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APL Renews Terminal Lease at Port of Kaohsiung

Oct 17, 2017

An agreement has been signed between American President Lines LLC, Taiwan Branch and Taiwan International Ports Corporation Ltd, to renew APL’s terminal lease at the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The signed deal retains APL’s current terminal plot…

Pasha Hawaii to Deploy Jones Act Vessel to Puerto Rico

Oct 17, 2017

Pasha Hawaii will provide the U.S. Jones Act vessel Horizon Spirit to ship hundreds of containers from the West Coast in support of hurricane relief and rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico. The Horizon Spirit serves as a drydock reserve ship in…

ZIM Seven Stars Express Service to Add a Kaohsiung Call

Oct 16, 2017

ZIM is pleased to announce that starting November 2017, ZIM’s popular Seven Stars Express Service (Z7S) will add a call in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, offering unique advantages to customers, said a company press release. The service includes: Direct access to New York Maher terminal…

Savi Ocean ETA Brings Transparency to Shipping

Oct 16, 2017

With Ocean ETA, shippers gain real-time visibility to ocean shipments and seamless orchestration of transitions between sea, land and air. Ocean ETA was launched by Savi, an innovator in big data/machine learning analytic solutions, supply chain management software and sensor technology…

Port of Savannah Moves 1 Mln TEUs in Q1

Oct 16, 2017

The Port of Savannah moved more than 1 million twenty-foot equivalent container units across Garden City Terminal in the first quarter of FY2018 (July 1-Sept. 30), growing by 5.8 percent or 55,629 TEUs over the same period in FY17. In September alone…

India's Non-major Ports Post Improved Box Volumes

Oct 16, 2017

Container volumes at non-major Indian ports like Mundra, Pipavav, Hazira and Katupalli ports have registered a combined CAGR of 20 percent (from 1.7 million TEUs to 4.5 million TEUs) for the last five years (2012-17) as against CAGR of 2 percent (from 7…

Port of LA Volumes Up 8.21% Year-to-date

Oct 13, 2017

The Port of Los Angeles marked its third-largest September on record in terms of container volume. Last month, 763,785 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) moved through the port, up slightly from last September. “As we enter the final quarter of 2017…

Long Beach Sets September Cargo Record

Oct 12, 2017

“Simply put, we are having the best trade months in port history,” said Lou Anne Bynum, Harbor Commission President at the Port of Long Beach, where cargo volume records continue to be broken. The port moved more containers last month than any September in its history…

CMA CGM Opens Logistics Storehouse in Lebanon

Oct 11, 2017

The CMA CGM group has opened a logistics storehouse in the heart of the Bekaa valley in Taanayel, Lebanon, offering a tailor-made logistics solution for reefer customers in the country’s richest agricultural, commercial and industrial region…

TOTE Says San Juan Productivity Improving

Oct 11, 2017

TOTE Maritime said it continues to see an increase in overall productivity at the Port of San Juan as more and more containers leave the terminal for communities around Puerto Rico. On Monday the terminal reached 87 percent productivity…

La Spezia Terminal Team to Tour Asian Cargo Hubs

Oct 11, 2017

Italy’s gateway container terminal in La Spezia, operated by the Contship Italia Group is set to embark upon on a tour of strategic supply-chain hubs in Asia.Contship’s senior management will visit key cities in China – Shanghai, Dalian…

A Business Park Made of Shipping Containers

Oct 10, 2017

Container King of Dallas has recently signed a deal with local developer Ron Sturgeon to build 38 innovative, eco-friendly, state-of-the-art commercial spaces made from shipping containers. Box Office Warehouse Suites is due to open in the Alliance commercial real estate area in Texas…

CMA CGM Adds Port Call in Tripoli

Oct 10, 2017

CMA CGM said it will expand its service offering to and from Lebanon by serving the port of Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest commercial port after Beirut, on a weekly basis. With its WEMED service linking the eastern Mediterranean countries with those in the west…

US Retail Imports ‘Unusually High’

Oct 10, 2017

This summer’s imports set a second all-time monthly record high as U.S. retailers brought in merchandise for the busy holiday season, and are continuing at unusually high levels this month, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report…

APL Adds Port Calls to Asia-Europe Services

Oct 10, 2017

APL has added Durres, Albania and Thessaloniki, Greece as new ports of call to its Mediterranean Express 1 (MX1) service; as well as Novorossiysk, Russia Black Sea and Poti, Georgia to the seaports which its Mediterranean Express 2 (MX2) service is calling…

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Stolt-Nielsen Limited Executive Management Update

Stolt-Nielsen Limited Executive Management Update

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Trump Administration Seeks to Negotiate with China on Shipping

CMA CGM Reverses Mali Suspension

CMA CGM Reverses Mali Suspension

LNG Canada Starts Up Kitimat Train 2

LNG Canada Starts Up Kitimat Train 2

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