Media
Media
NYK Logistics (UK) expects to be back in the black by the end of this financial year, after suffering a 38.5% fall in turnover and a pre-tax loss of £10.95m for the 12 months to 27 March 2010. Deb Hardy, NYK finance director, tells Commercial Motor that the company was hit hard by the loss of its contract with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to DHL Supply...
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd ("K" Line) is pleased to announce the launch of a new direct service from Far East to West Africa. "K" Line presently provides a feeder service from South Africa to West Africa using transshipment from Far East to South Africa. This new service will provide a faster transit time with direct service from Far East to West Africa...
Tokyo: NYK has announced a new consortium with Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) in the container trade linking Asia with Hawaii, Mexico, and the west coast of South America. The new service will replace NYK’s current ALEX-Neo service with two strings, ALEX-1, which will link Asia with Mexico, Peru, and Chile, and ALEX-2, w...
Paris: For the first time since the early 1970s Taiwan’s top liner firm is not among the top five containerlines of the world, according to figures released by Paris-based box watchers, Alphaliner. Evergreen, run by the wily octogenerian, Chang Yung-fa, found itself neatly placed in terms of financial overhang at the start of the global financial cris...
APL is moving two senior executives in its European operations into new positions to strengthen global trade lane management and build momentum in the European market, the company said Monday. The liner company named European Regional President Dave Appleton to the newly created position of senior vice president of Liner Trade Management. Detlev Ker...
Israeli flag carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. has announced it will raise rates US$400 per TEU from Asia and the Indian subcontinent to Europe from August 1. The increase applies to all cargo bound for Mediterranean, Israeli, Black Sea and north European ports. The shipping line said the increases are needed "to maintain current levels of servi...
Year-to-date, total capacity of active container ship fleet rose by 15.3%. The increasing volume was due to a record surge in global container traffic, the Journal of Commerce reports. The active fleet stands at 13.32 million 20-foot equivalent units compared with 11.55 million TEUs on Jan. 1, according to Paris-based research consultancy Alphaliner. ...
MISC plans to amend its Malaysia-East Asia service (MES) by adding a port of call at Ningbo and dropping calls at Kaohsiung and Shekou from mid-July. The northbound call in Ho Chi Minh City will also be halted in August, allowing for a reduction in the Singapore to Tokyo transit time from 12 to eight days, reports Alphaliner. It said these moves wil...
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
qq.com