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DHL’s E-Commerce Trends Report 2025: AI and social media reshaping online shopping

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Logistics | Integrators | Shipping Technology

DHL eCommerce has released its E-Commerce Trends Report 2025, drawing on insights from 24,000 online shoppers across 24 key global markets.

Etihad Airways and SF Airlines sign cargo joint business agreement to expand global air freight network

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Etihad Airways and SF Airlines, China’s leading air cargo carrier, have signed a joint business agreement (JBA) to enhance their cargo operations, expand network capacity and offer customers greater flexibility and service options.

Konecranes launches offline chatbot for instant troubleshooting support

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

Konecranes has launched its new Warehouse Management System (WMS) Chatbot, an offline digital assistant designed to support operators with real-time troubleshooting and task guidance.

Kalmar and Hanseatic Global Terminals seal significant order for hybrid straddle carriers for CNMP Le Havre terminal

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

Advanced chip packaging unlocks energy, cost, and performance gains for AI and data centers

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Shipping Technology

Cleantech Group’s latest research highlights how innovation in advanced chip packaging is revolutionizing the semiconductor industry, offering massive energy savings, faster performance, and significantly reduced production costs.

TOP Ships Inc. announces intention to spin off a new Nasdaq-listed Suezmax tanker company

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Maritime | Bulk

TOP Ships Inc. announced that it intends to effect a spin-off of two of its Suezmax tanker vessels.

Alfa Laval secures order for the world’s first marine boiler system for ammonia waste incineration

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Green Shipping | Maritime | Technology

Alfa Laval announces a milestone in maritime decarbonization with an order for the world’s first marine boiler system designed for the safe incineration of ammonia emissions.

Farmers in EU raise alarm over Mercosur, Ukraine trade deals

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | International Trade | Commodity

French and Spanish farmers warned on Wednesday that a flood of imports under planned European Union trade agreements with South American bloc Mercosur and Ukraine risked severely undermining European agriculture.

EU, China tackle trade issues ahead of leaders’ summit

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | International Trade

The European Union's trade chief on Wednesday said Brussels and Beijing were working hard to address issues in their trade relationship ahead of a July summit, as Europe joined a chorus of alarm over China's stranglehold on critical minerals.

KR and SHI sign MOU to jointly develop 3-cargo-tank 174K LNG carrier

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Maritime | Bulk

KR (Korean Register) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) on June 4 at Nor-Shipping 2025 in Oslo to jointly develop a 174,000㎥ LNG carrier featuring three cargo tanks.

Beta Technologies, in a first, lands passenger-carrying electric aircraft at NY airport

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | Air Cargo | Airports

Beta Technologies became the first U.S. company to land an all-electric aircraft at an airport in the New York-New Jersey region, the company and port authorities said in Tuesday.

Burning cargo ship carrying 3,000 vehicles abandoned off Alaska

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | Maritime | Breakbulk News

Taiwan’s ambitious drive for renewable energy troubles some fishing communities

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | Energy | Alternative

Taiwan has set an ambitious goal to develop green, renewable energy as it seeks to play its part in tackling climate change, and the banks of wind farms visible in the haze off its blustery western coast are a major part of those plans.

Low-GHG solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to be installed on LNG carrier

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Green Shipping | Maritime | Technology

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd (SHI) have jointly acquired Approval in Principle (AiP) from the Lloyd’s Register for the design of a 174,000 LNG Carrier equipped with Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology.

HHLA strengthens commitment in Ukraine with majority stake in Eurobridge Intermodal Terminal Batiovo

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is investing in a further terminal in Ukraine.

Awery to lead digital transformation of Network Aviation Group

AJOT Newsroom | June 04, 2025 | Air Cargo | Technology

Network Aviation Group has appointed Awery Aviation Software (Awery) to lead its global IT transformation, designed to streamline and centralize its wide-ranging cargo operations.

Airbus shares rise as it edges closer to major Chinese jet order

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Shares in Europe's AirbusPA rose on Wednesday as evidence of talks to sell hundreds of planes to China gathered pace ahead of a summit of European and Chinese leaders in July.

Doubled US metals tariffs kick in as deadline for ‘best offers’ arrives

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | International Trade

UK PM Starmer confident US deal will be implemented before tariff deadline

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | International Trade

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday he was confident that tariffs on U.S. imports of British steel would be reduced to zero within a "couple of weeks", avoiding a July deadline which could see the levies jump to 50%.

EU says US trade talks move in right direction, but metals tariffs not helping

Reuters | June 04, 2025 | International Trade

Trade talks between the European Union and the United States are going in the right direction, Europe's top trade negotiator said on Wednesday, while criticising a doubling of U.S. metals tariffs as a move that did not help with the negotiations.

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