The maritime sector saw a 7% growth in 2025, driven by resilience amid geopolitical tensions and evolving supply chain dynamics.

Morocco is developing two deepwater ports to enhance global trade, with Nador West Med opening by 2026 and Dakhla by 2028.

Global container growth slows to 2.1%, hindered by US and EU import declines, despite gains in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Growth in China's services sector eased in November, with a private gauge showing the weakest expansion in five months, reported the Wall Street Journal.

NORTH mainland ports have outpaced those in south China through most of 2013, mostly enjoying double digit volume growth while southern harbour post paltry gains in 2013.

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) reduced its global economic growth expectations to 3.3 per cent from its 3.5 April prediction to take into account of a US first quarter contraction.

CARGO volumes into the United States are being lifted by booming sales of smartphones and the trend towards ever larger televisions, contributing to a 5

FOLLOWING months of a continuous backlog of containerships waiting for berth space, the Port of Savannah is projecting that moderating demand will finally permit the port to clear the congestion before the end of 2022

CHINESE personal computer giant Lenovo declared flattening second quarter results as profits rose 11 per cent year on year to US$516 million drawn on flat revenues to

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KOREAN Air Cargo is seeing a 40 per cent cargo growth and is relying on Vienna Airport as an EU cargo hub, reports Wisconsin's Aviation Pros

Damen Shipyards Group has sold a Fast Ferry 4212 to South Korean ferry operator DAEA Express Shipping. The vessel, named Sea Flower, is the fourth ferry of this design that Damen has sold in the last five years to companies operating on the east coast of the Korean peninsula.

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry (ZPMC) will pay more focus on the offshore market in its future business

Enjoying hefty gains from shipbuilding the information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO), Cebu

Wilhelmsen Ships Service continues to extend its worldwide network coverage by expanding its presence in Turkey.  The company has just opened a new office in Aliaga-Izmir.  This is the fifth Turkey office for Wilhelmsen Ships Service and it is now fully operational.

TACOMA joins the ranks of ports that see much of their future dependence on oil and related products with the Targa Sound Terminals

CHINA's overall freight transport saw steady growth in the first quarter with freight volume increasing by 6

PRELIMINARY government statistics show that Hong Kong's economy grew at its slowest annual pace in nearly ten years due to the slowdown in exports and investment

EUROPEAN airlines saw air cargo volumes in July continue to grow at a lower rate than earlier in the year

THE Port of Hamburg has achieved cargo volume growth of 2.7 per cent in the first half of 2012 to total 65.8 million tons. Container throughput was up 1.9 per cent year on year to 4.4 million TEU, considered modest growth resulting from the high number of empty containers. Exports accounted for 28.4 million tons of total cargo, up 6.4 per cent year on year.

ALTHOUGH container exports from North Europe to North America registered anyear-on-year increase of 5.7 per cent in the first five months of the year, Drewry is "sceptical" that this growth can be maintained for the full year.

BREAKING recent pattern of the Port of Long Beach growing faster that its San Pedro Bay rival, the Port of Los Angeles topped the two in growth with LA enjoying its busiest July in its 111-year history

THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported a significant slowdown in year-on-year growth in air freight volumes in July, at just 2

GLOBAL oil demand is expected to grow nearly 20 per cent in the next 20-years, driven by non-OECD countries with China leading the way

A CONTINUING pattern of air traffic growth decline since April has been noted among member carriers of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (PA)

JAPAN'S export products and service growth to United States grew 15.1 per cent to US

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WEST African container trades are no longer enjoying growth in container volumes following annual increases of between 5 per cent and 10 per cent during the years from 2010 to 2014, IHS Media reported.

ECONOMISTS are upgrading their growth projections for Vietnam after data this weekend showed the economy surged more than seven per cent in the third quarter, reports Bloomberg

CHINA's economic growth sank to its lowest level in 27 years, pulled down by its ongoing trade war with the United States and weaker domestic demand, reported CNN Business

INDIA's air cargo industry needs to grow by 12

THE Vallarpadam Terminal at Cochin, India saw April-to-August throughput surge 19 per cent to 227,962 TEU, up from 191,687 TEU over the same period a year earlier. August achieved a monthly handling record of 50,842 TEU. By comparison, the overall increase at major ports in the same five-month period was 6.4 per cent.

The 10.2 per cent year-on-year gain in US container volume in the first quarter of 2013 represents the sixth consecutive quarter of 10 per cent plus increases

THE Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (PA) saw international air cargo demand, as measured in freight tonne-kilometres (FTK), increase by five per cent in July compared with the same month a year earlier, data from the asssociation shows

DANISH shipping giant Maersk foresees a bumpy road ahead for shipping lines that have ramped up their service offerings to take advantage of reforms and infrastructure developments in India, according to the company's regional trade report that contains a bearish outlook for India's container shipping sector

THE Port of Montreal expects 2018 to be another record year for cargo volumes as the Canadian free trade agreement with Europe begins to bear fruit

CHINA's factories lost more momentum in November, according to a key monthly survey of manufacturing firms, with domestic demand again looking bleak despite a recent boost in infrastructure spending

TURKISH Cargo achieved a 30 per cent growth rate between January and May outstripping the market performance of 4