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Swedish Imports/Exports stable

Although growth in imports and exports through Gothenburg was down slightly in January - September, volumes in the third quarter increased. The most comm...
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Posted on November 13, 2012

Gothenburg container volume increase

Contrary to expectations, container volumes through the Port of Gothenburg, Sweden - the largest port in the Nordic region - were 4% higher than in the cor...
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Posted on November 12, 2012

Marseille lures container freight

The port of Marseille in southern France has opened two new container freight terminals, doubling its handling capacity. The first port in southern Europ...
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Posted on November 2, 2012

Container Terminal Opening in Germany

A deep water container terminal and freight village has opened in Wilhemlmshaven. The opening has been delayed several times, and as the freight market i...
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Posted on October 6, 2012

New Freight Container Factory

A new dry freight container manufacturing facility was completed in Qidong, Jiangsu Province, China in the first half of 2012. Trial production started i...
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Posted on October 5, 2012

EU Grant for Port of Tilbury

Tilbury and Bilbao have received funding from the EU for the "Motorways of the Sea" project which aims to take freight off the roads and on to the sea. I...
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Posted on October 3, 2012

Unusual Freight from China

Earlier this month a three month old kitten was found in a shipping container having survived three weeks without food and water. The kitten was disc...
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Posted on July 23, 2012

Saudi Ports swamped by Imports

Ports in Saudi Arabia are being overwhelmed by the increase in imports which has occurred over the last year. The delays in unloading have caused two in...
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Posted on July 20, 2012

Freight Trains for Gateway

It is planned to run four freight trains per day from the new Thames Gateway deep water port which will open at the end of next year. London Gateway will ...
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Posted on July 9, 2012

New Freight Container Terminal for London

The new Thames Gateway freight container terminal and logistics park is due to open in the fourth quarter of 2013. This will be a great advantage for log...
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Posted on July 3, 2012

New container freight station for India

A new container freight station in Kerala, India, is the first to serve the new International Container Transshipment terminal in Kochi. The facility has...
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Posted on June 25, 2012

New Container Terminal for Melbourne

The port of Melbourne in Australia is to be re-developed to provide a completely new freight container port, which should take 15 years to complete. The ad...
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Posted on June 23, 2012

Container Shipping Freight Rates Falling

Shipping lines are being forced to reduce freight rates, even though they made an agreement at the beginning of this year to impose increases. The first...
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Posted on June 10, 2012

Container shipping delays

Container shipping lines have a poor record for punctuality. Researchers claim that forty per cent of shippers are given a bill of lading within three d...
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Posted on May 24, 2012

New Shipping route via Suez Canal

Two container shipping companies have announced that they will begin services from South China and Vietnam to the East Coast of the USA via the Suez Canal....
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Posted on May 17, 2012

New container offices at Chennai port

Five new offices have been opened at Chennai port zero gate in India in order to speed up the customs clearance of freight containers. The new facility wa...
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Posted on May 10, 2012

Container Shipping Course

Lloyds of London Maritime Academy is offering a new distance learning course covering all aspects of container shipping. The course examines the commerc...
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Posted on March 29, 2012

Rail Containers for Vietnam

The Transport Ministry of Vietnam is drawing up plans to transfer more freight containers to rail, in order to ease road congestion. It is proposed to up...
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Posted on March 26, 2012

Horticulture freight trains

Indian Railways is planning to run the country's first horticulture freight container trains from the inland depot at Bhusawal to national capital Delhi. �...
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Posted on March 22, 2012

New container freight service

A Dutch rail operator has instituted a new daily freight container service between Rotterdam and the Rhine terminal of Germersheim. The service area ...
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Posted on February 13, 2012

Nantes courts container traffic

As shipments of bulk goods decrease, the port of Nantes in France is expanding its capacity for container freight. The port is planning to extend quaysi...
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Posted on February 10, 2012

Belfast Increases Freight Volumes

The Port of Belfast was pleased to report an increase in freight volumes in 2011 over the previous year. Bulk cargo, especially steel and steel coil tra...
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Posted on February 5, 2012

Gateway Targets Chinese Imports

London Gateway port, currently under construction 40 km east of London, will be the United Kingdom's newest deep-sea container port combined with one of Eu...
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Posted on February 3, 2012

Re-branded Container Port

The Essex port of Tilbury is to be re-branded as London Container Terminal. Its new owners will combine the deepsea and shortsea container facilities. A...
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Posted on February 1, 2012

Gales disrupt shipping

Container freight shipping has been seriously disrupted today by gales affecting the coastal ports. The UK's biggest port by volume of freight, Felixstow...
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Posted on January 3, 2012

