March 20 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has been inducted into the Supplier Hall of Fame as part of the John Deere Achieving Excellence programme.
For the fifth consecutive year, John Deere recognised WWL as a partner-level supplier - the highest rating that the Iowa, USA based agricultural machinery manufacturer awards - and was subsequently welcomed into its Hall of Fame.
www.deere.com
www.2wglobal.com
Colonel’s Island Terminal at the USA’s port of Brunswick had its busiest month ever for ro-ro cargo during March 2024 handling 77,236 units, an increase of 21 percent over the same month of last year.
On behalf of XD‐EGEMAC, Egyptian Global Logistics (EGL) transported three 135-tonne transformers for the El-Eqtsadia substation.
Greece-headquartered Cosmatos Shipping Services has delivered transformer sets and their accessories from Thessaloniki port.
Shanghai Shipbuilding Research and Design Institute (SDARI), in collaboration with DNV and Toepfer Transport, has developed two state-of-the-art multipurpose vessel designs: Octopus 12.6 and Octopus 12.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has joined global public-private partnership the First Movers Coalition (FMC), which is working to scale the most critical, emerging climate technologies required to decarbonise the world’s heavy-emitting sectors.
Total cargo throughput of the port of Antwerp-Bruges amounted to 70.4 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 2.4 percent compared to the same period last year, with container throughput increasing and the general cargo sector showing signs of recovery.
