The first flight departed from Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport on 8 July and there will be three weekly flights, all using chartered Boeing freighters, but details of the aircraft and the charterer were not currently available. However, Cainiao will be able to deliver the goods to KL in four...

The industrial action by 12,000 port workers will halt operations at the key container hubs of Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven, and will be the third and longest period of industrial action in the increasingly bitter wage dispute. If the strike goes ahead, it will have a serious impact on lin...

It came almost a year after Amazon won the tender process for the redevelopment of two ageing warehouses on the north side of the airport, on 5 August last year. It had pledged to spend $125m on the revamp of the buildings, taking the property under a 20-year lease. The operation was slated to come ...

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...

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 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,...

The disruption in the ports of Chennai, Ennore (Kamarajar) and Kattupalli, which handle the majority of containerised trade in and out of the region, ended yesterday evening, after container freight station (CFS) stakeholders agreed to revise haulage rates. Trailer owners had demanded an 80% increas...

Representatives from two port associations have condemned the government change of tack, increasingly referring to the border control posts (BCPs) – mandated before the policy was scrapped in April – as “commercial endeavours”. British Ports Association CEO Richard Ballantyne told The Loadst...

Shippers at Tiaca’s regional symposium in Amsterdam last week claimed a one-stop shop would make it easier for them to switch services when problems arise. “Box lines have bought forwarders, terminal operators, planes and airlines,” said Denis Choumert, chair of the European Shippers’ Counci...

According to local media, MSC-owned Terminal Investment Ltd (TIL) has signed an agreement with Ho Chi Minh City to build a $6bn port in Can Gio, a district on the city’s outskirts. The proposed facility would have a 7.2km wharf, annual capacity of 15m teu and be capable of handling 24,000 teu cont...