Carriers are deploying record capacity on Asia-North Europe routes as shippers rush to move cargo before the Chinese New Year shutdown.

Turkey's exports soared to $273.4 billion in 2025, with chemicals and plastics leading the growth amid global challenges.

Qatar's ports handled 226 vessels and 110,784 TEU in December 2025, showing significant growth compared to 2024, reports Qatar's Peninsula.

Frontline is investing $2 billion to modernize its VLCC fleet by retiring older vessels and acquiring advanced, technology-driven tankers.

Galataport Istanbul achieved historic cruise tourism records in 2025, with a 48% increase in passengers, solidifying its status as a key Eastern Mediterranea...

Vizhinjam International Seaport reaches one million TEU in just 10 months, enhancing India's transshipment capabilities and reducing foreign reliance.

Turkey's fisheries production exceeds 1 million tons by 2025, driven by aquaculture and sustainable practices, marking a historic achievement.

SINGAPORE's largest port operator PSA handled more than 40 million TEU in 2024, a record-breaking feat that it has called a "significant milestone".

Containership orders reach a record 633 vessels in 2025, driven by Cosco and Hapag-Lloyd, with concerns over future supply-demand balance.

Saudi ports saw an 8.22% increase in transshipment containers in November, despite a decline in total handled containers.

PortMiami reported record results for Fiscal Year 2025, welcoming 8.

UAE port operator DP World saw its container volume rise 8

WAGES offered to Chinese workers in major cities declined by the most on record, underscoring persisting deflationary pressures and sluggish consumer confidence, reports Hong Kong's South China Morning Post

ACQUISITIONS and the expansion of time:matters' network in the Americas helped the time critical logistics company achieve record revenues in 2018 of EUR121

Anchor-handling record for ‘Zwerver II’

ISRAELI container shipping line ZIM has announced that its total revenues for 2021 amounted to US

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Sanmar Shipyards is celebrating completing a record number of vessels within one calendar month, with six tugs and two pilot boats gaining their class certificates during January 2022.

SOUTH Carolina Ports (SC Ports) has moved another record number of containers in November, marking the ninth consecutive month of record volumes, surpassing its previous monthly container record, which was set in March SC Ports handled 250,711 TEU at Wando Welch Terminal, North Charleston Terminal, and Hugh K Leatherman Terminal in November 2021 - a 21 per cent increase year over year

SOUTH Korean ocean carrier HMM has wiped out two-thirds of the losses it incurred in the past five years with a US

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MWANI Qatar terminal has set a monthly record for container volume by handling over 133,000 TEU in November, reports The Peninsula Daily

THE Port of Long Beach has achieved yet another single-month container throughput record in October, marking the third time in 2020 that the port has broken a record for cargo movements within a single month

THE Trump Administration plans to invest US$900 million in American infrastructure through the Better Utilising Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants programme, according to US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao

THE Chittagong Port Authority has announced that their 2016 container throughput target of two million TEU was entirely achieved in 2015, reports the Dhaka Tribune.

A slump in dry bulk shipping is set to worsen as the meltdown in global commodities and too many ships free for hire rock the sector used by investors to gauge the health of world trade.

In the space of two months, Nam Cheong has secured contracts for three offshore vessels worth $70m, and is set

China’s largest private shipbuilding company, Rongsheng Heavy Industries, delivered 3.9m dwt of vessels last year, a record high, according to the statement

More people were taken hostage at sea in 2010 than in any year on record, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) global piracy report disclosed.

www.worldbulletin.netPirates receive record ransom for S.Korean supertankerReuters Africa"We are now counting our cash and soon we shall get down from theship," a pirate who gave his name as Hussein told Reuters. Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of...Report: Somali pirates releases South KoreanshipJerusalem Post52 haber makalesinin tümü »

SHIIPPING giant Maersk has reported the largest profit by a shipping company and the largest ever profit for any Danish company with revenues up 55 per cent to US$61

NEW YORK's airline general sales and service agency, Aviacargo carried 55 tonnes on a series of flights between the Bournemouth in the UK and New York's JFK, setting a new record, reports London's Air Cargo News

NAVIS, a provider of stowage software, has claimed the world record for the largest amount of cargo ever stowed - carrying more than 19,100 TEU aboard the MOL Tribute, an Ocean Network Express (ONE) unit

POLAND's main Port of Gdansk announced that it beat last year's first half record, up nine per cent to 27

RUSSIA's space programme upped the world standard for 'express delivery' by shipping three tonnes of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) in three hours, 48 minutes - breaking the record for fastest space cargo mission to orbit, reports New York's Air Cargo World

NEW Jersey-headquartered INTTRA, the largest neutral network, software and information provider at the centre of the ocean shipping industry, announced that for the first time in its 17-year history the company in May processed more than four million requests for container bookings or shipping instructions on its platform

ISRAEL's Zim Integrated Shipping Services recorded an adjusted profit of US$36.2 million in the third quarter, taking the carrier to a $51.3 million nine-month profit, a significant turnaround from the

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MALAYSIA's most advanced container terminal Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) has set a new world record to depart a vessel with a final load over 19,000 TEU

COMBINED the state-owned public and privately-owned marine terminals at the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore handled a record 43 million tons of international cargo in 2018, topping the previous record of 40

DEEPWATER Container Terminal (DCT) Gdansk handled 1.3 million TEU in 2016, a record not just for the terminal but for Polish containerisation for annual container volumes handled.

DUBAI's DP World has announced it has achieved a record annual throughput at Mundra 470 nautical miles north of rival Mumbai, of 1.1 million TEU in 2016, a 21 per cent year-on-year increase.

CARGO volume growth continued at the US port of Long Beach with traffic in November, the most recent month with data available, amounting to 622,000 cargo containers, a year-on-year increase of 1

US container import ports notched up another record-breaking year in 2018 but still came under pressure from the worsening trade row between the US and China, according to shipping agency BIMCO

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HEATHROW Airport Limited (HAL), has said that 2018 was a record year for the UK's biggest and busiest air freight facility, reports London's Air Cargo News As well as handling a record number of passengers (80

JAPAN's Ocean Network Express (ONE) has set a record last month when one of its box ships 'NYK Swan' moved 6,000 containers in 18

CANADIAN National Railway (CN) achieved second-quarter revenue growth of nine per cent year on year to stand at CAD3

BUSINESSES based in the US saw their logistics costs in 2017 rise by 6