Global minerals transport gains momentum as economies recover

• Autores: Bruce McMichael
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 558, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Marzo)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Maersk also operates the world's largest new class of vessel known as the Triple-E, the first of which rolled off the stocks in mid-2013. At 400 feet (122 metres) long, the Maersk Mc-Kinney M ?ller can carry 18,000 twenty-foot containers (teu) on its Europe-Asia routes. "The'E' in Triple-E refers to Economy of scale, Energy efficiency and Environmentally improved," says the company.

    Investment in rail networks is also very much on current political agendas across Scandinavia, especially in Sweden and Norway. Sweden's ice-free port city of Gothenburg styles itself as the'logistical centre of Scandinavia' with at least 25 rail shuttles leaving each day, bound for, or arriving from,Einland terminals in Sweden and Norway. The port is the busiest in Scandinavia and handles around 60% of Sweden's total container traffic.

    Global steel demand is expected to accelerate further in 2014, after experiencing 3.1% growth in 2013. The world's apparent steel use is set to grow by around 3.3% this year, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). The organisation reports world crude steel production reached 1.607 million tonnes for the year 2013, up by 3.5% compared to 2012. The growth came mainly from Asia and the Middle East, while crude steel production in all other regions decreased in 2013 compared to 2012.