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| EU forces hit Somali pirates ashore |
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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The European Union Naval Force has attacked pirate bases in Somalia for the first time. In a press release, EU Navfor said it "conducted an operation to destroy pirate equipment on the Somali coastline." Broadcaster BBC said EU forces were transported by helicopter to the pirate bases near the port of Haradhere and destroyed several boats. The attack followed a March 23 decision by the Council of the European Union to allow the EU Naval Force to take disruption act...
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| Schenker expands in Namibia |
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Monday, May 14, 2012
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DB Schenker Logistics has opened an office in Namibia. For the past five years, the third-party logistics provider relied on partner Desert Logistics to oversee its services in this market. DB Schenker decided to acquire 100 percent ownership of Desert Logistics. The acquisition was approved by the Namibia Competitions Commission. Schenker Namibia (Pty) Ltd. is now representing the global DB Schenker in the African country. “We plan to grow and expand our market sh...
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| MOL, Evergreen target Southeast with new string |
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Friday, May 11, 2012
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Ocean carriers MOL and Evergreen Line said Thursday they will start a new weekly service next month linking major Asian ports and ports in the U.S. Southeast via the Suez Canal. MOL calls this the South China/Vietnam – the U.S. South East Coast or "SVS" service, while Evergreen designates it the Asia-U.S. East Coast Service 3 or "AUE3." Ten ships of 4,500 to 5,600 TEUs each will be deployed in the joint service, with MOL providing nine ships and Evergreen one....
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| COSCO raising rates from Asia |
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Friday, May 11, 2012
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COSCO Container Lines has announced a series of planned rate hikes in major trades over the next few weeks. The increases are: $400 per TEU and a $300-per-TEU peak season surcharge from the Far East to the Persian Gulf on June 1. $200 per TEU from the Far East to the Indian Subcontinent. $600-per-FEU peak season surcharge from Asia to the United States and Canada (the fee is $480 for 20-foot containers, $675 for 40-foot high-cube containers, and $760 per 45-foot container).&nbs...
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| Maersk/Seago slow Europe/Med loop, add Limassol |
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line, along with its intra-Europe affiliate Seago Lines, has added a new port call at Limassol, Cyprus, and a fifth vessel to their weekly "North Sea" service between North Europe and the East Mediterranean. Roundtrip voyage time on the North Sea has increased from 28 days to 35 days, and transit times in both directions have been increased by a few days, now taking 11 days between Antwerp and Alexandria, Egypt, and 10 days between Ashdo...
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| Emirates hiking Asia export rates |
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
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Emirates Shipping Line said Tuesday it plans to hike rates on trades from Asia to the Indian Subcontinent, Middle East, and Africa from May 15. The increases are $250 per TEU from the Far East and Southeast Asia to East Africa, and $300 per TEU from the Far East and Southeast Asia to the Indian Subcontinent and Middle East.
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| Hyundai, 'K' Line, NYK, and PIL leave MOL's CSW |
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
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The liner shipping companies Hyundai, "K" Line, NYK and PIL have all left MOL's CSW service which covers Asia, Africa, and East Coast South America. All four liner companies, who were taking slots on the Asia-to-East Coast South America portion, have ended their participation on the CSW with the final sailing departing on March 31 with the MOL Grandeu r. For Hyundai, this was its CSW service, NYK's NHX2, PIL's SA2, and "K" Line's AESA-L2. Hamburg Süd and Alianca are th...
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| Maersk, CMA CGM raise capacity on WestMed loop |
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
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The ocean carriers Maersk Line and CMA CGM have raised capacity on their weekly West Mediterranean-East Coast of North America (WestMed) loop, called Amerigo Express by CMA CGM, by increasing the size of the vessels. The carriers also dropped a last call outbound at Malaga, replacing it instead with an outbound call at Tangiers, Morocco. The carriers have replaced three of the six vessels deployed on the WestMed, increasing average ship capacity on the service...
