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DB Schenker opens low-CO2 DC in Oslo deploying electric cars and e-bikes
GERMAN forwarding giant DB Schenker opened its first low-carbon city distribution centre in Oslo designed to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 per cent,using electric cars and e-bikes.
Oslo City Hub is part of Electric City,the Oslo district's focus on activities associated with its status as European Green Capital 2019.
DB Schenker is aiming to achieve zero emissions in all city distribution in Norway by the end of 2020.The Oslo City Hub project is the first blueprint of how to achieve this.
"Digitisation and more sustainable solutions will be key competitive factors for future logistics.We at DB Schenker already started this future,"said DB Schenker CEO Jochen Thewes.
"With the low-carbon Oslo City Hub,we are taking another step to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions in our day-to-day logistics business,"he said.
US-flagged Maersk Line quits two rate-fixing discussion agreements
FEDERAL Maritime Commission filings reveal that US-flagged Maersk Line has left the Trans-Atlantic American Flag Liner Operators Agreement that authorised its members"to discuss and agree on rates for the transportation of household goods,personal effects and unaccompanied baggage originating with US Government agencies and moving through government bills of lading."
Maersk's Maersk Line Ltd unit is out but US-flag units of American President Lines,Hapag-Lloyd and American Roll-On Roll Off remain members,reports American Shipper.
Maersk also is leaving the Trans-Pacific American Flag Berth Operators Agreement,a similar"conference that handles the ocean transportation of US Government household goods moving under government bills of lading or similar documents in the transpacific trades."APL and Matson remain members of that group.
Maersk said it was not planning any change in its services,but said that the move is in line with a decision Maersk made in late 2017 to withdraw from other voluntary discussion agreements(VDAs)elsewhere in the world.
Canada applies to extend its sovereignty to North Pole-like Russia
CANADA has applied to the UN to extend its sovereignty over Arctic waters to the North Pole in the same way Russia has in the face of US claims that ships are entitled to unrestricted passage without having to comply with national law.
Like Russia's,Canada's claim,covering more than 460,000 square miles,is now lodged with UN's Geneva-based Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf,reports Anchorage's Arctic Today.
"Defining our continental shelf is vital to ensuring our sovereignty and to serving the interests of all people in the Arctic,"said Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Canada filed a continental shelf submission with the commission in which Russia and Denmark were included.
Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea,coastal states have sovereignty over waters extending 12 nautical miles beyond their coastlines and exclusive economic and environmental rights over waters 200 nautical miles from shore.
But a nation can also seek jurisdiction over undersea features that stretch beyond the 200 nautical mile limit-if it can prove those features are an extension of its continental shelf.
Canada provided scientific evidence that such geological or geographical features in the water,like seamounts and underwater ridges,are in fact connected to its continental shelf.
Canada collected data on the seafloor through multi-beam bathymetry,seismic reflection and other techniques on 17 research trips in the Arctic.Canada often collaborated with other nations,including Denmark,Sweden,the United States and Germany,to conduct the work.
The final submission with this data numbered some 2,100 pages.Along with Russia and Denmark,Canada included in its submission the Lomonosov Ridge,a 1,100-mile underwater ridge that extends across the Arctic Ocean from the New Siberian Islands to Ellesmere Island.