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The Italian shipping company Ustica Lines has announced the launch of a new ro-ro service linking the ports of Chioggia (Venice), Augusta (Sicily), and Valletta (Malta) as from 14 ...

Valenciaport (Spain) welcomed a LNG carrier Q-Max, one of the world's largest LNG vessels, on 6 September. The "Al Dafna" unloaded 260,000 cbm of LNG in Saggas, the ...

Le Havre (Terminal de France TDF) recently welcomed the 13,830 teu newbuilding "CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci", which made its maiden call at the French port. The ve...

Guido Grimaldi, founder and chairman of the Grimaldi Group (Naples), has died at the age of 92. A spokesman for the Italian shipping group said Guido Grimaldi died peacefully yeste...

The US forwarding and logistics company UTi Worldwide Inc has reported financial results for its fiscal Q2/2011 ended 31 July 2010. These show revenues of USD 1.151 billion, an inc...

The express and logistics service provider DHL has become the official logistics partner of the Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC 2011). As official partner, DHL will be responsible for ti...

RS Components, the world's largest distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has awarded TNT Express a contract to carry out all its domestic deliveries in France and It...

Qatar Airways is to expand its Indian network by a 20% increase in services to Delhi, Cochin and Amritsar from this month (September). With a total of 14 extra flights being phased...

A UPS B747-44AF cargo plane was destroyed on 3 September shortly after takeoff from Dubai Airport (DXB), UAE. UPS confirmed the death of the two crew members. The cargo flight to C...

The global transport performance will soon reach the level of the pre-crisis era, thanks to new infrastructure, economic growth and the need to catch up, according to a new SCI mul...

USA Truck Inc has entered into a long-term agreement with the US rail service provider BNSF Railway to move private 53 ft domestic intermodal containers. USA Truck, which moved its...

SBB Cargo, the freight division of Switzerland’s national railway SBB Cargo, generated an H1/2010 turnover of CHF 49.5 million, which was considerably less than that in H1/2009. Th...

The German transport and logistics service provider Loxx, based in Gelsenkirchen, recently began to convey general cargo by truck directly to Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Sib...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Japanese ODA loan agreement with the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for up to JPY 6.361 billion (EUR 58.47 mill...

The European Union has updated its list of carriers that are not allowed to operate in the EU. Two cargo carriers from Ghana have now been added to Europe’s list of unsafe airlines...

Penske Logistics has opened a 11,000 sqm warehouse in Manaus (Brazil) for its customer white ware manufacturer Whirlpool. Penske Logistics Brazil will store and ship Whirlpool bran...

Rhenus AG & Co. KG recently signed an agreement with the Pro-Log Group, based in Asia, to acquire a majority shareholding in the group. The move enables Rhenus to further conso...

General Motors Europe (GM Europe) has chosen Chep, one of the world’s leading pallet and plastic container pooling specialists, to be its service provider once again. The latest co...

The port of Hamburg reported that its seafreight handling activities are increasing, thanks to the upsurge in global trade. The port’s interim throughput jumped by 8.1% auf 58.6 mi...

Grup TCB has acquired a new mobile harbour crane to expand its infrastructure at its TCEEGE terminal in Turkey. This brings the total number of mobile harbour cranes at this termin...