CEVA Logistics clinches 3-yr contract with Brazil's largest toy retailer

SWITZERLAND-HEADQUARTERED CEVA Logistics has won a three-year contract to provide warehousing, logistics and e-commerce services to Brazil's...

Charleston, SC will soon have deepest harbour on US East Coast

THE 15,000-TEU CMA CGM Brazil, the biggest ship ever visit the US east coast, sailed into South Carolina's Charleston Harbour because of its...

Alibaba inks deal with Atlas Air to serve South America e-commerce market

CHINA's Cainiao Smart Logistics Network - a subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba - has inked a freighter charter deal with Atlas Air as...

Textile companies in India to gain from US-China trade war

THE US-issued Withhold Release Order on cotton and apparel imports from specific producers in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which may...

Halifax clears container pile-up from Covid and Montreal dock strike

CANADA's Port of Halifax has been working to clear a backlog of containers that have been accumulating at its terminals because of a rebound in...

China restricts frozen food imports from high-risk Covid nations

BEIJING is urging Chinese companies to stop importing frozen food from countries severely hit by the Covid crisis as fears mount over virus...

Russia's dominance of the world wheat exports keeps growing

RUSSIA has gone from being reliant on wheat imports to accounting for a fifth of global sales, as its soils generate bigger harvests at lower prices,...

CEVA Logistics opens new offices in Ecuador and Uruguay

SWITZERLAND's CEVA Logistics, a subsidiary of French shipping giant CMA CGM, has officially opened its own offices in Ecuador and Uruguay as part...

Port of Savannah records best-ever August for container throughput

THE Port of Savannah handled 441,600 TEU in August, marking not only the best August on record, but the best overall month on record in the history...

Halifax PSA docks biggest containership to call at Canadian port

THE Port of Halifax claims to have docked the biggest containership ever to call at a Canadian port, the 15,072-TEU CMA CGM Brazil, reports the...

ICTSI handles imports at La Plata that now rival Buenos Aires

NOW that reefer facilities have opened in TecPlata, logistics services now rival what is available 60 kilometres away from Beunos Aires, notes...

Biggest ship to call at east coast South America - 10,698-TEU APL Paris

CONTAINER managers in Brazil expected the CMA CGM extra-loader, the 10,698-TEU APL Paris to call in Santos, but instead it went to Itajai, reported...

Mauritius prepares for the worst as vessel at centre of oil spill disintegrates

The ship responsible for an oil spill in Mauritius is likely to break into two, worsening what is already an unmitigated ecological and economic...

Air cargo guys say ecommerce will deliver the goods well into 2021

THE air cargo market will likely remain a bright spot for airlines well into 2021 as growth in e-commerce displaces Covid-driven shipments of...

ICTSI's H1 profit off 12pc to US$113.4 million, revenue down 4pc

MANILA's International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has posted a 12 per cent drop in first half year-on-year net profit to US$113

Ethiopian B777 freighter damaged in Shanghai blaze

AN Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 777 freighter caught fire at Shanghai Pudong airport while cargo was being loaded

Dachser Brazil transports 250,000 masks for thyssenkrupp Elevadores

GERMANY's Dachser Brazil has coordinated for thyssenkrupp Elevadores the import of 250,000 disposable masks, which were later distributed to all...

CEVA Logistics wins new spare parts contract with Volkswagen in Brazil

CEVA Logistics has contracted with Volkswagen for the operation of the company's auto spares centre at Vinhedo in Brazil has been extended

USDA confirms big US soybean sales to China as buying flurry continues

US exporters reported sales of 720,000 tonnes of soybeans to China, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said as active purchases by the...

Ships look to replace exhausted seafarers as ports slowly open

SHIP captain Ravi Nagar hasn't seen his wife and 3-year-old son in eight months due to Covid-19 and has been stuck on a tanker shuttling between...