Intercargo Ground Handling Argentina has announced the success of its assistance with the first Aeroméxico flight which transported the Oxford-AstraZeneca in mid January. On 28th January, Intercargo further helped with the transportation of the Sputnik V vaccine using an aircraft from the state company Boliviana de Aviación to La Paz. For this operation the handler […]
Following an internal investigation conducted by consultant, Deloitte the CEO of Liege Airport has been dismissed by its board of directors. 40 offences and irregularities were found to be committed by Luc Partoune, including fictitious jobs, rigged public contracts and corruption. He has since been dismissed and Frédéric Jacquet, deputy managing director, has been appointed […]
Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) has announced it ended 2020 with the largest year-to-date landed cargo weight in the organisation’s history. In 2020, cargo numbers grew by more than 15% to 2.7 billion pounds of freight that has landed and traveled through RFD compared to 2.3 billion pounds in 2019. The leading driver of the […]
Shoreham Port, the commercial seaport just west of Brighton on the UK’s southern coastline, has announced a partnership with a local startup to build a 20-megawatt electrolysis plant adjacent to the port’s locks. The hydrogen will be certified as fully green, as it will be produced from a combination of on-site renewable energy sources at […]
Over the past decade, China has earned itself a reputation as a bully in the South China Sea. Its relentless coast guard patrols, frequent maritime militia operations and regular naval deployments are well documented. Using these capabilities, China harasses foreign fishing boats, disrupts energy exploration attempts and otherwise prevents its Southeast Asian neighbors from operating safely […]
On Sunday, the Indian Coast Guard helped to extinguish a fire aboard the PSV Greatship Rohini off the coast of Mumbai. 15 out of 18 crew were rescued, and three were found dead in a search after the fire was put out. The fire broke out on Saturday at a position about 90 nm off […]
[By Pius Ginting and Payal Sampat] The ocean waters surrounding eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea lie within the biodiverse Coral Triangle, home to some of the world’s most highly concentrated – and endangered – coral reefs. In addition to being globally significant ecological sites, the reefs supply habitat for several important commercial and subsistence […]
On Thursday, Turkey’s General Directorate of Coastal Safety (KEGM) rescued the freight ro/ro Gallipoli Seaways off the coast of Babakale in the northern Aegean Sea. A bus aboard the vessel caught fire, and the blaze spread, prompting an extended firefighting effort. During a transit from Tuzla, Istanbul to Trieste, the master of the Gallipoli Seaways […]
[By Charlie Lyons Jones, Elena Yi-Ching Ho and Malcolm Davis] As tensions rise over China’s recent aggressive air patrolling across the Taiwan Strait, and concern mounts that Beijing may stage a provocation to coerce Taipei and test the mettle of President Joe Biden and his administration, how might the Chinese government employ the People’s Liberation Army in a crisis involving Taiwan? […]
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has signed a 2 year OnWatch Scout Predict agreement with Load Line Marine SA to support operation of their fleet equipped with MacGregor merchant cranes. The order was booked into Cargotec’s fourth quarter of 2020 order intake, with installation and testing starting on board four vessels the first semester of 2021. […]
TECO 2030 ASA (OSE-Ticker: TECO) is pleased to announce a partnership with the Slåttland Group in Norway to explore cooperation possibilities within a range of emission-reducing projects, including hydrogen fuel cells offshore and onshore, manufacturing of large TECO Future Funnels, manufacturing plant, and hydrogen competence development. TECO 2030 ASA has signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement […]
Belgium’s two large ocean ports announced that they will merge their operations to strengthened their position and prepare for future developments. The cities of Antwerp and Bruges will begin a unification process that is expected to take a year to finalize to unite the management of the industrial ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge making them […]
