Maritime

Canadian transportation and logistics leader, Pinnacle Logistics Solutions (Pinnacle), recently chartered a vessel for its client that made possible the transportation of 8,000 metric tons of steel from Bilbao, Spain, into the North American Great Lakes – eventually traveling west on the St. Lawrence Seaway into Lake Ontario, and discharging at the port of Hamilton, ON.

The world’s largest container shipping line has called for a $150-a-ton carbon tax on shipping fuel that would drive up the costs for an industry that delivers 80% of world trade.

Ports around the U.S. are rolling out vaccines for seafarers, extending a lifeline to thousands of mostly foreign workers who’ve spent the pandemic isolated aboard ships ensuring goods kept trading across a battered global economy.

This summer the Netherlands will see the deployment of a self-propelled container barge utilizing battery power, an undertaking supported by a long-term contract with the Dutch beer maker Heineken.