Nairobi: Somali pirates on January 1 seized Algeria-flagged MV Blida bulk carrier with Ukrainians aboard off Oman, reads a statement made by the European Union naval counter-piracy operation Navfor Atalanta. The ship was 150 nautical miles southeast of Port Salalah, Oman when it was seized after noon. The bulk carrier was on its way to Dar es Salaam...
Taipei: Evergreen Line and SIMATECH today announce that they will be launching a China - India (CIX2 / CISC) Express Service from early January 2011 in order to meet the fast-growing volume of cargo and the demand for a direct service between India, Pakistan and China. Both lines comment, ‘In addition to providing the prompt and direct services fr...
GLOBAL logistics provider GAC Group has expressed confidence that it can help clients worldwide meet the new requirements of the new European Union Customs regulations that will come into effect in January. As part of the implementation of the Import Control System (ICS) Customs process, it is now mandatory for carriers to electronically provide advance...
GENEVA's Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will commence a West Africa feeder service connecting ports in Liberia and Sierra Leone to Cote d'Ivoire from early February. The dedicated feeder will deploy one vessel every 10 days to provide a port rotation of San Pedro (Cote d'Ivoire), Monrovia (Liberia), Freetown (Sierra Leone) and San Pedro, report...
THE Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is increasing the capacity of its Europe-South Africa service by deploying two 8,000-TEU containerships for the first time on the trade route. The 8,000-TEU MSC Maeva and MSC Lucy have been displaced from the carrier's East-West loops through cascading as MSC has already taken delivery of sixteen 14,000-TEU vess...
SINGAPORE's Pacific International Lines (PIL) is amending the rotation of its China Transpacific (CTP) service by adding a direct port of call at Vancouver from the end of December, 2010. The carrier will not be adding any additional capacity to the service as it will continue to be operated with six vessels ranging in size from 1,550 to 1,740 TEU, rep...
NYK is boosting its presence in the Adriatic region by taking slots on two new feeder loops that Evergreen will commence in January 2011 under the names ADL1 and the ADL2. Evergreen has created the ADL1 and ADL2 as part of a restructuring of its feeder services covering the Adriatic, Greece and the Middle East, reports Alphaliner. It said the feeder...
MEMBERS of the Asia New Zealand Discussion Agreement (ANZDA) have announced they will impose a BAF (Bunker Adjustment Factor) of US$550 per TEU and $1,100 per FEU for both dry and reefer cargo from and to Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and New Zealand, effective February 1. ANZDA members i...
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