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Italian Freight Transport Strike

In a protest over the price of Diesel Italian Freight Transport Drivers caused chaos by blockading major roads. The action took place between 10th and 12th...
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Posted on December 28, 2007

New Containership for Hapag-Lloyd AG

Hapag-Lloyd AG has named her latest containership the “Tsingtao Express” after the old name of Qingdao, China. The “Tsingtao Express&rdqu...
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Posted on December 21, 2007

RORO 2008 Conference – Engineering Greener Logistics

Held every other year RORO 2008 Conference will be held in Gothenburg Sweden with a focus of 'engineering greener logistics' .Issues to be addressed at the...
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Port of Rotterdam handles 10 million teu

ROTTERDAM Port authorities claim to be the first port in Europe to handle 10 million TEU in a single year....
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Chinese Trade Inceases

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said China’s trade value up to september 2007 was up 23% over last year to US$1.57 trillion. The value of Chinese Ex...
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Port of Ningbo container volume eaches 8m teu

The Chinese port of Ningbo handled over 8 million TEU by the end of November 2007, this is up 30 per cent compared to same period last year. Ningbo and Zho...
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China port development plans

According to Philip Damas Research Director of Drewry shipping consultancy major container port projects in China will add about 60m teu of annual capacity...
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UCP 600 Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits

The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits UCP 600 comes into effect on 1st July 2007. The banking commissuion of the International Cham...
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FEFC report 20% growth in Asia Europe Trade

The Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) whose members carry three quarters of the Asia to Europe container trade report growth this year in movements bet...
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Felixstowe ‘Infrastructure charge’

Hutchison Ports (UK) the owner of the Port of Felixstowe justified implementing a 'infrastructure charge' of £5.50 per loaded import container charge...
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SAD Harmonisation (SAD H)

The SAD (Single Administrative Document) H harmonisation project covers the completion of this document across EU member states. This will result in&n...
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Emma Maersk calls at Felixstowe

The world's largest containership 'Emma Maersk', has a capacity of 11,000 teu is 397m long with a beam of 57m made her fist call at the Port of Felixstowe ...
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EC backs BIFA over insurance mediation

After a four year campaign BIFA has won its campaign on insurance mediation. In consultaion with the European Commission HM Treasury officals now agre...
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cabotage rules clarified by Department for Transport

EU Regulation 3118/93/EEC allows a Road haulier registered in one country to collect and deliver a transport load within another EU cuntry where they are o...
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SMX to call at Abu Dhabi

Hanjin, K Line and COSCON who together consistute the South China/Middle East express service (SMX) now call direct at Abu Dhabi. Port aclls are now Yantia...
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APL implement 53ft containers

Capable of holding over 50% more cargo than a 40ft container APL will be using 53ft containers betwwen Asia and the USA. The conatiners have been made in C...
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Posted on December 19, 2007

New Japanese port created

Hanshin Port is to be formed by bringing together Amagasaki Nishinomiya Ashiya Osaka, and Kobe to create Japans biggest container port with an expected ann...
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International Union of Railways approve Container vehicle rack

After tests on Swedish railways the International Union of Railways (UIC) have approved a new vehicle rack to carry cars within a 40ft high cube conta...
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Ying Kou hits 100 million

The president of the Chinese port of Ying Kou announced that annual cargo tonnage handled has now reached 100 million tonnes, there are already 9 other por...
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