Minerva Marine orders two additional 3,100 TEU vessels at Penglai Jinglu Shipyard, increasing its fleet to five ships for delivery in 2027-2028.

Desan Shipyard signs a deal to establish a shipbuilding facility in Malaysia, marking a significant expansion of Turkish shipbuilding in Asia.

IDO launches expanded ferry routes to Aegean Islands for summer 2026, offering travelers increased options and sailing frequency.

The global container shipping fleet surged from 4.5M TEU in 2000 to 33.6M TEU in 2025, driven by consolidation and increased vessel sizes.

Hyderabad airport, which saw the fastest growth in international cargo among major Indian airports in FY 2025, is expanding its cargo infrastructure and diversifying exports beyond pharmaceuticals, reported Chennai's Hindu daily

Swissport has trebled its cargo handling capacity at East Midlands Airport by moving into larger premises as volumes double, reported London's Air Cargo Week

GLOBAL provider of marine energy solutions, KPI OceanConnect, has opened its new office in Tokyo, Japan, further strengthening its regional presence and support for local customers

LONDON, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria-based Dronamics is growing its European operations team ahead of the company

THE Port of Houston ended 2021 increasing throughput 15 per cent year on year to 3

GLOBAL freight forwarder and logistics provider Seko Logistics announced its ambitious plan to boost its presence in China this year following a 20 per cent growth in the company's air and ocean freight business last year

AMERICAN e-commerce giant Amazon has rapidly increased its air cargo business in recent months while the airline industry may be reeling from the coronavirus pandemic

UPS has expanded its time- and day-definite delivery services to include new locations in 40 countries, meaning its express services are now available across 140 countries and territories

COSCO is adding a second Far East-East Coast South America service by purchasing slots from "K" Line on the Far East-ECSA SSA 1/AESAL 1/NHX 1 services.

Solvtrans has signed a new contract with the Spanish shipyard Zamakona Yards for the construction of a new

ENVIROTAINER is expanding its RAP e2 network in the Americas by adding Toronto, Canada

FEDEX says it has agreed to acquire Manton Air-Sea Pty Ltd, a provider of freight forwarding and customs brokerage solutions, to expand its portfolio of offerings essential to meet the demands of the rapidly growing global commerce landscape

WAN Hai Lines is restructuring its China-Vietnam-Thailand (CVT) service and launching a new joint north China-Thailand (CT1) service with Cosco Container Lines, as well as taking slots on Cosco's east China-Thailand service, effective from July.

HONOLULU-BASED ocean carrier Matson is increasing the frequency of its South Pacific Express (SPX) service to Samoa and American Samoa to 14 days, up from every 28 days, the carrier has confirmed.

CEVA Logistics has renewed a global freight management contract with a major technology customer and won important additional services in air and ocean freight

DENMARK's Scan Global Logistics has acquired 55 per cent of Bamako-based Macca Logistics SGL in, Mali, which includes its operations in Dakar, Senegal and Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

DUBAI international ground handler dnata continues to increase its global footprint and has invested EUR8 million (US$8

GERMAN logistics giant DB Schenker has expanded its fifth Southeast Asian logistics centre in Malaysia's Johor state, following the recent launch of two similar facilities in Shah Alam, reports New York's Air Cargo World

DHL eCommerce, a division of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has expanded its Hong Kong distribution centre on account of expectations that China's e-commerce export trade will reach EUR1

WORLDWIDE Flight Services (WFS) has won a new three-year contract from Colombia's Avianca Airlines to provide the carrier with ground handling services at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport

THE Canadian National Railway (CN) is expanding with two additional major export supply chain projects focused on maximising the use of rail into the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia, reported Milwaukee's Progressive Railroading

SEKO Logistics has opened a new facility in Chicago that is three times the size of its existing hub in the US city

UPS has expanded its Worldwide Express Freight and Worldwide Express Freight Midday services to customers in 2,300 postal codes in the metropolitan areas of Moscow, St Petersburg and Nizhniy Novogorod

PORT of Brunswick in Georgia is poised to take on new business with completion of a 40-acre dockside property dedicated to auto processing at the roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) port at Colonel's Island Terminal

ONLINE air cargo booking platform, Miami-based SkySpace Cargo, has added three new locations - Kaula Lumpur, Warsaw and Buenos Aires to its network

DANISH shipping giant Maersk Line plans to expand a new programme providing trade financing to customers by also providing credit to customers' suppliers as well. It said it is close to sealing four loan agreements that are the first in a new "supply chain" initiative created in a trade-financing programme launched by company as it looks for ways to distinguish itself from competitors.

ITASCA, Illinois-headquartered global supply chain solutions company AIT Worldwide Logistics has opened a new full-service station in the Qingdao on China's eastern seaboard

THE Port of Montreal is expanding the capacity of one of its four main terminals 70 per cent to keep up with a growing demand that boosted cargo volumes through the port reach 2

CHINA's manufacturing activity expanded at the fastest pace in nearly three years in October as output and new orders grew at a clip not seen in several years, reported Caixin

LOGISTICS provider Agility says it has opened a state-of-the-art logistics centre in Melaka on the Malay Peninsula to strengthen its presence

ISRAELI shipping line Zim is launching a new weekly Central America Caribbean Express (CCS) service in the second half of August that will be operated by three 1,100-TEU vessels

TAIWAN's Dimerco Express Group has opened two new offices with dedicated ocean team to its network based at key ports in China at Qingdao and Xiamen in response to increasing ocean freight business.

ETIHAD added in late November a five-times-per week Airbus A330 service with 16 tonnes of bellyhold capacity to Barcelona in an effort to tap Spain's fashion, perishable goods, pharma and automotive markets

THE world's largest ocean carrier Maersk Line has started offering trade finance to shippers in six states in the United States after successfully piloting a similar programme in four countries in Europe and Asia.

SINGAPORE's APL has added port calls in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Ensenada, Mexico to its Condor Express (CDX) service to transport fruits and other perishable goods to and from Asia, starting from January 23

AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC Airlines) has commenced a twice weekly service to Budapest, Hungary to tap rising freight traffic between Europe and Asia

UNITED Parcel Service (UPS) has increased capacity on its Hong Kong to Cologne route by deploying the larger Boeing 747-8 aircraft

BUDAPEST Airport has unveiled its brand-new Pier B project, part of the gateway's BUD 2020 development programme to enhance airport infrastructure, reports Hawaii's eTurboNews

CHINA's e-retailer JD

ONLINE retail giant Amazon is becoming a player in the logistics and shipping industry, say analysts as its air cargo fleet grows to 50 planes serving new regional hubs, including a US

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SUBSIDIARY of Russian airline conglomerate Volga-Dnepr Group, AirBridgeCargo (ABC), has launched a new 747-freighter service to Ho Chi Minh City

LUFTHANSA Cargo has developed the 'DGD

HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) announced an additional service loop called the North Asia Express (JKN) that becomes operational January 1

GEODIS Netherlands has launched a new airside gateway at Schiphol airport to help expedite the processing of cargo through the Dutch hub and meet increasing demand

THE largest neutral network, software and information provider at the centre of the ocean industry, INTTRA, says it's now working with the top 12 shipping carriers after the announcement that Wan Hai Lines, Taiwan's big shipping company, has joined its network

INTERNATIONAL freight forwarding and logistics company Panalpina is to acquire Newport Cargo, Argentina's air freight market leader and perishables specialist