Rainmaking, a corporate innovation and venture development firm, has matched Cargotec, HHLA, Inmarsat, Shell, and Wärtsilä with a total of eight start-ups through its Trade & Transport Impact Programme.
After trialling the solutions developed by the Sea Traffic Management (STM) project on-board the ships of its Costa and Aida brands, the corporation's entire fleet is now using them.
The shipping line, part of CMA CGM, has received from the Chinese Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard Containerships Polar, its second in a series of four 1,380 TEUs-big (incl. 360 reefer plugs) gas-run vessels.
The Chinese shipyard has completed another stage of delivering the brand-new ferry named Stena Edda, which, once commissioned, will enter service on the Belfast-Liverpool route in spring 2020.
The Finnish short sea shipping company, part of the CMA CGM group that has recently been merged with MacAndrews, has extended its network with a service that links the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic via the North Sea.
The Danish shipping company will on 24 September deploy a larger container carrier on a loop that connects England's east shore with Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, and Finland.
