Digital bills of lading? Yes, please
departure to a designated port where they are to be unloaded. According to the specialized publication www.splash247.com, ocean carriers issue around 45 million bills of lading per year. In 2021,...
MSC sets its sights on HHLA
Today the MSC Group placed a public bid to acquire a major stake in Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, which is currently 69% owned by the City of Hamburg. It...
COSCO part of the Port of Hamburg
Yesterday COSCO Shipping Ports signed a definitive agreement with Germany’s Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) to purchase a stake Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in the port of Hamburg. Under...
God bless E-commerce
The container market is healthy and promises to remain so until 2022, thanks mainly to the boom in online sales and the process of rebuilding company stocks after months of...
Right up to the last mile
the development of e-commerce, the situation has now been reversed, with e-commerce seemingly becoming the driving force behind logistics. It is no coincidence that the exponential growth of online commerce...
TDT, Grimaldi takeover imminent
shipping company. The deal is expected to be worth around €150 million, the same amount MSC had put up last year, before negotiations foundered due to the anti-trust authority’s findings....
Revision of the Community Directive on Combined Transport
distributed equally evenly across the different modes of transport, it was decided to revise the 1992 Combined Transport Directive with the Proposal for a Directive COM(2017)648, in order to further...
Maersk’s first green methanol ship
LAURA Mærsk, the world’s first container ship to sail on green methanol, was formally named this morning by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during its...