28 Sept 2021
Cosco Shipping Lines recently enhanced its refrigerated cargo fleet with next-generation EverFRESH® active controlled- atmosphere (CA) systems from Carrier Transicold. The high-performing systems enable perishable shipments to travel farther while retaining commodity quality. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions.
26-May-2021
Carrier Transicold now provides remote monitoring of mixed fleets, including those using refrigeration systems from multiple manufacturers, through a single interface, the company’s versatile new Lynx™ Fleet platform. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions.
09-Feb-2021
Intermodal Asia:The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020, was an unpredictable event for everyone. What has been the impact of this epidemic on your company and the container shipping industry?
WNG: At the beginning of 2020, a sudden outbreak of COVID-19 spread rapidly around the world, bringing significant threats to people's lives. But also, causing...
14-April-2020
Container shipping has an enormous environmental impact. According to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), global shipping is responsible for about 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions—by 2050, it may account for an astonishing 17% as trade grows in volume and scale. With globalisation entrenched and...
30-March-2020
Fresh food, perishable goods, urgent medical supplies and sensitive vaccines all require very particular storage conditions across long voyages. They need precise environmental controls, which in turn requires the correct infrastructure and rigorous standards. This is the cold chain, a unique supply chain of cooled storage and refrigerated transport.
16-March-2020
Containerised shipping accounted for 1.82 billion tonnes of global trade in 2017. With so many containers traversing the waves in such high rates, the question of what to do with disused containers is an extremely pertinent one—in particular, ports in the Philippines, Nigeria, Kenya and the United Kingdom are struggling with a surplus of empty boxes.
05-March-2020
With ships getting bigger and global trade flowing in larger and faster rates than ever, the world’s major ports are struggling to keep up. Many are turning to artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) to better manage the flow of goods, save money and improve efficiency. This digital transformation....
31-Jan-2020
Last week we took to the water to discover how China’s Belt & Road Initiative is transforming maritime trade. But that’s only part of the story.
In addition to upgrading port infrastructure and creating new continent-spanning trade agreements, China is investing in a vast multimodal network of roads and railways across Eurasia, intended to link...
23-Jan-2020
China’s efforts to revive the ancient Silk Road is a gargantuan project. Called the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, this global development and investment strategy involves 152 countries, and has even designed to create a single economic area linking markets with new overland and maritime trade routes—the eponymous ‘belt’ and ‘road’ respectively.
15-Jan-2020
The world's largest port is a key factor in the economies of China and Asia as a whole. It boasts high-tech smart terminals, and last year handled over 42 million TEUs, over a quarter of all international trading volume in China. This is in part thanks to the deep water Yangshan Port, which was built in 2005 to allow the Port of Shanghai to grow despite shallow waters near the shore.
09-Jan-2020
The global transformation of container shipping as a result of new technology is at the heart of Intermodal Asia. This innovation, spearheaded by Chinese firms and global intermodal giants alike, represents new priorities within the industry, particularly a desire for much...
11-Nov-2019
Exhibitions can be crowded and fast-paced. If your firm is exhibiting, you only have a limited opportunity to stand out from the crowd, to make your stand really pop and get visitors flocking to see what your company has to offer.
01-Nov-2019
While container shipping dominates the conversation, it is only part of the intermodal story. Across the world, shipping companies and freight forwarders still rely on road and rail networks to move goods, because both options continue to offer considerable
advantages.
10-Oct-2019
We still entertain romantic notions of the Silk Road: of silks, spices and porcelain borne by camel through mountains, oases, cities and deserts with evocative names like Sogdia, Samarkand and Transoxiana. For centuries, these trade routes were the commercial arteries of Eurasia, taking goods and people between China and the West.
30-Sep-2019
Autonomous drones are increasingly commonplace and driverless cars are lauded as the future of automobiles, but you don’t often hear shipping spoken about in the same breath.But, within the shipping industry, autonomy is no longer the stuff of...
11-Sep-2019
Containerised shipping accounted, in 2017, for 1.82 billion tonnes of global trade. Currently, there are around 22 million containers plying the oceans, but for ports with a significant trade imbalance – those that import more than they export – they are causing huge problems. Empty containers stack up.