The Philippines Bureau of Customs (BoC) is rolling out a state-of-the-art global positioning system (GPS) technology to track down container trucks leaving Customs territories, reported the Manila Bulletin. The BoC would also accredit the GPS service providers and monitor the GPS implementation. GPS is one of the cutting-edge technologies brought about ...
Famous Pacific Shipping, an NVOCC and freight services supplier, is enhancing its intra-Pacific Islands freight connections with the launch of a new regular direct ocean freight consolidation service to a range of Micronesian destinations, as well as Guam and the Marshall Islands. One of the main factors in the expansion has been the lack of direct shippi...
Danish container company Maersk Line has launched a new express service called TP6 that will transport containers directly from the SP-PSA international terminal in Vung Tau in southern Vietnam to Los Angeles on the US West Coast, according to Thai News Service. Maersk Line's Asia-Pacific managing director Jesper Praestensgaard said that the new route wa...
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has signed an agreement with ZPMC of China to purchase cranes for operations at the Jaya Container Terminal (JCT), reported Sri Lanka’s Daily News. The deal involves the purchase of three gantry cranes and 24 mobile cranes at a cost of US$62.94 million. The new gantries would be of greater capacity than the one...
Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnam has joined the premier league of container shipping with the first call of a 9,000 teu boxship in Ho Chi Minh City by Maersk Line. Jesper Praestensgaard, ceo of Maersk in Asia – Pacific said Vietnam had entered the “premier league” of the industry with the maiden direct call by the 9,038 teu Mathilde Maersk at SP ...
- Combilift has added two new vehicles - its latest straddle carrier and a forklift heavy-duty truck for use within a container yard and/or warehousing - to what the company describes as its, ‘range of 4-way handling solutions’. With a 35 tonne capacity and the capability of two-high stacking of standard ISO containers, with an option to be cu...
- The Port of Los Angeles is pursuing plans to become the world’s first port to offer a reduced tariff for zero-emission vehicles imported into the United States through the port. The reduced-fee incentive was announced as Chinese manufacturer BYD Auto Company Limited (BYD), a leader in electric and hybrid vehicles and other renewable energy product...
BEIJING - China's inflation accelerated in April and housing prices rose at a record pace, but analysts said Beijing is likely to avoid an immediate interest hike that might slow the recovery of the world's third-largest economy. April consumer prices rose 2.8 percent from a year earlier, below Beijing's full-year target of 3 percent but up 0.4 percent...
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