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A US DESTROYER and a Turkish frigate rescued a Bahamas-flagged, Japanese-controlled oil tanker from the clutches of Somali pirates, taking four of them into custody. Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), which controls the ship, reported that none of the crew was injured and there was no leakage of oil or other petroleum products. The vessel is continuing under its ow...
ADMINISTRATIVE staff of Suez Canal Authority are protesting the lack of pay and promotions, engaging in strike action which has not as yet affected ship movements, Reuters reports. Staff threatened to extend a range of protests, including hunger strikes, at the canal authority's HQ at Ismailiya. Protests are part of widespread unrest in Egypt in the wake...
HONG KONG's OOCL is planning to place orders "soon" for a number of mega ships in the 13,000 TEU range to rebuild capacity as there is little hope of making easy acquisitions now that the global downturn is over. The carrier delayed placing new orders before because it was waiting to see if it could merge with or acquire another carrier during the recess...
POLICE have charged a 46-year-old restaurant manager at the Kingston airport for terrorist offences in connection with a false alarm of a bomb on an air cargo flight which resulted in all Jamaican air freight being banned by the US, Canada and the Bahamas for nearly three days. Accused is David Bernard, the first to be charged under the terrorism law, rep...
THE World Cargo Alliance (WCA) 2011 Annual Conference held recently in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, attracted 1,600 independent international freight forwarders and logistics representatives from 160 countries and regions. The first four days of the conference were aimed at strengthening cooperation and creating new business relationships among participants...
CARGOTEC, a provider of load handling equipment, has announced that it will be one of the exhibitors with a stand at CeMAT, an international trade fair for intralogistics, which will be held from May 2-6 in Hanover. The company offers - through its brands - customer-driven Hiab on-road load handling products to the construction and forest industries, and...
Shenzhen's ChinaTrans International Limited, an intermodal company with 24 offices in mainland China, has announced it will expand its network within the Asia Pacific region with a greater focus on less-than-container-load (LCL) products. In making the announcement, ChinaTrans group president Allen Fang welcomed Raymond Yap to board as ChinaTrans' CEO ...
THE National Retail Federation (NRF) has told federal transport officials that proposals to limit hours truck drivers on the road means putting more trucks on already congested highways to carry the same freight in the same time period. The NRF also opposes night time rest periods sought be regulators because retailers use overnight deliveries to avoid da...
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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