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Maersk prepares for South African fruit season

Maersk has delivered 1,800 empty refrigerated 40ft containers from the Middle East to South Africa as additional stock ahead of this citrus season. There...

K+N says market too uncertain to call

Swiss-based freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) has declined to make its usual forward-looking statements in its first quarter results, citing the volatility of...

Japan-China container traffic sees double-digit fall

Containerised shipments traded between Japan and China plunged 17.6% from a year earlier to 689,214tonnes in February, according to figures that the Japan Maritime...

Methanol already available at more than 100 ports says institute

The trade association for the methanol industry, the Methanol Institute (MI) has confirmed that the fuel is already available in more than 100 ports...

OOCL Q1 results a boost for lines or a portent of harder times to come

Initial results for the first quarter released by OOCL could be seen as a boost to lines, which it is generally agreed have manged...

India reveals US$100m pandemic cost

The world's largest lockdown so far has cost the Indian economy an estimated 7-8 billion rupees (US$98 million) over the 21-day period, according to...

Known unknowns add up to a complex Pacific contract picture

Complexities in managing annual cargo rate negotiations have been exposed by the Covid-19 virus with shippers and forwarders struggling to understand what cargo commitments...

China Q1 volumes plunge amid Covid-19 crisis

Chinese ports have suffered substantial losses in volumes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China during January. Total container volumes...

MOL launches Coilporter for containerised steel cargoes

MOL Logistics, the non-vessel owning common carrier (NVOCC) unit of Japanese shipping group Mitsui OSK Lines, has launched a proprietary lashing product to better...

Seoul sets aside US$382m emergency fund for HMM

The South Korean government has set aside KRW470 billion (US$382 million) in emergency funding for mainline operator HMM as the maritime industry faces another...

APM Terminals supports shippers in logjam challenges

APM Terminals in North America is making storage space available for ocean carriers facing logistics logjams. A fee-based storage will be available in APM...

Hapag-Lloyd halves carbon emissions in 2019

Hapag-Lloyd has achieved a cut to its CO2 emissions (per TEU/kilometre) by 50% in the 2019 financial year, compared to the previous year, according...

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