ABP invests in Port of Lowestoft to support UK Southern North Sea energy sector
Associated British Ports (ABP), the owner and operator of the Port of Lowestoft has invested more than £250,000 in the construction of a new fuel bunkering facility to support the UK Southern North Sea (SNS) energy sector. Yesterday, the bunkering facility received its first fuel from the vessel, Thun Grace, which called at the Port […]
New container shipping association established
A.P. Moller – Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express plan to establish a new container shipping association. The move is intended to ‘pave the way for digitalisation, standardisation and interoperability in the container shipping industry’. In addition, IT executives from A.P. Moller – Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express […]
BIFA reasserts call for an end to shipping line surcharges
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is repeating the calls it has made previously for an end to surcharges imposed by shipping lines. The latest call follows recent announcements by the world’s leading container shipping companies almost in unison that they would be levying “emergency” bunker surcharges in response to rising fuel costs. Robert Keen, […]