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EVERYONE in the supply chain would benefit if carriers could talk openly, something now forbidden since the 2008 European Union's ban on shipping conferences, according to CC Tung, chairman of Orient Overseas (International) Ltd, the parent of Hong Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL). "Some governments, particularly the EU, expect carriers to o...
Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) executive director Curtis Foltz announced that Maersk has added the Port of Savannah to its newest all-water service, Spondylus. Named for the seashell that once was used as currency for trade by Andeans in Ecuador, the new service will call on Savannah weekly. “The Port of Savannah offers a logistically frien...
Hapag-Lloyd and Regional Container Lines (RCL) will start a new weekly service from China and Korea to Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan to be operated under the name CIS (Hapag-Lloyd) and RCI (Regional Container Lines) respectively. The service offers direct and reliable connections on fixed day sailings between the major ports in these countries. The first de...
AERO Inventory, the insolvent UK aviation equipment storage company, expects to come back into the black with auditors KPMG partnering with DHL to track and consolidate almost 25 million parts and trace documents over 100 locations to one location. The Hertfordshire company offered Qantas, All Nippon Airways, Air Canada and Haeco among others a service t...
LETTERS from 150 members of Congress to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood are calling on him to drop proposed hours of work restrictions for truckers. The letters from 122 US representatives and 23 senators support the American Trucking Associations' campaign against the DOT's work-hour proposal, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce. All of the se...
THE US Federal Maritime Commission has published its ruling on the controversial issue of non-vessel-operating common carriers negotiated rate arrangements, interpreting a new law to be enacted on April 18. The mandate exempts 3,300 NVOCCs from the costs and burdens of publishing their sea freight rates in tariffs, the FMC said, according to American Ship...
WESTERN China's Qinghai province posted a 13.6 per cent growth in overland freight volume to 114.26 million tonnes in 2010, reports Xinhua. Provincial rail freight volume increased 21.6 per cent to 32.86 million tonnes while the road freight volume grew 11 per cent to 19.62 million tonnes. Passenger volume came to 110 million person trips, up 8.9 per...
NAUTILUS International, which represents 23,000 maritime professionals, and UK ship owners has reached an agreement to extend the area deemed at "high risk" of piracy attacks to include the Indian Ocean, joining the Gulf of Aden. The accord will grant seafarers on board vessels operated by companies covered by the UK Chamber of Shipping the right to refus...
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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