Patrick Terminals orders ten Kalmar hybrid straddle carriers
Cargotec-owned port equipment manufacturing company Kalmar will supply a total of ten new Kalmar Hybrid Straddle Carriers to Patrick Terminals in Melbourne, Australia. The order was booked in Cargotec’s 2023 Q3 order intake, with the delivery of the machines scheduled to be completed during the first quarter of the next year. Patrick Terminals is an […]
Bankrupt Incora tries to wrench shipments from holdout supplier
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: After filing for bankruptcy in June, aerospace supply chain specialist Incora is trying to compel a supplier to ship it parts that the company previously ordered. The supplier, Appli-Tec, told the company it would withhold […]
Fire on vessels remains top safety issue at sea
Fires on vessels remain one of the biggest safety issues for the shipping industry, as evidenced by a significant increase in recent incidents, according to Allianz’s Safety and Shipping Review 2023. The most recent incident is the ongoing fire aboard the Fremantle Highway, a roll-on roll-of (ro-ro) vessel which caught fire this week off the […]
Maersk finds another partner for green methanol production
A.P. Moller – Maersk has entered a green methanol Letter of Intent with US-based SunGas Renewables, Inc., a spin-out of GTI Energy, and a company providing technology and equipment systems for large-scale production of renewable fuels. This is Maersk’s ninth such partnership aiming to drive the acceleration of global production capacity for green methanol. SunGas […]
Fashion brands still have work to do on supply chain transparency: report
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Fashion Revolution released its eighth annual Fashion Transparency Index earlier this month, which found that fashion brands haven’t made much progress on increasing transparency in their supply chains and global impacts from the previous year. […]
Horn of Africa corridor gets major endowment
The seventh-largest economy in Africa by GDP has been granted $730 million by the International Development Association (IDA) to improve its logistical linkages to the Port of Djibouti, one of the most efficient cargo nodes on the eastern seaboard of the continent. For some time, Ethiopia, the largest economic player in the Horn of Africa […]
Japanese car carrier Fremantle Highway still burning off Dutch coast
Japanese shipping group K Line has confirmed that it is the operator of a car carrier that caught fire in the North Sea on 25 July, while en route from Germany to Singapore. Fire broke out around 11.45 pm (Dutch time) on the 2013-built Fremantle Highway, carrying approximately 3,000 cars, off the Dutch island of […]
Vizient taps DHL Supply Chain for healthcare logistics services
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: DHL Supply Chain announced in June it is now a qualified supplier for Vizient, a healthcare performance improvement company used by hospitals nationwide. As part of a new agreement, Vizient will gain access to DHL […]
DTIC to launch new energy fund
Trade, Industry and Competition Minister, Ebrahim Patel will launch the Energy One Stop Shop and Energy Resilience Fund on Thursday, 27 July. This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa tasked Invest South Africa to establish an Energy One Stop Shop to fast-track applications from energy developers as part of the National Energy Crisis Committee’s Energy Mitigation […]
ONE to get larger terminal in Kobe port
Ocean Network Express (ONE) will get a larger terminal in Japan’s Kobe port, after one of its shareholders, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), agreed to expand its existing Kobe International Container Terminal. MOL currently leases KICT at berths PC-15/16/17 on the South Pier of Kobe’s Port Island, along with Sankyu Inc., Sumitomo Warehouse and Nickel & […]
