by CanadianSailings | Nov 19, 2017 | Other
By Alexander Whiteman Growing demand from automotive shippers has led Kuehne + Nagel to expand its Asia-Europe rail service into Japan and South Korea. The move comes six months after the launch of the Asia-Europe rail connection, which a spokesperson told The...
by CanadianSailings | Nov 19, 2017 | Other
By Mike Wackett China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has rejected claims that the government’s radical steps to cut pollution, including closing factories and banning the import of certain grades of plastic and paper scrap will push up prices. At a...
by CanadianSailings | Nov 19, 2017 | Business and Economy, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other
By Gavin van Marle Predictions that the current crop of disruptive digital start-ups will revolutionize container shipping has been disputed by a leading liner analyst. Alphaliner suggested that, despite the considerable hype and hundreds of millions of dollars raised...
by CanadianSailings | Nov 19, 2017 | Other
By Alexander Whiteman Reliability does positively impact container line profitability – at least according to SeaIntel’s latest Sunday Spotlight. Recently, there has been a belief that a carrier’s relative profitability was independent of its reliability relative to...
by CanadianSailings | Nov 19, 2017 | Other
By Mike Wackett Hapag-Lloyd has taken delivery of the last of 17 ULCVs ordered by UASC in 2013 as “some of the greenest and largest container vessels in the world”. The 15,000-TEU Al Jmeliyah was part of an order of six 19,900 TEU and eleven 15,000-TEU ULCVs from...
