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Thursday, September 23, 2021

CIMAC World Congress: The Place Where the Large Engine Industry Meets

Every three years, the large engine industry meets for the CIMAC World Congress. Next year, after Helsinki in 2016 and Vancouver in 2019, Busan in South Korea will host the CIMAC Congress from June 13 -17, 2022. Shipbuilding is dominated by Asia with South Korea as key player for decades.

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Jennifer Carpenter

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Sam Ruda

Director, Port of NY/NJ

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Tracy Zea

President & CEO, Waterways Council Inc.

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Maritime Logistics News

Port Logistics

Port of Mobile Reports Record Growth

Containerized cargo volumes through Alabama's Port of Mobile continue to climb in 2021 as shippers seek uncongested gateways servicing key North American markets. In August, container volumes increased 34% over August 2020 volume, while year-to-date volume posted 27% over the same period last year…

Cruise

No Change on Sailing Plans after New COVID-19 Cases, Cruise Lines Say

Royal Caribbean Group and Carnival Corp will push ahead with a return to cruises this summer despite two guests onboard Royal Caribbean’s Celebrity Millennium ship testing positive for COVID-19.A year after several cruise ships were host to major coronavirus outbreaks and with large numbers of Americans now vaccinated…

Intermodal

Shipping Hurdles Pare Brazilian Coffee Exports

Exports of green coffee from Brazil, the world's largest producer, fell 27% in August from a year earlier to 2.33 million bags as difficulties to find containers and space at vessels increased in the last weeks, industry group Cecafe said on Monday.Cecafe said in a monthly report that around 3.5 million bags of coffee could not be shipped in time t

Company News

FuelTrax, TOPL Partner on BaaS Platform to enhance Energy Trade Transparency

FuelTrax has partnered with Topl to use Topl’s Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform to meet the demand for greater transparency in energy trading operations.With blockchain integrated into EFMS products, each step in the energy trading process has an equivalent digital step, including contract formation…

Contracts

V-Bunkers Orders Pair of Electric-Hybrid Bunker Tankers

Vitol’s Singaporean bunker operations company, V-Bunkers, placed an order to build two electric-hybrid bunker tankers, with the intention to deploy them for harbor ops in Singapore.The bunker tankers are being built at an undisclosed shipyard in China with Electric-Hybrid notation…