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Increased Freight Rates for container shipping lines

Container shipping lines hope for a better year as freight rates are increasing. They are expecting overcapacity to ease during the year. Surplus supp...
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Posted on January 19, 2014

New Container Shipping Service to Fiji

The first ever direct ocean Less than Container Load shipping service between northern Europe and Fiji has been announced.The new service, operating on wee...
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Posted on January 17, 2014

Container Lines Investigation

Several container line shipping companies are being investigated by the European Commission to investigate whether they have breached anti-trust rules. The...
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Posted on December 10, 2013

Lisbon Container Port Strikes

Strikes at Lisbon ports have been underway since 6 November, and will continue for four hours every day until 27 November. There will also be strikes at ...
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Posted on November 16, 2013

Enlarged port welcomes bigger ships

After its enlargement last year, the container port of Mombasa welcomed a new customer in the shape of one of the larges container carriers in the world. �...
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Posted on November 14, 2013

First containers arrive at Gateway

The first regular container service arrived at London Gateway, the UK's newest deep water container port, on Wednesday 6 November. There is a rail freigh...
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Posted on November 13, 2013

Shipping Intermediaries beware forgeries

A Belgian ship agent has been held liable for releasing six containers of castor oil against a forged bill of lading. The shipper claimed that it had not b...
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Posted on November 6, 2013

Containers for Commonwealth Games

Shipping containers are being used to pack and store equipment purchased from the London Olympics, for use in Glasgow in 2014. The containers are being sec...
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Posted on October 30, 2013

Deep Water Container Terminal at Liverpool

The port of Liverpool will be able to welcome the world's largest freight shipping when its new container terminal is completed. Over the years Liverpool...
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Posted on October 19, 2013

Le Havre Container Development

A new deep water container terminal, sufficiently deep to accommodate the biggest ships in service today, has begun its final phase of development. The cur...
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Posted on October 16, 2013

Shippers support container weighing

The Global Shippers' Forum is lobbying governments to improve maritime safety by ensuring that container weights are checked. There was a setback to the ...
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Posted on September 20, 2013

Tenerife Container Terminal

A new container terminal in Tenerife is intended to handle freight movements between Africa, Europe and North America.A spokesman for the port said that Sa...
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Posted on September 14, 2013

New Container Port for Algeria

Work is starting on a new container terminal at Djen Djen lat this year. The new terminal will be able to handle the new Panamax ships. A significant pro...
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Posted on September 13, 2013

Hong Kong container trade struggles

The first six months of the year were challenging for Hong Kong, with container traffic down over 10% over the corresponding period of 2012. Hong Kong is...
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Posted on September 12, 2013

China container trade knocked by economy

This year rates of growth of freight volumes have eased, victim of muted demand for China's manufactured goods. In May, both imports and exports fell. It...
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Posted on September 11, 2013

Rail Freight in China

Volumes of container rail freight should rise in consequence of recent Government reform, increasing investment, and the launch of several international se...
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Posted on September 10, 2013

Shanghai Port requests relaxation of charges

Shanghai International Port is asking the government of China to relax regulations on port charges and allow individual ports to set their own prices. Th...
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Posted on September 7, 2013

Exports through Gothenburg rise

Container trade through the port of Gothenburg has so far improved by two per cent during the first six months of the year. Exports increased by four per...
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Posted on August 29, 2013

Chinese Freight Train Record

The first freight train from Zhengzhou in North Central China travelled on Friday 2 August to Hamburg, making the journey in 15 days as against the project...
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Posted on August 14, 2013

Container Terminal for Rome

It is planned to replace the existing terminal at Civitavecchia in Rome with a new one in 2013. The current port only hosts one mainline container freight ...
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Posted on July 31, 2013

Containers change Gauges

Freight containers on the new rail service from China to Germany will have to be transferred by crane to different guages twice. The route goes via Kazak...
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Posted on July 29, 2013

Deep Sea Container Service for Liverpool

Feeder shipping services to Liverpool have been double, to enable more deep sea containers from the Far East to be forwarded to Ireland. The service from L...
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Posted on July 26, 2013

China Reforms Rail Freight

China has begun modernising its rail freight industry after seeking opinions from customers. The Beijing Railway Bureau Freight Center is offering new serv...
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Posted on July 22, 2013

