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Freight operator planning France – Jersey Route
A NEW southern freight service operating in and out of France is being launched by a company in St Malo. A large cargo ship may arrive in Jersey three times a week. A new vessel, the 55-metre Norwegian-built Southern Liner, ...Read More
Freight ship collision off southern Sweden
Two freight ships have collided in the Baltic Sea off southern Sweden in the early hours of this morning. Two people have been reported missing, the authorities of Denmark and Sweden said. One of the freight vessels capsized, and at ...Read More
Supply chain moving from seafreight to airfreight
Supply chain problems seem to be shifting from seaports to airports. Retailers in the West are racing to import products from factories in east Asia to shoppers in the US and Europe before the Christmas break. In October, retailers were ...Read More
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LA Ports Blocked With Cargo Imports
Last week some 60 container cargo ships were standing idle at the entrance of the Los Angelese port complex last week. Congestion in the San Pedro Bay is expected to continue. Los Angeles Port processed 954,377 twenty-foot equivalent units of ...Read More
Tags: cargo, containers, imports
Passenger to Freight Aircraft Conversions increase
There has been a vast growth in plane conversions from passenger to freighter aircraft (P2F) because of falling passenger numbers due to Covid-19. Before the crisis InsightIQ recorded approx 78,000 freighter flights per month. By December 2020 this had increased ...Read More
Tags: air freight, cargo, Covid-19, freight
New air freight service for salmon
A new air freight company is about to be launched to expand the export of from the Faroe Islands. The company investing in the project is present in markets where a direct air route would benefit both the company and ...Read More
Tags: air freight, cargo, Denmark, exports, freight
USA shipping ports congested
U.S. exporters are struggling to export food as the global shipping system strains under unprecedented pandemic demand. There is a confluence of disruptions in the international supply chain. This situation affects many agricultural sectors, amounting to what the industry is ...Read More
Cargo increases in Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
The increase in cargo during last several months of 2020 at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has continued into the new year. The spike in imports has caused massive congestion and some ships have been re-directed to ...Read More
Freight ship sinks off Turkey’s Black Sea coast
A freight ship sunk on Sunday off the coast of Turkey’s Black Sea province of Bartin, killing at least three crew members. It was said that the vessel was a Russian dry freight vessel but this information was later corrected. ...Read More
Gothenburg Terminal sees fastest growth in Sweden
Figures from the Swedish Ports Association show that the largest ports in Sweden attract significant growth, while smaller ports experience declining volumes. Quarter III of 2020 was challenging for Swedish shipping and many Swedish ports lost volume. Cargo flows increasingly ...Read More
Logistics delays at ports
Logistics UK, the trade association which represents supply chain firms, said there had recently been a huge increase in the volume of cargo entering the UK. Part of this began in summer, when the UK's first lockdown eased so companies ...Read More
Kenya flower exports rises to 80 per cent
Kenya’s flower exports have risen to 80 per cent from 30 per cent compared with the previous year in the last month. The Covid-19 pandemic had caused a crisis in the industry. The sector was one of the hardest hit ...Read More
Shipping Industry Covid-19 aftermath
The 'Big 3' shipping alliances — 2M, Ocean Alliance, and The Alliance — are cutting back operations to prevent freight rates from falling because of a steep decline in cargo volumes. There were 212 temporary cancellations of container ships from ...Read More
Tags: cargo, container, Covid-19, freight, Seafreight, shipping
Baltic seaport operations
Baltic seaports are streamlining cargo operations and their workflow using automation and technology. 60% of all logistics in the Baltic area is maritime, and 40% of sea freight cargo passes through small- and medium-size terminals and ports which suffer from ...Read More
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Xinjiang imports seafood from Pakistan
A cargo flight loaded carrying 9.25 tonnes of seafood from Pakistan arrived at the airport of Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region last Thursday. This is the first regular international cargo flight between Kashgar and Pakistan, according to ...Read More
Deal agreed for rail freight operator acquisition
One of the UK's largest rail freight companies has just been sold to a new owner. Said to be the third largest rail freight operator in the UK it operates more than 1,000 trainloads of freight a week, moving about ...Read More
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UΚ Freight Tonnage Stable
Freight tonnages through UK ports were stable overall in 2018, the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Annual UK Port Freight Statistics show. There was only a 0.1% difference on the previous year at 483.3m tonnes, said the British Ports Association (BPA). ...Read More
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Increase in freight volume through German ports
300 million tons of freight was carried by container and other cargo vessels via German sea ports in 2018, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In comparison with the previous year, maritime transport to and from Germany increased by 1.6 percent ...Read More
Logistics and transport after Brexit
Hauliers who currently carry export or import cargo to and from Europe may need to plan for alternative routes to move goods, according to the Government's Technical Notices published in August. They may need to use different modes of transport ...Read More
New freight route China to Pakistan
A new rail and road cargo service began last week, linking Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, with Islamabad in Pakistan. The first freight train, carrying 30 carriages of mechanical equipment, auto parts and daily necessities left a logistics ...Read More
China-Singapore rail-sea freight route improves transit times
Last week, a freight train loaded with auto parts and paper products left southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, destined for a port in southern China, where the goods will be shipped across the sea to Southeast Asia. The 356th freight train ...Read More
Container and vehicle imports to Nigeria fall
IN spite of a 56.7 per cent increase in cargo through Nigeria’s seaports, container and vehicle traffics have fallen in the last three months of 2017 and the first quarter of 2018. Statistics from the Nigerian Ports Authority show that ...Read More
£1m investment for Network Rail freight
The Tees Valley will receive a £1m investment in partnership with Network Rail to finance a study into the future of the region’s rail freight network. The study is intended to resolve issues between the Eaglescliffe to Northallerton branch of ...Read More
