GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd has announced the launch of its Atlantic Express Shuttle, a service deploying three 2,200-TEU vessels, between Antwerp and New York from mid-September. The weekly shuttle links takes nine days and its first sailing comes with the Valerie Schulte calling at Antwerp on September 13 and departing New York on September 25. "This s...
DHL has launched two, direct, less-than-container-load (LCL) services from Shenzhen in China, to Aarhus in Denmark and to Helsinki in Finland. With the two new services, transit time for shipments from Shenzhen to Aarhus and Helsinki will be reduced by up to three days, to 28 and 29 days respectively, as cargo is shipped directly instead of being routed...
The United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has appointed United Arab Agencies (Australia) Pty Ltd as the company's official agent in Australia to provide the full range of liner agency representation in the Australian market. UAAA is a fully owned subsidiary of the Inchcape Shipping Services Group in Sydney and has satellite offices in Melbourne, Adelaide...
The cost of shipping consumer goods from Asia to Canada is surging, with another price increase kicking in Sunday, as freight forwarders face a shortage of containers this summer and fall, reported The Globe and Mail. "This is traditionally the peak season for imports coming from China to Canada," said Perry Lo, president of Canaan Transport Group Inc, ...
London: Somalian pirates this week hijacked a Panama-flagged 17,300 tonne ship sailing in a recommended shipping lane. The cargo ship, which was carrying cement bags, has a crew of 23 seafarers on board from Egypt, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. On Thursday, pirates operating in the same waters off the Gulf of Aden released Maltese-flagged Turkish cargo...
Dubai: US navy diving experts have begun examining a Japanese oil tanker that was damaged in mysterious circumstances last week in the Strait of Hormuz, an English daily of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported Sunday. The specialist diving team was dispatched to Fujairah, a member of the seven-strong federation UAE, to investigate the cause of the da...
SINGAPORE's Samudera Shipping Line (SSL) said it plans to expand its feeder network in Asia as it announced a return to profit in second quarter and a 9.9 per cent year on year revenue increase. "Our ability to respond quickly and nimbly to market conditions, along with a gradual improvement in global trade activity, enabled us to post a turnaround in ...
MARSEILLES' CMA CGM Group has announced the appointment of Olivier Dubois as group chief financial officer. He will replace Jean-Yves Schapiro who has decided to take on new challenges outside the shipping industry. Olivier Dubois graduated from ESSEC Business School in 1976 and IEP Paris (Business Administration) in 1978. His experience has spanned ov...
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