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Big appetite for SET Maritime toolkit to enable digital transformation

AJOT Newsroom | April 25, 2022 | Maritime | Technology

SET Maritime is pointing the way for digital decision-making in the shipping industry after a surge of downloads of the newly launched Software Evaluation Toolkit (SET) as more supporters seek to come onboard.

Huawei pumps $22 billion into R&D to beat US sanctions

Bloomberg | April 25, 2022 | International Trade

Few companies devote more of their revenue to research than Huawei Technologies Co., for which developing new technologies is a matter of thwarting crippling U.S. trade and investment sanctions.

Shipa Freight and iContainers to merge

AJOT Newsroom | April 25, 2022 | Logistics | Shipping Technology

ATA Freight surpasses one quarter million lifetime tree plantings

AJOT Newsroom | April 25, 2022 | Logistics

Flying taxi hub startup nears $25 million in fresh funding

Bloomberg | April 25, 2022 | Air Cargo | Technology

Urban-Air Port, a U.K. startup that’s developing hubs for flying taxis, is closing in on 20 million pounds ($25.4 million) in funding after attracting two new equity investors.

Russia’s Rosneft fails to award big oil tender with buyers wary

Bloomberg | April 25, 2022 | Energy

FAA apologizes for failure that led to Capitol evacuation

Bloomberg | April 25, 2022 | Air Cargo | Airports

The evacuation of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday night occurred after aviation officials failed to provide advance notice to police about a fly-over at a baseball game in Washington, they acknowledged Friday evening.

Former Flexport senior executive joins logistics startup Nuvocargo as head of customs

AJOT Newsroom | April 25, 2022 | Shipping Technology

Drewry port throughput indices for April 2022

AJOT Newsroom | April 25, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

The Drewry Container Port Throughput Indices are a series of volume growth/decline indices based on monthly throughput data for a sample of over 235 ports worldwide, representing over 75% of global volumes. The base point for the indices is January 2012 = 100.

Industry veteran appointed as trade development director for the Port of Corpus Christi

AJOT Newsroom | April 25, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority has named Marcelo “Yudi” Takizawa as its Director of Trade Development. Takizawa has more than 20 years of commercial business and market development leadership experience in the energy and marine transportation space. He comes to the Port of Corpus Christi from Vopak.

Ports & Terminals

Stas Margaronis | April 25, 2022

Proposed California inland port project to relieve port congestion

The California Inland Port project proposes to develop four inland logistics hubs in California’s San Joaquin Valley stretching from Bakersfield in the south to Sacramento in the north helping to reduce congestion at California ports, according to Lois Yates, a partner at Global Logistics Development (GLD) Partners.

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