Import cargo volume at the United States' major retail container ports is expected to be up 13 percent in March compared with the same month a year ago, and double-digit increases are expected to continue through the summer as the US economy begins in improve, the Canada Business News Network reported. "These numbers show that retailers continue to antic...
SHANGHAI's China Container Lines (CSCL) and Taipei's Evergreen Marine will launch a joint intra-Asia service, the China-Philippines-Thailand Express' (CPT) as another sign of growing cross strait co-operation between mainland China and Taiwan. Deploying three ships in the 2,500-2,800 TEU class, the new CPT service will connect Shanghai, Ningbo, Manila ...
MAERSK's MCC Transport, the Danish shipping giant's intra-Asia unit, will offer direct service between Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand from March 23 by extending its IA-5 Service to China and Japan. This means additional calls at Shanghai, Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama and Nagoya will make the IA-5 the first container service linking Shanghai and Japan d...
JAPANESE transportation group Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) has announced that it is providing free liner shipping services to transport relief supplies to areas devastated by the earthquake that struck Chile at the end of last month, as well as donating funds to the relief effort. Shipments of aid will be coordinated with Japan Platform (JPF), an i...
Singapore: Pacific International Lines feeder arm Advance Container Lines has launched a new China - Philippines service. Three vessels have been deployed on the 21-day round voyage service. The service calls Singapore - Haiphong (Vietnam) - HongKong - Nansha (China) - Manila North Harbour - Davao (Philippines) - Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) - Muara (Brunei) - Sin...
Shanghai: China's costliest water transport project, a shipping channel dredging program to boost trade in the Yangtze River Delta area, is due to be completed in the middle of this month. The 12-year program, with a total cost of 15 billion yuan (US$2.42bn), involved a 92.2-km-long, 300-meter-wide shipping channel. The channel starts at Waigaoqiao, in S...
Ship breakers from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are planning to form one common front to decide the course of action against the new International Maritime Organisation (IMO)-mandated ship recycling Convention, which the governments of the three countries are planning to ratify. Iron Steel Scrap and the Ship-breakers Association of India had recently subm...
As the Delaware River ports await a deeper shipping channel, the bigger ports in the region aren't giving any ground, the News Journal reported. At the Port of New York and New Jersey, which handles more than half the port traffic on the East Coast, the channels into the port are being dredged to 50 feet. The port is updating its road network and improvi...
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