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| Maersk raises Latin America-Middle East rates |
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
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Maersk Line said this week it will raise rates on the trade between Latin America and the Middle East and Black Sea regions from June 1. The increases are $100 per TEU from the Middle East to Latin America, and $300 per refrigerated container from the east coast of South America to the Middle East, Black Sea, North Africa and Europe.
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| Maersk's Masiika speeds up, shifts to Mombasa |
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line has switched from calling Dar es Salaam in favor of a new call at Mombasa and speeded up its Masiika Express service between the Middle East and East Africa, decreasing roundtrip voyage time from 35 days to 28 days. This move could have been motivated in part by Maersk’s temporary suspension of its dedicated Salalah-Mombasa feeder service Mombasa Express, which skips several sailing positions in the second half of Apr...
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| Ex-Im Bank renews Africa insurance program |
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Monday, April 30, 2012
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The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Friday announced a three-year renewal of its Short-Term Africa Initiative (STAI) that provides export-credit insurance for U.S. exporters selling to 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, up to a program limit of $100 million. The initiative is renewed through March 31, 2015. The bank also anticipates expanding the availability of its export financing in three sub-Saharan African countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Ex-Im Bank's b...
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| Maersk adjusts WAF2 capacity |
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line raised capacity on its weekly Mediterranean-to-West Africa WAF2 loop by increasing the size of the vessels. Once the changes are complete, the carrier will have replaced five of the six vessels on the WAF2 and average ship capacity will have increased nearly 15 percent, from 2,225 TEUs to 2,554 TEUs. The port rotation of the WAF2 remains Tangiers, Algeciras, Abidjan, Cotonou, Libreville, and Tangiers. Maer...
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| Piracy rises in West Africa |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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A new frontier in the war against maritime piracy is emerging with attacks in West Africa, the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) warned. The IMB said 11 reports were received in Nigeria and Benin during the first quarter of 2012, equivalent to the whole of 2011. In all, the bureau recorded 102 incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the first quarter of 2012. Of the total, 11 vessels were reported hijacked, with 212 ...
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| Emirates raising Asia/East Africa rates |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Emirates Shipping Line said this week it plans to hike rates on the trade from the Far East and Southeast Asia to East Africa. The increase, effective May 1, is $250 per TEU. Emirates said it is “in line with market conditions.”
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| U.S. State Dept. funds IPR training programs |
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Monday, April 23, 2012
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The U.S. Department of State on Thursday announced $2.6 million in funding to help train foreign governments on investigating and prosecuting intellectual property rights crimes in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Workshops and training seminars will be conducted for customs authorities, judges, prosecutors, police, and other enforcement officials in Mexico, Chile, and Colombia A dozen projects were selected for training and technical assistance with inp...
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| Maersk ends Mideast-Indian Ocean loop |
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Monday, April 23, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line has suspended its weekly IOI service between the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. The last sailing was by the Maersk Warsaw , which departed Salalah on April 6. The four-ship average 1,713-TEUs IOI loop had a port rotation of Salalah, Reunion Island, Port Louis, Toamasina, Victoria, and Salalah. Maersk subsidiary Safmarine had been sharing space on the service. The IOI was one of six Maersk and...
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| CMA CGM, Emirates partner on Mideast-Africa service |
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Monday, April 23, 2012
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CMA CGM said Thursday it will partner with Emirates Shipping Line on the trade between India, the Middle East and east Africa from mid-May. The French container line will drop its existing SWAX service and form two new services with the same moniker, SWAX 2 and SWAX 3. The SWAX 2 service will have a rotation of Jebel Ali, Khor Fakkan, Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Jebel Ali. It will be operated with five 2,200-TEU vessels (four from CMA CGM and one from Emirates). ...
