Grimaldi starts Houston/West Africa link

Canadian Pacific Kansas City is testing US-bound import containers from Mexico’s Lazaro Cardenas to Houston.

A crew member died during operations on the PCTC Grande Baltimora in Melbourne, with an investigation and support for the family underway.

From mid-February, the established Kaldenkirchen-Domodossola link will be available with onward steel wheel connectivity to Bari; Domossola-Bari will also be offered as a single route. Thanks to a partnership with Grimaldi, customers can make a single booking between Kaldenkirchen and Patras

Automar has started a rail service for Italian-built cars for export from its logistics hub in Pontecagnano (Salerno) to the ro-ro terminal it manages and operates in the port of Gioia Tauro

The New York-based investment company Davidson Kempner (DK), along with its Italian partner One33, is to buy a majority shareholding in the Setramar terminal in the northern Adriatic port of Ravenna. Separately, Infracapital and InfraVia are exiting the Italian ports sector

In August 2023, the US’s leading Gulf coast port of Houston handled 20% fewer containers than in the same month of 2022. A total 307,624 TEU was processed.