Hanjin Shipping announced yesterday the launch of a new service between the Far East and Red Sea starting from the end of February, 2009. Named RES (Red Sea), this new service will be deploying six of 4,000-TEU class vessels of which three are supplied by Yang Ming and one each by Hanjin Shipping, K-Line, China Shipping. RES will be operating on weekly ba...
Maersk Line sister carrier Safmarine has changed the second of two loops on its Safari service between the Far East and South Africa into a feeder service linking Mauritius with the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Maersk's Southeast Asia hub. The new rotation for the first loop is Hong Kong, Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Durban, Port El...
Emirates Shipping Line said Monday that it is moving Romi Kaushal from senior vice president of customer services into a chief executive officer role managing the carrier’s day-to-day operations so that current CEO Vikas Khan can focus on strategic maneuvering, alliances and arrangements in the current down cycle. The economic crisis of today...
Iranian carrier IRIS Lines is restructuring its deep sea services by merging its two Far East/Middle East strings (PCL and PHL) into a single loop (New PCL), AXS Alphaliner reported Tuesday. The New PCL loop covers the ports served by the PHL, except Mumbai, which will be covered with the new version of AMX. The New PCL will use seven ships of 5,0...
Maersk's Expreso service between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America will begin calling at the Mobile Container Terminal in Alabama later this month. Maersk said effective Jan. 29, its Expreso service will be enhanced with the addition of a fourth vessel and three new ports of call: Progreso, Mexico; Belize Port, Belize; a...
A new U.S. Maritime Administration study said current U.S. maritime policy is only supportive of domestic maritime trades and not supportive of U.S. participation in international trades. Policy makers must better align the multimodal transportation system, of which the maritime system is a key part, with the needs of the U.S. economy -- an economy...
Need a way to gauge how far demand has fallen for container lines Not one containership was ordered in the last three months of 2008, according to AXS-Alphaliner. It is the first time in at least two decades that no containership orders were recorded for three months in a row, the Paris-based maritime research company said in its latest newslette...
The Port of Los Angeles next summer is scheduled to begin a $106 million expansion of the China Shipping Container Line terminal, eight years after submitting the original environmental impact report. The harbour commission has approved the final EIR, with plans to advertise for bids in the spring and begin construction in August. Although it...
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