The reflection on Gdansk's "golden age" and the time of the Hanseatic League was brought back to the port of Gdansk on 8 March during the visit paid by the Minister-President of the Flemish Government, Kris Peeters. The Belgian delegation, including Ambasador Raoul Delcorde, as well as representatives of the Flemish government and the owner of SEA-Invest G...
Grand Alliance members Hapag-Lloyd (HL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) announced the enhancement of their Trans-Pacific West Coast services. The Japan China Express (JCX) will be re-launched, in conjunction with the competitive restructuring of the Central China Express, (CCX), South China Sea Express (SCX) and Super S...
VAHLE has been awarded a HK$170m (US$21.8m) order by Hong Kong´s Modern Terminals Limited (MTL) to convert 81 diesel powered rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes into electric-RTGs (E-RTGs) by the end of this year. The machines will be equipped with the company’s fully automated drive-in power collector system, including laser-off-track-protectio...
Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has sprung into action to help in the aftermath of Friday’s devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The largest shipowner in Japan by fleet size has deployed a total of four ships from its MOL Ferry division to help move members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) who were assigned to rescue operations in n...
Hong Kong: Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) and Yang Ming Marine will enhance the China-Pakistan Express (CPX) service and launch CIX2 service starting from 18 and 21 March respectively. Five vessels of 3,500-4,000 teus currently operate on the CPX. It will be restructured to provide a dedicated call to Karachi from 18 March from Shanghai on a 35-da...
AMERICAN Airlines and Qantas, members of the "oneworld" alliance, have expanded the number of routes on which the airlines will codeshare between cities across North America and Australia from May. Qantas will codeshare on AA flights to 28 new destinations from its hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. American Airlines will begin codesharing on...
DHL, the world's largest logistics firm, posted a 288 per cent net profit increase in 2010 to EUR2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) from EUR644 million in 2009. Operating profit excluding extraordinary items, increased 50 per cent to EUR2.2 billion, and the revenue increased 11.4 per cent to EUR51.4 billion. This was credited to better express and mail servic...
BY the end of 2010, Yangtze River's navigation capacity has been raised by more than 50 per cent, while cargo movement of the river has stayed as the world's largest for the six consecutive years, Xinhua reports. Last year, the river recorded a cargo movement of over 1.5 billion tonnes. Ports along the river handled 1.4 billion tonnes of cargo. Deadweig...
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