Xeneta Appoints Luykx as Chief Revenue Officer
ocean and air freight to benchmark rates across the market in real time.The industry has experienced the most turbulent times in living memory as the Covid-19 pandemic plunged global supply chains into chaos and more recently through drought in the Panama Canal and conflict in the Red Sea impacting the Suez Canal.Luykx believes the industry needs a new way of working – and that data and machine learning hold the key.She said, “Disruption and innovation is my passion. Back when I joined Google, Microsoft was the status quo on office productivity and when you mentioned ‘the cloud’
Kanoo Shipping Acquires Wallem South Africa
. Handling its first vessel in 1911, Kanoo Shipping now operates in 20 countries, covering all principal ports and offshore tanker loading terminals around the Arabian Peninsula, including Iraq and assists with over 17,000 ship calls a year through a network that covers all ports from the Suez Canal to Sri Lanka and East/South Africa.
Energy Doldrums Force Boskalis to Cut Fleet, Staff
conditions to persist, is is essential that we adapt the size and composition of our fleet." The vessels to be scrapped, sold or layed up have an average age of 30 years. Boskalis, in common with most dredgers around the world, flourished during an earnings bonanza around Egypt's Suez Canal enlargement project that ended last year. No projects of comparable scale have since been forthcoming. Offshore engineers have been hit hard by low oil and commodity prices, which have forced energy companies to cut exploration budgets and extract less of the hard-to-reach deposits in
Quantum of the Seas to Embark on World Tour in 2015
the Quantum Global Odyssey: An 11-night Ocean Voyage – Cape Liberty to Spain cruise, departing May 2, 2015, from Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne, N.J., to Barcelona, Spain, with calls at Ponta Delgada, Azores; and Cartagena and Palma De Mallorca, Spain, A 16-night Suez Canal – Barcelona to Dubai itinerary, departing May 13, with calls at Rome (Civitavecchia) and Naples/Capri, Italy; Athens (Piraeus), Greece; and Aqaba, Jordan, A 14-night India & Southeast Asia itinerary, departing May 29, which features overnights in Dubai, UAE; Cochin, India; and Singapore
