Logistics management: ocean transportation - Articles - Page 20

CMA CGM Launches New Services in Oceania, African Trades

February 13, 2014

The CMA CGM Group is upgrading its container-carrying offerings between Oceania and the U.S., with the March, 2014 launching of the PAD 2 service.

Recovering Shipping Industry Sails Back from the Brink

February 13, 2014

Maritime Executive

The shipping industry is poised to emerge from its longest downturn in three decades, buoyed by an end to years of overcapacity that have depressed freight rates since the end of a shipping boom in 2008.

Where Do All Those Old Ships Go to Die? Many to Substandard Beaching Facilities.

February 6, 2014

Maritime Executive

NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a global coalition of organizations seeking to prevent dirty and dangerous shipbreaking practices worldwide, has published the complete list of ships that were dismantled around in the world in 2013. Of the 1213 large ocean-going vessels that were scrapped in 2013, 645 were sold to substandard beaching facilities in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, says the group. Approximately 40 per cent of these ships were EU-owned.

CMA CGM Group Announces Cooperation Pact on Asia-Indian Subcontinent Route

January 30, 2014

CMA CGM Group

The CMA CGM Group is launching a space-sharing agreement with container-carrying partners Maersk Line, APL and OOCL on three services from the Far East to the Indian Subcontinent, starting in February of 2014.

CSAV Group Expands INTTRA E-shipping Capabilities to Customers Worldwide

January 30, 2014

Inttra

INTTRA, the multi-carrier e-commerce network for ocean shipping, announced a strategic agreement with CSAV Group, one of the largest shipping companies in Latin America, to make INTTRA a preferred e-shipping platform for CSAV Group's customer base of shippers and freight forwarders.

Brazil Backs Billion-Dollar Port in Cuba

January 30, 2014

Maritime Executive

Cuba on Monday inaugurated a $957m port billed as the most modern in Latin America and crucial to the economic future of the communist-ruled island in a project financed by Brazil and equipped for ships passing through an expanded Panama Canal.

Fight Over Panama Canal Expansion Cost Overrun Was Inevitable

January 24, 2014

Maritime Executive

A bitter dispute between the Panama Canal and a Spanish-led consortium of construction companies over the spiraling cost of expanding one of the world's busiest waterways was years in the making.

The Market Continues to View Air, Sea Freight Forwarding Positively

January 23, 2014

Transport Intelligence

The Stifel Logistics Confidence Index entered 2014 on a positive note. Despite a month-to-month 0.9 point decline in the overall Index reading to 56.6, the Logistics Confidence Index has remained above the 50-level for 12 months, meaning the market continues to exhibit a healthy confidence in air and sea freight forwarding. To get a better view of global air and ocean trade, Stifel has partnered with Transport Intelligence to create the Stifel Logistics Confidence Index (LCI), a monthly survey of international shippers and forwarders that measures freight activity across several European-based trade lanes.

Standardizing Ocean Freight Environmental Reporting

January 22, 2014

Environmental Leader

EcoVadis and BSR's Clean Cargo Working Group (CCWG) have teamed up to standardize environmental reporting requests for the sea freight supply chain.

U.S. Ocean Container Activity Ended Strong in 2013, Year-End Review Finds

January 17, 2014

Cass Information Systems/INTTRA

Ocean container import and export activity for the U.S. ended on a strong note in 2013, with imports soaring 17.7 percent and exports rising 5.7 percent from November. Both upticks are seasonally expected, but the import volume was especially stronger than normal.