The government of the Netherlands plans to host an auction to import green hydrogen or its derivatives at the end of this year or early 2024, backed by €300m ($329m) of subsidies. The tender would be held through Germany’s existing H2Global auction platform, which acts as a middleman between producers and buyers.
Investor developer British Land has secured planning approval for an ultra-low carbon urban logistics hub at Paddington Central in the heart of London. The 12,000 m² facility will provide inbound access to trucks and will facilitate outbound deliveries only via smaller electric vehicles and electric cargo bikes.
Electrolysers powered by nuclear generation capacity could deliver hydrogen — known as pink hydrogen — more cheaply in the United States than green hydrogen facilities hooked up to renewable energy, according to new analysis from French bank Lazard. How energy efficiencies and tax credits stimulate pink hydrogen production in the United States.
Hydrogen is often cited as the energy source of the future, because of its capabilities in providing low-carbon energy, essential to reaching net-zero emissions. Besides hydrogen, green ammonia has also appeared on the scene but what is green ammonia and what benefits does it have compared to green hydrogen? And will green ammonia overtake green hydrogen in the energy transition?
Maersk and IBM have announced they will discontinue their work on their TradeLens blockchain platform. The platform, under development since 2018, will go offline by the end of Q1 next year. But why did TradeLens lose the battle in the container shipping industry?
Last week, the Embassy of Brazil in the Netherlands organised a cachaça tasting event in Rotterdam. The Spirits Business Global Master Award winning Engenho Dom Tapparo cachaça was present at this successful, informal promotion of the famous Brazilian drink in Read more…
America’s most prolific marketplace is continuing its push to monopolize its sellers’ entire supply chains. Amazon this week announced a new service that will grant sellers access to its massive warehousing and distribution network. Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) makes the promise Read more…
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Container lines are using pandemic windfalls to fashion themselves into logistics giants. But their empire building risks a backlash. When French container-shipping giant CMA CGM Group announced a cargo partnership with Air France-KLM last week, the real surprise was its Read more…
Shipping congestion at Chinese ports, combined with Russia’s war in Ukraine, risks a one-two punch that threatens to derail the recovery, already buffeted by inflation pressures and headwinds to growth. Is globalisation going back to square one?
