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The Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen Lines has announced that starting from the 1st of October it plans to launch a rate recovery program on its routes from Europe and the Mediterranean region to the Middle East, Australia, and the countries of the Indian subcontinent.
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India Infrastructure and Logistics Pvt Ltd (IILPL) has started preparing the launching of a new regular container train from Samalka (state of Hariana, North-Western India) to the Port of Javaharlal which is situated in Mumbai.
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A.P. Moeller-Maersk has appointed 48 year old Trond Westlie as the company’s new financial director who will assume the position on the 1st of January of 2010.
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The port administration of Odessa Commercial Sea Port has compiled a new version of investment agreement for the construction of a deep-water container terminal in the port and has sent it to the Ministry for Transport and Communications of Ukraine.
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The port administration of Laem Chabang has approved a new plan for creating a “Unified Rail Operator”.
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Two of South Korea’s largest shipping companies Hanjin Shipping and Hyundai Merchant Marine have announced their intention to exchange customer operation services on their lines connecting Asia and the Eastern coast of the US.
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The Taiwanese container line Evergreen has launched a new weekly service between the Adriatic and the Mediterranean, thus combining two of its existing services Adriatic Feeder (ADF) and Intra-Mediterranean Feeder (IMS).
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For cargo shipped from India and Pakistan to Europe and the Mediterranean the rates will be increased by $250 for one TEU and by $400 for one FEU.
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According to the information received from the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked, a German container vessel had sunk near the coast of Africa, however all crew have been rescued.
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The container volumes in the port of Long Beach, the largest container port in the US, have demonstrated a slow down of decline.
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APM Terminals has signed an agreement for creating a joint venture with Vinalines, one of subsidiary companies of the largest Vietnamese shipping and stevedore company Vietnamese National Shipping Lines.
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Damco has launched a new weekly LCL service (less than container load) for shipping cargo between Asia and the Baltic region.
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The French container line CMA CGM plans another freight rate increase on its routes between Asia and Europe.
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The Taiwanese container line Evergreen has decided to introduce an additional bunker fuel surcharge for cargo shipping from North America.
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Ukrtranscontainer, the subsidiary unit of National Container Company (NCC), has appointed Vladimir Popov as a new CEO.
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According to the data provided by the international sea bulletin Lloyd’s List, the volumes of westbound sea container cargo between Europe and Asia declined by 21.1% during the first seven months of this year compared with the similar period of last year and reached 6.375 million TEU.
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The board of directors of Hanjin Shipping has decided to split the company in two different units: managing company Hanjin Shipping Holdings Co. Ltd. and operator company Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd.
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The Liverpool Port Administration has announced new plans for developing the port container terminal capacities.
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The Singapore shipping company Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) plans to become more ecologically-friendly by applying new fuel system developed together with a Russian company.
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As being forecasted by the industry experts, the world container tonnage growth in 2009 will be at a 10-year low, mainly due to sea carriers postponing the deliveries of new vessels and scrapping the older ones.
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