UK Freightliner unveils range of new intermodal services
Freightliner has stepped up its service portfolio by offering a game-changing twenty-five new services across England, Wales and Scotland. That’s a significant addition to the UK’s roster of around seven hundred daily freight trains. The raft of new services is understood to add to the company’s intermodal portfolio. Freightliner has taken the industry by surprise […]
Latest air travel outlook reveals 2024 to be a milestone for global passenger traffic
Airports Council International (ACI) World has today published its latest quarterly air travel outlook revealing global passenger traffic expected to recover in early 2024 as it reaches 9.4 billion passengers. Highlights from ACI World’s 14th Advisory Bulletin on the impact of COVID-19 on the airport business—and the path to recovery include: Global passenger volume in 2023 is expected […]
Five silk road connections added to fixed timetable
Five China-Europe rail connections have now been integrated into a fixed timetable by China Railways and will now be running on a weekly basis. Three of them concern westbound services, while the remaining two are for eastbound trains. The fixed timetable train service is currently capable of delivering goods between China and Europe in less than […]
Easyjet and Rolls-Royce Hydrogen Research Project sets new world industry first with key milestone success
Rolls-Royce, today announces a further key milestone, a world industry first, has been achieved in its hydrogen research project. Both Rolls-Royce and its partner easyJet are committed to being at the forefront of the development of hydrogen combustion engine technology capable of powering a range of aircraft, including those in the narrow-body market segment, from […]
Canada’s Mega Pipeline Promises to Redraw Global Oil Flows
Canada, home to the world’s third-largest crude deposits, is poised to reshuffle global oil flows next year. The nearly completed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline promises to vault Canada into a new role in global markets by transporting an additional 600,000 barrels a day — on par with the daily output of Azerbaijan — from the […]
Britain’s big winners go the extra mile in the latest official figures
Rail freight moved across Britain’s railway network had its ups and downs in the last quarter – and that’s no reference to the hilly gradients on the line. DCRail and Colas posted record distances travelled per freight vehicle, up by over thirty per cent and just over one hundred per cent, respectively. Freightliner’s heavy haul […]
Shipping’s top brass have itchy feet
Recruitment firm Faststream has just published its latest Senior Maritime Executive Report in which it is clear shipping’s top brass have itchy feet. There has been movement at the top with over a quarter of respondents saying they had changed jobs in the last two years, but 15% regretted doing so. The commonality of their job change […]
China’s European port interests mapped
Chinese container port interests in Europe have been making plenty of headlines in recent years. Putting their total presence across the continent into perspective analysts at Alphaliner have produced a map (see above) which shows that with the exception of the Adriatic Chinese companies now have port facilities in every corner of the continent. Chinese […]
Big Emissions Bills Are Coming for Ships in Europe
Ships carrying everything from consumer goods to food and fuel in and out of the European Union will soon face hefty emissions bills. The maritime industry will join the bloc’s Emissions Trading System in January, meaning big ships will start paying for carbon emissions. Some major freight firms — such as MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA and A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S — could see […]
Milestones reached along the increasingly busy Northern Sea Route
As the world’s oceans have broken surface temperature levels consistently during the past several months, more and more eyes have looked up to the north towards the growing shipping opportunities provided by the Northern Sea Route (NSR) which now has one of the longest shipping seasons on record.According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, […]
