http://www.ci-online.co.uk CI-Online News Article RSS feed Copyright 2011 Informa - All Rights Reserved. 180 http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32836 Drewry Maritime Research's new quarterly report entitled Carrier Performance Insight reveals that ocean carriers still have much to do to offer a good service to ... Thu, 17 May 2012 11:14:30 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32834 South Africa's Association of Shipping Lines (ASL), which is now incorporated into the South African Association of Ship Operators and Agents(SAASOA) has withdrawn ... Thu, 17 May 2012 10:19:48 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32833 Hamburg appears to have captured market share from its Benelux rivals in Q1 12. The German port's container traffic increased by 5.2% compared to the same period ... Thu, 17 May 2012 10:06:36 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32825 According to APM Terminals' head of project implementation, Soren Jakobsen, the port industry needs to quickly up its game to service the new generation of ultra ... Wed, 16 May 2012 13:31:22 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32832 DB Schenker has acquired the entire share capital of Windhoek, Namibia-headquartered Desert Logistics (DL) and in so doing set up its own organisation in the southern ... Wed, 16 May 2012 13:05:07 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32824 The West African country of Mali is under threat of trade sanctions once again being imposed by Ecowas. The regional economic grouping is disappointed at the progress ... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:52:45 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32830 The shocking USD600 million loss for Maersk's liner services in the first three months of the year would have been significantly less if not for the sharp spike ... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:52:36 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32831 A combination of exceptional items, continuing strong growth from emerging markets and portfolio optimisation and expansion strategies led APM Terminals (APM T) ... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:34:04 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32829 Mixed signals about the success for carriers of the transpacific annual contracts have been given - the Transpacific Stabilisation Association (TSA) has expressed ... Wed, 16 May 2012 11:47:35 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32828 Maersk's liner services operated by Maersk Line, Safmarine, MCL and Seago suffered another collective bottom line loss of USD599 million in Q1 12, which was even ... Wed, 16 May 2012 11:33:21 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32827 ... Wed, 16 May 2012 11:07:57 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32826 European Commission vice-president and Commissioner for Transport Steering Siim Kallas remains determined to enforce fairer competition between the EU's ports. ... Wed, 16 May 2012 10:10:11 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32822 Comercializadora Tierra Mexicana (Comtiem), which is a major exporter of limes from Mexico to Europe, including the UK, has found that its use of Purfresh technology ... Tue, 15 May 2012 13:14:22 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32821 San Francisco-based CAI International is to raise up to USD100 million through a bond issue to help fuel its expansion programme. Depending on market conditions, ... Tue, 15 May 2012 13:14:15 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32823 Japanese carrier MOL is beefing up its presence in the Pacific North West (PNW) by adding calls at the ports of Seattle and Vancouver to its PSX transpacific sling. ... Tue, 15 May 2012 13:09:53 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32820 European Union naval forces this morning conducted their first raid on Somali pirate land-based strongholds since the EU anti-piracy mandate was extended in March ... Tue, 15 May 2012 12:25:34 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32819 Salalah's connectivity to its main markets in the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and East Africa looks set to improve through the expansion of Oman Container ... Tue, 15 May 2012 11:39:53 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32817 That was the message coming from MOL's UK managing director, Adrian Jones, at the recent Birmingham-hosted Multimodal Exhibition. He said that developing two-way ... Tue, 15 May 2012 10:41:21 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32818 European stock markets have started the day on a subdued note after the heavy falls sustained yesterday on fears that a Greek exit from the euro could fatally damage ... Tue, 15 May 2012 10:34:06 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32816 Ocean carriers appear determined to increase freight rates from Europe back to Asia, as well as in the reverse direction, despite lacklustre eastbound cargo growth ... Tue, 15 May 2012 09:50:07 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32811 The substantial Q4 2011 losses racked up by Thai-based container shipping line, Regional Container Lines [RCL] continued into the first three months of ... Mon, 14 May 2012 13:34:00 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32812 Independent railway companies and users of rail services have appealed to the European Parliament (EP) to reject a counter