NYK Line, Evergreen Line and Simatech Shipping will jointly launch the new Bengal Arabian Service (BAS), connecting key ports in the Indian subcontinent, starting later this month. Four 1,700 20-foot-equivalent unit vessels will be deployed in the regional service, with the first ship scheduled...

United Arab Shipping Co. will implement a rate increase for dry and refrigerated cargo from Asia to the Mediterranean and Adriatic on July 1. The hike will be $475 per 20-foot-equivalent unit, the container line said. Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co., MOL and OOCL will also boost...

Europe-Asia Rates Of CMA CGM Will Rise On July CMA CGM will increase rates in its trade from North Europe to the Far East, effective July 1. The hike will be $150 per 20-foot container and $200 per 40-foot container. Mediterranean Shipping Co. will also boost rates from North Europe to Asia on...

CMA CGM Group has held a christening ceremony at the townhall of Hamburg for its latest 16,000-TEU newbuilding, the CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt, the second of three same-size ships ordered by the French shipping giant. The christening was officiated by the ship's "godmother", Dorothee...

Hamburg Süd will be offering a new fixed-day, fortnightly service from South Africa to Argentina andBrazil (SABR Service) in cooperation with Nile Dutch, beginning next month. The new service will have a rotation of Durban, Port Elizabeth, Buenos Aires, Rio Grande, Itajai, Santos, and Rio de...

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is providing a new weekly direct container service between Houston andBrazil. The new service, which was launched in April, calls at Houston; Cristobal, Panama; Manaus, Navegantes, Santos, Pecem and Vila do Conde, Brazil; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Cristobal;...

OOCL will boost rates in its westbound trade from the Far East, including Japan, to the Mediterranean andBlack Sea, starting July 1. The increase will be $650 per 20-foot-equivalent unit, the container line said. Mediterranean Shipping Co. and MOL have also planned similar Asia-to-Europe rate...

Hyundai Merchant Marine is examining how best to restructure its network to tap into growing intra-Asia container volumes. Expansion of output in intra-Asia countries is expected to become broad and accelerate steadily, the Korea-based line said. China and India are key props to intra-Asia...

MARSEILLES-based container shipping line CMA CGM, the world's third largest, has announced it will raise rates on a wide range of trades from Asia to Europe, the Middle East and Latin America from July 1. Increases include one US$275 per TEU increase from Asia (including Bangladesh and Sri...

All Nippon Airways (ANA) will resume regular flights to Myanmar for the first time in 12 years, as...

Evergreen s capacity has risen for the first time in five years and its ship investment program...

Bengal Tiger Line starts Karaikal (SE India) to Colombo box service KARAIKAL Port on the south...

AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), has begun new nonstop service...

Shanghai Port remained in front of Singapore in total throughput in the first nine months of this...

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) has introduced a renovated Sky Club in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the first...

The UAE's Al Maktoum International Airport has officially opened for general aviation operations....

and Kingston, Jamaica American Airlines has announced it will add an additional daily nonstop...

KLM Asia, the Taiwan-registered subsidiary of Netherlands-based KLM has launched daily direct...

Zim has announced it will apply a PSS from August 15 for cargo sailing from Asia to northern Europe...