The Polish port has plans to expand and boost capacity by adding more deep-water transshipment quays and establishing the Central Port, along with building a new roll-on/roll-off terminal in the Outer Port.
The 13,800-TEU MSC Daniela was brought to anchor near the Colombo Lighthouse after containers on board burst into flames late last night about 120 nautical miles off the coast of Sri Lanka.
Lowell, Ark.-based trucking and intermodal logistics provider J.B. Hunt Transport Services has opened a new enterprise sales office in Toronto, its first in Canada, the company said in a statement.
In addition to two daily narrowbody flights already in operation, American Airlines has launched a new daily, nonstop widebody service between San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport (SJU) and Philadelphia International Airport (PHL).
The new multi-purpose, turboprop aircraft, the AN-132D, took off on its maiden flight March 31.
IAG Cargo names new chief executive, while Trans Global Projects Group hires chief executive officer of Natco Switzerland subsidiary.
House members question whether the Shipping Act should be revised, and also said there is a need to protect domestic tugboat and terminal companies.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. and state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would raise $52.4 billion in investment funding for transportation infrastructure over the next 10 years through a series of gas and diesel tax hikes.
The Norwegian Competition Authority has issued a decision blocking Icelandic ocean carrier Eimskip from purchasing asset-light shipping and logistics company Nor Lines due to a lack of sufficient competition in the transportation of frozen fish.
Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA and Wallroll AB, joint owners of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, EUKOR Car Carriers and American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier, have created a new ownership structure to enhance efficiency and increase cooperation between affiliates.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group is pushing ahead with new investments, and plans to more than double its number of researchers in the wake of its official split into four separate companies.
The project will focus on improving Ethiopia’s Modjo Dry Port, which handles 95 percent of the landlocked country’s trade.
Port terminal operator China Merchants Port Holdings Co. Ltd. saw 2016 earnings jump 14.3 percent to $5.49 billion Hong Kong (U.S. $706.5 million) compared with the previous year as container throughput grew 14.5 percent to 95.8 million TEUs.
Bureau Veritas promotes senior executive vice president, while Greenville & Western Railway Co. appoints general manager and manager of mechanical and transloading, and Glander International Bunkering hires two new traders in Mumbai.
The European Shippers’ Council said some shipments from Europe to Asia have been delayed up to eight weeks.
The April meeting in Beijing will be the third global regulatory summit between Federal Maritime Commission, China’s Ministry of Transport and the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition.
Scheduled to commence operations in April 2018, the integration of Japan’s “Big 3” container lines – MOL, NYK and “K” Line – is a project of “monumental significance,” MOL President and CEO Junichiro Ikeda said in his annual message to employees.
Seven more container shipping lines, including OOCL and ZIM, have offered to cut terminal handling charges in China, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
U.S. District Court Judge Abdul Kallon has ruled the state of Alabama did not violate the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 by requiring railroads to pay a diesel fuel sales tax from which trucking and barge companies are exempt.
The parcel giant and third-party logistics provider has begun offering Saturday pickups and deliveries for the first time in select markets and plans to expand the program to nearly 4,700 U.S. cities by the end of 2017.