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| U.S. shippers visit Libya |
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Monday, April 23, 2012
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Members of the U.S.-Libya Business Association (USLBA) on Saturday arrived in Libya to begin a five-day trade and investment delegation visit. The delegation includes 37 representatives of 20 U.S. companies and organizations. The group represents a wide range of U.S. industry sectors, including healthcare, education administration, training, energy, construction, logistics, infrastructure, construction support, vehicles and equipment, transportation, public safety, agriculture,...
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| CMA CGM shakes up Asia-Southern Africa network |
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
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CMA CGM said Wednesday it will adjust its service network between Asia and South Africa, Mozambique, and the Indian Ocean islands. The French container line will partner with Maersk Line on two services, and drop out of two existing services – one operated by Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CSAV, and another by its subsidiary Delmas. From April 24, CMA CGM will join Maersk on an eight-ship service it will call New Shaka 2, with a rotation of Shanghai, Ningbo, F...
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| Seized peppers lead to cocaine |
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
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Stanley Okpara, who was arrested by U.K. Border Force officers as he attempted to collect £13,000 ($20,800) worth of drugs that arrived in a freight shipment from Nigeria through Manchester Airport, was sentenced to seven years in jail. Okpara, a Sierra Leone national, attempted to smuggle peppers stuffed with cocaine in a set of 15 boxes that arrived from Nigeria via Istanbul, Turkey. According to The Mirror and the Manchester Evening News , officials secured ...
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| Maersk speeds up Asia-East Africa Mashariki Express |
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line has speeded up its weekly Mashariki Express service between Asia and East Africa, decreasing roundtrip voyage time from 49 days to 42 days. Transit times eastbound to Maersk’s mega-regional hub in Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia, from East Africa have decreased by about five days, now taking 27 days between Mombasa and Tanjung Pelepas and 12 days from Dar es Salaam. The rotation of the Mashariki Express remains Tanjung Pelepas, M...
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| COSCO raising Asia-Middle East rates |
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Friday, April 13, 2012
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COSCO Container Lines said this week it plans to hike rates and introduce surcharges on trades from the Far East to the Middle East. The measures include a $300-per-TEU rate increase on both May 1 and May 15 for westbound shipments to the Persian Gulf, and a $100-per-TEU increase from May 1 eastbound from the Persian Gulf to the Far East. Meanwhile, COSCO will also assess a $300-per-TEU peak season surcharge from May 15 on eastbound shipments to Red Sea ports. The ...
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| Deer heads IJS’s EMEA ocean freight |
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Friday, April 13, 2012
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Dutch logistics services provider IJS Global has appointed Matthew Deer to head of ocean freight for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Deer joins IJS after holding various positions at global shipping lines as well as senior positions in the logistics business. Based at the company’s London-Heathrow office, he will report to Mike Gillett, chief executive officer for EMEA, and functionally to Sven Boekhorst, head of global ocean freight.
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| Hapag, partners restructure Europe/W.Africa loop |
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
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Hapag-Lloyd said Wednesday that a Europe-West Africa service it operates with MOL and Zim will split into two services from May. The service, which Hapag-Lloyd calls WAX, will effectively become a long-line service with a complementary feeder. MOL calls the existing service ARN and ZIM calls it NAF. From the existing rotation, Lagos will be dropped, while Tangiers will be added, giving a revised rotation of Antwerp, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Thamesport, Antwerp, Tangiers...
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| Maersk resumes full-speed on FEW2 |
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
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After a one-month slow-down, ocean carrier Maersk Line has resumed an 11-week roundtrip voyage time on its FEW2 service between Asia and West Africa. American Shipper reported Feb 28 that the loop had slowed to 12 weeks, with transit times eastbound to Southeast Asia, China and South Korea on the FEW2 increasing by about seven days, taking 25 days between Walvis Bay, Namibia and Maersk’s mega-regional hub in Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia. The rotation of the FEW2 remai...
