LONG a champion of the all-water route through Panama from Asia, the Port of Savannah has again expanded its small but growing South Asian trade through Suez with the addition of the Indamex service from Hapag Lloyd, NYK and OOCL from January. "Savannah is quickly becoming the port of choice for Suez services and currently participates in seven of the nin...
THE Intermodal Association of North America (IANA), in its third quarter Market Trends report, included several figures that pointed to an easing of the current economic downturn. Chief among these was the total intermodal and trailer loadings number for the quarter, which was down 16.4 per cent year on year, a modest but encouraging improvement over the ...
CARGO volume at Russia's Baltic Sea enclave, Kaliningrad Commercial Seaport, decreased 2.3 times year-on-year between January and October, with empties reaching 12,740 TEU. According to a report by Portnews News Agency, October turnover figures specifically saw decline to 170,300 tons, 2.2 times less than in 2008. Total imports and exports from January...
NYK recently held its second NYK Group Values 3 I's World Meeting to introduce and discuss the incorporation of its core values of integrity, innovation and intensity in daily activities. Fourteen representatives of the NYK Group from nine different countries came together in Tokyo to take part in the event. Senior company officials spoke at the gather...
TOTAL Terminals International (TTI), which runs container facilities in New York, Oakland and Seattle, has announced that Maersk will start calling at Oakland with its transpacific TP5 and TP7 services in January. The US-flag TP5 service also calls at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, then sails to Korea and Japan. The TP7 service sails from Oakland for Kaohsiung and...
China Shipping Container Line (CSCL) has announced a new slot swap agreement with United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) involving their AMA and UASC AGX1 services covering the Asia to Middle East and the Gulf, according to the Shipping Gazette. The new loop, called the AMG service, will have the following port rotation: Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Shen...
Ronald D. Widdows, the President and CEO of Singapore-based container shipping and logistics group, Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) last week was named an "Admiral of the Ocean Seas", one of the shipping’s industry’s top awards. At a gala ceremony in New York City, Mr Widdows received the prestigious award, conferred by the United Seamen’s Se...
THE Rio Bravo, one of six newbuildings of a slot capacity of 5,900-TEU, has been christened at the Port of Antwerp following her delivery by Korea's Dawewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries (DHMI) and deployment on the Asia and South America east coast route. The vessel has been phased into Hamburg Sud's Europe-South America Service with its first call at Antw...
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