Nehru Port bucks downturn, up 2.8pc in 2009 fiscal
04-12-2010
- Container volume Jawaharlal Nehru port, India's busiest, rose 2.8 per cent in 2009 fiscal, ending in March.
Volume for the period totalled 4.06 million TEU, up from 3.95 million TEU recorded last year, the Journal of Co..
Evergreen resumes US west coast-Asia/Med pendulum May 10
04-12-2010
- Taiwan-based carrier Evergreen will resume its 20-port pendulum service to Tacoma six months after it withdrew the US West Coast-Asia/Mediterranean (UAM) service with a May 10 sailing from Kaohsiung.
"Evergreen reintrod..
DHL wins global logistics contract with Staples
04-09-2010
- DHL has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the world's largest office supplies company, Staples. DHL will manage 32,000 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) annually of Staples' bonded Export Distribution Cen..
Echo Global Logistics Announces Opening of New Office in Dalla..
04-09-2010
- Echo Global Logistics, Inc., a leading provider of technology enabled transportation and supply chain management services, today announced that it will open a new office in Dallas, Texas on April 5, 2010. The new office ..
Port Nehru Upped Container Throughput in 2009
04-08-2010
- India's largest container port overcame global trade slowdown.
Container throughput at India's Port of Jawaharlal Nehru rose by 2.8 percent compared with the previous year in fiscal 2009-10 ended March 31, despite the s..
Chongqing river port's throughput up 1.6 pc in first two month..
04-07-2010
- River ports in central China's Chongqing city registered a 1.6 per cent growth in throughput to 837,000 tonnes in the first two months with a value of US$950 million, up 31.7 per cent.
The export volume increased 56.9 p..
UPS Expands Hybrid Fleet Nationwide
04-07-2010
- UPS is deploying 200 hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks in eight cities across the United States, increasing the size of its hybrid electric fleet by 400 percent.
The trucks are expected to reduce fuel consumption b..
Fed keeps eyes out for speculative bubbles
04-07-2010
- Federal Reserve officials at their March meeting stressed the need to make sure record-low interest rates don't feed new speculative bubbles in stocks or other assets.
At the same time, some officials said the Fed's ple..
US ports climb out of shipping slump
04-06-2010
- After suffering through their worst two-year stretch in history, ports in the US have begun climbing out of a deep hole brought on by the global economic collapse.
Since January, trade volumes are up about 20 percent fr..
Ningbo port to launch a direct service from Jiaxing to Japan
04-06-2010
- China's Ningbo Port Group is working with shipping lines and forwarders to launch a direct service from Jiaxing (another port in Zhejiang province) to Japan.
Jiaxing port's transshipment volume goes by the Ningbo inland..