Marlink has signed a new three-year contract to provide CMA Ships, a subsidiary of French shipping company CMA CGM, with FleetBroadband services. Under the terms of the agreement, Marlink will install the Thrane & Thrane SAILOR 150 FleetBroadband system onboard an unspecified number of CMA Ships' vessels, as well as provide value-added services such ...
The UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has received proposals from the World Shipping Council (WSC) to impose mandatory efficiency standards for ships along the lines California clean truck schemes. Ships failing to meet new standards would be subject to fines that would collect in IMO coffers while those making the eco-grade would move tax-f...
Shipping company DFDS' management will receive share options at a theoretical value of DKK 2.60mn (EUR 349,205.35 USD 494,064.18) as an incentive to consolidate the company's financial development. MD Nielse Smedelgaard will get 10,000 share options, CFO Torben Carlsen 15,750 options, Logistics Finland informs. (Source: Transport Weekly)
Finnish shipping line Finnlines is the latest new customer at the Port of Gothenburg. Collaboration has just commenced and will lead to higher volumes and new destinations for the port. Finnlines has incorporated Gothenburg into its service between Scandinavia and Spain. This has given the Port of Gothenburg yet another link with Spain as it already...
Wilhelmsen Ships Service has won the WCA (World Cargo Alliance) Best Partner Award - Middle East 2009. Wilhelmsen Ships Service has been a member of the WCA, which is a premier global network of elite independent international freight forwarders, since 2003. The company participated with representatives from their Middle East, India, Norway, Thailand an...
Imported iron ore stockpiles at China's leading ports increased by 310,000 tons last week, hitting a three-month high of 67.42 million tons as of Jan 22, the China Securities Journal reported today, citing industry data. Shipments from Australia increased by 200,000 tons to 22.23 million tons, compared with the previous week, accounting for 33 percent of...
UBM International Media, organisers of the annual Cruise Shipping Miami, the worlds' largest and most important international tradeshow and conference serving the cruise industry, announces today the launch of Cruise Shipping Asia. The inaugural event will take place from November 15-18, 2011, at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Organisers expect the n...
Groupe Auchan awards Agility with the freight management of its textile business from Bangladesh to France. Agility provides a Retail Logistics Solution including freight forwarding and destination services, as well as container utilization management services to Auchan. The solution includes consolidation services and provision of detailed visibility at or...
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