From left: Declan Ee, co-founder of Castlery.com and Rupesh Jain, managing director of Maersk Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore Maersk has entered into a partnership with Castlery, a Singaporean furniture retailer, for a multi-year global integrated logistics and fulfilment agreement. Through the partnership, Castlery expects to reduce wait times for orders to one to two months […]

PSA Singapore has withdrawn a ban on carrying hydrogen peroxide through the port from Bangladesh and other countries. The ban was imposed on 9 June, five days after the fatal fire and blast incident that occurred on 4 June at BM Container Depot in Chittagong which killed 49 and injured several hundred. Following the imposition of the […]

BF Tiger / Source: VesselFinder A container ship chartered by Maersk Line has resumed its voyage after colliding with a general cargo ship. In the early-morning accident on 7 August, the 2,824 TEU BF Tiger, chartered from Fooroohari Schiffahrts, was underway from Qingdao to Hong Kong when it collided with a Chinese domestic general cargo […]

Port of Felixstowe Port workers at Felixstowe are set to strike for eight days from Sunday 21 August until Monday 29 August, after rejecting the latest pay offer from port operator Hutchinson Ports. Felixstowe is one of the UK’s top container ports and a critical hub in the region’s logistics network. Any disruption will be a key […]

The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is seeking public comment on whether supply chain congestion has created conditions that warrant the issuance of an emergency order requiring common carriers and marine terminal operators (MTOs) to share information with shippers, truckers and railroads. The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA), enacted as Public Law 117-146, […]

Despite the ongoing operational disruption due to Covid-19, investment, revenues, and profits are all increased at the Port of Tyne in the United Kingdom. More specifically, over the previous 12-month period, revenues reached US$56,60 million (£47,3 million), up US$5,86 million (£4.9million), and EBITDA, or investable profit, was US$12,68 million (£10.6 million), up US$1,56 million (£1.3 […]

CMA CGM has announced eight new rail solutions with block trains in the Chinese provinces of Hunan, Sichuan, Hainan and Guangong for a capacity of 740 TEU a week. The French transportation company has developed a rail network in China with 58 rail corridors in North China, Central China and South China, providing multi-departures each […]

The Singaporean container shipping line Pacific International Lines (PIL) has become a new member of the World Shipping Council (WSC). PIL is currently ranked 12th in the world with a fleet of around 100 boxships with its global trade network spans Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Oceania, while it has offices and agencies […]

A Covid-19 flare-up in Shanghai just eight days after emerging from a two-month lockdown has returned the port city to square one, raising concerns of more slowdowns in the world’s busiest container port. Residents in 14 of Shanghai’s 16 districts have been ordered to test for Covid-19 over the weekend, after 11 cases were detected yesterday (9 […]

Indian shippers — already battling to secure vessel space — are going to be hit by more sailing disruptions on weekly Europe connections. CMA CGM has announced three sailing omissions for Indian ports this month on its premier EPIC2 [Europe-Pakistan-India-Consortium] Service, operated jointly with Hapag-Lloyd. The latter markets it as the Indian Ocean Service (IOS). […]