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| Bigger Maersk MESA speeds up, adds calls |
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
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After a two-month slowdown, ocean carrier Maersk Line has resumed a six-week roundtrip voyage time on its MESA service between the Middle East and South Africa and added new calls at the Indian Ocean ports of Reunion Island, Port Louis, and Toamasina, as well as the carrier’s major Middle East hub at Salalah and Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Over the next two months, Maersk will also increase capacity on the MESA by swapping the vessels for larger ones currently de...
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| Singapore, Dutch strike up anti-piracy deal |
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Monday, April 09, 2012
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The Singapore Armed Forces has agreed to a deal to allow the Dutch military to store small arms and ammunition at its outpost, according to a report in Singapore’s Straits Times . “The arms will be used by Dutch military teams who sail on board Dutch-flagged merchant vessels, which pass through the piracy-infested waters off the Somali Coast and the Gulf of Aden,” the report said. “These military teams - known as vessel protection detachments (VPD) - are deployed on b...
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| ECS lands controlling stake in Niger Air Cargo |
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Friday, April 06, 2012
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ECS Group, a general sales and service agency based in Paris, has taken a controlling interest in Niger Air Cargo, a new cargo airline in West Africa. The airline, started in association with a private investor in Niger, will operate a weekly MD-11 or DC-10 freighter service from Liège to Niamey, the capital and largest city in Niger. Each flight will offer up to 85 tons of cargo capacity. ECS is acting as the exclusive global sales agent for Niger Air Cargo, using its...
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| MOL joining PIL/'K' Line Asia-Africa loop |
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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The liner carrier MOL said Tuesday it will amend its service network between Asia and South Africa from early April. MOL will join a PIL and “K” Line loop between the Far East and South Africa from April 8. The loop, dubbed ASA by the existing operators, has a rotation of Shanghai, Ningbo, Keelung, Hong Kong, Shekou, Singapore, Port Kelang, Durban, Cape Town, Port Kelang, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. MOL will operate one vessel on the service, the 4,200-TEU MOL Delight , whic...
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| U.S. adds South Sudan to GSP, removes Argentina |
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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The White House through presidential proclamation on Monday designated the Republic of South Sudan as a new beneficiary of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and suspended Argentina from eligibility in the trade program. “The president’s designation of the Republic of South Sudan as a GSP beneficiary country provides an opportunity for this newly independent nation to use trade to boost its economic development and, we hope, will encourage it to continue needed economic...
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| U.S. provides port safety study grant to Morocco |
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Monday, March 26, 2012
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The U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a $571,458 grant to Morocco to support a feasibility study to improve safety and security at the Port of Casablanca. The grant was specifically issued to Marsa Maroc, a major port operator in Morocco. The Moroccan government is planning to invest $360 million to modernize the port infrastructure by 2015. The Port of Casablanca currently handles 32 percent of all national port traffic. Another $76.5 m...
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| CMA CGM raising rates ex-Asia, Mideast |
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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The liner carrier CMA CGM said Wednesday it plans to raise rates in April on a number of trades from Asia and the Middle East. From the April 1, the proposed increases are: From the Middle East and India to East Africa on the line’s SWAX service, $200 per TEU. From the Middle East and India to West Africa on its MIDAS service, $100 per TEU. From Asia to South Africa, $300 per TEU. From April 15, the increases are: From Asia to New Zealand on the ANZEX ser...
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| CargoWise, Compu-Clearing enter Namibia |
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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Manica Group Namibia (MGN), one of the largest logistics services providers in Namibia, has signed a deal to implement CargoWise’s ediEnterprise via its South African partner Compu-Clearing Outsourcing Ltd. CargoWise signed a partnership with Compu in March 2010, and the pair have seen success in South Africa for the ediEnterprise platform. This deal extends their reach to other markets in southern Africa. MGN’s general manager Patrick Kohlstaedt said ediEnterprise ...
