Let the sun rise earlier! 
Following a customer’s request, NVOCC and global 3PL services provider UWL and the Swire Shipping group have announced a new port call for export refrigerated containers in Busan, Korea on the "Sun Chief Express" service: the shorter eastbound voyage, Seattle - Busan -... more
Value Maritime's new office in Singapore
Based in the Central Business District (CBD) of Singapore, an important and expanding Asia Pacific shipping market, the new office of Value Maritime (VM) will be led by Milou van der Ven as the area manager for Asia. Headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the... more
MOU to solve safety issues
Representatives of Cargo Incident Notification System (Cins), Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme (Chirp), Container Owners Association (COA), International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (Ichca), and Ship Message Design Group (Smdg) signed a... more
Kuehne + Nagel boosts footprint in Africa
Kuehne + Nagel is improving and expanding its services for its customers in Africa with the appointment of Alexandre Muratore as managing director of the newly established West Africa Cluster comprising Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Sierra... more
Kalmar to deliver heavy e-forklift to Austria
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has secured an order from Austrian rail logistics service provider Innofreight for a Kalmar heavy electric forklift. This unit is the first of its kind to be delivered to a customer anywhere in the world. Kalmar’s first heavy electric forklift is to... more
Europa Air & Sea takes off in Delhi
Europa Air & Sea has inaugurated a new office in Delhi, India, following the successful launch of the company’s latest sites in Shanghai (China) and Dubai (UAE), which both opened in 2022. The new facility in Delhi is Europa’s first step into the Indian Subcontinent and... more
Jettainer strengthens team in Abu Dhabi
Jettainer, a global specialist in unit load device (ULD) management, is strengthening its foothold in the Middle East, Africa and the Indian subcontinent and welcoming Rammohan Krishnaswamy, a seasoned aviation expert, to its branch office in Abu Dhabi. In his newly created... more
Gold nuggets seized on their way to Hong Kong
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stationed at the Port of Cincinnati seized an outbound shipment declared as containing clothing after they discovered it also contained loose gold and gold bars worth far more than the declared value of USD 125. Officers... more
Express rail service for Chinese e-vehicles
Hellmann is now offering a door-to-door express rail service between China and Europe for whole vehicles two to three times a week. The journey takes just 30 days. The cars are first transported from the factory in China to the Hellmann loading stations, where they are put... more
Shareable datalog to track reefers
Moving perishable goods around the world is a challenging task, especially when it comes to cargo like fruit, meat and medicine that are sensitive to fluctuating conditions in transit. To ensure optimal conditions when moving sensitive cargo from A to B, Maersk’s own... more