proposal from the EU's Council of Transport ... Mon, 14 May 2012 13:33:53 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32814 Ibrahim Serhan, the representative for the Sharjah (UAE)-based Gulftainer Group in the Arab Federation for Freight Forwarders and Logistics (AFFFAL), has been elected ... Mon, 14 May 2012 13:33:45 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32815 Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics has taken further steps to expand its presence in the faster growing perishable products sector by linking up with Australia-headquartered ... Mon, 14 May 2012 13:33:39 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32813 South Korean shipping line Hanjin has seen losses in its container sector worsen for the first quarter of this year versus Q1 11 due to high bunker costs and 'delayed ... Mon, 14 May 2012 12:54:51 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32810 Salalah Port Services Company SAOG (SLPS), in which APM Terminals has a 30% shareholding and the responsibility for managing Oman's largest port, Salalah, has announced ... Mon, 14 May 2012 11:31:57 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32809 Jean-Louis Cambon, head of Michelin's Ocean Management Committee and outspoken chairman of the European Shippers Council's Maritime Transport Council, died of cancer ... Mon, 14 May 2012 11:05:00 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32808 The 4,651TEU MSC Idil is awaiting the report from a commercial salvage team after it suffered an explosion last Friday, approximately 60 nautical miles ... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:35:13 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32801 Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), the world's largest operator of container terminals, has appointed Dr Stephen Gumley to lead its Australian operations.As ceo of ... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:14:06 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32803 Impacted by mass unemployment and draconian austerity measures in its main market, Europe, China's exports slowed dramatically to a year-over-year growth of 4.9% ... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:13:58 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32804 The number of containers handled at Tanger Med, Morocco, in Q1 12 was more than 30% (195,000TEU) down on the corresponding period of 2011 as the industrial unrest ... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:13:50 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32805 The raft of disastrous first quarter results being posted by ocean carriers in recent days threatens to stymie the mini-revival in the ... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:13:43 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32806 It seems that a combination of strikes, surging cargo volumes and power shortages have seriously affected container-handling performance levels at container terminals ... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:13:35 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32807 Kempton, southern Germany-headquartered logistics provider, Dachser, has continued its Asian expansion strategy with the establishment of a joint venture in Kuala ... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:13:25 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32802 After a lull in piracy activities off the Horn of Africa, a Liberian-flagged Greek-owned suezmax tanker has been hijacked by Somalia-based pirates while en-route ... Fri, 11 May 2012 10:06:58 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32800 CSAV's strategy of withdrawing many owned services in favour of slot charters and offloading loss making cargo is slow in coming good. Its latest financial figures ... Fri, 11 May 2012 08:43:42 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32799 Manila-headquartered International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has announced sharply higher box throughput figures at its cargo-handling facilities ... Thu, 10 May 2012 13:41:56 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32794 Charlotte, NC- headquartered Horizon Lines recorded increased revenue and a smaller operating loss for quarter one this year on the back of slightly higher cargo ... Thu, 10 May 2012 13:26:27 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32795 North American terminal operator Global Container Terminals Inc. has unveiled final plans for a multi-million dollar expansion project to develop a 70-acre technologically ... Thu, 10 May 2012 13:26:20 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32797 The Alan Marsh-led London-listed shipbrokers and shipping services group, Braemar Shipping Services posted a decline in pre-tax profits for its financial year, ... Thu, 10 May 2012 13:26:11 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32798 Hapag-Lloyd has joined the growing list of ocean carriers reporting negative figures for Q1 12. Although the carrier's revenue increased by 8% compared to the same ... Thu, 10 May 2012 13:26:05 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32796 The Yildirim Group has confirmed that it is building a new deep-water container terminal in Gemlik (near Gemport), just outside of Istanbul, on the southern coast ... Thu, 10 May 2012 12:04:13 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32793 The Australian port of Brisbane handled over one million TEU for the first time in