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Click here for more Kuehne + Nagel Alibaba deal K & N has signed an MoU with Alibaba.com, the B2B business arm of Alibaba Group, to offer global logistics services to customers of the Chinese e-commerce leader's B2B business unit... Click here for more AC power for Hoist The first AC-powered liftruck has rolled off the line at Hoist's facility in East Chicago, Indiana.... Click here for more Grupo Mexico seeks STB exemption to acquire FEC The Mexican railroad operator has applied to the US Surface Transportation Board for an exemption from its review process for the pending acquisition of the Florida East Coast Railway.... Click here for more Mersin GRASPs remote monitoring Mersin International Port is now using RTE's GRASP system to monitor 990 reefer points remotely.... Click here for more Remote reefer monitoring for Steinweg Identec Solutions has installed the first remote reefer monitoring system in the Port of Hamburg at the C. Steinweg multipurpose terminal.... Click here for more ICHCA opens safety awards entries ICHCA is inviting submissions for the second annual TT Club Innovation in Safety Award... Click here for more Terberg wins major Dutch award Terberg Group BV has won the 2017 Dutch Family Businesses Award. The prestigious award was presented by Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands... Click here for more RMT to be wound up Rickmers Maritime Trust has begun a process to wind up, following the failure of debt restructuring talks... Click here for more A selection of calling cards A number of ports have announced the addition of new liner services to their customer lists... Click here for more Helsinki posts Q1 traffic increase The amount of cargo traffic in the Finnish port increased by 10.6% year-on-year in Q1 2017 to 3.3 Mt... Click here for more Pushing UK-China intermodal rail Almost three months after it arrived at DB Cargo UK's London (Barking) rail terminal via the Channel tunnel, the first through train from China to the UK has started its return journey... Click here for more Konecranes reveals port equipment revenues Following the MHPS acquisition, Konecranes is reporting three business areas: Service, Industrial Equipment and Port Solutions as of 1st January, 2017... Click here for more EU moves on container weights for road transport Directive EU 2015/719 means BCOs/freight forwarders using containers and/or swapbodies to move their goods within Europe will have to provide their road haulage vendors with a "statement of weight" (SoW).... Click here for more Australia takes another crack at cabotage reform Australia's Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development has published a Discussion Paper setting out proposals to make it easier for foreign vessels to operate between Australian ports in limited instances.... Click here for more UAE strengthens Horn of Africa role The UAE is expanding its activities in the port and logistics sectors in the Horn of Africa with P&O Ports having recently secured a 30-year investment and operating concession for the development of a port at Bosaso, Somalia.... Click here for more FMC approves Virginia/Savannah "Gateway" agreement The Federal Maritime Commission permits wide-ranging agreement that includes ports discussing "optimizing service offerings to ocean carriers."... Click here for more Alliances are not working Addressing the audience at Multimodal 2017, held in Birmingham, UK, last week, Chris Welsh, secretary general of the Global Shippers Forum called for regulators in Europe to monitor alliance behaviour more closely as service levels continue to deteriorate.... Click here for more TEC Container unites with Portek Portek Systems & Equipment and TEC Container have signed an agency agreement covering parts of the Asian market.... Click here for more BIFA calls for "frictionless" border post-Brexit The British International Freight Association stresses that border delays must be avoided at all costs... Click here for more SAAM to invest US$133.5M in 2017 The plan comes on top of investment of around US$500M in the past four years; the company has also rieterated its opposition to the "megapuerto" project in Chile's central zone.... Click here for more Dutch cargo surveyors go on strike Dutch cargo surveyors have gone on strike for today's day shift, Tuesday 11th April... Click here for more Groeneveld Manufacturing achieves top standard After two years of preparations, the two manufacturing plants of Groeneveld Groep BV in Italy have attained the prestigious ISO/TS 16949 certificate of quality... 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. Click here and then click on 'Edit your email Alert' to modify your selection or to unsubscribe. If you have mislaid your password, enter your email address - angelo.evangelista2006.schedule@blogger.com - into 'Your email address' and click on 'Remind me': your password will be emailed immediately to that email address. Why not subscribe to the Market Briefing from Bulk Materials International? Just click here to subscribe and select the subjects that suit you. 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