YANTIAN International Container Terminal (YICT), in cooperation with Zhongshan Port & Shipping Enterprise Group, has launched a shuttle barge service from Yantian to Xianlan, says Logistics Week. Under the operation of Zhongshan Port & Shipping's unit, Xiaolan Port Cargo Transportation Related Co, the group will service factories in and ...
THE chief cook of the Maersk Alabama, the victim of an April 8 armed attack in Somali waters, has filed a lawsuit against his former employer and the operator of the ship, saying the two companies had failed to protect him from pirates. Richard Hicks filed the suit in a Houston court against Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Co, after claimi...
CMA CGM has announced the upgrading of its MEX Asia-Mediterranean service to include direct calls at Nagoya, Yokohama and Kobe from mid-May 22. This service starts with the sailing of the CMA CGM Straus from Nagoya on the following rotation: Nagoya, Yokohama, Kobe, Pusan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Shenzhen (Chiwan), Hong Kong, Port Kelang, Beirut...
CHINA Cosco Holdings posted a first quarter loss that more than halved profit from last year, representing a CNY3.35 billion (US$491 million) year on year net loss of CNY6.14 billion, drawn on revenues of CNY10.8 billion, down 63 per cent. But Cosco's container operation had a CNY1.1 billion gain in the period from forward freight agreements aft...
FOLLOWING triple nominations Malaysia Airlines Cargo (MASkargo) took Best Air Cargo Carrier (Asia) at this year's Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards, sponsored by Cargonews Asia. According a company statement the carrier's general manager Jamaluddin Ismail and the MASkargo team accepted the award. The carrier had won the honour 2003 and 2004...
DB Schenker has announced that it is relocating Schenker Australia Pty Ltd to a green mega hub located directly at Melbourne's international airport in July, in a bid to expand its forwarding and logistics operations with a new facility. The hub comprises of 11,000 square meters of warehouse space for a wide range of logistics services and 2,500 square m...
NYK has released an initial exploratory design for its NYK Super Eco Ship 2030, an energy-efficient ship expected to emit far fewer CO2 emissions than current vessels. The design was created by MTI, a wholly owned NYK subsidiary charged with making use of advances in technology, along with Garroni Progetti srl, an Italian designer of ships, and Elomatic M...
Russian ships will continue patrolling the oceanic territory near the Somali coast infested by pirates, said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov according to Interfax-AVN. A decision on the future of the Somali pirates detained by the Russian anti-submarine ship Admiral...
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.
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