Chris
No, Hapag-Lloyd hasn’t suffered a graffiti attack – the German shipping line has commissioned artists to deck out two of its 20-foot containers with scenes inspired by its home city of Hamburg. (The Crocodiles are the name of the local ice hockey team.)
The boxes are now on their first voyage, to Colombia.
Anyone who spots the boxes on their travels around the world is invited to take a photo and share ...
[+]
DFDS to put new superferry on the Channel
DFDS is to charter a new 3,100 lane-metre Chinese-built vessel for its English Channel routes in 2021.
The new vessel will be built in Avic Weihai shipyard and chartered from Stena RoRo and will be the largest ship on the Channel, says the Danish ...
[+]
Russia has announced restrictions on the import of some types of hazardous cargoes during the football World Cup, from 25 May to 25 July, reports shipping Transfennica. During the tournament, landing or IMO classes 1, 6 and 7 in St Petersburg will be strictly prohibited, along with any other classes ...
[+]
TIACA has launched a pilot online Cargo Service Quality tool, allowing forwarders to rate and review the service quality at participating hubs.
Fifteen cargo terminals at airports including India’s Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, Chennai International Airport, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (Kolkata), Indonesia’s PT ...
[+]
BIFA has welcomed the launch on 26 April of the UK Parliamentary Transport Committee inquiry into the effects of Brexit on UK freight operations and the association’s director general, Robert Keen, is urging its members to get involved.
The inquiry will not be considering border and customs arrangements, trade deals or ...
[+]
Two employees of project forwarder FH Bertling died in a car crash at Massa-Carrara, northern Italy in the early hours of 21 April. Tom Haycock, 29, from Teesside, who worked as an engineer for the company and Oliver Kemp, 35 were passengers in the vehicle, which is believed to have ...
[+]
Bolloré Group owner Vincent Bolloré is being investigated by French Police over his business dealings in Africa, including concessions to run container ports in Guinea and Togo. There are allegations that he helped the presidents of the two countries win elections in exchange for lucrative business contracts. Bolloré Group also ...
[+]
Turkish Cargo sent one of its new 777F aircraft to the Eurasia Airshow in Antalya on 25-29 April. According to the carrier, the show will include acrobatic flight demonstrations, though the 102-tonne capacity giant of the skies kept its wheels firmly on the ground.
[+]
British all-cargo airline, CargoLogicAir has added a third flight per week to Atlanta. Its 2018 summer schedule also includes new twice-weekly direct services from Stansted to Dubai, continuing onto Hong Kong, and two direct Hong Kong-Stansted flights.
The new services will help meet growing demand for pharmaceuticals, aerospace products and automotive ...
[+]
Geodis has opened a new office in Kampala, Uganda initially to cater for the current surge in industrial projects in East Africa. It will also allow the forwarder to tender for parts of a large-scale oil and gas project in the Lake Albert area, as well as managing the transport ...
[+]
« Back
More »
