Freight News
All customers now can benefit from Hapag-Lloyd’s new digital quotation tool Quick Quotes. After a successful global implementation, Quick Quotes is opened to the public with immediate effect. This enables shippers around the world to simplify and significantly speed up their quotation process for container shipments.
Quick Quotes generates online quotations for container shipments in seconds and provides clients transparency on the detailed pricing. This enables a faster, easier and more ...
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Sean Strawbridge, CEO for the Port of Corpus Christi, has been appointed by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) to the U.S. Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Committee (MTSNAC).
MTSNAC is a chartered, non-federal body that advises the U.S. Secretary of Transportation through the Maritime Administrator (MARAD) on ...
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North Carolina Ports moved a record number of containers through the Port of Wilmington during the 2018 fiscal year, which ended June 30. Wilmington recorded 38% year-over-year container growth and year-over-year general cargo growth is up 18%.
“In the last few months of FY18 the Port ...
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The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has been awarded a $2.5 million U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) grant to support the current container-on-barge shuttle service operated by SEACOR AMH between New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Memphis, and to launch a new container-on-barge shuttle service on ...
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Providing a contribution to preservation of natural balance besides global trade with its live animal carrying operations performed to 122 countries worldwide, Turkish Cargo carried 5 white rhinos, born under the supervision of the specialist teams, to Shanghai from Johannesburg via Istanbul.
While the species of ...
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ZIM is pleased to inform that following the announcement of the new Strategic Partnership Agreement with the 2M alliance, details of the new improved Asia - U.S. East Coast – Asia network are now available.
Nissim Yochai, ZIM EVP Trans Pacific Trade, said: ”The new alignment ...
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Wen-Parker Logistics (WPL) recently announced the opening of a new warehouse facility in Columbus, Ohio.
The new Columbus facility, located at 6967 Alum Creek Drive, will provide distinct advantages for WPL’s business partners that include: access to over 44,000 square feet of warehouse space, 24-hour video ...
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Port of Long Beach and Long Beach City College leaders have officially launched an innovative new program y to provide opportunities to local students seeking the employment skills they need to join the goods movement workforce.
The Port of Long Beach Maritime Center of Excellence at ...
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Reuters reports that shipping group Maersk says 94 companies and organizations have so far joined a blockchain platform developed with IBM that aims at boosting efficiency and limiting the enormous paper trail of global container shipping.
Not since the invention of the container in the 1950s ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose 2.7% in June 2018, compared to the same period the year before. This continues the slowdown in air cargo growth that began ...
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