The 17,300 teu APL Vanda suffered a mystery incident on 3 July and is currently idling off the coast of Djibouti, off the East African coast. CMA CGM released a customer advisory on 7 July telling customers that the vessel had experienced an “unexpected incident” while en route to Europe, withou...

The law is not hitting the industry out of the blue. Designed to address misclassification and inadequate compensation and benefits of workers in the gig economy, it was set to come into effect on 1 January 2020 but was stopped immediately in its tracks by injunctions sought by opponents of the bill...

A report from the International Transport Forum (ITF) a think tank that is politically autonomous, but administratively integrated into the OECD, effectively concludes that global regulation has failed shippers and forwarders by engineering a situation in which shipping lines can legally ‘manufact...

Canada’s biggest box port is experiencing a wave of record import volumes and when combined with intermodal delays due to forest fires in British Columbia, it has resulted in a big spike in container import dwell times. Hapag-Lloyd said that all vessels calling at Vancouver “continue to face sig...

From August 3 Virgin will pick up Danish and Scandinavian e-commerce shipments from Billund, which were previously trucked around Europe. “We will be targeting urgent pharmaceutical, automotive and perishable cargoes destined for the USA, Africa, Israel and the Indian Subcontinent,” said Steve B...

The ship, able to carry 399 people, was ordered at Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering, and the newbuilding contract was signed at the PanStar group’s headquarters in Busan. The newbuilding price was not disclosed. The PanStar group said that in expectations of an eventual recovery in tourism p...

It’s only been five weeks since the major port and manufacturing hub emerged from its two-month “zero-Covid” ordeal, and already several districts are undergoing mass testing again, from today until Thursday. Officials say the measures are needed to avert another citywide lockdown, but critics...

TiL has acquired the shareholding of the Ocean Terminal and Terminal de Normandie with an investment of €700m ($713m), which will include the creation of 900 jobs for dockworkers and 200 for maintenance staff over a six-year period. TiL CEO Ammar Kanaan said the deal had been possible “thanks to...

The service involves moving containerised freight on trailers from the US west coast to Nippon Express’s warehouse in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and then shipping from Manzanillo Port to Asia. Nippon Express claimed the intermodal service offered shippers a dependable lead time – for example,...

Delhi-based Pradhaan Air Express has secured preliminary Indian government permission to launch an all-cargo airline, with commercial operations taking off this year. A converted A320 aircraft on lease will be used for the freighter service, for both domestic and international connections, Nipun Ana...