Australian shipper groups seek to abolish anti-trust immunity for ocean carriers and enforce stricter port fee regulations in a government inquiry.

Japan's top shippers plan to order around 90 new liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers worth about 1.8 trillion yen (

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SIXTY-FIVE per cent of 138 shippers surveyed last week said will reduce cargo going the US west coast after suffering severe congestion and go-slows from recalcitrant dockers, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.

THE stage has been set for a showdown between ocean carriers and forwarders and shippers following the flurry of surcharges and rate increases sought by container lines across most of the major trades in June and July

PERISHABLE shippers in India have begun to feel the pinch from the additional Goods and Services Tax (GST) that became applicable on freight charges from October 1, reports London's Loadstar

ASIA import volumes landing at ports along the US East and Gulf coasts have surged through the first nine months of the year amid protracted longshore labour negotiations on the West Coast that have dragged into the fall

THE recent approval by the US Department of Transport (DOT) for the joint venture between Delta Air Lines and Latam Group is expected to benefit cargo shippers through greater route offerings, efficiency and capacity

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THE shift in the shipment of hi-tech products, such as mobile phones and tablet computers, from air to sea freight is eating into the profits of air cargo operators, reported the South China Morning Post.

FOLLOWING US trends, Mexican cargo is also shifting from west to east coast ports, reports IHS Media

THE International Air Transport Association's (IATA) World Cargo Symposium speakers have much to say about impact of US-China trade row, shifting production to low labour parts of Asia, where carriers suffered a 3

DEUTSCHE Post DHL subsidiary, DHL Global Forwarding, has launched myDHLi Quote & Book, an online service for comparing quotations and making instant bookings for air and ocean freight and even for door-to-door shipments

THE European Shippers' Council (ESC) has criticised most large container liner companies for their move to impose emergency bunker surcharges describing the surcharges as 'unjustified

THE Asian Shippers' Council (ASC) and the European Shipper Council (ESC) have come out against mandatory container weighing and verification ahead of talks at the UN's International Maritime Organisation in London.

CONTAINER weighing proposals before the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are flawed, according to the Asian Shippers Meeting and the European Shippers' Council.

THE executive vice president and chief commercial officer of Atlas Air Worldwide, Michael Steen, says that shippers are expected to increasingly create their own air cargo networks with the aim of controlling their own supply chains

THE Port of Rotterdam authority has rolled out its 'Boxinsider' application that enables shippers and freight forwarders to track the location of their containers round the clock, removing the need to manually collect information about the container's whereabouts from a range of websites, a method that can be time-consuming and error-prone