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  Sailing speeds by global shipping lines could decline by about 10% before 2025, predicts BIMCO, the world’s largest organization for shipowners, charterers, shipbrokers and ship agents. In slow steaming, a containership travels at a speed of 12-19 knots instead of the usual 20-24 knots. BIMCO notes that slow steaming was introduced in the aftermath […]

  The Port of Montreal has won the Canadian Company of the Year Award from the Belgian Canadian Business Chamber (BCBC). The award was presented on April 27, 2023 at the BCBC Business Excellence Awards Gala to Guillaume Brossard, Vice-President, Development, Marketing and International Relations and Alain Berard, Director of Development and International Relations of

  Norway’s biggest transportation enterprise, Torghatten AS, will soon launch the world’s first self-driving commercial passenger ferry, entirely powered by electricity. It will operate between the Stockholm islands of Kungsholmen and Södermalm in Sweden, commencing in June. The idea of autonomous urban ferries was hatched at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in

  Florida-based Crowley will launch an end-to-end, integrated ocean and rail service between Mexico and the U.S. Midwest region and into Canada. Featuring Crowley’s new Mexico-U.S. ocean route in the Gulf, the service will leverage the inland rail network of Canadian National Railway Company and its U.S. rail subsidiaries (CN). The companies’ combined network provides

  The Musqueam First Nations community and Ocean Group have signed a collaborative framework agreement to foster marine sector opportunities within Musqueam territory and potentially beyond. This agreement, signed in January 2023, provides for commitments that will prioritize economic and social benefits for the Musqueam community, and contracting opportunities for Ocean Group. This includes capacity

  Six years after signing their initial international cooperation agreement, the Port of Montreal and HAROPA PORT have announced that they are renewing it with the primary objective of strengthening the trade corridors between Canada and France. The agreement was signed on April 28 by Martin Imbleau, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Montreal

  Our spring 2023 edition highlights two features of strong interest to marine industry stakeholders across Canada and overseas plus a special analytical report by editor Leo Ryan in his First Watch column on a subject of critical interest: what the future holds for the world’s oceans. One feature consists of our annual review of

  Overall cargo volumes through the Port of Vancouver decreased by 3% in 2022, following a rebound in the second half of the year led by resource exports, Canada’s largest port announced. The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s 2022 statistics, released today, show a total of 141.4 million metric tonnes (MMT) of goods moved through Port of Vancouver terminals in

  After a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Pollution Prevention and Response committee closed at the end of last week (PPR10), the Clean Arctic Alliance denounced the IMO’s failure to progress compulsory measures to reduce black carbon emissions from international shipping on the Arctic. It called for national governments to urgently develop concrete proposals

  Meeting at the Canadian Embassy in Paris on an official mission, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) Martin Imbleau and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante signed the Worldwide Network of Port Cities (AIVP) Agenda 2030. Through this commitment, the City of Montreal and the Port of Montreal strengthen their determination as a port city to jointly implement the United Nations Sustainable