May 2013 - RW Freight

Coastal Shipping Summit

A group of city based entrepreneurs in India are proposing to meet at an investment summit in June, with a view to reviving coastal shipping. The group wan...
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Posted on May 31, 2013

Sustainable Road Freight Transport

The Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge has established a Centre for Sustainable Road Freight Transports. Opening at the end of last y...
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Posted on May 30, 2013

Bridge Collapse Threatens Canada Freight

Last week a bridge collapsed on the main highway connecting Seattle in the USA with Western Canada. Freight Cargo to a value of 20 million dollars travel...
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Posted on May 29, 2013

Freight Train Crash

Two freight trains in rural southeastern Missouri collided on Saturday. The highway overpass collapsed after at least twelve rail carriages derailed and ...
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Posted on May 28, 2013

Logistics Hub Plan for Jamaica

The government of Jamaica is planning to develop a global logistics hub, with the help of investment from Kuwait and Dubai. The development will include ...
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Posted on May 27, 2013

Gothenburg Increase in Crude Oil Imports

During the first quarter of 2013, 5.5 million tonnes of crude oil and other energy products were handled by the port of Gothenburg, an increase of five per...
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Posted on May 26, 2013

Air Freight Capacity Crisis

Just less than 50% of all exports by value from the UK go by airfreight, and industry spokesmen fear that Uk airport capacity will not be able to sustain e...
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Posted on May 25, 2013

Floods May delay Norway Freight

Flood warnings for Norway suggest that freight cargo may be delayed as major roads are closed in Akershus, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud. Freight railway l...
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Posted on May 24, 2013

Global Freight Rates tumbling

According to a new Global Freight Rate Index, rates fell 12% last month. This was the lowest level since February 2012, when container shipping was still...
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Posted on May 23, 2013

China – UK Freight Trade Increase

Trade between China and the UK increased by 7.5% last year, compared with the previous year. Two of China's major shipping lines use Felixstowe as their ...
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Posted on May 22, 2013

China visits Container Port

The Chines ambassador visited Felixstowe last week, and went on a tour of the facilities at the UK's largest container report. China's two main container s...
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Posted on May 21, 2013

Freight Forwarders Conference

The Sino-European Freight Forwarders Conference will take place in Barcelona in June. During the four days many meetings will take place between freight fo...
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Posted on May 18, 2013

Pharma Freight Hub

This week a new storage and distribution hub dedicated to healthcare only has opened in Italy. It has access to the major freight arteries, due to its po...
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Posted on May 17, 2013

Norway Ship Tunnel could improve freight transit

The Norwegian government has given its support to an ambitious plan to create a ship tunnel able to accommodate 16000 tonne freight and passenger ships. Th...
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Posted on May 16, 2013

Switzerland – New Logistics Centre

This week saw the beginning of construction of a new logistics centre in Switzerland. The new location will offer a one stop shop for contract logistics,...
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Posted on May 15, 2013

Freight Container Ship in Accident

A container ship collided with a control tower at the port of Genoa in Italy on Tuesday evening. It is thought that there were at least six fatalities an...
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Posted on May 14, 2013

Exports Fell in February

Exports from the UK were lower than expected, prompting the Confederation of British Industry to request government help for exporters. The reduction was...
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Posted on May 11, 2013

China quashes air freight

IATA statistics show that the late timing of the New Year in China had a detrimental effect on global air freight statistics in February. Volumes were 6....
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Posted on May 10, 2013

Shipping Lines Squeezed out

Smaller shipping lines are abandoning east-west trade routes as they are finding themselves unable to compete in a market dominated by big ships. According...
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Posted on May 9, 2013

Shipping workers end strike

Hundreds of workers at the port of Hong Kong accepted a pay increase to end the biggest industrial action there in decades. Container traffic has been disr...
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Posted on May 8, 2013

Rail Freight to compete with road

Rail Freight terminals in the UK are being expanded to accommodate 750 metre trains. New logistics terminals at London Gateway and Felixstowe are also pr...
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Posted on May 6, 2013

Sea freight rates decline on Asia Europe

Although some shipping lines are withdrawing capacity in an attempt to improve rates, other carriers are still taking delivery of new ships, tending to can...
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Posted on May 5, 2013

Shipping Line offering new routes

A new weekly Finland to Poland service will be offered by a Finnish shipping line between the ports of Rauma and Gdynia. In the autumn they will also off...
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Posted on May 4, 2013

New freight services for North Sea

A Finland based shipping line is expanding its freight services on the North Sea and Baltic Sea this summer. A weekly service will connect Finland and Ru...
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Posted on May 3, 2013

New Air Freight Carrier for Norway

A low fare airline based in Norway has established a dedicated freight subsidiary to develop the carrier's freight carrying potential based on their existi...
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Posted on May 2, 2013

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