Six honourees for Maritime Hall of Fame 

The Maritime Association of the Port of New York and New Jersey has inducted six industry leaders into its International Maritime Hall of Fame. The prestigious awards were presented at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City. The 2022 Hall of Fame honourees were... more
Swiss cross joins birds 

Swiss Worldcargo is entering the joint business agreement signed in 2016 which sees its "sisters" Lufthansa Cargo and Cathay Pacific cooperating closely on international lanes via their hubs, while the handling of cargo in Hong Kong is coordinated under one roof at the... more
CP to become primary rail provider for CMA CGM 

Canadian Pacific (CP) is to become CMA CGM's primary rail provider in Canada, servicing the ports of Vancouver, Montreal and Saint John, NB. The two companies recently signed a new multi-year agreement. The partnership creates natural synergies, which will add density to key... more
Transnatur's latest partner in Italy 

The Spanish Transnatur Group has opted for a new partner in Italy. Its cooperation with the company Italmondo was launched at the beginning of June 2022. Italmondo's headquarters are located in Arluno close to Milan, and its network includes a number of other offices and... more
Stable deterioration of reliability 

The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence reports that global schedule reliability is continuing its trend of 2021. In April 2022, schedule reliability declined further by -1.3 percentage points compared to March and was down by -4.7 percentage points compared... more
Niar Werx and Erickson expand MRO programme 

The Werx programme at Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (Niar) and Erickson Precision Ventures (Precision) have reached an agreement to work cooperatively on modification, maintenance and engineering for various Boeing and Airbus aircraft.... more
ARA picks David Blight 

ARA Asset Management (ARA) has appointed David Blight as chief investment officer of its private funds division, ARA Private Funds (APF). The appointment follows ARA’s recent acquisition by ESR (ESR Group) in a landmark transaction creating Asia Pacific’s largest real asset... more
Karachi: new gateway for Uzbekistan 

It is a first for the Pakistan International Container Terminal (Pict), an affiliate of the International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) operating in the Port of Karachi. It has just handled the first export shipment from Uzbekistan. The cargo was transported by land to the... more
From Prague? No, Bratislava. 

The Hamburg -based freight forwarder A. Hartrodt has established its own company in Slovakia, which will be led by Dusan Kapral. The country manager will report to Sebastian Endt, regional managing director for the Eastern Europe region based in Prague. Kapral, who... more
Direct Vietnam - Moscow service introduced 

Trans Container has launched regular service to ship consumer goods from Vietnam to Russia via the Zabaikalsk border-crossing point. The overland journey covering more than 10,000 km from Hanoi to the Moscow region takes about 35 days. This is Trans Container's first direct... more