CSAV (Companina Sud Americana de Vapores) will start its America Express Service (AMEX) linking northern China and South Korea with the east coasts of Gulf of Mexico and the United States from May 16. The weekly service will employ ten 2,700-TEU ships, according to the CSAV website with the first sailing departing Ningbo on the following rotation: Ningbo,...
Botany residents could experience a dramatic increase in truck movements with the introduction of new rules at Port Botany designed to improve roadside efficiency, according to Southern Courier. At an industry meeting last week, the Ports Minister, Paul McLeay, announced the introduction of penalties for stevedore sluggishness and late truck arrivals at t...
The Philippines Bureau of Customs (BoC) is rolling out a state-of-the-art global positioning system (GPS) technology to track down container trucks leaving Customs territories, reported the Manila Bulletin. The BoC would also accredit the GPS service providers and monitor the GPS implementation. GPS is one of the cutting-edge technologies brought about ...
- Combilift has added two new vehicles - its latest straddle carrier and a forklift heavy-duty truck for use within a container yard and/or warehousing - to what the company describes as its, ‘range of 4-way handling solutions’. With a 35 tonne capacity and the capability of two-high stacking of standard ISO containers, with an option to be cu...
The British oil company British Petroleum (BP) paid $ 3.5 million on claims for damages from oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. The organization has received about 4.7 thousand claims for damages, the company had already paid damages for 295 of them, Fox News reports citing David Nigel, head of Washington BU. According to the data of the official website o...
BIG air cargo backlogs, caused by the spread of Icelandic volcanic ash, have mostly been cleared, but emergency rates persist here and there, reports London's International Freighting Weekly (IFW). Sunny Ho, of the Hong Kong Shippers' Council, said he believed rates of up to US$13 per kilogramme were being demanded by some airlines last week. Hong Kon...
IN a turnabout statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange yesterday, Cathay Pacific Airways declared the aviation business was doing unexpectedly well, air cargo especially so, which contradicted its earlier predictions made when announcing financial results in March, Having outlined a bleak picture for air freight in March, Cathay said that today's "trad...
THE Sino-European Freight Forwarders Conference, organised by China International Freight Forwarders Association (CIFA) and World Cargo Alliance Family of Logistics Networks (WCAF), will be held from June 13-16 in Barcelona. The organiser said the conference is where top independent international logistics companies from China, Europe, South America, Af...
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