Liaoning ports up 20 per cent despite worst winter ice in 30 y..
04-06-2010
- Liaodong Bay on the Yellow Sea posted a 20 per cent year on year increase in cargo volume to more than 100 million tonnes in the first two months of the year despite a sea ice disaster not experienced in 30 years.
Five ..
Irish Continental TEU down 25.7pc, but ferries only off 2.7pc
04-06-2010
- The Irish Continental Group, (ICG) a container shipping and ro-ro ferry company, suffered a 25.7 per cent box volume decline in 2009, but found that its ferry business suffered little in the global economic downturn.
"P..
Wuxi to start international all-cargo flight services
04-06-2010
- Eastern Chinese city of Wuxi is to start a new cargo flight service to Hong Kong in April and is also in talks with parties concerned about the launch of a Japanese and a Korean all-cargo service, Logistics Week reported..
Baku port set for upgrade
04-02-2010
- Consultancy firm Royal Haskoning has released news about a new port at the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, that will provide a strategic alternate route for goods headed from China to Europe.
"Currently, the Port of Baku is ..
Yantai launches air cargo service to Taipei
04-02-2010
- The Yantai-Taipei passenger service operated by Shandong Airlines has recently started an aircraft belly cargo service, Logistics Week reported.
The maiden flight loaded with 1,033 kilogrammes of cargo with a value of U..
Two U.S. major ports show signs of revival
04-02-2010
- Business activities are picking up in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach following nearly two years of recession, authorities said on Thursday.
Cargo terminals, where containers are unloaded from ships, are seeing ..
US ports climb out of shipping slump
04-01-2010
- 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..
Asian port heavies hit by trade slowdown
04-01-2010
- The big Asian container terminal operators saw profits and volumes fall last year as the global financial crisis hammered international trade.
Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings, the world's largest container-terminal ..
Ship shortage causes US-bound container pile-up in Asia
03-31-2010
- South Korea's Busan port and its terminal facilities are experiencing heavy backlogs in US-bound boxes because of a year-long supply-and-demand dispute between shippers and shipowners.
Ship owners continue to restrict t..
Wan Hai, Simatech, Evergreen launch Sri Lanka-East Africa serv..
03-31-2010
- Wan Hai Lines, in collaboration with Simatech Shipping and Evergreen, has launched a three-vessel service from Colombo to Mombasa, Kenya; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and back.
Each ship will have a 1,200 TEU capacity, the f..