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THE role of liner niche players will grow as bigger carriers increase vessel sizes and rely more on hub and spoke systems, giving smaller carriers a chance to provide faster, direct services, a London shipping conference was told. That was the view of shipping analyst Lars Jensen, who recently worked at niche carrier The Containership Company (TCC), a nic...
GREEK shipowner Danaos Corp. has taken delivery of two 10,100-TEU newbuildings built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries. Both container ships have immediately started 12-year time charters at a fixed charter rate with Hanjin shipping, which has named the vessels, the Hanjin Germany and the Hanjin Italy. The two newbuildings bring Danaos' operational fle...
HARBIN railway container terminal project will break ground in July with the first phase is expected to be operational by the end of the year, Xinhua reports. Being one of 18 railway container terminals planned in China, the Harbin railway container terminal is located inside the Duanxiangfang Industrial Area, next to the Duanxiangfang Railway Station. (...
TNT NV, the Dutch mail company, has warned that profits at the express division it hopes to spin off in May are suffering because of natural disasters, high oil prices, and integration troubles in Brazil, reported the Associated Press Newswires. The division's operating earnings were US$36 million lower in the first four weeks of 2011 than the same per...
UNITED Continental Holdings (UAL) has announced the start of a transpacific joint venture with Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA), which allows UAL and Continental to coordinate sales and marketing with its Star Alliance partner. It said the joint venture was enabled by the US-Japan Open Skies agreement and antitrust immunity granted by regulators from b...
AIRPORTS in southeast China province of Fujian handled 52,300 tonnes of cargo in January and February, up 8.5 per cent year on year, while their passenger throughput increased 16.2 per cent to 3.8 million, Xinhua reports. Xiamen Airport recorded a cargo throughput of 35,200 tonnes, up 4.9 per cent, and a passenger throughput of 2.3 million, up 20 per ce...
CHINA Cargo Airlines, owned by China Eastern, has launched three new services from Shanghai to Xian, Nanning and Lanzhou, mainly to carry express packages, Xinhua reports. Transit times are said to be cut by nearly half. China Cargo Airlines also plans to roll out time-definite express services on European and US routes as a step to break into the inter...
GERMANY's DB Schenker has tested a new rail route linking Chongqing and Duisberg and hopes regular blocktrain services will start later this year, reports London's International Freighting Weekly. Trains will run south of Mongolia through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland into Germany, saving 2,000 kilometres instead of using the Trans-Siberian Ra...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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