The world’s leading maritime service network Wilhelmsen Ships Service has taken over all agency and logistics work for six seismic exploration vessels belonging to BGP Arabia Company Ltd. Wilhelmsen Ships Service has assumed responsibility for clearing vessels, equipment and spares in and out of port, customs clearance of equipment and spares for the...
OOCL announced on November 5, 2009, the christening of the tenth Panamax class vessel in our line of sixteen 4,500-TEU vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries. The new vessel was christened the m.v. OOCL Dalian by sponsor Mr Wang Peng, Vice President of Port of Dalian Authority, accompanied by Ms Dai Li Hua, Deputy General Manager of Dalian Port Cont...
CAPTAIN Gopinath, who set up India's first budget airline Air Deccan, has launched a dedicated air cargo venture in Nagpur, branded Deccan 360. A report by India's Economic Times said that Capt Gopinath has already invested INR125 crore (US$25.4 million) in Deccan Express Logistics, an air cargo transportation company, and needs to raise an additional I...
AP Moller-Maersk Group, the world's top logistics company, has decided to establish a global service centre in Tianfu Software Park in Chengdu, capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province, reports Logistics Week. The company will also set up a logistics processing branch as well as a documents processing centre in the software park; where the compa...
HYUNDAI Merchant Marine (HMM) has announced that it plans to increase rates on its China-India trade route. The South Korean carrier said in a statement that to "continue serving our customers with our best service ex China to India," HMM will implement a general rate increase of US$100 per TEU on its services from mainland China, including Hong Kong to I...
SEASPAN, the Hong Kong-Vancouver non-operating shipowner, has announced a US$65.9 million year-on-year third quarter loss, despite a 28.6 per cent quarterly revenue gain of $74.1 million. Seaspan blamed widening losses on quarterly interest rate swaps of $92.6 million, compounded by similar swap loss of $24.7 million suffered in last year's third quarter...
The Southern Africa Europe Container Service Lines will introduce an additional container service to accommodate primarily the seasonal increase in refrigerated exports from South Africa to Europe during the period February to August 2010. The SAECS Reefer Express will vary its frequency and ports of call according to the seasonal demands of the perishabl...
Dockers at the main Greek port of Piraeus on Tuesday launched a fresh 48-hour strike against the concession of container facilities to Chinese transport operator Cosco, AFP reports. Greece's port employees federation (OMYLE) which wants the deal scrapped said the governnment had failed to give assurances on labour relations and the extent of future state ...
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