EL AL Cargo expands air freight operations with Dubai service

ISRAEL's EL AL has further expanded its cargo operations through a new service to Dubai and by entering into a new partnership with CargoJetX on...

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...

Mike Honious promoted to take charge of Geodis operations in America

FRENCH logistics giant Geodis has announced the promotion of Mike Honious as president and CEO of Geodis in Americas, under the responsibility of the...

FMC told it has no authority to deal with ATA's chassis complaint

THE US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has been told by container lines that it has no authority to adjudicate an American Trucking Associations...

Electric carmaker Tesla sues to block US tariffs on China imports

US ELECTRIC carmaker Tesla is suing to block the Trump Administration from collecting tariffs on parts the company imports from China, reported...

Trafigura lobbies UN to introduce ship decarbonisation tax

DUTCH ship charterer Trafigura is lobbying for a decarbonisation tax by the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) of between US$250-$300...

Violent murder on board of MSC mega container ship!

Violent murder on board of MSC mega container ship in the Pacific!

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,...

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

Houston August box decline shrinks to single digit 4pc to 248,630 TEU

THE Port of Houston's container throughput has stabilised for the first time since the beginning of the Covid crisis, with a four per cent drop...

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...

CMA CGM buys stake in French airline group, expanding air cargo logistics

MARSEILLE-HEADQUARTERED container liner CMA CGM expanded its reach into air cargo logistics with the recent acquisition of a 30 per cent stake in a...

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