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Air freight volumes rise 7%
Air cargo volumes at the world's 20 busiest airports grew 6.8% in 2017. Hong Kong was again the number one freight hub. Airports Council International (ACI) reported that the top 20 cargo hubs handled 51m tonnes in total last year, ...Read More
Port of Sunderland cargo imports grow
Last year record levels of cargo were handled at the municipally-owned Port of Sunderland last year; the port, which was 300 years old in 2017, recorded a 13% rise in freight tonnage passing through its docks when compared to 2016. ...Read More
Bringing Sail Freight Back to the Hudson River
At any moment, more than 20 million shipping containers full of raw materials or finished products are crossing the oceans, neatly stacked on ships. Other goods travel by rail freight or airfreight. The shipping industry makes the modern global economy ...Read More
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Rastatt rail freight corridor reopens
The Rhine Valley rail freight corridor via Rastatt reopened last week, allowing European intermodal operators full-capacity on north-south services again. However, an intermodal operator said that “due to the intense re-routings of locos, wagons and staff on alternative routes over ...Read More
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Outlook for air freight good, says IATA
The outlook for air freight is still healthy, according to the airline association which has published its air cargo stats for the three months ending April. The news has been good for air freight but not perhaps if you are ...Read More
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Russia possibly using railroad monopoly to retaliate against Baltics
Russia's state-owned railway monopoly is mainly refusing requests to move cargo from Russia to ports in Latvia, industry executives said. The monopoly, Russian Railways, has in many cases offered no explanation to customers for turning down the cargo, mostly oil ...Read More
Freight train arrives Chinese city to London
About 34 containers packed with clothing, bags and millions of pairs of socks completed the 7,456-mile journey to east London on January 18th. During the 18-day trip, the containers were transported from the city of Yiwu in eastern China to ...Read More
Tags: air freight, cargo, China, containers, France, freight, Germany
Air freight firms get rebates from Changi
In Singapore the challenging outlook for the global air freight industry has prompted Changi Airport Group to offer about $14 million in rebates for firms in the industry. A one-time rebate for cargo carriers, and firms helping companies organise air ...Read More
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Freight operator to increase Irish Sea sailings
An Irish Sea freight operator is increasing the frequency of its sailings to and from the Port of Liverpool, due to the new Liverpool2 container terminal. The changes by the Freight company, in response to the creation of Liverpool2 and ...Read More
Largest Ever Freight Shipment of Fuel Biomass Arrives
What is claimed to be the largest ever single shipment of biomass fuel docked and discharged this week at Humber International Terminal (HIT) at the Port of Immingham after a 34 day voyage. The freight consisted of nearly 60,000 tonnes ...Read More
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China cargo carriers merge to form huge freight company
The three largest airline cargo carriers in China will merge to form Asia's largest freight transport company, according to a senior official at the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The three merging companies are Air China Cargo, China Cargo Airlines ...Read More
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 the world. It is believed that 375000 shippers in China use air ...Read More
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PKP Cargo makes cooperation deal with Croatian freight carrier
The largest rail freight carrier in Poland, PKP Cargo, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with HZ Cargo, the rail freight company of Croatia, to open up opportunities in central and southern Europe. The partnership with Croatia’s national rail freight ...Read More
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Trucks still moving most freight from USA
The dollar value of freight hauled across the borders by U.S., Canadian and Mexican truckers in December was more than 9 percent greater than a year before. That is according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, which also says trucks ...Read More
Nordic Air Cargo Event
The Nordic Air Cargo Symposium takes place from 27 - 28 January in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the premium event for air freight shippers and suppliers. The Symposium will review trends in the air cargo market and discuss how to ...Read More
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Freight Companies aid West Africa
Freight and logistics companies are playing their part in shipping vital supplies to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak. One company has airfreighted more than 70 tonnes of urgent supplies to Monrovia, Liberia to help combat the spread ...Read More
Export Plans for Taiwan
It is hoped that the new law allowing consolidations of cargo for different destinations will make Taiwan one of the most competitive logistics hub in the world. Consolidating goods in Taiwan and re-exporting them to Europe and America should increase ...Read More
Freight growth spike at DWC in Quarter 2
Freight volumes at Dubai airport surged by triple-digits in the second quarter, recording 199,751 tonnes, up 308 per cent from the 48,955 tonnes recorded during the corresponding period in 2013. The year to date freight volumes reached 276,567 tonnes, an ...Read More
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New Logistics hub for Dover
A new logistics hub at the Port of Dover’s Western Docks could create more than 600 jobs, and could also safeguard 140 posts through the construction of a new cargo terminal. The project is designed to ensure that the Port ...Read More
Leipzig/Halle air freight volumes increase again
Freight volumes at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany have set a record for the ninth time in a row. Leipzig/Halle handled 887,101 tonnes of freight in 2013, an increase of 2.7 percent. “Leipzig/Halle Airport has continued to enhance its position as ...Read More
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Air freight growth for Middle East carriers
IATA statistics show that Middle Eastern carriers reported the largest increase in air cargo growth in November 2013, compared to the same month in the previous year. Middle Eastern carriers reported a 16.5 per cent jump in air freight, measured ...Read More
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Freight takes off at Shanghai Pudong Terminal
Shanghai Pudong cargo terminal saw freight tonnage rise by 2.83 percent to a total of 1,173,784 tonnes in the first 11 months of 2013. In 2012 the total was only 1,141,472 tonnes. Domestic cargo volume grew by 17.05 percent year-over-year ...Read More
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