For more capacity on the Ivory Coast 
Ceva Logistics has acquired two fish loaders imported from Spain for deployment at the port in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, The new units enable the company to offer an end-to-end solution for frozen tuna exports from the West African country. These exports are set to exceed 150,000 t... more
Ateia-Oltra re-elects Manuel Herrera
Ateia-Oltra, the association of freight forwarders, international forwarders and other providers in the province of Las Palmas, representing the logistics, transport and customs handling sector, held its ordinary general assembly on Thursday, 4 November 2021, with the... more
How bottlenecks impact trades
The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence recently analysed the impact of bottlenecks in the maritime supply system from the perspective of vessel delays. Thus, vessel delays from 2016-2019 were compared to delays in excess of that baseline for 2020 and 2021.... more
More cranes for Conakry
In Guinea, the Autonomous Port of Conakry recently received four RTGs (rubber tyred gantries). This equipment is added to the eight other models received in 2018 and 2020, bringing their number to twelve at the container terminal of the Port Autonome de Conakry. Entirely... more
Focus on leasing business
Suttons International is acquiring ISO tank containers, personnel and overseas customer contracts from VTG Tanktainer, including VTG's shares in the Brazilian JV Mission Line. VTG's stake in the Cosco VTG Tanktainer JV to serve the Chinese market is not included in the Suttons... more
Flowfox links up with DCSA
The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) was founded in 2019 as a joint effort of carriers to support the development of global, digital standards in shipping. Now, Flowfox is starting to work with DCSA on the import container release. The Hamburg-based logistics... more
Cosco's new link to West Africa
Cosco Line has launched a new service from the port of Bilbao to West Africa, with Vasco Shipping Services as its agent for Spain. This unit, belonging to Vasco, was created in 2000 as an exclusive representative for the Chinese shipping company, with whom the group had been... more
ATC Aviation assists ITA Airways' cargo business
ATC Aviation Services started its partnership with ITA Airways on 15 October. The globally active GSSA will be responsible for the cargo sales promotion and marketing activities of Italy's new national carrier in Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Peru, South Africa,... more
Tanzania Railways to receive locos from Malaysia
SMH Rail’s "H10 Series", the first Malaysian built "green" locomotives, are ready to be handed over to Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC). The locomotives were built for use by the African freight operators with TRC as the launch customer and with funding... more
Global container throughput high but volatile
The container throughput index of the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) increased from 123.7 points (seasonally adjusted) to 124.8 points in September, according to the current flash estimate. The value... more