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Decarbonizing Shipping Through Digital Strategies

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Adopting the twin transition can help shipping companies to increase efficiency and reduce their environmental impact.

  • APM Terminals is exploring new technologies to curb carbon in line with the company’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2040.

  • The Twin Transition Playbook is being shared with relevant stakeholders to encourage sector-wide change.

    • A recent news article published in the Weforum states that sailing towards the twin transition: How shipping...

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    MSC and Lufthansa in joint bid to take over Italy’s new ITA Airways

    The vertical integration and modal mash-up continues. The Loadstar reveals today that a forwarder has started a shipping line and now a shipping line is looking at buying an airline.
    MSC has told the Italian government it wants to buy a stake in the new airline, ITA Airways, which began operations in October, replacing defunct Alitalia.
    And it’s doing it in partnership with Lufthansa.
    As previously reported, Lufthansa has expressed an interest in …

    The post MSC and Lufthansa in joint bid to take...

    https://theloadstar.com/msc-and-lufthansa-in-joint-bid-to-take-over-italys-new-ita-airways/

    On the wire: Wonder-ZIM breaks hearts as China ‘stumbles’ (and why it matters)

    “ProShares plans to launch the ProShares Supply Chain Logistics ETF [exchange-traded fund], which aims to offer market participants exposure to stocks involved in the supply chain logistics space” – Seeking Alpha, 12 January 2022. 
    Soft Monday coverage cannot refrain from highlighting the tremendous success story of wonder-ZIM – just as going all-in or not, attracted to a single stock or hedging supply chain exposure via a logistics basket (however small or sizeable), …

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    https://theloadstar.com/on-the-wire-wonder-zim-breaks-hearts-as-china-stumbles-and-why-it-matters/

    ‘Shape-shifting’ in 2021 sees M&A – and a need for forwarders to invest

    “Shape-shifting” is how Sarah Banks, global freight and logistics lead at Accenture, describes 2021.
    There have, of course, been many changes, but perhaps the one with the longest-term effect is the massive growth in M&A, spurred on by vast profits, particularly for shipping lines.
    And the M&A news just keeps on coming, as any end-of-year-fatigued freight journalist will tell you.
    This week alone: MSC made a €5.7bn bid for Bolloré Africa Logistics; Maersk …

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    https://theloadstar.com/shape-shifting-in-2021-sees-ma-and-a-need-for-forwarders-to-invest/

    FreightWaves LIVE recap: Is LPaaS the future of FreightTech?

    Redwood expert talks about FreightTech.

    This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME.

    FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: LPaaS as the future of FreightTech

    DETAILS: FreightWaves’ President, George Abernathy, and Mark Yeager chat about the future of FreightTech and how Logistics Programming as a Service (LPaaS) can help shippers overcome integration challenges.

    SPEAKER: Yeager is the CEO at Redwood Logistics.

    BIO: Yeager has more than 25 years of experience in transportation and logistics. In addition to working as Redwood’s CEO,...

    https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-live-recap-is-lpaas-the-future-of-freighttech

    DSV sails into the charter market in a ‘one-off deal’ to beat the capacity crunch

    DSV has taken the “extraordinary” step of chartering its own vessels to beat the China-Europe capacity crunch.
    Amid one of the worst-ever capacity and equipment shortages in container shipping, the forwarder has chartered three multipurpose vessels for a direct sailing from Shanghai to the Danish port of Aarhus later this month.
    A DSV spokesman told The Loadstar: “For now, this is only for one trip with each of the three 700-1,200 teu …

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    https://theloadstar.com/dsv-sails-into-the-charter-market-in-a-one-off-deal-to-beat-the-capacity-crunch/

    ‘Forwarders are with us’ as we drive into logistics, says Maersk

    Maersk’s integrator strategy has not lost it support from freight forwarders, according to its ocean and logistics CEO, Vincent Clerc.
    Yesterday, Maersk announced bumper profits for Q3, and Mr Clerc told the Hong Kong’s Asian Logistics, Maritime and Aviation Conference the group was also seeing a gradual expansion of its logistics business.
    “That is really based on the confidence that more and more customers are placing in Maersk for doing more, or taking a …

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    https://theloadstar.com/forwarders-are-with-us-as-we-drive-into-logistics-claims-maersk/

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