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| Pirate ransom ban could endanger crews |
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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A leading ship manager on Monday sounded the alarm over efforts to ban ransom payments to pirates, saying it could further endanger seafarers and make traversing some shipping routes impractical. Addressing the opening session of the Connecticut Maritime Association’s Shipping 2012 conference in Stamford, Alastair Evitt, managing director of Meridian Marine Management, president of InterManager and the newly appointed chairman of the Save Our Seafarers Campaign, said a...
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| Maersk truncates West Africa-SE Asia FEW1 |
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line has converted its FEW1 Asia-to-West Africa service into a West Africa feeder based on its Southeast Asian hubs at Singapore and Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia. Previously, the FEW1 linked China and Hong Kong directly with Lome and Cotonou in West Afirca, but Maersk has dropped East Asia calls in Ningbo, Fuqing, Nansha, and Hong Kong. The carrier added a first call inwards to Asia at Singapore before Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia, and now calls eas...
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| Evitt heads antipiracy group |
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Monday, March 19, 2012
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Alastair Evitt, president of ship management industry group InterManager and managing director of Meridian Marine Management Ltd., was appointed chairman of the Save Our Seafarers (SOS). SOS is an international martime industry campaign focused on raising awareness of the human and economic cost of Somali piracy and calling for greater political will for antipiracy actions. Evitt, previously SOS vice ...
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| 'Double chaos' warned in shipping regulation |
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Monday, March 19, 2012
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Spyros M. Polemis, chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping, is sounding the alarm over what he calls "aspirational" environmental legislation which sets standards that cannot be met, and has called for uniform global regulation of the shipping industry. In an advance copy of a speech he is scheduled to give Monday at the Connecticut Maritime Association's Shipping 2012 conference in Stamford, Polemis says "particularly when speaking in the United States, it ...
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| Emirates raising India-Mideast/East Africa rates |
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Monday, March 19, 2012
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Emirates Shipping Line said Monday it's raising rates from the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East to East Africa. The increase, $200 per TEU, is effective April 1.
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| Safmarine's WAF loops flood back to Tangiers |
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Following the mass suspension of Safmarine and Maersk's 12-loop West African feeder fleet from calls at Tangiers in October (reported by American Shipper Nov 4 ), most of the network has now resumed calling there. The three loops WAF1, WAF3, and WAF11 returned in February (reported by American Shipper Feb 9 ) and now nine out of a total 11 West African feeders are once again calling Tangiers. Only the WAF5 butterfly and Cape Verdes WAF9 still ...
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| CMA CGM raising rates on several trades |
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
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CMA CGM said this week it plans to raise rates on a number of trades from April. The proposed increases are: From India and Pakistan to North Europe, Mediterranean, Baltic, Black Sea and North Africa ports, $150 per 20-foot container and $300 per 40-foot container for dry or refrigerated cargo from April 2. From North Europe to Canada, $150 per 20-foot container and $200 per 40-foot container for dry or reefer cargo from April 10. From the East and West Med, and Black Sea to th...
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| Aramex enters Korean market |
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
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Aramex, a Dubai-based freight logistics services provider, has formalized its entry into the South Korean economy by signing a service partnership agreement with CJ GLS in Seoul. CJ GLS, set up in 1998, has 74 distribution centers and 25 offices spread across 12 countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. The companies cited the South Korean economy and its potential as the main reason for establishing their cooperation. According to f...
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| MSC hiking Europe export rates |
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said this week it is increasing rates on European exports to the Far East, West Africa and the Caribbean. The increases are: $50 per TEU from Europe to the Far East from April 1. $75 per 20-foot container and $150 per 40-foot container from Northern Europe to the Caribbean from April 15. 100 euros per 20-foot container and 180 euros per 40-foot container from Europe to West Africa from April 15, followed by an increase of 75 euros pe...