Brazil Changes Import Procedures

Customs Procedures for imports into Brazil were changed in May 2013, amending regulations which had been in place since 2006. It is no longer a requirement...
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Posted on July 14, 2013

Call for Container Packing Improvement

A major insurance supplier to the freight industry has called for improved container packing standards. They say that higher levels of training are neede...
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Posted on July 12, 2013

New Container Ship Orders

Shipping lines are still ordering new containers ships, in spite of the fact that big world economies are only just climbing out of recession. Freight ca...
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Posted on July 4, 2013

China to Poland Rail Freight Service

A weekly rail freight service between Chengdu in China and Lodz in Poland began at the end of April. The service carrying between 41 and 52 wagons with m...
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Posted on June 12, 2013

Freight Container Event

Intermodal, in Hamburg from 8 - 10th October, is one of the leading events for container transport and logistics covering all modes across road, rail and s...
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Posted on June 9, 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

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 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 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

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

Freight on Water

Moving freight on coastal and feeder shipping services has created an 'M6 of the North Sea', offering a more environmental friendly way of transporting car...
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Posted on April 28, 2013

Breakfast Freight moves to Canal

Kellog has increased the volume of breakfast cereals to be transported via the Manchester Ship Canal container shuttle. Hundreds of freight trucks will b...
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Posted on April 18, 2013

New Sea Highway from Spain

Two European ro-ro operators are co-operating to offer a sea highway for freight moving between Spain and the UK. They are hoping to attract viable volum...
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Posted on April 16, 2013

Idle Container Ships Increasing

The percentage of container ships in the world shipping fleet has increased to more than 4.3%. The last time that the idle shipping fleet exceeded this was...
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Posted on April 13, 2013

Hong Kong Container Strike

The strike at Kwai Tsing Container Terminal in Hong Kong is now in its thirteenth day and there is no plan to negotiate to end the dispute. Dockworkers a...
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Posted on April 9, 2013

Russia container freight flourishes

An shipping industry leader says that Russia 'remains a bright spot' in the global container industry. Growth is more than double that of the global averag...
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Posted on March 24, 2013

Container ship sinking

A container ship with 14 on board sank off the coast of China on Monday, with the loss of 11 lives. The ship was approximately 40 nautical miles north ea...
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Posted on March 23, 2013

China invests in Belgian container port

A giant Chinese terminal operator has signed a memorandum of understanding to buy a 24% share of a Zeebrugge Port company. In 2012 Zeebrugge handled a...
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Posted on March 22, 2013

Giant Freight Container Ships

Whilst shipping lines can benefit from the scales of economy offered by larger and larger freight ships, terminal operators have concerns about being able ...
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Posted on March 19, 2013

USA Imports Expected to Increase

A recent report says that container imports to the USA this month are expected to rise in comparison with last year. Although there have been reductions in...
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Posted on March 14, 2013

Intermodal Freight Terminal on River Tees

A new intermodal freight and logistics terminal on the river Tees has begun its first phase of operation. The terminal has a direct link to the East Coas...
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Posted on March 10, 2013

Prison for illegal waste shipping

A waste disposal company has been prosecuted for illegally shipping waste to South America. The company dispatched 89 shipping containers of rubbish collec...
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Posted on March 3, 2013

Freight Rates squeezed in Europe

Road freight rates in Europe were pushed down last year because of growing capacity in the market. In the last quarter of 2012, the European road freight...
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Posted on March 2, 2013

Weak Container Trade

Figures from 11 ports in China, seven elsewhere in The Far East, four in Europe, two in the USA and one in the Middle East, show that volume growth is at i...
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Posted on February 24, 2013

Shipping hopes for peak

Ocean shipping lines are hoping that the traditional July-October cargo rush will take place this year, having failed to materialise in 2012. Freight rat...
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Posted on February 23, 2013

Logistics Fair Asia

Next month the TOC Container Supply chain event takes place in Hong Kong next month. From 12 - 14 March, stakeholders in transport and logistics will be ab...
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Posted on February 22, 2013

Freight Containers made in Chile

The world's largest shipping line has set up its new insulated container factory in San Antonio, Chile. This is the first such production facility outsid...
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Posted on February 20, 2013

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