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David LeMay appointed President of McAsphalt Industries
TORONTO – McAsphalt Industries Limited, Canada’s leader in asphalt and bitumen manufacturing and distribution, has announced the appointment of David LeMay as President. With a proven track record in

Panamanian President denies State Department claim of free canal passages for U.S. military vessels
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino today strongly rejected a State Department claim that his country had agreed to allow U.S. government vessels to transit the Panama Canal

Port of Trois-Rivières handled 3.5MT of cargo in 2024
In 2024, 3.5 million metric tonnes of cargo transited through the Port of Trois-Rivières, the St. Lawrence port announced. The throughput was broken down as

The Government of Canada investing $125m in marine safety projects involving Indigenous and coastal communities
Truro, NS – The Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, the Honourable Anita Anand, announced on Feb. 4 an investment of over $125 million through

Transport Canada invests $25m in Port of Halifax green shipping and supply chain infrastructure
Halifax – The Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, the Honourable Anita Anand, announced today an investment of up to $25 million for the Halifax Port Authority.

Infrastructure projects help propel HOPA to 11.5M tonne year
HOPA Ports (Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority) has released results for the 2024 navigation season, reporting a combined total cargo of 11.46 million metric tonnes (MT) through the ports

Strategic alliance between five Saguenay-St. Lawrence ports and North Sea Port
Quebec City – The port authorities of Montréal, Québec, Saguenay, Sept-Îles, and Trois-Rivières have approved a memorandum of understanding with North Sea Port. This initiative

American Association of Port Authorities voices strong opposition to Trump tariff agenda
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has added its voice to the rising chorus of North American business interests expressing serious concern over the

Turkish shipbuilder launches largest sail-powered ro/ro vessel
RMK Marine has launched Neoliner Origin, the primarily-wind powered RO/RO ordered at the Turkish shipyard by Nantes-based Neoline. In the coming months, sea trials of the Neoliner

Antidia Citores appointed General Manager of Green Marine Europe
Quebec City – Green Marine International has announced the appointment of Antidia Citores as General Manager for Green Marine Europe, the environmental certification program for
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World Shipping Council pleads for more collaboration to mitigate Covid-19 challenges (Forum)
Ocean carriers are taking all available measures to improve the speed and efficiency of cargo movement including employing all available vessel tonnage says the World

The ongoing seafarer crisis: do charterers have hearts? (FORUM)
Widely regarded as the senior statesman of world shipping journalism, Michael Grey* offers in our FORUM section, another impassioned commentary and an urgent suggestion for

Tailwinds of 2020 (Forum)
Shipping has faced some historically significant challenges this year, we opened the year with IMO 2020, the greatest change in fuel regulation in this

Collaborative technologies for maritime transport at economies of scale (Forum)
by Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Adam Roark, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Michele Sancricca, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Almir Zerem, RISE,

Melting sea ice makes Canada more, not less dependent on Icebreakers (Forum)
Climate change leads to more sea ice and higher risks for commercial marine shipping For more than ten months of the year, Canada’s Arctic is

New technology may weaken seafarers’ professional judgment (Forum)
By Guro Kulset Merakerås A good sailor has traditionally been a person who makes decisions that ensure that their ship, cargo and crew are

Montreal, a hub of excellence in intelligent transport and logistics (Forum)
Open letter by Sylvie Vachon, President and CEO of the Montreal Port Authority, published following the recent interview with Jean-Philippe Décarie in La Presse. As a

Three reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters
Summer minimum sea ice extent in the Arctic reached the second-lowest level on record in 2020 (NASA) By Mark Serreze. Research Professor of Geography and

How the Global Pandemic Put Container Shipping in the Spotlight (Forum)
By Claudio Bozzo, Chief Operating Officer, MSC Shipping is one of the oldest industries in the world. Today, around 90% of goods are transported by

Shell sets course for net-zero emissions shipping, backing hydrogen and fuel cells (Forum)
In a new report published September 29, Decarbonising Shipping: Setting Shell’s Course, Shell highlights the important role that hydrogen and fuel cells could play in

The wind carries a shipping revolution with Oceanbird (Forum)
Innovative Swedish technology will make it possible to power the large ocean-going vessels by wind, reducing emissions by 90 percent. Oceanbird is a concept for

Too easily forgotten heroes under COVID-19 (Forum)
Widely regarded as the senior statesman of world maritime journalism, Michael Grey* offers, in our FORUM section, an impassioned commentary on seafarers as the too easily

Sustainable fuel is not science fiction (Forum)
Copenhagen, 20 August 2020 Nel, Everfuel and Haldor Topsøe join Ørsted, Mærsk, Copenhagen Airports, DSV Panalpina, SAS and DFDS to establish one of the world’s

Greenpeace launch protest against Shell’s Brent oil field decommissioning plans (Forum)
Greenpeace activist Jennifer Ganster North Sea – Greenpeace activists from Germany have launched a protest in the North Sea to call out Shell’s plans to

Port of London Pilot, Ms. Ivana Carrioni-Burnett, shares a new personal insight during the COVID-19 crisis (Forum)
Photo : Ivana Maria Carrioni-Burnett 10 August 2020 by Ivana Maria Carrioni-Burnett London. UK. Reporting for Human Rights at Sea , Port of London Authority Pilot, Ms.