June 2012

‘Processes delay containers as much as ships’ says analyst

Delays to  seafreight containers are almost as much due to do with processes as with delays to ships, according to a new report by SeaIntel. The Danish-based analyst said that reliability statistics - based on SeaIntel's analysis of Inttra’s global data of over 800,000 container status messages per day – suggested that while show that 59% of late container deliveries are due to the vessels not being on time, the remaining ... [+]

Blue Belt ready for next phase

Several EU member states said they were ready to enshrine the Blue Belt short sea facilitation pilot project into permanent legislation at the Transport Council in Luxembourg in early June. A total of 255 ships took part in the pilot phase of the Blue Belt project, which aims to simplify administrative ... [+]

BIFA unfazed by new US airfreight scanning rules

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced a 3 December deadline for passenger air carriers to carry out 100% screening of cargo on US-bound international flights. However, the UK's existing screening regime already meets the new US requirement. “It will be business as usual for us from the deadline date,” ... [+]

More car capacity for Southampton

Business Secretary Vince Cable officially opened a fourth new multi-deck trade vehicle terminal at the Port of Southampton on 7 June to meet extra demand for UK car exports. The terminal is part of a major investment by Associated British Ports (ABP) to expand its vehicle export facilities. ABP announced ... [+]

Speed – with savings

Neo Air Charter – the founder and German member of the Global Charter Alliance – has moved two urgently needed giant track rollers from Frankfurt Hahn to Islamabad in Pakistan. The rollers – weighing 38 tonnes each and measuring 6m x 2.4m x 2.9m on their specially-constructed cradles – were needed ... [+]

Maersk Line ship in dead whale incident

The Maersk Norwich arrived at the port of Rotterdam from Santa Marta in Colombia carrying a dead 12-metre long Whale on its bulb, at about 11am on 6 June. It is not known yet what type of whale it is and where the vessel has picked it up. The whale ... [+]

Changes at Gefco

Yves Fargues, Chairman and CEO of GEFCO, is to retire from his role at GEFCO, on 1 July. GEFCO’s executive board is due to meet where it will be proposed that Mr Fargues be named non-executive chairman and Luc Nadal, currently freight transport and logistics director take up the position ... [+]

End of the road for Jade

Lufthansa Cargo and Shenzhen Airlines have abandoned plans to restructure their Jade Cargo joint venture. The carrier, which had already suspended operations at the end of 2011, was unable to reach a deal with Wuhan-based Uni-Top Airlines and will return its three leased 747-400 freighters. [+]

SAA to drop Cape Town route

South African Airways is to stop its twice-daily Heathrow to Cape Town service from 15 August. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will continue to offer a direct service from the UK to Cape Town and SAA will be able to offer service via Johannesburg. [+]

Planes for Panalpina

The first of two new Boeing 747-8 Freighters entered scheduled service on 30 May as part of Panalpina's own controlled air freight network - the first ever aircraft in the forwarder's own livery – a first in the company's history. The Atlasair-operated planes were handed over to Panalpina at Boeing’s ... [+]

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