its history in 2011. The actual 1,005,208TEU processed was up 8.3% on the 928,547TEU ... Thu, 10 May 2012 10:41:18 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32791 A new container terminal with the ability to handle two million TEU of cargo a year should open on Panama's Caribbean coast line by the end of 2014 and be fully ... Thu, 10 May 2012 09:35:36 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32792 CEVA Logistics has filed for an initial public offering of up to USD400 million in the US to help raise funds to pay off interest due on loans acquired to purchase ... Thu, 10 May 2012 09:35:29 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32790 The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (WTSA) has proposed a set of non-binding guideline increases for freight rates covering frozen and chilled beef, ... Wed, 09 May 2012 13:07:58 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32788 A USD254 million net loss in the first three months of the year will mean a global staff downsizing at Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines [NOL] in an endeavour to ... Wed, 09 May 2012 13:04:03 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32789 The CKYH Alliance has announced a restructuring and expansion of its Asia-US East Coast services  - just as the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) ... Wed, 09 May 2012 13:03:08 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32787 Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), which operates the majority of container-handling facilities in South Africa and has a productivity improvement programme in place ... Wed, 09 May 2012 11:56:24 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32786 The EU's love affair with rail privatisation suffered another knock yesterday when Belgium's state-owned SNCB Logistics reported a EUR185 (USD240) million loss ... Wed, 09 May 2012 11:19:12 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32785 Hamburg-based Team Lines has become a vessel providing partner in OOCL's SBX2 service between northern Europe and the Baltic Sea. Since the end of April it provides ... Wed, 09 May 2012 10:40:14 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32784 Textainer, the world's largest container lessor, expects the demand for containers to remain robust and fully expects to meet this demand by adding to its equipment ... Wed, 09 May 2012 10:26:42 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32783 Like the nefarious bankers before them, container shipping lines have been tarred with a 'reckless' brush for their gung-ho ordering of cellular capacity, way beyond ... Wed, 09 May 2012 09:55:09 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32782 The latest information from Container Trades Statistics confirms that the developing world will probably save ocean carriers this year. As shown in the table, containerised ... Wed, 09 May 2012 09:24:44 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32778 The Exolgan Container Terminal in Buenos Aires is to raise its container-handling capacity by buying an additional ship-to-shore gantry crane. In doing so, the ... Tue, 08 May 2012 13:04:27 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32781 Park Ridge (NJ - US)-headquartered SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd, which has one of the biggest rental fleets of reefer containers and generator sets in the world, ... Tue, 08 May 2012 13:04:18 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32780 Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) is the latest carrier to announce poor quarter one results on the back of plummeting freight rates and high bunker costs. The South ... Tue, 08 May 2012 12:40:16 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32779 Le Havre increased its container traffic by a remarkable 21% in Q1 12, compared to the same period last year, up to 620,000TEU. Given Rotterdam's decline ... Tue, 08 May 2012 12:37:03 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32777 ... Tue, 08 May 2012 12:33:51 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32776 Copenhagen-based Maersk Line has blamed years of poor freight rates and increases in operating costs for its decision to stop its direct call service linking northern ... Tue, 08 May 2012 12:07:39 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32775 Standard & Poor's Israeli arm Maalot has reduced Zim Line's bond rating to ilB with a negative outlook. The rating agency has clearly been frightened by ... Tue, 08 May 2012 11:18:19 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32774 Abu Dhabi-headquartered Etihad Rail - the builder and operator of the UAE's national railway system and DP World, which operates the country's premier container ... Tue, 08 May 2012 10:44:06 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32773 The price of Rotterdam-sourced IFO 380 tumbled another USD17 per tonne yesterday following Friday's fall of USD15. At USD650 per tonne bunkers are some USD50 cheaper ... Tue, 08 May 2012 10:43:59 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32772 TC Buen, which operates the Buenaventura Container Terminal in Colombia, is to commence its second phase expansion programme much earlier than expected. The project ... Mon, 07 May 2012 13:44:11 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32771 The chief executive officer of Danish shipping and oil group, AP Moller-Maersk, Nils Smedegaard Andersen, returned to work today [Monday] after corrective heart ... Mon, 07 May 2012 11:14:15 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32767 Hong Kong-headquartered Kerry Logistics has acquired Trustspeed Medicine Logistics - a Taiwanese pharmaceutical logistics and distribution services company.Kerry ... Mon, 07 May 2012 10:49:08 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32765 ... Mon, 07 May 2012 10:48:12 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32766 According to APM Terminals' head of project implementation, Soren Sjostrand Jakobsen, productivity at terminals will be the new 'battleground' and the winners will ... Mon, 07 May 2012 10:43:52 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32769 The International Transport Forum (ITF), which is a research and think tank unit of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), ... Mon, 07 May 2012 10:18:49 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32770 The African Development Bank (AfDB)claims that border controls in Africa are curtailing inter-continental trade as duplicated procedures by customs authorities, ... Mon, 07 May 2012 10:16:24 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32768 Once again Germany's Hapag-Lloyd is leading the way on the rate restoration path asking for a further USD400 per TEU on the Asia [excluding Japan] to north Europe ... Mon, 07 May 2012 10:04:18 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32764 Panalpina has decided to appeal against its recent fine of CHF59 (USD65) million for anti-trust behaviour from the European Commission. Ceo Monika Ribar remarked: ... Fri, 04 May 2012 13:54:03 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32763 Terminal de Conteineres de Paranagua (TCP), in Brazil has taken delivery of two new super-post-panamax ship-to-shore gantry cranes from Ireland-based Liebherr Container ... Fri, 04 May 2012 13:32:40 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32762 The latest statistics just published by Container Trades Statistics (CTS) covering the month of March confirm that trade from Asia to Europe remains lacklustre. ... Fri, 04 May 2012 13:32:33 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32761 Never one to hold back, Clay Maitland, managing partner of International Registries, which administers the Marshall Islands flag, has attacked governments and international ... Fri, 04 May 2012 13:32:26 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32760 Transatlantic volumes for the first quarter of this year jumped year-on-year from Europe to North America - but the story was different on the return leg as liftings ... Fri, 04 May 2012 11:59:57 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32759 ... Fri, 04 May 2012 11:29:12 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32758 China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) is aiming to operate the 'best container terminal in the south Asian region'. This was the message given by its managing ... Fri, 04 May 2012 10:47:33 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32757 Mrs Paola Lancellotti has been confirmed as the new Secretary General of the European Shippers' Council (ESC). She replaces Nicolette van der Jagt, who succeeded ... Fri, 04 May 2012 09:43:51 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32756 London-headquartered, transport insurers the TT Club has seen its cargo insurance division expand significantly since its inception two and a half years ago, according ... Fri, 04 May 2012 09:29:59 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32755 Kenyan magistrates have found 11 Somali pirates that were caught-in-the-act and apprehended by a warship operating under the command of the EU Naval Force in May ... Thu, 03 May 2012 13:55:30 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32754 Market intelligence reports suggest that Israeli ocean carrier ZIM Line is endeavouring to further defer the receiving of a series of eight 12,550TEU containerships, ... Thu, 03 May 2012 13:31:17 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32753 Taiwan's top three carriers are feeling more financial pain as their Q1 12 results reveal larger losses. While Evergreen's revenue of USD133 million represented ... Thu, 03 May 2012 13:24:09 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32752 The phasing in of a series of new straddle carriers which feature dual diesel electric propulsion systems and enhanced container-handling abilities will reduce ... Thu, 03 May 2012 12:22:49 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32751 BoxTradeIntelligence's latest report on tradelane profitability clarifies that ocean carriers' bottom line financial result from Asia to Europe in Q1 12 was still ... Thu, 03 May 2012 11:52:47 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32750 The port of Salalah, Oman, suffered its second successive year of declining container traffic in 2011 with the 3.2 million TEU handled down just over 8% on 2010's ... Thu, 03 May 2012 11:15:40 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32749 There are now more than 17 million eurozone citizens looking for a job, with even the hitherto stronger states such as Germany beginning to fall into an austerity-driven ... Thu, 03 May 2012 10:40:30 GMT http://www.ci-online.co.uk?RSS_News_ID=32748 Container-handling activity at the Yemen port of Aden is at a standstill and reportedly has been so for more than a week as unions stand-out for a pay claim and ... Thu, 03 May 2012 09:59:20 GMT