The strike began after the deaths of 13 docker workers and around 260 injuries when a container loaded with nearly 30 tonnes of chlorine fell from a quay crane during loading on 27 June. An investigation led by interior minister Mazen al-Faraya resulted in the director generals of ACPOM and the Jord...

This launches on 1 March next year – testing processes in advance is mandatory and must be done before February. Advance cargo information must be submitted via an entry summary declaration (ENS), which will impact forwarders, airlines, express couriers and postal operators transporting goods to o...

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...

This follows concerns over particularly heavy container losses from around the autumn of 2020 to spring 2021. According to the WSC’s latest figures, some 3,113 containers were lost in the 2020-2021 period, a 400% increase on the losses during the two previous years, prompting the increase in the r...

Chittagong still has some 2,064 teu of dangerous goods (DG) in containers in its yards and CPA has issued 17 directives or recommendations to port users, which include taking delivery of DG containers/cargo within three days of its arrival. Last week, CPA, at a meeting with all stakeholders – expo...

Thanks to their chemical makeup, lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries release oxygen when they heat up and, should they catch fire, it is impossible to smother the flames with water or foam. Worse, however, is that while some are taught to fight battery fires using CO2 foam, spraying CO2 onto a battery fi...

But this has happened before; and many believe the rage and upset ultimately turn into apathy. The tragedies in Tianjin in 2015 and Beirut in 2020 were very similar in many ways; there is certainly a sense of deja vu, suggesting little has changed. It’s too easy for the industry to let the narrati...

“Following the recent fatal explosion on 4 June 2022 at one of the container facilities in Bangladesh, we have observed a significant spike in the number of containers containing hydrogen peroxide being discharged in PSA Terminals,” the operator said in an advisory on Thursday. It...

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...

On 6 June some containers were still burning fiercely and were pouring smoke into the atmosphere at the Sitakunda, Chittagong, inland facility, 40km north of the port, where the fire broke out on Saturday night. Several subsequent blasts reportedly killed at least 49 people, eight of them fire-fight...