South Korea's first commercial container voyage to Europe via the Arctic is set to depart this weekend, a test of a melting-ice route that could cut travel times but risks Western backlash over Russian cooperation.
Thyssenkrupp Steel has suspended its own barge transport of raw materials to Duisburg due to low Rhine water levels during a heatwave, turning to chartered vessels and reducing blast furnace production.
The CMA CGM Notre Dame, the world's largest LNG-powered container ship, received its first bio-LNG bunkering at the Port of Rotterdam, supplied by TotalEnergies.