Wan Hai Lines, Evergreen Line, Coscon and PIL will jointly launch a new direct service connecting Asia to West Coast of South America service at the end of April. The service, called WSA, consists of 10 3,000 TEU vessels with Evergreen deploying four and Coscon, PIL and Wan Hai two each. The service runs on a 70-day rotation, calling at Kaohsiung, Yant...
Planned industrial action at major ports around Australia could interrupt the export of agricultural produce,reported the Australian Broadcasting Corpn. The Maritime Union of Australia has won the right for its members to take "protected industrial action" following a breakdown in enterprise bargaining negotiations with major stevedoring company Patrick. ...
THE Guangzhou municipal government has signed a memorandum of cooperation with AP Moeller-Maersk to strengthen their long-term cooperation on international container shipping business and on Guangzhou port's expansion, Xinhua reports. Separately, Maersk Line has also signed an agreement with the Guangzhou Port Group on strengthening cooperation on the b...
TAIWAN's Evergreen and Wan Hai have joined Cosco and PIL to provide a service linking Asia to the west coast of South America starting with the April 30 sailing from Taiwan's Kaohsiung to the turnaround Chilean port of San Antonio on June 12. The WSA Service will deploy ten 3,000-TEU ships with Evergreen providing four while Cosco, PIL and Wan Hai two e...
COSCO Container Lines has announced that it is raising rates US$150 per TEU on shipments from the Far East to the Persian Gulf starting today, Monday, April 11. The increase affects shipments from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar and Japan to Iran...
THE recent liner start-up, The Containership Company (TCC), initially operating a no-frills shuttle from the Port of Taicang upstream from Shanghai to Los Angeles, has decided to cease operations and go into "reconstruction". "I don't know what we're going to do, but it's looking very bad. It's not a profitable business," TCC chief executive Jakob Tol...
Longer-term contracts are key to stability in the container shipping industry and will help dampen volatility, according to Nicolas Sartini, Senior VP of CMA CGM, Ifw-net reports. At Containerisation International’s 13th Annual Global Liner Shipping conference in London yesterday, Sartini (pictured) said large-sized shippers that were dominant in th...
Evergreen (5 ships), ZIM (3) and China Shipping (1) will start a joint North Europe-Far East service by the end of April. The capacity of the nine vessels ranges between 8,000 and 10,000 TEU. They connect Rotterdam with Port Tanjung Pelepas, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Yantian and Port Kelang. The service is the third new one in the Europe-Far Ea...
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