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GE To Provide Electric Propulsion Systems To Royal Netherlands Navy New Combat Support Ship
GE’s Power Conversion business have signed a contract with Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) to deliver an energy management and electric propulsion package intended for the new Combat Support Ship (CSS) in use at Royal Netherlands Navy.
GE’s robust, proven electric propulsion technology was selected for its low noise signature, high level of reliability and commonality with the Joint Support Ship (HNLMS Karel Doorman). One of the customer’s key concerns is underwater radiated noise,...
Career Tracks: Former Freightquote COO tapped to lead VeriShip
VeriShip, an SaaS-based business optimization and spend management platform, has hired logistics industry veteran and former company adviser Shawn McCarrick as chief executive officer.
VeriShip said it has been controlling shipping expenses for small and midsize businesses for 15 years, with data and analysis on 70 million packages shipped annually through DHL, FedEx, UPS and Fulfillment by Amazon.
McCarrick spent nearly a decade with freight services broker Freightquote. He joined the company...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/career-tracks-former-freightquote-coo-tapped-to-lead-veriship
Borderlands: US-Mexico trade faces hurdles; GE cuts 257 jobs at Texas plant
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. U.S.-Mexico cross-border trade faces hurdles; General Electric cuts 257 jobs at Texas plant; Laredo CBP seizes $1.6 million of meth hidden in tractor-trailers; Houston and Rotterdam ports launch PortXchange trial.
Consultant: US-Mexico cross-border trade faces hurdles but headed in right direction
The coronavirus pandemic, introduction of new trade rules and confusion in Mexico...
Supply chain radar: Unlucky Maersk, lucky you?
Luck always plays a part – a rather big one, if you ask me – in any corporate story. How many times have we heard that?
Enter AP Møller-Mærsk (APMM).
By way of background, you probably remember that in late 2018 I wrote about APMM’s interest in STG Logistics, although talks were never confirmed by...
https://theloadstar.com/supply-chain-radar-unlucky-maersk-lucky-you/
GE’s Electric Propulsion Powered Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier Successfully Completes Sea Trials
The second of the U.K.’s Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, HMS Prince of Wales has recently completed a successful sea trial in Scottish waters.
The ships are the largest ever built for the Royal Navy and the carriers are powered by GE’s energy-efficient, integrated full-electric propulsion system.
As part of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, GE’s Power Conversion business has provided the HV Distribution system, HV Drives and Propulsion Motors as well as the Electrical Power Control and...
Ørsted To Pioneer Deployment Of GE’s Next Generation, World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbines
Ørsted, the world-leading offshore wind developer, has selected GE Renewable Energy as the preferred turbine supplier for two of its US offshore wind farms which marks the world’s first commercial deployment of GE’s Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine.
Subject to final agreed and signed contract and all required project approvals, Ørsted will deploy Haliade-X 12MW wind turbines on the two offshore wind farms constituting Ørsted’s Mid-Atlantic cluster:
- Skipjack (120MW) off the coast of...
GE, Nedstack Partner Up on Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Zero Emission Cruise Ships
GE, Nedstack to develop hydrogen fuel cell systems for powering zero-emission cruise ships.