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Car making giants Hyundai and Kia will today reveal a €100m (£85.6m) in London-headquartered electric vehicle firm Arrival.

Meet the Southern Austrian consulting company specialising in statistical modelling techniques to shore up the resilience of transport infrastructure.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a €7m loan for development of low-emission buses in Serbia.

For the past 25 years, the European Transport Safety Council has advocated for improving transport safety in Europe – and it doesn’t stop there.

Very-Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) prices have risen to USD 710 per metric tonne in Singapore on 2 January 2020, a price increase of 30%, when compared to 2 December 2019. The newly implemented IMO2020 Sulphur Cap marks a milestone for the industry and is likely to affect profitability for many shipowners and operators.

The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has announced it will implement wide-ranging sustainability measures within its diplomatic corps.

UK ports are playing a key role in the country’s energy sector, and this role is evolving as green energy becomes more essential to the economy.

The government of Iceland has announced a regulation which will effectively ban the use of heavy fuel oil in the country’s shipping sector.

Jamaica has confirmed its position at the heart of international maritime legislature after being re-elected to Category C of the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Climate change and the environmental impact of human activity present clear challenges for humanity

The 2019 Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) Stakeholder Forum explored the need to scale up adoption of hydrogen for the EU’s energy transition.

Time-critical and Go-Now charter experts CharterSync put its platform to the test when a freight forwarder wanted a 50-tonne shipment moved from Ostend to North Carolina at short notice. The machinery at 458 cubic metres needed specialist handling loading and transportation. The complexities of the shipment required multiple cranes and an available Antonov-124, one of the few cargo planes available to handle a load of this magnitude.

The Port of Tyne, one of the UK’s major deep-sea ports based in North East England has been shortlisted in the IBJ Awards.

An audit into reporting of greenhouse gas emissions data by the EU and its Member States recommends greater sector-specific insight.

3PL today announced the opening of a new flagship fulfilment & logistics centre in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The new facility will further enhance its range of fulfilment and logistics solutions to the eCommerce and wholesale sectors.

CoVadem is a low barrier opex service which enables inland shipping to reduce climate emissions, while increasing business margins.

Europe’s leading online fashion platform, Zalando, has commissioned KNAPP to automate its new 140,000 m² distribution centre near Rotterdam, which will serve customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain and the UK.

The Clean Shipping Alliance (CSA) 2020 has congratulated Danish ferry operator DFDS A/S for ten years of successful scrubber operation, with the exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) onboard the 37,939gt roro Ficaria Seaways achieving more than 50,000 running hours since 2009.

Time-critical and Go-Now charter experts CharterSync put its platform to the test when a freight forwarder wanted a 50-tonne shipment moved from Ostend to North Carolina at short notice. The machinery at 458 cubic metres needed specialist handling loading and transportation. The complexities of the shipment required multiple cranes and an available Antonov-124, one of the few cargo planes available to handle a load of this magnitude.

Leading provider of industrial robots, KUKA, offers tailor-made automated solutions for customers in a wide variety of industries. The Italian headquarters of KUKA recently turned to Yale® dealer Unicar to provide Yale materials handling equipment for its Turin warehouse.