“Halifax has been targeting this type of Asian service as part of our container growth strategy. This service plays to our port’s strengths including transit time advantages via the Suez Canal,” said Port President and CEO Karen Oldfield.
The terminal operator said higher revenue was “driven by strong growth in the Middle East, Europe and Africa region representing our ability to improve revenue from both our container and non-container operations.”
With an eye to recent political upheaval in Egypt, the latest edition of Drewry’s Container Insight Weekly contains a detailed analysis of what might happen to the container shipping industry if the Suez Canal closed. “If the Suez Canal were to be suddenly closed tomorrow, container vessel schedules between Asia and Europe would […]
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services group will now offer shippers a second weekly southbound sailing from Port Everglades, Fla., to Nassau, Bahamas, starting Saturday, March 23. The new sailing adds to Crowley’s current schedule, which includes a Friday sailing from Jacksonville, Fla., and a Tuesday sailing from Port Everglades. The new Saturday […]
The National Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) will add the Port of Jacksonville to its liner service schedule. The carrier’s newly built multipurpose vessel Bahri Abha will make its first call at the Florida port on April 22.
The liner carrier OOCL on Wednesday received the second in its series of 13,200-TEU ships, the largest in its fleet. The OOCL Berlin will be deployed on the G6 Alliance’s Asia-Europe Loop 4 service, which has a rotation of Ningbo, Yangshan, Yantian, Singapore, Suez Canal, Le Havre, Southampton, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Suez Canal, Jeddah, […]
Cargolux has launched a twice-weekly, Boeing 747-8 freighter flight from Luxembourg to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, routing the new flight through Baku, Azerbaijan, and Hong Kong. The flight returns to Luxembourg via Mexico. Cargolux officials expect the flight to carry electronic and information technology-related components from Asia to Texas. “This is the kind […]
Rep. Janice Hahn, founder of the PORTS Caucus on Capitol Hill, said Tuesday she will re-introduce port security legislation this week, sponsor new legislation to ensure continued funding for key port security programs and offer a resolution to honor the contributions of ports to the nation’s economy. Those types of efforts and the creation […]
With LATAM Airlines Group three years away from the full integration of LAN and TAM operations — officials estimate a target of June 2016 — the company is still attempting to harmonize programs between the two Latin American carriers, standardizing processes and renegotiating contracts. The cargo business, however, is now fully integrated. Fourth-quarter 2012 cargo revenues […]
DHL Express has increased its cargo capacity by 30 percent in Penang, Malaysia, with the introduction of its new A300 freighter service. Almost 61 percent of the exports from Penang go to China, the United States, Hong Kong, Japan and Germany, while 63 percent of imports come from China, the United States, Singapore, Japan […]
Hanson Logistics, a St. Joseph, Mich.-based temperature-controlled warehouse provider, has started the third phase of its Chicago consolidation center, located in Hobart, Ind. The expansion is part of the firm’s Velocities Multi-Vendor Consolidation program, which fills multiple SKU (stock-keeping unit) frozen food orders, shipping to major retail, wholesale, and foodservice distribution centers throughout […]
The liner carrier MOL said Tuesday it improved on five internal North America operations metrics from January to February. Out of 13 regional key performance indicators (KPIs) the carrier tracks monthly, four worsened slightly, and the remaining four stayed steady. The metrics that improved in February were in-terminal truck turn times in […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has recently amended its regulations to allow the import of fresh bananas from the Philippines to the U.S. mainland. The agency said these bananas must be produced with a “systems approach” that includes requirements for importation of commercial consignments, monitoring of fruit […]
Data2Logistics, a supply chain information technology solutions provider, has launched its Shipper-Industry Benchmarking Program, providing a consultative review of a company’s freight shipping costs, comparing findings with industry benchmarks identified by Data2Logistics, to determine areas for cost reduction. The initial consultation is currently a complementary service for companies managing shipping payment in-house, through […]
Liner carriers Zim and Hapag-Lloyd both announced today that they were postponing or canceling containership orders. Zim said it had reached an agreement to immediately cancel orders for five vessels and postpone delivery of an unspecified number of others to 2016. The Israeli carrier also said it had an option to cancel […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers has given the nation’s overall infrastructure a “D+,” with roads and airports receiving low scores, and estimated the necessary infrastructure investment will reach $3.6 trillion by 2020.
U.S. Customs seeks to prevent C-TPAT disclosures. U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to exempt from disclosure under the Privacy Act certain information it collects and maintains about companies that participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, a voluntary supply chain security program. In a notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register […]
The U.S. Census Bureau has finalized and published 138 changes and corrections to a proposed rule regarding its foreign trade data reporting requirements and Electronic Export Information, effective Jan. 8, 2014.
Members of the CKYH – Green Alliance of container liner companies (COSCON, “K” Line, Yang Ming, and Hanjin Shipping) said Tuesday they will restructure their current Asia-U.S. East Coast loops, effective mid-April.
Hapag-Lloyd said it had a net loss of 128 million euros ($166 million) in 2012 compared to a net loss of 28.8 million euros in 2011. The German carrier also had revenue of 6.8 billion euros last year.
