AD Ports Group enhances its Logistics Cluster with top executives to boost global operations under Noatum Logistics, led by CEO Jochen Thewes.

Experts warn rising sea levels in the Black Sea could lead to severe erosion and flooding, impacting millions of residents along the coast.

A large-scale Russian attack on Odesa port damages infrastructure across Ukraine, but no casualties have been reported.

KAZAKHSTAN has started building a major transport and logistics hub in Kostanay to boost international trade and strengthen its role in global supply chains by creating modern infrastructure and increasing transit potential, according to the railway transport news portal Railway Supply

THE second largest port in China for foreign trade, Qingdao, plans to develop Aoshanwan port area into the key component of the Qingdao major international container ports.

TAIWAN's Wan Hai Lines has again been crowned the 'Container Shipping Line of The Year - Far East Trade Lane' by 7th Edition of East Coast Maritime Forum 2022, which was held concurrently with Eastern Star Awards held on February 24 in Kolkata, India

CHINA and the European Union have signed the long-awaited business investment deal under which Brussels seeks to even the playing field for European companies operating in the Chinese market, reports London's Financial Times

TWO global port operators - Singapore's PSA and Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT) - have been shortlisted to build Bay Terminal, a 12-metre draught facility near Chittagong port

Although the cruise industry is getting hot in China, the five major Chinese cruise ports are all in the red.

ASIA-Europe spot rates fell for the third straight week last week, plummeting a further 6.6 per cent to US

Global Maritime News & Shipping Industry Updates

THE US' major retail container ports handled a total of 18.8 million TEU in 2016, representing an increase of 3.2 per cent compared to 2015, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Hackett Associates.

SWISS provider of forwarding and logistics services Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG's largest shareholder has rejected a US$4

THE leaders of Japan's three largest shipping companies - NYK, MOL and 'K' Line - have expressed concern about increased protectionism and the challenges involved in making shipping more environmentally friendly when speaking about the outlook for 2019 and beyond in their new year messages

AMAZON is to build a 285,000-square-foot cargo complex at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Florida after signing a 20-year contract with airport authorities

INDIA's 12 major ports posted 5

EGYPTAIR Cargo has awarded dnata a contract to provide cargo handling services for its freighter service that calls at Dubai World Central (DWC)

THE current push among shipping lines for greater economies of scale through the creation of bigger alliances, such as the proposed P3 and expanded G6, has far reaching consequences for the container shipping industry that regulatory authorities will find difficult to agree upon.

A US Department of Justice price-fixing investigation of major container carriers that began two years ago, has collapsed for lack of evidence

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THE US' major retail container ports handled more than 1.67 million TEU in January, which is 6.5 per cent more than the previous month and 12.5 per cent more than January 2016.

KOREA's Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) will join most major carriers in selling slots on the NYSHEX digital platform, offering its own westbound transpacific backhaul rates from August 6

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

BALLAST water treatment specialist Optimarin has been awarded a contract to supply 36 BWT systems to Bermuda's Ardmore Shipping, marking one of its biggest orders to date

HONG KONG's Hutchison Ports Pakistan, holds 90 per cent in the country's only deep-water port capable of berthing the world's biggest containerships, is expanding, reports Karachi's Express Tribune

MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company (MSC) has started clean-up efforts ten days after 291 containers - some holding hazardous chemicals - fell off one of its largest cargo ships into German waters near the island of Borkum during a North Sea storm straight after the start of the New Year