Long Beach TEU Volume Rises More Than 17 Percent
The Port of Long Beach reported May container volume totaling 583,588 20-foot-equivalent units, up 17.2 percent compared to the same month last year and the highest monthly container volume since October 2010. Monthly exports, which increased 13.9 percent year-over-year to 147,073 TEUs, were...
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LA Box Volumes Continue Slide In May
The Port of Los Angeles saw container volumes drop 12.9 percent in May, continuing the trend at the nation s busiest container port this year. Volume fell to 636,851 TEUs during the month, including a 12 percent drop in loaded import cargo (to 326,114 TEUs), and a 16.3 percent drop in loaded...
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ART Logistics Launches New Sea-rail Service
ART Logistics has started a new sea-rail service connecting Southeast Asia with Central Asia The new service connects Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand with Central Asia. Cargo is moved by sea from the ports of Jakarta, Port Kelang, Bangkok, Haiphong, Keelung and Singapore....
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N.C. Port Touts New Latin American Connections
North Carolina s Port of Wilmington will now offer shippers direct access to Manzanillo, Panama, and Puerto Moin, Costa Rica, in addition to Puerto Cortes, Honduras, and Santo Tomas, Guatemala, in northern Central America, via vessel calls added by Maersk Line to its weekly South Atlantic...
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DP World To Develop Free Zone, Caspian Sea Port On Kazakhstan Coast
KAZAKHSTAN national railway, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), and global terminal operator DP World have signed an agreement to manage and develop of Aktau seaport on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea at the free economic zone called the Khorgos-Eastern Gates. Aktau port is the only sea port...
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Indian Railways' Traffic Increases 4.5 Percent
Indian Railways reported freight traffic from April to December 2012 was 735.1 million metric tons, increasing 4.5 percent from 703.8 million metric tons during the same period in 2011. In December 2012, the state-owned railway handled 88.2 million metric tons, rising 1.6 percent from 86.8...
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NZ Port Moves Record Volumes
A record volume of cargo has passed through New Zealand s South Port for the second consecutive year, reported The Southland Times. The Bluff-based port's performance figures for the 2011-12 financial year showed an after-tax profit of US$4.86 million, a slight decrease on last year's result of...
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Sri Lanka Container Volumes Slip
Containers handled at Sri Lanka's ports fell 1.8 percent to 1.71 million TEUs in the first five months of the year, though there was recovery in transhipment volumes in May, official data show, reported Lankan Business Online. In May transhipment container volumes rose 9.8 percent to 266,668...
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DHL Adds Kolkata To FTL Services
Logistics major DHL Supply Chain has launched full truck load (FTL) services in Kolkata, reported The Hindu. Increasing supply chain complexity and changing customer requirements prompted the company to start FTL services here. The company has so far launched this service in Mumbai, Ahmedabad,...
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