Qatar Airways Launches First Regular Cargo Service London's Stansted To Doh

a QATAR Airways Cargo is to launch its first scheduled freighter service in a five-times weekly service toDoha from one of the UK's largest freight hubs, London Stansted effective May 2014. The service will deploy a Boeing 777 freighter in the first regular service by one of the Middle East...

Cathay To Expand Latin American Coverage

Cathay Pacific Airways is to expand its freighter services into Latin America by launching a three-times-weekly scheduled service to Mexico City from 1 March 2014 and increase its Guadalajara service from two to three freighter flights per week. The Mexico City service will operate on a Hong...

Emirates Flies A380 To Barcelona

Emirates launched the first regular A380 service toSpain with daily flights to Barcelona replacing the Boeing 777 previously operated on the route. The airline expects the service to contribute to Spain s economic growth. The expansion is in response to strong passenger demand. Barcelona, the...

Air Algerie Buys 11 Jets

Algeria's Air Algerie has signed deals to buy three 250-seat Airbus 330-200s and also eight 150-seat 737-800s from Boeing. "This will help us reinforce domestic and international routes," Air Algerie chief Mohamed Salah Boultif said. Deliveries are scheduled from September to the end of 2016....

Cathay Pacific Pursues Cargo Market With Freighter Order

Cathay Pacific Airways ordered an additional 747-8 freighter as it continues to renew its freighter fleet with newer, more efficient planes in an effort to strengthen its position in the air cargo business. Cathay Pacific also ordered three 777-300ER airplanes. The order, valued at about US$1...

Etihad To Add Three New Routes

UAE-based Etihad Airways plans to introduce three more international destinations in 2014. It will launch daily services to Rome (Italy) and Jaipur (India), together with four flights per week to Yerevan(Armenia). The new routes will join a previously announced daily service to Los Angeles and...

IAG Cargo Expands Cargo Routes

IAG Cargo has unveiled new routes for its next-generation aircraft, the B787 and A380. Offering increased cargo capacity and cold-chain services, the aircraft will be deployed across a number of key routes in the IAG Cargo network throughout 2014. The B787 will launch from four locations on IAG...

Lufthansa To Add Flights To Israel In 2014

Lufthansa plans to boost capacity on routes betweenGermany and Israel next year to meet rising demand and as an open skies agreement takes effect. Beginning in March, the carrier will add three weekly flights between Frankfurt and Tel Aviv and three more on itsMunich route using 190-seat Airbus...

Cathay To Move Freighter Operations To Al Maktoum

Cathay Pacific announced that it would move its freighter operations from Dubai International to Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central (DWC) from February 1. Dubai is Cathay Pacific s transit hub for its European destinations including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London,Manchester, Paris...

Air Canada To Launch Tokyo-Haneda Dreamliner Service From Toronto

Air Canada has announced that it will operate daily flights between Toronto-Pearson and Tokyo-Haneda (Tokyo International Airport) beginning July 1, 2014 using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The new year-round service will be both the only non-stop flight between Canada and Tokyo-Haneda, located...

CMA CGM: The Only Shipping Line Calling Buchanan Port In Liberia

The CMA CGM Group has announced the addition, on its PC north service, a new direct call in Buchanan (Liberia), located 100km south of Monrovia, thus expanding its service opportunities in Africa and becoming the only shipping line calling Buchanan in 20 years. This new call primarily responds...

P3 Alliance Scrutiny Spreads To Korea

The Fair Trade Commission said it has obtained the corporate merger application for P3 Network from Danish shipping company Maersk Line and is evaluating whether the shipping alliance could hamper the competition of Korean companies. P3 is a joint corporation being sought by the world's largest...

COSCO Ordering New Ships

COSCO Group said it held a ceremony in Ocean Plaza Dec. 30 for the signing of a shipbuilding contract with China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) for four 64,000 DWT dry bulk vessels. An announcement by the company to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange said it will pay $108 million or $27...

