Maritime set to help vaccinate the world

Dominating the past year’s news has been the pandemic, mainly about the social distancing and lock-down regimes in various countries, but also the heralded way out of the Covid nightmare has been the development of vaccines that will mitigate the viral effects.

Those vaccines were delivered in record time and have been disseminated amongst the populations of a few countries, either by truck directly from the manufacturing centres or by air for speed of delivery. This has been particularly true...

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Singapore slips, but PSAI increases volumes in 2020

Global container terminal operator PSA International has reported a 1.7% increase in container volumes for its terminals around the world, with its Singapore facility handling 36.6 million TEU, a decrease of 0.9% as its overseas terminals outperformed the flagship port.

PSA’s terminals outside of Singapore handled 50 million TEU, a 3.7% year-on-year increase in throughput, taking the total volumes for 2020 to 86.6 million TEU.

Tan Chong Meng, Group CEO at PSA, said that this year, “Gives us the...

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