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| Delmas ends Med-Africa Maltex loop |
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Friday, March 09, 2012
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The ocean carrier Delmas, a subsidiary of CMA CGM, has ended its Mediterranean-West Africa Maltex service. The Delmas-operated service, on which parent CMA CGM took slots, was downsized in January to running with a single vessel of 1,512 TEUs at a frequency of 15 days. Prior to this reduction, Maltex ran with three vessels averaging 1,496 TEUs. Since January, the Maltex rotation was Tangiers, Dakar, Conakry, and Tangiers. — ComPair Data , Bessie...
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| Delmas adds Algeciras to 5 West Africa loops |
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Friday, March 02, 2012
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The ocean carrier Delmas, a subsidiary of CMA CGM, has added a call to the Mediterranean hub of Algeciras to five of its Europe/Med-West Africa services. The Delmas operated services, on which parent CMA CGM takes slots, have all added a southbound call to Algeciras prior to their existing call in Tangiers. The addition of Algeciras has not extended transit time for any of these services, nor have any other major changes occurred. ...
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| CMA CGM's Asia-Europe rate increase plans |
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Friday, March 02, 2012
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The liner carrier CMA CGM said Thursday it plans to continue increasing rates on the Asia-Europe trade in both directions. On the westbound headhaul, the line will seek rate increases of $408 per 20-foot container and $806 per 40-foot container through a mix of increased or added surcharges and an “emergency revenue increase" of $300 per TEU. The breakdown of the total increase is: The existing interim fuel surcharge of $550 per TEU will be increased by $...
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| Construction begins on Kenyan port |
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Friday, March 02, 2012
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Construction has begun on a new large port near Lamu island in southeast Kenya. The AFP wire service said Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir were on hand Friday to mark the official start of the $24.5 billion project that will include a railroad and highway linking the countries, and a pipeline for exporting crude oil from South Sudan to a refinery in Lamu. The Daily Nation newspaper ...
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| Maersk slows Asia-West Africa FEW2 |
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line has added a 12 th vessel to its weekly Asia-West Africa FEW2 service and increased round-trip voyage time from 77 days to 84 days. Transit times northbound from West Africa to Asia on the FEW2 have increased significantly as vessels slow steam in 25 days between Walvis Bay, Namibia and Maersk’s regional mega-hub in Tanjung Pelepas. Southbound the transit is 16 days. The rotation of the FEW2 remains Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, ...
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| MSC raising Asia-Europe rates |
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Tuesday it plans to raise rates on the eastbound Asia-Europe from April 1. The increase, $400 per TEU, is applicable to origins in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Bangladesh, and destinations in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Baltic, West Mediterranean, Adriatic, East Mediterranean, Black Sea and North Africa.
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| Kenya Airways gets cargo plane |
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Kenya Airways has acquired its first cargo plane. The new Boeing 747-400 freighter, which will fly twice weekly between Guangzhou, China, and Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria, has a capacity of 120 metric tons and 876 cubic meters of space. The cargo service will be run in association with Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. In the last quarter of 2011, Kenya Airways said its cargo tonnage rose 6.2 percent to 16,131 tons. The co...
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| Maersk raising rates from Asia to Americas |
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Maersk Line said this week it plans to increase rates between Asia and several Americas regions from March 15. The increases are: From the Far East to the east coast of South America, $600 per TEU. From the Far East to the Caribbean (including Colombia and Venezuela, but excluding Cuba and the Colombian port of Buenaventura), $560 per 20-foot container and $800 per 40-foot or 40-foot high-cube container. From the Far East to Cuba, $422 per 20-foot container and $604 per ...
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| Maersk's MESA slows, shifts to Cape Town |
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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The ocean carrier Maersk Line has dropped a port call at Port Elizabeth in favor of a new call at Cape Town and added a seventh vessel to its weekly Middle East/India-South Africa MESA service, increasing round-trip voyage time from 42 days to 49 days. The revised rotation of MESA is Dubai, Karachi, Nhava Sheva, Durban, Cape Town, and Dubai. Maersk subsidiary Safmarine continues to take slots on the service. The Maersk vessels on the service...
