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Confidence in Shipping

A 'Shipping Confidence Survey' has found that overall confidence in the industry have risen to their highest levels for fifteen months.  There was a n...
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Posted on March 30, 2010

Kotka hit by Strike

A week after the Stevedores in Finland ended their national strike, workers walked out for the afternoon when job cuts were announced at the port of Kotka....
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Shanghai down in 2009

The container port of Shanghai in China saw freight volume throughput decline by 10.7% in 2009, but volumes recovered during the last quarter enabling the ...
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Multimodal at NEC in April

Next month Multi Modal 2010 takes place at Birmingham NEC from 27 - 29 April.  As well as seminars on subjects such as "the illusionary effect of...
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French Rail Freight conflict

Representatives of the French shippers' council are registering their dissatisfaction at the decision by SNCF's Freight Division to drastically reduce the ...
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Container freight encouraging

Recently published figures show that the growth in container freight volumes throughout the world increased by 25% in February, compared with the same mont...
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Policy Statement on Ports

The government's recent National Policy Statement on Britain's Ports has been severely criticised by freight industry groups and member of Parliament. &nbs...
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Posted on March 25, 2010

Cutting shipping emissions

A new report which was presented yesterday to the International Maritime Organisation's Environment Protection Committee suggested that emissions could be ...
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Logistics welcomes staggered rise

The logistics industry greeted the Chancellor's plans to introduce diesel duty increases gradually with some relief.  The Freight Transport Associatio...
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French Rail Freight decline

Recently released statistics show that French rail operator SNCF fared much worse in 2009 than in the previous year.  The Freight division lost approx...
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Posted on March 23, 2010

Cargo capacity Asia – Europe increasing

The Shanghai Container Freight index is showing that freight rates are beginning to fall as carriers introduce more capacity on the Asia to Europe route. &...
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Rail Strike will affect freight

Signal workers have now voted to support a strike which will affect the entire rail infrastructure of the UK. If an agreement is not negotiated with manage...
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‘Air Cargo unaffected’ says BA

With the strike by cabin staff of British Airways now running into its third day, BA says that their air freight operations have largely been unaffected, d...
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Finland – Port employees back at work

Stevedores in Finland returned to work at the weekend after the strike ended on Friday.  There is a huge backlog of cargo waiting to be unloaded at th...
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Strike breaking in Finland

The port of Kotka in Finland saw scenes of disruption today as the port operator called in non-union workers to shift the backlog of 1000 shipping containe...
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Posted on March 18, 2010

Logistics Report from China

A recently published report shows that - while logistics in China continue to show impressive growth - the market is immature and needs massive re-structur...
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Shanghai New Rail Service

A new freight train service from Ningbo port area to Wenzhou in eastern China has started - the operators plan to run the service even if there is not enou...
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Posted on March 16, 2010

Stockholm port development

A District Court in Sweden has rejected planning permission for a new deep water port on a greenfield site at Nynaeshamn, south of Stockholm.  The cur...
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Gothenburg Port developments

The port of Gothenburg in Sweden is changing its status from a port operator to a landlord port, inviting other port operators throughout the world to tend...
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No frills shipping from China

A new container shipping company is launching a new service based on the 'no frills' airline model.   The company is running a service direct from the...
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Shipping data on line

The Meteorological and Hydrological Institute of Sweden has designed a web-based data presentation which allows ships' charterers to find out the fleet's l...
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Finland Strike talks resume

The ports of Finland remain closed after 12 days of strikes in the export reliant country.  Negotiations between unions and management came to a halt ...
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FIATA World Congress

This year Thailand will be playing host to the FIATA World Congress; anyone involved in freight forwarding or related sectors can register for the Congress...
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Posted on March 9, 2010

Russia may benefit from Finnish strike

Some harbour operators and logisitics providers in Finland are worried that the stevedores strike will jeopardize their transit traffic to Russia and the B...
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Multimodal at NEC in April

Exhibitors at the logistics and freight exhibition are expecting many importers and exporters to visit, and it can be a useful market place for exchanging ...
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Transport and Logistics Awards

The Awards Ceremony for the 'every woman' Transport and Logistics Awrds will take place in London on May 13.  The competition aims to challenge freigh...
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Freight Handling in Chile

Reports coming in from Chile say that ports near the epicentre of Saturday's earthquake are not operational and are unable to handle imports and exports. &...
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Posted on March 4, 2010

Finland Drivers Return

Transport workers in Finland returned to work yesterday after a one-day strike.  The drivers' strike, which affected both passenger transport and frei...
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Finland Stevedores Strike

Approximately 90% of Finland's vital exports will be stopped by the strike of stevedores which began at 6 a.m. this morning.  The Transport Workers Un...
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China Arctic Research

According to a report recently published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, China is investing heavily in some of the most advanced A...
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Posted on March 2, 2010

Sweden fails to recover

The economy in Sweden performed worse than expected in the last quarter of 2009;  economists had been predicting that the economy would begin to expan...
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European Freight stable

Danske Bank’s February European Freight Forwarding Index suggests that forwarding is in recovery, although that recovery is likely to be slow and gra...
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Finland strike threat

10 000 transport workers are planning to begin a strike at 6 p.m. local time today, after rejecting mediation.  The national strike will have the affe...
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