TAIPEI-based Cheng Lie Navigation Co Ltd (CNC) has expanded its strength in intra-Asia shipping business with three new services to provide full coverage of Pearl River Delta ports via Hong Kong. The NCX service deploys three 1,700 TEU ships with 200 reefer plugs weekly with a port rotation as follows: Dalian, Xingang, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Hong Kong (H...
HONG KONG's Ocean Overseas Container Line (OOCL) is transferring its container feeder service in Poland to the International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in the Port of Gdynia. The transfer of OOCL's feeder service from Gdansk to the BCT starts this July. The feeder service, which is part of the liner's Scan...
CHILEAN shipping company CSAV plans to start its new Far East-South Africa service from late July, deploying seven 2,500-TEU ships between Xingang, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Durban and Cape Town, returning to Xingang via Singapore. It's a popular route these days, remarked American Shipper "with 15 services connecting Chi...
DENMARK's Maersk Line has said the fire aboard the 8,194-TEU Charlotte Maersk in the Malacca Strait "appears to have been contained and under control". Said the company: "To assist in this work a team of eight fire fighting experts and one marine chemist is en route. Already on board is a salvage master. Our next step is to plan the extinguishing of th...
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be up 16 percent in July compared with the same month a year ago. But the double-digit increases seen in recent months should taper offer this fall as retailers cautiously manage their inventories, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by t...
UASC, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine and CSCL plan to commence a new joint South East Asia-Australia service called the Asia Australia Container Service 1 (AAC1), starting from the first half of September. The service will link Port Kelang and Singapore to Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and return via Jakarta. It will deploy four 2,200- t...
SWOLLEN orderbooks of yesteryear continue to produce a steady stream of new capacity, but most of it appears to be immediately assigned to services as bunker-busting slow steaming absorbs more tonnage as the peak season gathers steam. Among the noteworthy arrivals of June was news of Marseilles' CMA CGM taking charge the CMA CGM Rabelais, four of five ...
GERMAN travel giant TUI AG, still the biggest individual shareholder in Germany's container line Hapag-Lloyd, has declared the company will "generate higher profits than forecast". TUI sold its controlling interest in Hapag Lloyd to investors which include the City of Hamburg, Kuhne Holding AG, MM Warburg Bank, HSH Nordbank as well as Signal-Iduna and ...
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Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi