

As one of the largest employers in the Tees Valley in the UK, PD Ports has long been committed to the health, safety and wellbeing of its people.As we approach the end of the year and reflect on the many personal and professional challenges presented by COVID-19, the port operator is now placing a renewed focus on the signs, symptoms...
China is stockpiling every kind of commodity at a “mind-blowing” rate, with the country’s imports propping up an overall fall in trade volumes globally, bulk terminal operators and shippers were told last week at a virtual conference organised by the Association of Bulk Terminal Operators (ABTO).In an introductory...
The conversion of Amercentrale’s fifth turbine will be rounded off after the summer. At that point, 90 percent of the electricity and heat produced by the Brabant power station will be generated from wood pellets. While this is a logical step forward in plant owner RWE’s pursuit of its sustainability targets, it does...
Ten private- and public-sector partners have marked the launch of the North-C-Methanol project. Together they will reduce annually the CO2 emissions by 140,000 tons.They will also generate 44,000 tons of “green” methanol locally, which can be used as feedstock for the chemicals and renewables industries, as well as fuel...
The port of Rotterdam handled a total of 103.4 million tonnes of freight in the third quarter of 2020. Total throughput over the first nine months of the year stands at 322.3 million tonnes. This is 8.8% lower than the volume recorded in the equivalent period last year. The main throughput categories to record a decline in volumes...
The “Getting to Zero Coalition” was launched at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019 as part of a partnership between three intergovernmental organisations (the Global Maritime Forum, Friends of Ocean Action and the World Economic Forum) to combat climate change.It aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...