FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 1.622 million TEU in January, a fall of 23.2 per cent over the 2.110 million in January of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 19.6 per cent decrease in container movement in January, having handled 1.974 million TEU compared to 2.455 million TEU in January of...
JAPANESE shipping carrier K Line has signed a further agreement with IT services provider GT Nexus of California to build on its partnership of eight years, reports Logistics Insight Asia. GT Nexus provides its carrier partners an integrated IT software to a portal once and then provides a single standardised interface to support several thousand cust...
After more than 23 years of service with German classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL), Ronald Diederik (Ron) Kampinga 64 has retired. As Country Manager GL Netherlands, Managing Director of GL Netherlands B.V. and Deputy Area Manager Benelux/Northwest Europe Ron Kampinga has helped to shape the company’s development by enhancing and expanding the...
The Grand Alliance and ZIM have agreed to cooperate in the Trans Pacific Trade in two of the Grand Alliance's strings. The scope includes North China and Japan, South China, South East Asia to Canada and US North West Coast (NWX and PNX). ZIM will operate within the agreement in two phases. In the first ZIM will buy slots from the Grand Alliance and ...
Denmark’s Maersk Line has revised its South Atlantic Express (SAE) service with the addition of port calls in Savannah and Wilmington in North Carolina. The addition of these calls and adjustments to the overall schedule will improve transit times and broaden coverage for this service to benefit our customers, a statement from the carrier said, noting...
MAERSK Line, Safmarine and DAL Deutsche Afrika-Linien plan to add capacity to their South Africa-Europe service, by offering an extra fortnightly SAECS Reefer Express loop that will alternate with the existing fortnightly SAECS 2 loop, in order to operate weekly departures from common ports on both loops, Exim News Service reported. However, the SAECS...
The extraordinary shareholders’ meeting in Brostrom AB on 16 February 2009 resolved to dismiss Lars-Olof Gustavsson, Stig-Arne Blom, Peter Cowling, Claes Lundblad, Leif Rogersson, Wilhelm Wilhelmsen and Fredrik Svensson from the board. Soren Skou, Soren Thorup Sorensen, Kristian V. Morch, Tomas Dyrbye and Goran Nystrom were elected new ordinary members of...
It is reported that STX Shipbuilding is planning to sell part of its stake in STX Europe in order to recover some of the cost of the takeover. It may be noted that STX Shipbuilding acquired Norwegian group Aker Yards in 2007 for USD 1 billion and launched a re branding process for the Norwegian group, including changing the name of the company an...
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