JAL and Matternet link up on drones for medical gear delivery

TOKYO-BASED Japan Airlines (JAL) has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based drone maker Matternet to explore medical delivery...

ACI Maritime Crew Management Conference in London October 21

ACI's 27th Maritime HR & Crew Management Conference will be held in London on October 21 and 22

China adds three areas to its expanding list of free trade zones

CHINA has decided to set up three new free trade zones (FTZs) as part of efforts to attract foreign investment and boost trade, reports Caixin

Annual peak air cargo season at full tilt all the way to Christmas

THE peak season is in full swing for international air freight when shippers pay more for less, reports New York's FreightWaves

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,...

Belarusian Railways increases freight to China 23pc in January-August

BELARUS rail freight traffic to China rose 23

North American weekly rail traffic down 6.9pc, intermodal up 3.7pc

NORTH American rail volume for the week ending September 19 on 12 reporting US, Canadian and Mexican railways totalled 327,915 carloads, down 6

ICS to UN: Governments needed to end crew change crisis

THE International Chamber Shipping (ICS) has warned the UN that the failure to allow 800,000 seafarers leave their ships where they have been...

ZIM moves up, PIL out of the top 10 liner list with shrinking fleet

SINGAPORE's embattled Pacific International Lines (PIL) has slipped out of the top 10 global liner rankings with further sales of its dwindling...

Shipowners 'see dollar signs' as charter market soars

THE latest Alphaliner idle tonnage report shows that a further 65 vessels, for a total of 155,350 TEU, have found employment in the past two weeks,...

Air cargo recovery in India driven by perishables, pharma and e-commerce

MUMBAI International Airport (MIAL) handled 72,000 tonnes of general cargo between April and August, a staggering 278 per cent increase over the same...

Amazon Air stepped up freighter operations by 27pc during summer

AMAZON Air expanded its daily flight schedule by 27 per cent over the summer, according to a report issued by the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan...

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...

MOL fined in California for air pollution violations that occured three years ago

JAPANESE carrier MOL, which now operates as part of the Ocean Network Express (ONE) group, has been fined more than US$250,000 for air pollution...

A-E rates off 0.27pc to $1,076/TEU, USWC off 0.28pc at $3,845/FEU

SPOT rates for shipping containers from Asia to northern Europe in the week ending last Friday fell 0

DHL to pump in US$30m to expand and update US operations

A SUBSIDIARY of major logistics company Deutsche Post DHL Group, DHL eCommerce Solutions, plans to invest approximately US$30 million this year to...

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...

T S Lines H1 profits soar 50pc on rising rates, increased volumes and falling costs

TAIWANESE vessel operator T S Lines announced that net profits for the first half of 2020 surged 50 per cent year on year to TWD1

CMA CGM imposes US$150/TEU congestion charge on Felixstowe

FRENCH shipping giant CMA CGM is to levy a US$150 per TEU port congestion surcharge from October 1 on all Asian containers imported or exported...

Arctic Sea Ice Loss: World Leaders Must Arrest Arctic Climate Change Impacts!

Reacting to news of the Arctic summer sea ice minimum reaching its second lowest extent in the 42-year satellite record on September 15, and to...