The multimodal route connects the ports of Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe with Hamburg and Duisburg via the Chinese Port of Taiciang and then along the New Silk Road through Xi'an, Alashankou, Nur-Sultan, and Brest/Małaszewicze.
The shipping line has partnered with GoodFuels, a supplier of sustainable marine biofuel, to test the use of the company's Bio-Fuel Oil (MR1-100 or BFO) on the Autosky car carrier.
The Gothenburg-located Svenska Skeppshypotek, an organisation that provides financing to the shipping sector with a significant Swedish interest or influence, will loan approx. $70m for the construction of three dual-fuel gas-run battery-enhanced pure car & truck carriers (PCTCs).
Miike Port Logistics (MPL) has purchased the Gottwald Model 4 Mobile Harbor Crane from the Finnish Konecranes, the first machinery of this generation to be deployed in Japan.