The formal appointment of Mr Grimaldi, a former president of both Confitarma and European Community Shipowners Association (ECSA), follows last year’s announcement of his nomination. Alongside ICS secretary general Guy Platten, his mandate will include working to find private and public solutions ...

The weekly service, operated by Hapag-Lloyd in a consortium deal with Ocean Network Express (ONE), will intermittently void calls at Nhava Sheva (JNPT), Mundra, Rotterdam, London Gateway and Antwerp from July through September. In addition, Hazira, the service’s third Indian port of call, will be ...

Working with its shipping affiliate Transfar Shipping, the service will involve three weekly shipments, each carrying 2,000-4,000 teu from Shanghai, Ningbo, Qingdao and Yantian to Los Angeles and Long Beach. A Cainiao spokesperson told Logistic-News: “Cargo departing China for the US west coas...

According to new research from Alphaliner, in early February, carriers deployed some 95,400 teu across 43 ships into the Russian port, while today, that figure stands at just 15,700 teu, with only CMA CGM and MSC continuing to advertise calls at the port, on one service each. Alphaliner also notes t...

The next phase of implementation will include emissions from ships operating both within the EU and those outside European territorial waters. A separate ETS will be launched for commercial vehicles, a year earlier than proposed by the EC, on 1 January 2024. Also from 2024, all emissions from shippi...

The carrier has confirmed that the vessel had been towed to Fos-Sur-Mer after an explosion in the engine room caused by the fire, injured the three seafarers. “We can confirm the incident on 21 June in the engine room of the MSC Rachele, on our Indus 2 service, while it was en route from Naples, I...

The claim alleges that the two carriers have benefited so far by around $2.2m, with the amount still accruing as the lines continue to gain from what shipper MSRF Inc considers illegal practices. It amounts to a refutation of the US Federal Maritime Commission’s two-year Fact Finding 29 inves...

“Growing companies need great people to scale at velocity and, with Steen and Paul, I am confident we have two very accomplished logistics professionals who will challenge us to grow better and faster,” president and CEO James Gagne said. “Steen’s role is a new position for us and one that r...

The banana business was, and to a lesser extent still is, dominated by a handful of household names and, while Lidl’s creation, Tailwind Shipping, may not be a deliberate imitation of the shipping traditions of firms such as Geest, Dole, Fyffes, Chiquita and Del Monte, it does come from the same d...

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...