Indonesian ferry with 250 passengers sinks An Indonesian ferry carrying 250 passengers capsized and sank after being battered by a large wave in bad weather in the country's east yesterday, officials said.
Ceva signs contract with Sain Gobain in Brazil Ceva Logistics has signed an agreement with Saint-Gobain, a French company that designs, produces and distributes materials for industrial and consumer markets. The operation will ...
Sahil Freight powers supply chain Sahil Freight Express, which specialises in over-dimensial cargo, has continued its success in providing logistics solutions for the power supply manufacturing sector. Sahil Freigh...
Emak outsources its distribution centre in Italy to Kuehne + Nagel Emak, a member of the industrial Yama Group, a leading European farm and garden machinery manufacturer, has selected Kuehne + Nagel to manage its distribution centre in Italy. Adja...
LKW Augustin pulls 250 trucks from service The Austrian forwarder Karl Augustin said that the tense economic situation is forcing it to take about one sixth of its fleet (250 lorries) out of service and reduc...
Suez Canal freezes fees at current level The Suez Canal has opted against increasing tolls in 2009 because of uncertainty in the shipping industry caused by piracy and the global credit crunch, a canal authority official ...
NOL Group picks Phoenix area for new Americas headquarters Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), a Singapore-based global container transportation and logistics group, will relocate its Americas regional headquarters to the greater Phoenix AZ ...
New setup for A.P. Moller-Maersk headquarters A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S is reorganising its headquarters into two distinct units ' a corporate centre and service functions. The corporate centre will focus on a number of group gove...
NYK Europa launches own European website European customers and business partners of the Japanese shipping line NYK can now contact it directly via its own website, www.nykeurope.com....
Tilbury Cardiff rail service a great success The UK freight train service between the port of Tilbury (near London) and the Freightliner intermodal terminal in Cardiff (Wales) operated by DB Schenker (formerly EWS) and the We...
New Hupac service The Swiss multimodal operator Hupac has launched a new shuttle service between Verona (Italy) and Taulov (Denmark), together with the Italian company Cemat. From Taulov there are c...
Intermodal transport decelerating Unaccompanied rail transport has been declining in Europe since September 2008. Intercontainer Austria ICA expects to report lower freight and sales volumes in 2008 and 2009. ...
Investments in Swiss road and rail networks The Swiss government decided at the end of 2008 to invest about CHF 5.5 billion in developing the national road network over the next 20 years. A further CHF 4.4 billion ...
Higher speed limits for Swiss freight trains Freight trains with axle weights of over 20 t may now travel at 100 km/h instead of only 80 km/h on all suitable routes in Switzerland. The Federal Office of Transport said that th...
Greenbriar launches 'distressed' shipping fund EQUITY Group earmarks 'at least $100m' to seed a new fund to pounce on attractive shipping assets in a declining market.
Pirates said to release Sirius Star THE VLCC Sirius Star, the largest vessel ever hijacked, was reportedly released today, the maritime union Nautilus UK said
Keppel-Scorpion rig deal cancelled KEPPEL Offshore & Marine cancelled a $405M rig contract with Scorpion Offshore today on terms it called "mutually acceptable"
Drop seen in Hamburg box traffic CONTAINER traffic through Hamburg has reportedly declined year on year for the first time since the early 1980s
Family settles one BC Ferries case LEGAL arguments were to start today for families of passengers killed in the Queen of the North sinking, but one family has already settled out of court
Gas monitors arrive in Ukraine EU MONITORS who will supervise Russian gas flows through Ukraine arrived today in Kiev, nine days after a price row led Moscow to cut gas deliveries to Ukraine, the EU has announced
All change for CSAV box services CHILE'S Compania Sud Americana de Vapores has announced a new port rotation for its GEX Service starting 31 January with CSAV Venezuela at Cartagena
Supramax rates not moving THERE is too much Handy and Supramax tonnage in the Atlantic and rates are not really moving much according to shipbrokers
US container volume weakest since 2004 Amid the global economic crisis, ports closed out 2008 with an estimated 6.4-percent drop in imports in December.
Court rejects NIT League motion in trucks case
Horizon Lines is target of investment group
Pirates free oil tanker
US-Canada trucks decline
More oppose TSA proposal
Obama team outlines infrastructure plan
Maersk shuffles US calls
Chiarello appointed COO of NYK Logistics (Americas)
Obama to the rescue of maritime transport? Figures released today in the US confirmed that a further 524,000 American workers lost their jobs in December; culminating in a shocking total for 2008 of 2.6 million job losses - higher than any year since World War II.
Felixstowe hosts SCI's new boxships
Itajai re-opens to deepsea boxships
Boxship rates continue dive; lay-ups soar; German owners pool costs
New US led anti-piracy task force A new naval task force with ships and equipment from more than 20 nations will from mid-January focus entirely on the counter-piracy task in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea ...
Indian threath of boycott of Korean ports Indians are outraged by the verdicts in South Korea against two Indian officers on the tanker Hebei Spirit that, while anchored, was hit by a pontoon crane. The accident caused the largest oil spill ever in South Korea. The Indian ...
Sharp drop in cargo handling in Tallinn The ports in AS Tallinna Sadam (Port of Tallinn) handled 29.1 million tons of cargo last year, down by 19.3 per cent compared to the 36 million tons in 2007. The handling last year was at the same ...
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