Sustainable inland shipping company Zero Emission Services (ZES) BV has started operations with the Alphenaar, the first Dutch inland vessel to use interchangeable energy containers for propulsion….
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Towage services provider Kotug has decided to create an inland shipping division to provide electric-powered pusher tugs and smart AI-driven dispatch and route planning applications for the inland…
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Houston-based Kirby Corporation, the leading domestic tank barge operator, saw profit fall in the third quarter of 2020 compare to last year as the COVID-19 pandemic dragged down demand for petroleum products. The company reported 2020 third quarter results before the market opened on Thursday. Net...
Port of Antwerp, the Port of Rotterdam Authority, the Port of Amsterdam, North Sea […] The post Belgian, Dutch ports call for bids for joint shore power system appeared first on Offshore…
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Op-Ed by Antoon Van Coillie (Blueline Logistics) A tsunami is gathering pace that will overwhelm the inland waterway transport industry in Europe over the next 10 to 15 years, and will change the maritime industry profoundly. This tsunami is called sustainability. The present inland waterway fleet...
Last week, HHLA and Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Braunschweig mbH signed a strategic partnership agreement to promote environmentally friendly transport between Hamburg and the inland port in Lower…
By Wessley Johnson – If Covid-19 was not enough this summer, a full river closure and a halt to inland waterway transportation is slowly approaching… The Illinois River system connects the supply of goods with domestic and international markets. This system of navigable water stretches roughly 333...
By Karl Plume and Rod Nickel May 17 (Reuters) – The upper Mississippi River fully reopened to boat and barge traffic this week for the first time since November as shippers scrambled to move a backlog of overdue fertilizer barges to farmers racing to sow corn before the end of the month. Some...
By Justin Fox (Bloomberg Opinion) — The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is how the humorist George Fitch (pretty accurately)...
Several new berths have been added for inland shipping in the mouth of the Afrikahaven. The berths, which became operational last week, are specially designed for tankers carrying flammable materials (marked by a blue cone symbol).
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The addition of the new berths became necessary when the existing berths designated for these types of vessels were removed due to the construction of new – or extensions to existing – terminals. There had also been a need for some...