New CAX service from ZIM 
The Israeli carrier ZIM, which is headquartered in Haifa, is entering the Australian market with a service linking China and Australia. The new option, called the China Australia Express (CAX), will offer an eleven-day transit time from South China to Sydney.It will see six... mehr
Special hopper cars to ship fertilisers
Mineral fertiliser producer Acron is the first company in Russia to use innovative 19-6978-01 hopper cars, manufactured by the United Wagon Company (UWC). The six-axle cars combine articulated structures and hopper boxes located at the lower end of the body.The 25 tf axle-load... mehr
Ceva anchors in Laem Chabang
Ceva Logistics, an affiliate of CMA CGM, is expanding its footprint in Thailand with a new station for marine transport at Laem Chabang, the country’s main deep-sea port. The infrastructure of the port, located in Thailand’s ‘Eastern Economic Corridor’, makes it a growing hub... mehr
Ron Crouch Transport acquires AG Logistics
Ron Crouch Transport, a Sydney-based Australian freight carrier, has entered into a contract for the acquisition on 1 October of the 3PL warehouse and transport company AG Logistics, based in the Adelaide suburb of Cavan, South Australia.AG Logistics’ site at Cavan is a... mehr
New rail link between Xi’an and Dunajska Streda
Thanks to close cooperation with Metrans, cargo-partner now offers a regular, direct FCL service from Xi’an, China to Dunajska Streda, Slovakia with departures every Friday. The new link includes pickup throughout China and delivery anywhere in Central and Eastern... mehr
Fesco introduces intermodal service for seafood
Russian transport company Fesco has launched a regular intermodal container service for seafood deliveries from the Russian Far East to Jilin province in China. The seafood is shipped in refrigerated containers by Fesco's regular services from Kamchatka, Magadan and Sakhalin... mehr
Fake Covid-19 protection items intercepted
After 20,000 counterfeit N95 masks arriving from Hong Kong had been seized by officers of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) earlier this month at Boston airport, their Chicago colleagues confiscated a shipment of 500,000 counterfeit N95 masks arriving from Shenzhen,... mehr
Twelve weeks between Hong Kong and Pittsburgh
Cathay Pacific Airways has launched a temporary expansion of its cargo operations in the Americas, linking Pittsburgh International (PIT) with Southeast Asia and supplementing its existing network of 19 cargo stations throughout the Americas, including East Coast services to... mehr
Big Brown lands in Vietnam
UPS made its inaugural flights into Vietnam last week to cater to the country's growing import and export demands. Since 15 September, a new B767F service into HCMC begins and ends in Shenzhen, China, home to UPS’s largest facility in Asia. It operates four days a week and... mehr
Finnlines' second new ro-ro unit underway
The next steps in the production of Finnlines’ second new hybrid ro-ro vessel have begun at the Chinese Nanjing Jinling shipyard. The first steel plate was cut in the traditional steel cutting ceremony in mid-September 2020. The liner’s ongoing EUR 500 million newbuilding... mehr