April 2015 - RW Freight

EU threatening to ban seafood imports from Thailand

The EU has given Thailand, the world’s third-largest seafood exporter, six months to crack down on illegal fishing or face a trade ban on its fish import...
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Posted on April 30, 2015

Ontario Expands Wine Exports to China

Ontario exports of the province's wine into China are significantly expanding due to two important agreements that will bring millions in investment. As pa...
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Posted on April 29, 2015

Scottish salmon exports ‘reach £500m for first time’

Figures released last week show that exports of Scottish salmon grew by £50 million last year, reaching £500 million for the first time ever. This annou...
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Posted on April 28, 2015

Flood of Imports to West Coast Ports

There was a virtual flood of imported cargo to the USA West Coast ports in March. Container ships steamed into West Coast ports last month after the end o...
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Posted on April 27, 2015

Mexico bans poultry, egg imports from Iowa

Mexico, the biggest buyer of U.S. chicken, has halted imports of live birds and eggs from the U.S. state of Iowa due to an outbreak of deadly bird flu ther...
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Posted on April 26, 2015

Freight Event

The annual freight event in Birmingham, Multi-modal, takes place next week from Tuesday 28 to Thursday 30 April with the focus on air freight. As well a...
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Posted on April 25, 2015

New Design Freight and Passenger Ferry

A marine engineering company in Denmark will introduce a freight and passenger ferry capable of making an entire voyage entirely on electric power. The new...
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Posted on April 24, 2015

Railway freight scam in India

Country-wide surprise inspections in India have brought to light multi-crore irregularities at the Electronic In-Motion Weigh Bridges (EIMWB) where systema...
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Posted on April 23, 2015

Japan exports improve

Japan posted its first monthly trade surplus in nearly three years in March, due to falling import costs from cheaper oil prices, along with a modest recov...
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Posted on April 22, 2015

Weakening euro causes concern for Northern Ireland exports

Northern Ireland's economic growth has been healthy in the first quarter of 2015 but there are concerns about manufacturing exports, research has shown. T...
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Posted on April 21, 2015

Underground freight pipeline project

A technology company in Cambridge is testing a concept to distribute freight across a town through a network of underground pipelines. The freight will tra...
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Posted on April 20, 2015

Coal imports to China fall nearly half in 12 months

Imports of coal to China fell by nearly half in the first three months of the year as the slowing economy and tougher rules on pollution took their toll. ...
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Posted on April 19, 2015

Irish Exports up 17% to €7.93bn

Ireland’s trade surplus decreased by €34 million (or 1 per cent) to €3.8 billion in February, as exports rose 3 per cent, according to new figures fr...
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Posted on April 18, 2015

Manufacturing exports on the rise in the Black Country

An economic survey of the first three months of the year, carried out by the Black Country Chamber of Commerce, found continuing confidence in both the man...
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Posted on April 17, 2015

Food exports from Sweden increase potential

The Swedish Food Federation believes that there is money to be made from increased export sales of Swedish pork, peas and Daim cakes, made from fragments o...
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Posted on April 16, 2015

Syria slashes imports to save foreign reserves

Importers require government licences that allow them to request a favourable exchange rate at the Syrian central bank. But the government has in recent...
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Posted on April 15, 2015

Sweden exports bread to France

Sweden has a long tradition of making products such as milk, margarine, bread, coffee and buns and Spirits are the crown jewel of the export industry of Sw...
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Posted on April 14, 2015

World imports more Swedish sweet treats

Food and drink account for an increasing share of exports from Sweden, with France and the US among the countries gobbling up a growing number of cakes, br...
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Posted on April 13, 2015

USA February meat exports lower

While still affected by severe congestion in the West Coast ports, February exports of U.S. beef, pork and lamb bounced back to some degree from the totals...
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Posted on April 12, 2015

Petition opposing St Albans rail freight sale

Thousands of people have already signed a petition opposing the sale of an old airfield for use as an international freight interchange. The petition ha...
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Posted on April 11, 2015

France bans imports of Italian vegetables

Italian farm associations have accused France of starting a trade war, by announcing a ban on imports of vegetables from the southern Puglia region because...
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Posted on April 10, 2015

EU cannot maintain protection against Chinese imports

European fears of being forced to lower tariff defences against cheap Chinese imports have grown following a confidential warning from the EU's own lawyers...
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Posted on April 9, 2015

Vital freight deliveries delayed to Stornoway

Lifeline freight deliveries to the islands are being delayed on the mainland as it is now almost impossible for hauliers to get to the new earlier freight ...
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Posted on April 8, 2015

Facilities improving for live animal exports

Calgary airport has set up a live animal facility with 28 000 sq ft of warehouse and a 14 000 sq ft of loading area. The system has been designed to make h...
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Posted on April 7, 2015

China air cargo forecast bleak

Chinese imports and exports account for 30 per ken of the global air freight market; it is the second largest exporter of high tech and fashion goods in th...
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Posted on April 6, 2015

Air freight symposium in Shanghai

A speaker at the recent IATA conference said that modal shift is reducing the volume of air freight. He said that the airfreight industry lost five milli...
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Posted on April 5, 2015

Air freight symposium in Shanghai

In the IATA symposium held in Shanghai last month, the president of China Eastern warned of the need for the air freight industry to modernise its systems....
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Posted on April 4, 2015

Indian Wheat imports hit five-year high

India has purchased some 80,000 tonnes of Australian wheat in recent deals, the biggest amount of such imports by Asia's third-largest economy in five year...
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Posted on April 3, 2015

Cotton exports to fall as China curbs buying

Cotton exports from India, the world's second-biggest producer and seller, are expected to fall 41 percent to 7 million bales this crop year, ending on Sep...
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Posted on April 2, 2015

Dutch exports boost on downtrodden euro

Dutch exports have been boosted by the low rate of the euro and the sharp fall in oil prices. The top three most important export markets for the Netherlan...
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Posted on April 1, 2015

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