Shipping consultant Drewry said there would be almost nine million boxes fitted with tracking and telemetry equipment by 2026, with Hapag-Lloyd’s decision to fit trackers to its fleet of dry boxes likely to initiate a scramble among container lines to implement similar systems. However, Mike Yarwo...

Shell has signed a multi-year agreement with CMA CGM to supply LNG for the line’s 13,000 teu vessels from the second half of next year. Yesterday the two companies said: “As Shell and CMA CGM are long-standing partners, both companies plan to extend their partnership to the road and aviation sec...

Christian Dufermont, freight commercial director, told Logistic-News the unaccompanied business had accelerated at pace since its launch last September, but significantly since March. “We have handled 1,000 trucks in the two months following March, about 500 unaccompanied trailers a month, and...

The bids were opened this morning, according to port sources. They also said the winning consortium had offered a revenue share (royalty) of Rs4,520 ($57) per teu for the landlord authority. “[Qatar-backed] QTerminals became the second-highest bidder with an offer of Rs4,235 a teu.” A port offic...

The Dutch government ordered Schiphol to reduce the maximum number of flights at the airport from 500,000 to 440,000 – a more severe reduction than the airport anticipated. The cuts will be in force for the next five years – but the government has not said what will happen after that, making pla...

“Former attorney general of Louisiana Charles Foti and the law firm Kahn Swick & Foti (KSF) are investigating the proposed sale of USA Truck to DB Schenker. Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of USA Truck will receive only $31.72 in cash for each share they own. “KSF i...

Transport & Environment (T&E) today said the results of passing on the cost of clean shipping to the end customer would be ‘negligible’. In the past, the cost of transport for a pair of the ubiquitous trainers was put at one cent, today T&E ague that the decarbonisation will increase...

The funds were invested in a Series C round that is usually a start-up’s final phase of venture capital financing. With this latest tranche, Deliveree, which operates in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines (under the brand Transportify) has raised $109m in the past five years While Deliveree h...

The consultancy said some 8.7m boxes are likely to be fitted with tracking devices in the coming years, an estimate contrasting with a figure of 3.6% by the end of 2021, obtained through a ‘census’ of equipment. Reefer and intermodal containers are well-represented in the Drewry findings, being ...

The ship thought to be the 9,400dwt Forest 6 general cargo vessel, was loading a container of 25-30 tonnes of chlorine using a quay crane at around 4.18pm local time when wires snapped, the container dropped onto the deck and exploded, spreading toxic gas around the port and vicinity. Local beaches ...