JAPANESE shipping giant NYK has announced it is offering free transport of relief supplies to the Tohoku and Kanto regions of Japan to help victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. "We pass on our condolences to victims suffering from the disaster, and wish a quick recovery to people," said a company statement. "Transportation to the affected are...
A JOINT service called the PEX2L2, provided by CMA CGM, CSAV and China Shipping, will commence calls at Shenzhen-Chiwan Container Terminal from April. Its rotation will be Nansha, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Busan, Manzanillo, Panama City, Manzanillo, Kingston, Port of Spain, Suape, Salvador and Port Kelang. (Source:http://www.schednet.c...
ALL 15 ports along devastated Pacific coast of Japan are usable for all purposes, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Eleven airports in the north eastern part of the country had already re-opened by the end of last week, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce. But hardest hits Sendai Airport is open only to flights c...
CHINA has refused docking to the MOL Presence after "abnormal" amounts of radiation were detected on the deck of the ship's surface containers, Bloomberg reports. The 6,350-TEU Japanese ship had passed within 124 kilometre of Fukushima prefecture, site of the crippled Daiichi nuclear power station, and arrived in Xiamen before being asked to depart. ...
Shareholders of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port re-elected the NCSP’s Board of Directors at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on March 25, 2011, the company’s press release said. NCSP’s stockholders elected to the Board Mikhail M. Arustamov, First Vice-President of Transneft JSC, Alexander A. Davydenko, Head of Federal Agency of S...
Spot rates for shipping containers from Shanghai to Europe have dropped below $1,000 per twenty-foot unit for the first time since March 2009 due to low volumes and fierce competition, shipping body BIMCO said last Friday. "The spot rate has been sliding since mid-2010, paused only by a short breather around the turn of the year," Copenhagen-based shippin...
As of 8:00am (MT), March 28th, there are 121 cargo ships awaiting icebreaker assistance in the eastern Gulf of Finland, the Port Authority of Big Port St. Petersburg said. The St. Petersburg PA reports of total 135 merchant ships currently located in the water area, 7 of them - in motion. Over the past day 7 ships have reached the entrance buoy of St ...
Southeastern China's port of Xiamen plans to achieve a cargo throughput tonnage of 150 million tonnes, up 10 per cent year on year, and a container throughput of 6.4 million TEU, also up 10 per cent, by the end of this year, Xinhua reports. To meet its target, the port will attract large companies to take part in the development project of its Zhangzhou...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi