Top Glory Marine Service (TGM) is pleased to announce Cathrin Prikker will join the company’s management team as Managing Director with immediate effect, says an article published on ship management international.
Long-serving Managing DirectorMs Prikker will take up this position alongside the founder and long-serving Managing Director, Silke Fehr. The appointment marks a strong, competent and female-led dual leadership to help shape the future of TGM.
The new joint MD has...
FSO SAFER – Contingency Planning Workshops in Yemen
As part of United Nations-coordinated efforts to address the risk of an oil spill from the FSO SAFER moored off the coast of Yemen, the International Maritime Organization and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Yemen are supporting contingency planning workshops to strengthen Yemen’s oil spill response capability.
The first workshop took place in Sana’a, Yemen. A second workshop will be organized in Aden, Yemen, in mid-March.
The...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/02/25/fso-safer-contingency-planning-workshops-in-yemen/
During the One Ocean Summit last week, container shipping company CMA CGM committed to stop transporting plastic waste overseas beginning in June.
The Marseille, France-based company shipped approximately 50,000 twenty-foot equivalent units of plastic waste from developed countries to Southeast Asia in 2021, CMA CGM Group told FreightWaves. That adds up to about 500,000 tons of plastic waste sent to countries that didn’t produce it.
Though many companies that produce and use single-use plastic...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cma-cgm-to-halt-overseas-transport-of-plastic-waste
London-based waste management company Cory has revealed that its entire fleet of tugs will convert to low carbon biofuel. The post Waste-carrying tug boats to run on biofuel appeared first on…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/waste-carrying-tug-boats-to-run-on-biofuel/
This week, we’re talking trash. Not what’s in it, but what moves it. The frequent stop-and-go operation of garbage trucks make them ideal for electrification. So why aren’t they being adopted more quickly?
Waste notIs there a better vehicle candidate for electrification than the unlovable garbage truck?
They start and stop for a living. Regenerative braking captures energy to put it back into the battery. Garbage is still going to be smelly. But take away the diesel fumes spewing from the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-talk-trash-talking-edition
Los Angeles-based port drayage company Pac Anchor Transportation recently added 23 natural gas trucks to its fleet, and they are expected to use 2.5 million gallons of renewable natural gas (RNG) from Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE).
Clean Energy’s RNG, which the company said reduces greenhouse gas emissions 70% to 300% depending on the source, is sweeping across North America.
After a recent agreement to provide Amazon with RNG for fleets and a stock warrant for up to 53.14 million shares of...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/double-digits-clean-energy-announces-multiple-rng-agreements
This is an excerpt from the March 11, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
Good afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.
Demand surge, supply shortages complicate COVID-19 waste management
The challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic instantly increased demand for some...
This fireside chat recap is from Day 2 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. Day 2 focuses on retail, building and construction.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How to define and implement a sustainable retail supply chain
DETAILS: Susy Schöneberg and FreightWaves’ Andrew Cox discuss waste management, greenhouse gas emissions and social sustainability for retail supply chains. Flexport.org provides customers with usable data to help them make informed decisions regarding sustainability and other...
The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) has released its 2020 list of the top transportation companies for females.
The annual Top Companies for Women to Work for in Transportation list was created by WIT magazine Redefining the Road in 2018 as part of its mission to promote the accomplishments of businesses focused on the employment of females in the trucking industry.
Companies making the list this year were listed alphabetically, beginning with AGT Global Logistics, founded and led by Angela...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/best-transportation-companies-for-female-employees-named