC Europe 2016 14-16 June 2016 Hamburg Messe und Congress Centre GmbH, Hamburg Germany Click here for more information 2nd Cool Logistics Asia 7 September 2016 Asiaworld-Expo Hong Kong Click here for more information 8th Cool Logistics Global 27 - 28 September 2016 Park Hotel, Bremen Germany Click here for more information Powered by Blogger.