Your vehicles can help clean the air

A new technique, Clean Air by Resysten, is set to make a significant impact on air quality by harnessing nano technology to capture NOx emissions in the air and transform them into harmless oxygen O2 and nitrogen gas N2.  NOx is one of the major greenhouse gasses, less abundant than CO2 but, according to the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …

Suddath rejoins Atlas

Atlas® Van Lines has announced that Suddath Moving & Storage LLC has rejoined as an Atlas Agent. Atlas Van Lines, the largest subsidiary of Atlas® World Group, is owned by its Agents. Suddath, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, serves corporate, military, and consumer customers domestically and internationally. With 15 locations and an extensive domestic and global partner network, Suddath Moving & …

Record draft accepted at Felixstowe

The Mumbai Maersk has set a new record for the deepest draft vessel to call at Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe in the UK. The 20,568 TEU capacity ship arrived on 11 November from Bremerhaven with a draft of 16.8 metres and sailed 24 hours later with a draft of 17.0 metres. The record was set just four weeks after …

Harm Meierdirks dies aged 56

Harm Meierdirks, Chairman of the Overseas Shippers Association (OSA) and Director of Carl Hartman, has died, aged just 56.  He had been diagnosed with two inoperable brain tumours in March last year and, despite several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, he passed away on 30 December, 2023. He leaves behind his wife Janine and two sons Jakob and Jannis. As …

Van den Eijnden – by Royal Appointment

On the 125th anniversary of its foundation, Gebr. Van den Eijnden in The Netherlands was awarded the right to use the Royal Coat of Arms by the Dutch King Willem-Alexander.  The company will now be able to claim “By appointment to the court of the Netherlands”.  The certificate was presented to the company’s director Peter Lauret by deputy mayor Mieke …