The European Union (EU) and Ecuador agreed to broaden and deepen their bilateral cooperation in security matters. This resulted from the III Technical Roundtable on Security Cooperation between Ecuador and the European Union on September 26 and 27, 2023. This time, it occurred in a different context than last year: much more complex, but "the European Union is responding.

As informed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA's National Weather Service of the USA, El Niño is expected to continue through the Northern Hemisphere spring -with an 80% chance during March-May 2024-.

Madrid (Spain), 6 October 2023: A delegation from Afruibana participated in Fruit Attraction, the leading international event for the fruit and vegetable industry, which took place from 1 to 5 October 2023. As part of this event, the World Banana Forum organized two panels dedicated to the issues of shared responsibility and the living wage, giving Afruibana the opportunity to express its views on these two concepts that will shape the future of the sector.

The CEO and managing director of APM Terminals Italia, Paolo Cornetto, has resigned and will leave his position from November 16th. The manager was appointed by Maersk in January 2017 to continue the Vado platform project, already started by his predecessor Carlo Merli. In 2019 he managed to cross the finish line by inaugurating the new terminal, which would later become a real system with the acquisition of the nearby Reefer Terminal.

Copenhagen, Denmark – A.P. Moller - Maersk A/S and CMA CGM have decided to join forces on several areas relating to decarbonization, in full compliance with all laws and regulations. As frontrunners of the energy transition in shipping, both companies are convinced that joint action will help accelerating the green transition in shipping, learning from each other to go further and faster. CMA CGM and Maersk have set a net-zero target for their shipping business, have identified scalable solutions that can create impact in this decade, and have already individually taken ambitious paths on promoting decarbonization for shipping.

Copenhagen, Denmark – The world’s first methanol-enabled container vessel will carry the name “Laura Mærsk”, the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen revealed at a ceremony in Copenhagen on Thursday. The name was revealed in the Port of Copenhagen on Thursday during a ceremony, when the ship’s godmother, President von der Leyen, christened the vessel by breaking a champagne bottle over the bow. Besides the godmother, Maersk Chair Robert Uggla and Maersk Chief Executive Officer Vincent Clerc also spoke at the ceremony.

In the framework of the International Congress of Phytopathology (ICCP 2023), held in Lyon, France, from 21 to 25 August, and attended by more than 2,400 researchers from almost 88 countries, Andrés Mauricio Pinzón, PhD, researcher at the Banana Research Center (Cenibanano), affiliated to Augura, presented two innovative and outstanding papers.

OCEAN Network Express has reported a “significant” decline in profits for the first quarter of the 2023 financial year. ONE posted a profit of US$513 million, down 91% from the US$5.5 billion reported in the same period last financial year. The company said global cargo demand from April to June was significantly lower than it was in the first quarter of the 2022 financial year.

Afruibana was present in London, on Tuesday June 6 and Wednesday June 7, as part of the 3rd edition of the Ghana Investment and Opportunities Summit, which was attended by Golden Exotics Limited, a member of BPA and AFRUIBANA. The opportunity for the association to continue its dialogue with the British authorities. The GHIOS brings together investors to present the characteristics of Ghana's attractiveness and the reasons that should make the country a preferred destination for investors planning to do business in Africa.

In the first half of 2023, the port of Novorossiysk saw an active growth in the market of refrigerated containers, Aleksey Garmash, General Director of Novomorsnab, has said at the 19th Transport Forum YugTrans-2023. According to him, exports of reefer containers from the port of Novorossiysk rose by 15.7% YoY, to 11.25 thousand TEU, while imports rose by 7.13%, to 128.71 thousand tons TEU.

Hapag-Lloyd successfully completed its 100 % acquisition of SM SAAM’s terminal business and related logistics services, which is based on an agreement announced in October 2022. The transaction was approved unconditionally by the relevant antitrust authorities of all countries involved in this acquisition process, according to the company's release. Investing in terminal infrastructure is a key element of Hapag-Lloyd’s strategic agenda, and Latin America is one of its key markets.

Maersk's first-of-its-kind methanol dual-fuel containership made history on July 16 when it became the first to bunker methanol. The newly built vessel bunkered 1,000 metric tonnes of the cleaner burning fuel at Odfjell Terminals Korea in Ulsan before embarking on its 21,500-kilometer maiden voyage toward Copenhagen, where she will be officially named in September.

As per the statistics published by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for the year 2021 India was the largest producer of Banana in the world accounting for 26.5 per cent of world banana production. As per the final estimates of 2021-22 Andhra Pradesh is a leading producer of banana in the country with estimated production of 56.84 lakh tones

The bad news for France’s CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest ocean carrier: Profits continue to slide. The good news: The company is still raking in over a billion a quarter, net profits and revenue per container are still well above pre-COVID levels, and it still has a huge cash cushion courtesy of its boomtime windfall. CEO Rodolphe Saade recently said that “performance remains robust” despite “difficult market conditions” amid “further normalization” of shipping rates.

LONDON -- Despite mounting pressure to tackle greenhouse gases and limit global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, China and others opposed a stricter target to curb carbon output from shipping and instead agreed on Friday to bring the industry's emissions to net zero "by or around" 2050. At the conclusion of a five-day meeting of the International Maritime Organization, 175 countries and regions accepted interim targets to cut emissions by at least 20%, although the aim is for a 30% reduction by 2030 from 2008 levels, and at least 70% -- but aiming for 80% -- by 2040.