New Rail Freight Terminal for Felixstowe

A new rail terminal at Felixstowe will be the first in the UK to be able to handle longer, 30-wagon freight trains which allow more containers to be moved ...
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Posted on December 12, 2011

Tumbling freight rates continue

Container freight rates are continuing to fall while shipping lines have excess capacity and compete with each other for reducing volumes of cargo. Rates o...
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Posted on December 2, 2011

Transpacific freight rates fall

Last week the rate for container shipments from Hong Kong to Los Angeles fell $64 from the week before to $1,457 per feu. This means that the rates has red...
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Posted on November 26, 2011

Direct Rail Freight to China

This month a new direct rail container service from Germany to China will be officially opened. The transit time of 23 days for a journey of about 11 ...
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Posted on November 4, 2011

Xiamen Container Port Expansion

Xiamen Port in the Fujian province of East China has plans to increase freight volumes in response to reducing exports caused by weakening demand from the ...
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Posted on November 3, 2011

Freight Conference in Hamburg

Intermodal Europe, featuring a free to attend conference and exhibition, is returning to Hamburg on 29 November – 2 December 2011. It is expected to a...
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Posted on November 2, 2011

Gothenburg to be ‘freight hub of Scandinavia’

According to the Chairman of Gothenburg ports, that is the stated aim of port situated on the West Coast of Sweden and new investment will help it to achie...
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Posted on November 1, 2011

Container Shipping Prospects

Prospects for the freight industry remain uncertain, but different carriers have adopted different strategies for dealing with this. The largest containe...
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Posted on October 29, 2011

Felixstowe’s New Freight Terminal

On 28 September Felixstowe, which is the largest freight container port in the UK, opened two new berths. They will be the only container berths in the c...
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Posted on October 4, 2011

China slow-down in Container Freight

Although the monthly volume of container freight through China's ports was the highest in history in the first half of 2011, growth began to slow down in t...
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Posted on September 26, 2011

Container terminal for India

Jawaharlal Nehru Port in India has revealed plans for a fifth container terminal to accommodate the increase in freight volumes which they are expecting. �...
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Posted on September 25, 2011

‘On time’ shipping

One of the world's major shipping lines has announced a new service from Asia to Europe which will 'guarantee' a sailing every day at the same time, with a...
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Posted on September 21, 2011

Logistics and Shipping Conference

Intermodal Europe will take place in Hamburg, Germany from 29 November to 1 December 2011. Focussed on Logistics and Container Shipping by road, air and ...
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Posted on September 20, 2011

Rail Freight Sale for Russia

There will be an open auction in Russia next month, to sell 75% of the freight subsidiary of Russian Railways. There seem to be three main contenders to ...
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Posted on September 13, 2011

Shipping container shortage

The World Shipping Council warned earlier this year that there would be a shortage of shipping containers in the second half of 2011. An industry analyst...
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Posted on September 7, 2011

New Freight Container Ports for India

The Indian Ministry of Shipping unveiled plans to triple its exports of merchandise by March 2017. Part of the plan is to create seven new ports, as so f...
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Posted on September 5, 2011

Future of freight distribution

According to a recent article in the journal of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, it is time to re-design the distribution of freight to ...
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Posted on September 4, 2011

Logistics Challenge in Iraq

Logistics managers for the military services in Iraq are planning the transport of eight years of war materiel within months. It is uncertain whether US ...
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Posted on September 3, 2011

Shipping peak surcharge

The world wide economic climate resulting in lacking consumer confidence has meant that orders for consumer goods are falling below expectations, and ships...
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Posted on August 25, 2011

Port Strike in India

With container movement already being delayed due to lack of gates, the situation has now been made worse by a flash strike which started on Friday. As of...
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Posted on August 23, 2011

Container port expansion

The port of Tilbury has submitted plans for an extension of about 26 hectares. The port was built in the 1880's by the East and West India dock company, ...
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Container imports slow

Container Trade Statistics report that imports into Europe from Asia in June were 4.6% down on May, but are above the levels recorded during the same month...
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Lost Containers?

The World Shipping Council claims that its members operate 90% of global container ship capacity. The Council has just published research, showing that p...
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Posted on August 16, 2011

Container future uncertain

The balance between the supply of ships and demand for space has become more and more unstable since 2009, according to a specialist shipping analyst. Th...
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Posted on August 9, 2011

Container shipping rates tumble

Having announced last week that they would impose a freight increase on the Asia Europe route in August, shipping lines have revealed that spot rates have ...
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Posted on July 29, 2011

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