From having almost no cargo in April 2020, Bournemouth Airport in the UK saw some 20,000 tonnes of throughput by the end of March 2022. By April, the airport had launched Cargo First, its dedicated air cargo service, and the freight volumes are increasing steadily. Mounting pressures at large hub ai...

Unionised truckers, including cement mixers and car-carrying trailers, have stopped work while non-unionised drivers have not shown up for work in fear of reprisals from their trade union colleagues. The steel, auto and cement factories have mostly suspended shipments due to difficulties in moving t...

However, a proposal to extend its carbon market to all departing flights was passed. Yesterday’s vote came as the maritime sector debates greenhouse gas emissions at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Shipping industry organisations such as the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) h...

Hapag-Lloyd has agreed to pay $2m in civil penalties relating to violations of D&D charges. A Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) statement said the agreement with the carrier and the fines imposed are designed to restore “full confidence” in the US ocean freight regulatory system. FMC chairma...

Yesterday he walked for 12 hours, up and down Welsh mountains on his Sea-to-Sea walk along Offa’s Dyke, from the Severn estuary in south Wales to the Irish Sea coast in north Wales. “There are still four days to go – and it has been hard,” he said. “It was supposed to be the most dramatic ...

Container Trade Statistics’ April demand data showed that global demand declined 4.2% year-on-year during the month. But the headline number masked a mixed bag of demand for the Asia-North Europe and transpacific tradelanes, with the former slumping by 8%, while North American imports were unfalte...

The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which represents nearly 14,000 port workers in California, Oregon and Washington State, and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on behalf of shipping lines and terminal operators at 29 west coast ports, have been discussing terms of a new...

VesselsValue shows that the two newbuildings are among eight sister vessels that StarOcean ordered at Yangzijiang Shipbuilding in China in January 2021, for $23m each. The ships are all expected to be delivered by July 2023, with deliveries beginning this year. “The [two Transfar] newbuildings, ex...

CMA CGM has followed its 6 June announcement that it had ordered six new-Panamax ships that are methanol-ready with a second order, worth a reported $736m in total, with expected deliveries of the vessels in 2025. According to CMA CGM, the company’s methanol powered vessels are: “In line with CM...

The number of fatalities was revised down by authorities, but there are still many injured in hospital. The fire has reportedly now been extinguished, but concerns have turned to the 321 teu of DG goods in Bangladesh’s major facility in Chittagong, as well as 445 tonnes of chemicals and DG goods i...