Maersk Is Still Confident That P3 Will Gain Regulatory Approval

DENMARK's Maersk Line says it remains confident that its proposed P3 vessel sharing alliance with Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM will gain the necessary approval and that it will launch in the summer as originally planned after US, European and Chinese regulators met in Washington, D.C....

Lines Levy Asia-South America Rate Hikes

General rate increases on the Asia-South America trade continue to roll in with Zim and Hamburg-Sud joining the bevy of levying lines. Zim has called for GRI of US$650 per TEU and $1,300 per FEU for the Asia-East coast South America trade from January 1, with Hamburg-Sud announcing two rate...

Hyundai Adds Six Vessels To Asia-US Route

South Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marines said it plans to deploy six large container vessels on its Asia-US East Coast route. The company said it signed a charter contract with London-based Zodiac Maritime Agencies to lease the 10,000 TEU ships, Maeil Business Newspaper reported. Hyundai said the...

Maersk Remains Confident About P3 Approval

Maersk Line said it still remains confident of securing approval for the P3 alliance and meeting the summer launch target following this week s meeting of U.S., European and Chinese regulators in Washington,D.C., to discuss its planned partnership with Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM....

Ocean Carrier Rate Revision Roundup For Dec. 16

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in December and January. Trans-Pacific Cosco Container Lines plans to raise rates on shipments from the Far East and Indian subcontinent to the U.S.: Starting Dec. 20,...

Freight Rates Up 60 Percent On Asia-Europe

Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe rose 60.7 percent to US$1,586 per TEU last week, a source with access to data from the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index told Reuters. Friday's freight rate rise follows five straight weeks of declines,...

Port Of Montreal Welcomes Its Largest Tanker

The Port of Montreal has welcomed the largest petroleum tanker to have ever visited the port. The MT Overseas Portland, carrying 475,000 barrels of crude oil, arrived from St. James, La., on Thursday. Beginning in May, the maximum width of vessels allowed to sail into the Quebec-Montreal...

DHL Opens In Myanmar

DHL Global Forwarding has opened a wholly-owned office in Yangon and appointed a Myanmar country manager. Chief executive for Asia-Pacific Kelvin Leung said theMyanmar operation will offer the full range of DHL services, as well as local transport and warehousing. Aircargo Asia Pacific...

Container Traffic At Indian Ports Falls In First Half

Container traffic at major ports in India tumbled 4.5 percent year-over-year in the first half of fiscal year 2013-14, but total cargo throughput was up 2.3 percent, according to preliminary figures released by the Indian Ports Association. In the April to September period, the 12 state-owned...

Hong Kong's First Half Container Volume Falls 8pc To 10.7 Million TEU

THE Port of Hong Kong posted an eight per cent decline in first half container volume to 10.7 million TEU with laden boxes falling six per cent to 9.3 million TEU and empties dropping off 16 per cent to 1.5 million TEU. In the second quarter there was an eight per cent decline in container...

Shanghai Aug Boxes Up 13.3pc To 2.9 Million TEU, Up 4.4pc Since Jan

THE Port of Shanghai posted 13.3 per cent year-on-year increase in container volume in August to 2.95 million TEU, according to figures from ShanghaiInternational Port (Group) Co. In the first eight months of this year, Shanghai posted a year-on-year 4.4 per cent increase with a throughput of...

Changi Airport's Cargo Volume Falls 1.8pc To 150,500 Tonnes In June

CHANGI Airport in June handled 150,500 tonnes of air freight, a decrease of 1.8 per cent compared to the same month in 2012 based on the latest figures from the operator of Singapore's Changi Airport Group. In the first half of 2013, total cargo volume fell 2.3 per cent year on year to 877,700...

Yusen Starts Hong Kong-to-Rotterdam LCL Service

Yusen Logistics, the freight forwarding and logistics subsidiary of the NYK Group, said it has started a new less-than-containerload (LCL) service from Hong Kong to Rotterdam. The direct service sails from Hong Kong every Sunday and arrives at Rotterdam 26 days later, and is supported by a...

