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Maersk orders methanol-fuelled vessel Maersk and Hyundai Mipo Dockyards have agreed on a contract for Hyundai Mipo to build a feeder vessel with a dual engine technology enabling it to sail on either methanol or traditional very low Sulphur fuel. Maersk announced the intention to order the vessel, an industry first, on 17 February 2021. It will fly the Danish …

The Panama Canal has increased the maximum allowable length (LOA) for vessels transiting the Neopanamax Locks. From May 2021, the LOA for commercial and non-commercial vessels acceptable for regular transits of the Neopanamax Locks increased from 367.28 metres to 370.33 metres. The maximum permitted draft has also been increased from 14.93 metres to 15.24 metres. These seemingly modest increases mean …

A new survey by conducted by InterNations, a Munich-based expat network, has ranked Taiwan, Mexico and Costa Rica as the top three places to live and work in 2021. The survey considered medical care, quality of life, job security and the state of the economy. Kuwait, Italy and South Africa were at the bottom of the list. The survey was …

On 25th May, Atlas® Van Lines, Inc., published its 54th annual Corporate Relocation Survey, looking at the pandemic’s impact on the world of relocation and workforce mobility. The study also includes comprehensive relocation policy data from industry professionals operating in North American companies and managing employee relocations as part of their job function. For the analysis, participating firms are categorized …

The European Commission’s Spring 2021 Economic Forecast projects that the EU economy will expand by 4.2% in 2021 and by 4.4% in 2022. The euro area economy is forecast to grow by 4.3% this year and 4.4% next year. This represents a significant upgrade of the growth outlook compared to the Winter 2021 Economic Forecast which the Commission presented in …

On 19 May 2021, EUROMOVERS held the third of its virtual conferences to help keep members up to date of developments within the organisation and acknowledge its high achievers. The conference was attended by around 50 members and provided a useful and welcome contact while face to face meetings remain impossible. The conference programme included: a workshop, led by Frank …

Angels Gallardo from Euromovers member Inter S&R in Barcelona, has been featured as the cover story in The Mover magazine. In the article Angels talks about taking over the management of her mother’s company, of handling the COVID-19 crisis and bringing up a family as a working mum. To read the fill story in The Mover, follow this link: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=8bb9e408-654f-45d2-9137-35f84171a0c9&pnum=26

Fitting sails to cargo ships and sailing more slowly could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry by up to 40% or possibly more as technologies improve, according to a new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK. Air pollution from shipping has increased rapidly over the last decade driven by growth in world trade, and …

Charge4Europe, the joint venture between DKV and innogy eMobility Solutions, is further expanding its infrastructure for emobility in Italy by integrating Ekomobil’s charging network. The move will give DKV customers access to more than 13,000 additional public charging points in Italy. Sven Mehringer, Managing Director Energy & Vehicle Services at DKV said, “The connection to the charging network operated by …

The Maersk 40ft container consignment arrived at Felixstowe, UK, on 2 March, after its departure from Yokohama, Japan in January, having crossed Russia by both land and sea. The service, operated with railway provider Modul, is part of Maersk´s AE19 service which has connected Asia and Europe via the Trans-Siberian railway and the ports of Vostochniy and St Petersburg since …