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The new fourth string of Maersk Line's transpacific service (TP7) will start making weekly calls at Da Chan Bay Terminal One in Shenzhen in south China from mid-October. TP7 service will be operated with 12 ships of 4,000-TEU capacity with port rotation of Newark, Savannah, Miami, Panama Canal, Balboa, Los Angeles, Oakland, Kaohsiung, Shenzhen (Da Chan B...
Shenzhen's Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) has started a direct feeder service to Nine Dragons Paper Holdings' (NDPH) factory in Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta in south China. Import containers are now sent from the terminal to the factory directly by barge, which is a more cost-effective mode of transport. YICT has allotted a cont...
HOAU Group, the wholly-owned subsidiary of TNT in China, has announced its domestic investment plan, Logistics Week reported, calling for the addition of 437 trucks and the recruitment of hundreds of staff to expand the domestic network. HOAU chief executive Xu Shuibo explained that the opportunity for road delivery expansion has come as the downturn has ...
DAMCO, a member of the AP Moller-Maersk Group, has announced that it is preparing to open a new office in Harare, Zimbabwe, in October. Damco Africa manager Nils Havsager said the company's expansion into Zimbabwe comes ahead of increased logistics activities expected in Harare. He said that Damco also expects Zimbabwean importers and exporters to "benef...
GENEVA's Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has increased calls to International Container Terminal Services Inc's (ICTSI) container handling facility in Syria, the Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT). "We are gearing TICT for increase in volume and vessel calls in the coming months, and we expect to surpass our 2008 volumes by year end. T...
Famous Pacific Shipping, the fast-expanding Asia-based NVOCC and freight services provider, now offers weekly oceanfreight consolidation services from Hong Kong to a key central European gateway. The service, to Odessa in the Ukraine, allow shippers to save time and money as it prevents shipments from having to travel much further to gateway ports in nort...
The product tanker Stena Progress has been delivered to Concordia Maritime in Sweden from the Croatian shipyard Brodosplit. The ship is the seventh of ten vessels ordered by the company, and has been chartered by Total to transport refined oil products over the next five years. (Source: Transport Weekly)
Piracy is a present danger in the South China Sea, ranging from Singapore to Taiwan, where copycat Somali pirate attacks with pirates armed with gun and knives numbered 19 last month, an increase from 17 year on year, reports the International Maritime Board. Noel Choong, head of the IMB's piracy reporting centre told Agence France-Presse that alerts wer...
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