Hong Kong

“Medium” chance of potential typhoon heading to eastern Asia this weekend. Delays in container cargo possible.

UPS didn’t need its weekly traffic rights on a key Asian route, so it turned them in. Two other airlines immediately pounced and were granted the routes by the U.S. government.

If confirmed, these would be the first reported cases of COVID-19 on board a container ship.

The coronavirus has created a weird market dynamic for airfreight in China. There is very little demand for scheduled flights to move manufactured goods, but charter flights are in high demand to get medical and relief supplies to China. And airfreight rates are poised to jump once Chinese factories fire back up.

Airlines continue to react to the spread of the coronavirus by cutting more flights.

A bipartisan group of U.S. House and Senate lawmakers see export controls as a means to punish those Chinese officials and companies involved in human rights abuses in western China and Hong Kong.

The ongoing political strife in Hong Kong is not directly slowing shipping activity at the world’s busiest cargo airport, but could gradually reshape supply chains in unexpected ways.  A two-day occupation of passenger terminals at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) in August didn’t physically impact cargo facilities or freighter-dominant carriers, and the airport quickly resumed […]

Austrian freight forwarder cargo-partner says Hanoi Airport is a truck alternative from South China even though the region has massive air cargo capacity.

Cathay Pacific didn’t waste anytime jumping on the Hong Kong airport’s offer to subsidize rebates of terminal handling charges as both organizations look to attract cargo business.

Cash-constrained carrier averts shutdown

Chow Chi-yeung (42), a former logistics supervisor with cross-border trucking services company Extrans International of Hong Kong, has been charged with fraud.

China has begun probe into charges FedEx handled restricted knives bound for Hong Kong

OFAC has added two Taiwan entities and another in Hong Kong, as well as their managers, to its list of sanctions for illicit ship-to-ship transfers of fuel to North Korea.

A Hong Kong firm was sanctioned this week by the Office of Foreign Assets Control for its alleged role in the illegal transshipment of U.S. technology to Iran.

Rupert Hogg, CEO, and Paul Loo, Chief Customer and Commercial Officer, have both quit their jobs at Cathay Pacific. The company has appointed two replacements.

On today’s episode, we’re talking about the Hong Kong protests with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller, NY/NJ moving containers by electric truck, supply chain sustainability and Impossible Whoppers. We’re saying ALOHA in SONAR, thinking Big Deal Little Deal and so much more. Watch it HERE Subscribe now on your favorite podcast player of choice and watch […]

It was a poorly-received IPO for CSSC Shipping. Institutional and retail take up was weak and its share price plummeted from the offer price.

There has been a steep drop in the volume of box traffic handled at Hong Kong, one of the world’s busiest box ports. Containerized throughput at Hong Kong took a dive in the first three months of 2019 when compared to the first quarter of 2018, according to preliminary figures from the Hong Kong Marine Department. Box traffic was down, on average, by 10.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the first quarter of 2018.

Hong Kong-based Tigers, a global transportation and logistics company, is the latest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). BiTA is developing blockchain standards for the global transportation/logistics/supply chain marketplace.

Kerry Logistics (SEHK: 636) has entered a joint venture with E-Services Group (ESG) according to a Kerry press release. The joint venture, Kerry ESG, will increase e-commerce fulfillment in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan, as well as the 10 members nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).