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  • Evergreen Hikes Rates on U.S. Commodity Exports

    Evergreen Line filed a range of rate increases on a number of different commodity exports in the trans-Pacific and the Trans-Atlantic to support what it called “sustainability.”

  • UPS Launches Mexico-U.S. Ground Shipping

    UPS on July 13 launched ground service for small packages from Mexico to the United States. Known as UPS Standard, the northbound-only service delivers less urgent packages to their final destinations within 3-to-7 days.

  • Food Safety Bill to Omit Brokers

    Customs brokers apparently lobbied successfully to remove language from a bill that would have given the Food and Drug Administration the authority to license and penalize them for violations of a new food safety bill.

  • EU Slams Container Security Initiative

    The CSI screening and related additional U.S. customs routines are causing significant additional costs and delays to shipments of European machinery and electrical equipment to the United States, according to the 2009 report.

  • Ocean Carriers Combine Europe- South America Services

    CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud will reduce vessel capacity by combining two of their liner services in August into a new direct service between the East Coast of South America and North Europe

  • TNT Profit Declines 60 Percent

    TNT's net profit dived 60.5 percent to $115 million in the three months ending in June, the fourth consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline for Europe's second largest mail and express delivery company

     

  • Undersea fibre optic cable goes live

    The first undersea fibre optic cable went live in five African countries simultaneously on July 23, reports Daily Nation, marking the beginning of an era of faster and cheaper Internet connections.

  • Hong Kong gets busiest airport title

    Hong Kong International Airport has been named the busiest airport in the Far East in terms of its air freight activities, according to a survey by ArabianSupplyChain.com.
    This comes as Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled 3.4-million tonnes of air cargo during 2008.
     

  • India’s ports buck the trend

    India’s 12 major ports have experienced growth for the second month in a row, according to Shipping Gazette, showing the early signs of economic recovery.
    In June major ports registered an 8.6% increase in cargo volumes compared to the same month a year earlier, according to figures released by the Indian Ports' Association.

  • EU Commits $357M to Rescue Gdansk Yard

    The European Union on July 22 approved $357 million of government aid to Poland's Gdansk shipyard, birthplace of the Solidarity trade union that played a key role in the collapse of communism.