The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has launched an expedited inquiry into the timing and legal sufficiency of ocean carrier practices with respect to certain surcharges. Eight ocean carriers are being asked to provide the Commission’s Bureau of Enforcement (BoE) with details about congestion or related surcharges they have implemented or announced. BoE has given the ocean carriers until August 13, …
Atlas partners with Ideloc for better driver safety
Atlas World Group, Inc. in the USA has announced a partnership between the Idelic Safety Suite® and its largest subsidiary, Atlas® Van Lines. With Idelic Safety Suite, the trucking industry’s leading driver management platform, Atlas Van Lines plans to enhance its claims prevention practices, bring safety and driver development programs up to today’s expectations and institute artificial intelligence to mitigate …
PSS in UK Euromovers top booker for 2020
Congratulations to PSS International in the UK for being the 2020 Top Booker through the EUROMOVERS Network. PSS provides a full international moving service operating to FAIM (FIDI Accredited International Mover) standards. The company has regular consolidation services to Europe and 2-4-weekly export groupage to New Zealand, Australia, Cyprus, UAE, India, Canada, USA, Canary Islands and South Africa. Receiving depots …
Maersk orders methanol-powered ship
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 …
Panama canal to allow bigger ships
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 …
Taiwan tops the popularity list for expats
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 …
Atlas reveals the impact of COVID-19 on relocation
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 …
European economy to recover by end of 2022
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 …
EUROMOVERS 3rd virtual conference
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 …
Leadership, COVID, family and working with mum
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