A more likely variant these days is handling facilities for online carriers at an airport coming onstream outside the perimeter fence. This spring airfreight handling firm Aeroterm acquired two warehouses within ten minutes of Montreal’s Trudeau Airport. The two buildings, which have a combined f...

It has ordered two 4,600 teu ships at Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, at $40m each, to be delivered in the first quarter of 2025. Trawind said it would either operate the vessels itself or charter them to other operators. The company expanded its liner services in March, starting a joint domestic servic...

It is no coincidence that the aircraft is being talked about as Ukraine prepares for its ‘national day’ tomorrow. A powerful symbol of Ukrainian national identity is being remembered and, perhaps, will rise again as the country itself plans to do, like a phoenix from the Russian flames. The day...

It will deliver electrical infrastructure that incorporates green technology including solar generation, battery storage systems and a fuel cell, as well as the replacement of a substation and connecting circuitry. The project will help the port deliver on its 2019 initiative, The Seaport Air Qualit...

Amazon is looking to build up steam with a same-day offering for local deliveries of online orders from retailers’ stores. The e-commerce giant has done some same-day deliveries from distribution and fulfilment centres, but this is the first foray into the store-to-consumer arena. At this point th...

Ansheng’s holding company, Antong Holdings, announced the move during the release of the group’s H1 22 results on Friday and follows a co-operation agreement with CULines signed in May. Antong became state-controlled after a government-led bailout in 2020, after unauthorised guarantees issued by...

This is despite strong and long-standing objections from community groups and the planning inspectorate. Riveroak Strategic Partners’ (RSP) five-year effort to acquire and develop Manston into a freighter gateway hit repeated setbacks, including last year’s High Court decision to block it, but t...

A record heatwave in China’s south-west Sichuan province has led to depleted reservoirs and rolling blackouts as hydropower plants were forced to reduce electricity output. Factories in Sichuan were ordered to shut for six days for power rationing – a regular feature during China’s hot summers...

Throughput edged up year on year by 0.9%, to 4.4m teu, which compares with the 4.4% fall at Antwerp-Bruges, to 6.8m teu, and 6.2% drop at Rotterdam, to 7.3m teu. A year-on-year 5.8% increase in Chinese imports and exports, to 1.3m teu, and a 3.9% rise in US volumes, to 291,000 teu, at Hamburg mitiga...

MSC has pulled back from issuing its general rate increase (GRI) and peak season surcharge (PSS) notices this month on the India-US trades, while other liners have, tactically, kept themselves out of the pricing race, thus far. Geneva-based MSC had announced a $2,000 per container PSS for Indian loa...