An incident in the automated area of the Ports of Auckland (POAL) has forced New Zealand’s port to temporarily expand manual operations at the container terminal and reduce the scale of automated operations. The container terminal is now being reconfigured for increased manual operations, according to a statement. At around 03:00 on 17 June, a […]

CMA CGM has published new peak season surcharges (PSS), which will take effect on 25 June, from India and Pakistan to several destinations across the world. The French shipping group will apply a PSS of US$1,250 per 20′ and US$1,450 per 40′ for dry cargo which is expected to arrive in East Coast Central America, […]

More than 130 omitted calls and over 60 added calls have been noted for the period 23 May – 26 June due to low productivity and congestion caused by Covid-19 restrictions at South China ports. Based on vessel schedule data updated by 11 June, EZOCEAN which belongs K Line Changsha Data Processing Company, a subsidiary […]

More than 10 members have joined the blockchain platform, TradeLens, in Chinese Mainland in the first month since TradeLens expansion in China in early May. China Unicom Digital Tech hosts and operate TradeLens, which has been developed by AP Moller Maersk and IBM, in Chinese Mainland, making it available to global and domestic exporters and […]

CMA CGM has announced the enhancement of its BSMAR service connecting Black Sea and Turkey with Morocco, as from June 2021. The French carrier said that the transit and lead times will be improved, shortening the service rotation duration from 35 to 28 days, partly due to terminal berthing windows reconfiguration and single call in […]

Evergreen Marine Corporation is piloting the usage of Internet of Things (IoT) technology with Kaohsiung Port’s customs officials. Both sides are aiming to see how IoT technology can ensure the safety of moving cargoes and monitor the entire process of point-to-point container movements in Taiwan’s busiest container port. The memorandum of understanding was signed by […]

The global Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of refrigerated container logistics to keep vital supplies of food and medicines, including vaccines, flowing around the world as nations locked down. While temperature-controlled goods have indeed kept flowing, the pandemic triggered an ongoing cascade of disruptions to the bigger container shipping system that so many perishable […]

The Port of Los Angeles has achieved an all-time record for container volumes in a single month, processing more than 1 million TEU in May, which represents an outstanding 74% increase compared with the same month last year. The Port of LA handled 1,012,048 TEU last month, which was the busiest month ever in the […]

Freight rates for container exports from the Port of Shanghai in Week 23 increased from the previous week on several trade routes, which do not include those to the west coast of North America and within Asia, according to the Japan International Freight Forwarders Association (JIFFA). Spot rates for moving containers to Europe picked up […]

Kalmar has agreed with SAAM Group, the fourth-largest port operator in South America, to equip Chile’s San Antonio Terminal Internacional (STI), a port operated by SAAM and SSA Marine, with 26 Ottawa T2 terminal tractors. The new machines are expected to be delivered during the fourth quarter of the current year and will be added […]