Hapag-Lloyd has launched a new Middle East-India-Africa Express (MIAX) service, scheduled to start in 2019, which will include direct connections between the Arabian Gulf, India, Colombo, La Réunion, South Africa and West Africa. The service will be jointly operated with Ocean Network Express and is integrated into the global mainline network with the central ports Jebel Ali (Dubai) and Colombo ... Read More »

International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)’s Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT) has launched a dedicated rail cargo service connecting the cities of Karachi and Lahore. The cargo service, which was launched in cooperation with the state-owned Pakistan Railways, aims to move goods faster and at a significantly lower cost to upcountry markets. It is expected that this dedicated rail service will ... Read More »

The Port of New Orleans was closed for over three days as the remnants of Hurricane Barry passed over the city. The New Orleans container terminal and Ports America terminal closed at noon on Thursday July 11 and vessels were not allowed into the Mississippi river until 6am on Sunday July 14. Rail terminals like Union Pacific’s Avondale, Louisiana intermodal ... Read More »

Container freight at the Port of Antwerp performed strongly in the second quarter of 2019 with a new record volume which was immediately topped in May. Container peaks in April and May brought the growth rate to 4.9%, thanks mainly to more transhipment to and from all trading regions with the exception of South America. Transhipment trade with the Far ... Read More »

All new ships for UK waters ordered from 2025 should be designed with zero-emission capable technologies, in new plans set out by the British government, aiming to cut pollution from the country’s maritime sector. The government is also looking at ways to incentivise the transition to zero-emission shipping and will consult on this next year. The commitment is set out ... Read More »

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has unveiled its “Port Master Plan 2050” which outlines a roadmap of land-use and infrastructure development projects at the port for the next 30 years. The five guiding principles include ensuring sustainability and resiliency in all operations and future developments, promoting regional economic generation, establishing state of the art facilities, providing ... Read More »

APM Terminals (APMT) has confirmed to customers that its new Vado Gateway terminal, located in the Vado Ligure Port Complex, North Western Italy, will be inaugurated on December 12 this year. Once operational, the Vado Gateway Terminal will be fully integrated with the existing Vado Ligure Reefer Terminal. Vado Ligure will become the first semi-automated port in Italy with a ... Read More »

JLT Mobile Computers has deployed its VERSO 12 computers at International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) container terminals in Papua New Guinea. JLT partner Autepra delivered and installed the computers, which are specialised for harsh environments, at South Pacific International Container Terminal Ltd (SPICT) in Lae and Motukea International Terminal Ltd in Port Moresby. ICTSI is undertaking an ongoing initiative ... Read More »

The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN), with the support of the government of India, has launched a Port Integrity Campaign which aims to reduce and (in the long term) eliminate integrity issues and bottlenecks to trade during operations at Indian ports. Key activities of the campaign, a pilot of which will take place in Mumbai ports (MbPT and JNPT) until October ... Read More »

The Port of Buenos Aires has agreed to relocate a 10,700 sq m free zone that Paraguay has within the Argentine port’s jurisdiction, originally granted in 1997. It will be relocated to a new area in the vicinity of Dock F so that “unlike what happened in previous year, it is operational and fulfils its objective to facilitate the foreign ... Read More »