DP World's volume slides 8% DP World Ltd, the Middle East's biggest port operator, said full-year volume declined 8 per cent, leading to a slide in profit, as the global financial crisis cut demand for consumer goods and hurt the shipping market.
NOL reports big jump in container volumes Neptune Orient Lines, the world's fifth-biggest container shipping firm, yesterday said that it carried 43 per cent more containers in the six weeks to Dec 25 versus a year ago.
Pirate skiff fails to board N Korean ship The US Navy says that it overtook a suspected Somali pirate skiff that tried to attack a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden.
Pacific LNG Ops mulls floating terminal for PNG project
Airbus A330-200F test flights on schedule The second Airbus A330-200F made its first flight last week. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines, the aircraft undertook a routine three-hour test flight. There are now tw...
Planzer takes over Ruckstuhl Transport AG (St Gallen) Planzer Transport AG, a Swiss transport and forwarding company based in Dietikon, acquired Ruckstuhl Transport AG retroactively on 1 January 2010. The latter was established i...
Momentum Logistics opens new location in Iraq Momentum Logistics, a subsidiary of the international port management company Gulftainer, has opened a new office and depot in Iraq, as part of its network development strateg...
Bifa awards 2009 The UK's most prestigious logistics and supply chain industry awards were given to the best of the British freight forwarding sector at the 21st ceremony, hosted by the author and ...
One fifth less throughput in 2009 23 million t of freight were handled at the various terminals in the port of Rostock (Germany) in 2009. This was 5.6 million t or 20% less than in the record year of 2008. 21.5 mil...
Port of Dunkirk completes ISO certification process In 2007 the management of the port of Dunkirk started an accreditation process for its ship and inland barge facilities. The port achieved ISO 9001/2008 accreditation in December 2...
New CMA CGM feeder service from Hamburg to Scandinavia and Poland A new feeder service operated by the French shipping company CMA CGM has been serving the ports of Hamburg, Fredericia, Copenhagen (both Denmark), Halmstad (Sweden) and Szczecin (P...
SBS Worldwide appoints first US managing director SBS Worldwide, an international freight forwarder and supply chain management company headquartered in London (UK), has appointed its first ever US managing director, to help it si...
Sylvie Charles chosen to preside over Fret SNCF The French rail freight company Fret SNCF has lost its director, Luc Nadel, just four months after the launch of a plan to rescue the deficit-running cargo division of th...
Safi Airways to open Kabul-Doha service The Afghan carrier Safi Airways will launch a connection between Kabul (Afghanistan) and Doha (Qatar) on 13 March. The route will be operated three times a week with a Boeing B737-...
Bulgarian state railway to circumvent Greek farmer blockade Bulgaria's ministry of transport has commissioned the Bulgarian state-owned railway BDZ to set up a special corridor for transporting freight to Greece, as the roads around the bor...
DHL to donate Ohio air hub to community The global logistics provider Deutsche Post DHL and Ohio's Clinton County Port Authority (CCPA) have agreed on the essential terms for the donation of DHL's former principal US exp...
BNSF reports USD 4 billion less turnover in 2009 The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) in the USA was hit by a USD 4 billion drop in sales in 2009 (USD 14 billion), compared with the previous year. Q4/2009 freight reven...
National joint venture for ethanol distribution in US The U.S. Development Group (USD), a company for ethanol handling and distribution terminals, has formed a joint venture with Kinder Morgan Energy Partners to create a nationwide et...
Spill closes key Texas waterway A CLEAN-UP is under way today in Texas after about 11,000 barrels of oil spilled in a weekend ship collision that closed the Sabine Neches Waterway
Odfjell sells tanker to breakers NORWAY'S Odfjell told Fairplay today it is selling tanker Bow Maasstroom for recycling in India
Rio Tinto, BHP face JV inquiry THE EC has announced an antitrust investigation into the iron ore joint venture proposed by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton
Exports fuel Georgia ports CONTAINER, breakbulk and ro-ro tonnage surged in December at the Georgia ports of Savannah and Brunswick, mainly because export volumes were strong
Tanker evades pirate attack THE US Navy has said a Yemeni tanker's crew in the Gulf of Aden has fended off pirates bent on hijacking the vessel
Floating a prison ship rationale PRISON ships ' and their possible return by a new UK government after spring elections ' can make economic sense, despite any image problems, a company operating a floating jail told Fairplay today
New Stralsund anchor handler to Maersk Maersk Supply Service has taken delivery of the anchorhandler M'rsk Launcher from Volkswerft Stralsund in Stralsund. The newbuilding is hull no. 479 from the shipyard and is the fourth in
Bergen secures jobs at Fosen By moving the outfitting of a hull from its yard in Bergen to its facility in Fosen, the Bergen group has secured jobs at the Fosen yard, where a large
Tolls unchanged in Suez Canal For the second year in a row, the Suez Canal authorities have decided not to increase transit tolls. "To support global trade movement and help shipping companies overcome this (financial
Large oil spill in Texas On Saturday, the tug Dixie Vengeance, with the two barges it was pushing, collided with the tanker Eagle Otome on the east bank of the Sabine Neches Waterway, Port Arthur
Lukoil starts bunker supply at Tuapse Plans for another bunker tanker to join operations.
Texas oil port shuts indefinitely Nearby waterways also closed, but ExxonMobil claims operations at key refinery should not be affected.
Singapore tech firm sees potential in fuel savings system Remote Fuel Monitoring system saves up to 50% on distillate consumption and 5-10% on fuel oil.
The Suez Canal Authority has announced that it will introduce surcharges on transit tariffs through the Egyptian canal for most major cargo vessels, effective July 15.
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