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GRAZ, Austria, May 18, 2018 (Press Release) -International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Södra, Sweden, to supply a bio-methanol cleaning and purification plant for Södra’s pulp mill in Mönsterås.
GRAZ, Austria, May 18, 2018 (Press Release) -International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Södra, Sweden, to supply a bio-methanol cleaning and purification plant for Södra’s pulp mill in Mönsterås.
GRAZ, Austria, April 26, 2018 (Press Release) -Mondi yesterday launched its third scientific cooperation to date with the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria. Mondi is the corporate partner and sponsor of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for ‘Mass Transport through Paper’, which will research the porosity of paper and how particles – such as gases, compressible liquids and microorganisms – travel through paper. The findings are expected to have practical applications for Mondi packaging and paper solutions, for example for food packaging.
ASHEVILLE, NC, May 18, 2018 (Press Release) -The people of Estonia struggling to prevent a huge ‘biorefinery’, which would consume a quarter of Estonia’s wood supply and pollute the country’s second largest river, have today received support from concerned organisations all over the world.
ESPOO, Finland, May 18, 2018 (Press Release) -Valmet and Georgia-Pacific have entered into a licensing agreement covering the eTAD(TM) tissue making technology. Under the license agreement, Valmet will market, manufacture and install Advantage eTAD machines for tissue customers outside North America.
The composite index is down by 1.1% this week, was also down by 8.9% from the same period of 2017.
The average composite index of the WCI, assessed by Drewry for year-to-date, is US $1,365/40ft container, which is $172 lower than the five-year average of $1,537/40ft container.
The number of cars shipped rose by 20%, whilst intra-European ro-ro units and energy products increased by five and three per cent respectively.
The vast majority of Sweden’s foreign trade with countries outside Europe takes place by sea and largely with the aid of container vessels.
"Shorr needed a larger facility to support our continued growth and to help operate more efficiently," explained Craig Funkhouser, CEO. "We will continue to focus efforts on providing high service levels for all our customers. The larger facility will help us gain advantages within the region, which can be passed on to help provide better service to our national, multi-location customers."
"The significant investments at Saint-Félicien are expected to improve several areas of the operation, increasing the average daily production capacity by 76 metric tons and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuels by 20%," said Yves Laflamme, president and chief executive officer.
With the launch of three new digital solutions, Kuehne + Nagel is effectively contributing to one of its main goals of digitalisation: to facilitate and further enhance the interaction between its customers and the company.
“We are investing to move the economy as we put the rolling stock, infrastructure and people in place to serve the growing needs of our valued customers,” said JJ Ruest, interim president and chief executive officer of CN. “These additional centrebeams, combined with our recently-announced acquisition of 350 additional box cars, give us the tools to put more capacity at the disposal of business partners such as West Fraser. CN needs to and will do better moving lumber to market.”
On May 12, the first Silk Road train exclusively destined for Antwerp has arrived. The freight train had left the Chinese port of Tangshan on 26 April. This direct railway link between China and Antwerp is part of the transnational Chinese ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, with which China seeks to revive the trade routes of the old Silk Road from Asia to Europe.
