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HONG KONG'S Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has introduced its OOCL Lite iPhone App (OOCL Lite), allowing users to access real time sailing schedules of vessels 24/7 from their iPhones. OOCL Lite is one of OOCL's IT products developed by CargoSmart, an independent company with the shipping company investing in it to enhance customer-service capab...
ALASHANKOU's border checkpoint with Kazakhstan handled 3,000 tonnes of imports by truck but no exports, resulting in a 65.5 per cent reduction in volume - to the lowest monthly record in recent years. This is because Kazakhstan is imposing restrictions, denying visas to Chinese truckers engaged in Sino-Kazakhstan trade, resulting in shipments being diver...
THE Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) plans to spend US$6 billion on 110 ships over the next 10 years, says Shipping Minister GK Vasan. SCI operates 78 ships totalling 5.61 million deadweight tons and manages 69 vessels for government agencies, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce. As India's biggest shipping company, it carried 23 million tons of car...
THERE are mounting fears that a container shortage will emerge in the coming months as box manufacturers struggle to keep up with rising vessel slot capacity. Alphaliner estimates the box-inventory-to-vessel capacity ratio will decrease to 1.99 by the end of 2011, down from 2.03 last year, which it described as the lowest ratio on record, and highlighted ...
THE passenger and cargo shipping service between Shandong province's port of Rizhao and South Korea's port of Pyeongtaek recently resumed after being suspended two years ago, Xinhua reports. The service was operated by Rizhao Haitong Ferry Co Ltd, a Sino-Korean joint venture, offering three sailings a week. The maiden voyage carried 640 passengers and ...
GERMANY'S Hapag-Lloyd and Thailand's Regional Container Lines (RCL) will start a new weekly service in April from China and Korea to Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan to be operated under the name CIS (Hapag-Lloyd) and RCI respectively. The service will deploy three vessels with an average capacity of 2,000 TEU on fixed day sailings between the major ports...
KOREA's Hanjin Shipping and Taipei-based CNC Line and KMTC (Korean Marine Transport Company) have announced the launch of a Japan-Indonesia weekly service from March 22. Covering major ports of Japan and Indonesia, this JPI string will call at Osaka, Kobe, Tokyo, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Manila, Surabaya, Jakarta, Manila, Hong Kong and back to Osaka. Four...
HONG KONG-listed Singamas Container Holding has posted a 2010 net profit of $92.5 million, wiping out a $51.9 million 2009 loss, the company announced. Because of a global recovery in demand, the world's second largest box maker after Shenzhen's China International Marine Container (CIMC), also posted a 400 per cent year-on-year increase in revenue to U...
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
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