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| MSC raising Black Sea/East Med export rates |
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it plans to raise rates on a number of trades out of the east Mediterranean and Black Sea from March 1. The increases are: $50 per container from Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria, and Israel to South Africa, Mozambique and West Africa. $100 per container from Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria, and Israel to east Africa and Red Sea ports. $100 per container from Port Said and Alexandria to northern Africa ports. $50 per 20-foot c...
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| Safmarine receives vessel for Africa trade |
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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The shipping line Safmarine said Tuesday it has received the first of three new Safmarine-branded WAFMAX vessels to join the fleet of its parent company A.P. Moller-Maersk this year. The 4,500-TEU Safmarine Chilka has been built for the African trades and will be deployed on the Far East-Africa trade. Safmarine said the ship, built in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries, is fitted with super-long-stroke main engines and a waste heat recovery system to re...
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| Imperial, GIBS partner on supply chain program |
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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The Johannesburg, South Africa-based Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and Imperial Logistics, a logistics services provider, have launched a Supply Chain and Logistics Program to provide teaching and research in the fields of logistics, supply chain management, and transportation management. The goal of the program is to raise awareness of supply chain management systems for firms in the Southern and greater Africa regions, and also create supply chain ...
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| CMA CGM boosts rates on eastbound TP, other trades |
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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The liner carrier CMA CGM said Wednesday it will raise rates on the eastbound transpacific in line with recommendations made by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, among a host of planned rate hikes over the next three months. The proposed increases on the eastbound transpacific include: From Asia to all U.S. destinations (including intermodal), $240 per 20-foot container, $300 per 40-foot container, $340 per 40-foot high-cube container, $380 per 45-foot conta...
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| Emirates hikes Mideast/East Africa rates |
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Emirates Shipping Line said Wednesday it will seek a rate increase on containers moving from the Middle East to East Africa. The increase, effective March 1, is $250 per TEU. The carrier’s two-ship GIA service links the two regions with a rotation of Karachi, Sharjah, Jebel Ali, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Nhava Sheva, and Karachi.
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| ESC bemoans 'shocking' piracy levels |
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) said the state of piracy, while improving, is still at a "shocking" level. “A year on from our last press statement on this issue, the ESC remains alarmed by the latest figures released by the ICC's International Maritime Bureau,” the council said. “Although figures show a decreasing number of piracy attacks, the damage done is still unacceptably high.” ESC referred to a reported 37 attacks in 2012, coming on the heels of 420 at...
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| Grimaldi adds ship, splits Central Express |
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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Grimaldi Lines, the roll-on/roll-off and container liner shipping specialist, will add an eighth ship to its North Europe-West Africa Central Express service and dividing its schedule into two four-ship sub-loops. The previous seven-ship, 35-day roundtip voyage time will improve to 32 days for both of the more streamlined four-ship sub-schedules. In place of the seven-ship, five-day frequency loop calling Amsterdam, Hamburg, Tilbury, Antwerp, Coto...
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| Lines slow Europe-West Africa loop, add Amsterdam |
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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The ocean carriers Mitsui O.S.K Line, Hapag-Lloyd, and Zim have slowed their weekly six-ship ARN service between North Europe and West Africa, increasing round voyage time from 42 days to 49 days. The lines have also added a new second port inbound call at Amsterdam. The ARN will skip one sailing position commencing Amsterdam on Mar 25. Transit times northbound to Europe from West Africa on the ARN have increased by about one week. The...
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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The liner carrier CMA CGM said Thursday it plans to increase rates on a number of trades between March 1 and April 1. The increases from March 1 are: From India and the Middle East Gulf to East Africa (Mombasa and Dar Es Salam), $250 per TEU. From India and Pakistan to Northern Europe, Mediterranean, Baltic, Black Sea and North Africa ports, $200 per 20-foot container and $400 per 40-foot container for dry and reefer cargo. From Northern Europe to East Coast South Americ...
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