MPC Container Ships has welcomed two new 5,500 TEU vessels from South Korea, enhancing its fleet for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services.

TAP Air Portugal expands GRU Connect service with a new Salvador route, adding seven weekly flights to enhance cargo transport between Europe and Brazil.

SHENZHEN's SF Airlines has launched a new air cargo route between Urumqi in northwest China and Islamabad in Pakistan to meet demand for cross-border e-commerce, reports London's Air Cargo News

THE UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Authority has recently unveiled a set of reforms designed to strengthen emission limits for industry and aviation in 2024, reports Ventura, California's gCaptain

GROUNDLANDER Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has been awarded the contract to provide ramp handling for Kentucky-based freighter operator Southern Air

  GENEVA's Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has received the third in a series of five ships ordered in October 2007 from the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea to be chartered on its Far East-north Europe Lion service along with MSC Trieste delivered December 2011.

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MARSEILLES' CMA CGM, the world's third biggest container shipping company, will add a weekly call to the Port of Miami from October 1 on its new Amerigo Service as it develops market opportunities in Florida and Mexico,

CHINA Cosco Holdings has completed a new round of old-tonnage scrapping after dismantling one 1996-built container feeder ship and 13 bulk carriers for a total capacity of 924,700 deadweight tons.

CHINA's second largest domestic liner operator, Quanzhou Ansheng Shipping, has assigned 12 ships of over 20,000 TEU on the transpacific and Asia-Europe trades, in collaboration with compatriot China United Lines (CULines)

JAPAN's Ocean Network Express (ONE), based in Singapore, has introduced a Mombasa (Kenya) port call to its MIM service, in a move to provide a direct connection between the Middle East, India and Kenya

CARGOLUX Airlines has launched a new online booking portal as part of the freighter operator's investment in its digital area, reports London's Air Cargo News

China’s Sinopec Corp completed adding a third tank to store liquefied natural gas at its receiving terminal in Tianjin, marking the completion of construction of the first phase of the import facility, the state oil and gas group said on Tuesday

The Port of Barrow has celebrated the latest addition to its fleet of survey vessels, the Christine H, by hosting a naming ceremony in memory of a former, valued colleague

StreamLines adds new container service from Port of Wilmington

ANL is to expand the port coverage of its APR service by commencing monthly calls in Kimbe in the west New Britain province of Papua New Guinea.

Brokers report that Karadeniz Holdings’ bargain basement run of bulker acquisitions continues.

Starting with yesterday’s call by the 1,155 teu ERKAN K, CMA CGM will begin to serve Samsun, a Turkish Black Sea port located in the province of the same name.

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THE Europe-South Africa SAECS service offered by Maersk, its unit Safmarine, together with MOL and Deutsche Afrika Linien (DAL), will speed northbound reefer cargo by adding an eighth ship while slowing an additional five days on the southern leg.

US-listed containerships charter owner, Danaos Corporation, recently took delivery of one more newly built containership, the 13,100-TEU Hyundai Smart, expanding its operational fleet to a total of 62 containerships with a total capacity of 336,849 TEU.

GERMANY's Lufthansa Cargo has added a sixth Boeing 777 freighter to its fleet that is based at Frankfurt airport

NINGBO-ZHOUSHAN port is to have three new container berths with the launch of the second phase construction project of Dapukou container terminal at Jintang port area

AMERICAN transport giant XPO Logistics has announced the coming of visualisation technology later this year so customers before the delivery can better fit sofas, beds and other large items inside their homes

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FRENCH cargo handling giant Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is investing EUR10 million (US

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AMERICAN express delivery giant FedEx has expanded capacity on its London-Paris-Dublin flights with the introduction of the Boeing 767-300 freighter - the first of the aircraft type to fly in Europe for FedEx

CHINESE shipping giant Cosco, having sent 10 ships along the Northern Sea Route to western Europe through the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, now plans to send 10 more this summer, reports Norway's Independent Barents Observer

APL is adding oxygen and carbon dioxide monitoring capabilities on top of temperature and humidity tracking to its satellite tracking system, SMARTemp, designed for reefer shipments.

Royal Wagenborg adds another tugboat built by UZMAR Shipyard with 80-ton bollard pull and 32-meter L.O.A to the fleet in North Netherlands.

DUTCH shortsea and feeder operator WEC lines is to commence a weekly UK Liverpool to Portugal service from April that will connect Liverpool with the ports of Setubal and Leixoes

APL is adding port calls at Xingang, Busan and Sohar to its West Asia Express (WAX) service in order to provide wider coverage between Asia and the Middle East

SINGAPORE's APL, now a unit of French shipping giant CMA CGM, has added the port calls of Hamad and Aqaba in the Middle East and Hazira in India to its weekly India Pakistan-Mediterranean express service (IPM). On the new rotation, the IPM service will also call at Jebel Ali instead of Khor Fakkan.

ETIHAD Cargo has added an outbound stop at Germany's Frankfurt airport to its weekly Boeing 777 freighter service between Abu Dhabi international airport and Ohio's Rickenbacker international airport (LCK)

THE US west coast Port of Tacoma has taken delivery of new super-postpanamax container cranes for installation at Husky Terminal's Pier 4

RUSSIA has de-prioritised its big icebreaker building scheme designed to facilitate expected growth of the Arctic Northern Sea Route (NSR) from Asia.

FEDEX Express has added a new Boeing 767-300 freighter that will operate five times a week on its Madrid, Spain to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport route

ABU Dhabi Terminals (ADT) has taken delivery from Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry three of the world's largest ship-to-shore quay cranes for its Khalifa Port Container Terminal (KPCT).