Sharing capacities in India and Southeast Asia 
Teleport, the logistics venture of Capital A (formerly known as Air Asia Group), represented by Francis Antony (right), group head cargo commercial, and India's youngest cargo airline Pradhaan Air Express, represented by its founder and CEO Nipun Anand, signed a memorandum of... more
"MSC Ornella" arrives in Laem Chabang today
“MSC Ornella”, the first vessel on the new rotation of Sentosa Service, will arrive in Laem Chabang today, 17 May 2023. Sentosa Service has added direct calls between Southeast Asia and the USA’s West Coast to improve transit times and connections between these two regions.... more
New contracts for "K" Line
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Line) has announced two new contracts, a 15-year long-term charter agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation subsidiary Diamond Gas International (DGI), and a shipbuilding contract with Samsung Heavy Industries (Samsung) for a 174,000 cbm LNG... more
Ceiv Pharma for Nippon Express Italia
Nippon Express Italia, a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, has gained Iata Ceiv Pharma certification, a quality certification for pharmaceutical transport established by the international air transport association (Iata), for its warehouse facility in Lainate, near Milan... more
1,450 EVs worldwide in two years' time
Ceva Logistics is planning to grow its fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) to 1,450 by the end of 2025. The expanded EV fleet would reduce the company’s CO2 emissions by 67,000 t per year — the equivalent of 30,000 round trips by a truck between Paris and Munich. Along with the... more
First gearless vessel to call Port Moresby
Motukea International Terminal (MIT), a unit of International Container Terminal Services (Ictsi) located in the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, has welcomed its first gearless vessel. This is a ship without cranes that relies on shore-based equipment... more
Agility's acquisitions pay off in Q1/2023
Kuwait-based Agility ended Q1/2023 with earnings of KWD 15.3 million (EUR 45.7 million), an increase of 20% over the same period in 2022. Agility’s ebitda increased 78.1% to KWD 60.4 million (EUR 180.5 million) and revenue grew 142.7% to KWD 320.5 million (EUR 958 million).... more
Beyond (east of) Munich: Japanese buy Cargo-Partner
The deal was signed on 12 May 2023: Japanese stock-listed Nippon Express Holdings (NX), which is also the parent company of Nippon Express, APC, Franco Vago and others, reached an agreement with the Austrian Cargo-Partner Group Holding and its subsidiaries Multi Transport und... more
Three new logistics estates in Asia
Since forming a strategic partnership with Macquarie Asset Management in 2021, logistics real estate developer Unified Industrial (UI) has expanded its investment activities through three new ventures – two in Japan and one in China. The first two ventures have now been... more
Anglo-Eastern uses Wärtsilä’s FOS
Wärtsilä, a specialist for innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions, is partnering with DNV’s industry cloud platform Veracity to create secure and seamless connectivity between Wärtsilä’s fleet optimisation solution (FOS) and the platform. FOS provides a unique... more