Russia To Temporarily Ban Food Imports From Greece

Russia is planning to introduce temporary restrictions on dairy, meat and seafood imports from Greece, starting July 15, according to the Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection Service, The Moscow Times reports. Russian food safety inspectors, who discovered violations of...

Chennai-Bangalore Corridor To Link Four Ports, Three Airports

The proposed extension of the Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor to Krishnapatnam Port will benefit traders in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, according to Anil Yendluri, KrishnapatnamPort chief executive officer, reported The Hindu. Yendluri said: "The inclusion of Krishnapatnam...

Box Throughput Continues To Rise At China Ports

The growth of container throughput in Chinese ports continues to lead the world, according to a forecast report released by the Centre for Forecasting Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported Xinhua. The report listed the top 20 container ports in the world for this year, 11 of...

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...

Hefei To Launch New Rail Freight Route To Germany Via Kazakhstan

EASTERN China hinterland city recently held a promotional campaign for the planned "New Eurasian Land Bridge", which is a new railway cargo transportation route to Europe. Being another among many of such rail freight routes to Europe that are launched during recent years from China's inland...

Shenzhen Overtakes HK In Container Throughput

Shenzhen port overtook Hong Kong by container volume in the first three quarters and is expected to be the world's third-largest container port this year. Container flow through Shenzhen reached 17.28 million TEUs in the first nine months, while Hong Kong handled 16.34 million TEUs, according...

Turkey's Air Cargo Increases 11.8pc To 266,000 Tonnes In September

TURKEY saw air cargo increase 11.8 per cent in September to 266,000 tonnes year on year, rising to 1.9 million tons year to date, reports Ankara-based Anadolu Agency. Turkey's general directorate of State Airports Authority said flight traffic was up a record 11 per cent to 122,500 aircraft...

Vanguard Logistics Eyes India Expansion

Vanguard Logistics Services, a leading non-vessel-owning common carrier and ocean freight consolidator operating primarily in North America, has entered into a strategic alliance with Freight Systems India, a similar organization with offices at all major locations in the country. The alliance...

Canadian National To Begin Service On Kelowna Pacific Railway’s Lines

Canadian National aims to start freight service on about 75 percent of the rail network operated by the bankrupt short line Kelowna Pacific Railway in southern British Columbia. CN will resume operations on 97 miles of the network KPR operated, running from Campbell Creek, British Columbia,...

Container Traffic For Ports Of Seattle, Tacoma Declined In August

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma s combined container volume in August was 296,289 20-foot-equivalent units, declining 5.5 percent from 313,602 TEUs in August 2012. Loaded international containers moving through the nation s largest port complex dropped 6.6 percent over the level seen in August...

China Railway Corp. Launches Express Cargo Service

The China Railway Corp., a spinoff of China s former Ministry of Railways, has launched a new express cargo service to allow it to better compete in the logistics market, Global Times reports. The company will start delivery of freight door-to-door via its express service on June 15, allowing...

Antwerp, Rotterdam, Düsseldorf Are Europe’s Top Logistics Hubs

Antwerp, Rotterdam and Düsseldorf are the best logistics hubs in Europe, but they face a growing challenge from emerging hubs in the east of the continent, according to a report by Colliers International, a global commercial real estate company. The three cities form part of the so-called Blue...

DHL Supply Chain To Invest In Southeast Asia

DHL Supply Chain has plans to invest €140 million (about US$180 million) in its business in Southeast Asia by 2015. The bulk of the investments will go towards investing in new facilities, advanced information technology solutions, expansion in transportation and bolstering staff strength and...

Tacoma's First 4-month Box Volume Up 35pc With Grand Alliance Arrival

THE Port of Tacoma posted a 35 per cent increase in container volume during the first four months of the year to 617,076 TEU year on year, reflecting the arrival of Grand Alliance carriers last July. The port authority said laden container imports were up 48 per cent to 226,676 TEU in the same...