Published August 31, 2021 — Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has ordered another 75,000 teu dry boxes. The containers will be manufactured in China and delivered to Hapag-Lloyd in the course of Q4/2021. Since the beginning of 2020, Hapag-Lloyd has ordered no less than 625,000 teu. The carrier has currently built up a container fleet of more than 2.8 million teu, among them 250,000 teu reefer containers for refrigerated cargo.
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Published August 23, 2021 — Due to an increase in e-commerce clients, our Toronto office has relocated to a brand-new warehouse space this month. This new location has more space to provide pick and pack services, transloading, storage, and other services to facilitate the growth of our Canadian warehousing services.
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Published August 23, 2021 — It is just one of 19 terminals - but Ningbo Meidong Container Terminal is the one in Ningbo, the world's third-busiest box port. Usually, the terminal handles about one quarter of the port’s container cargo. Operations at Ningbo Meishan port terminal were suspended on 11 August 2021, after a single case of Covid-19 was reported among the terminal's staff. All inbound and outbound container operations at Meishan terminal in Ningbo-Zhoushan port have been redirected to other terminals since Wednesday morning until further notice.
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Published June 11, 2021 — After a detected Covid-19 outbreak amongst port workers on 25 May, the median dwell time at Yantian Port (China) has risen to 18 days since the first week in June, according to the Chicago IL (USA)-based maritime analyst Project 44.
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Published March 3, 2021 — In January 2020, the container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) registered a moderate surge in world trade and container volumes.
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Published February 18, 2021 — The union representing the longshoremen at the Port of Montreal announced on Tuesday to its members that contract negotiations with management and mediators have been suspended. The Union president Martin Lapierre clarified that the mediation process had been suspended and did not end.
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Published February 4, 2021 — Tandem Turkey (Element International) were requested to ship press machinery from Istanbul factory to the Mtsensk factory in Russia. These units had to be moved by sea transportation due to dimension restrictions on a planned overland route. As the items could not be unloaded from the vessel by the vessel cranes at the destination port, we arranged 2 special cranes for unloading. As the items were out of gauge, escorts were arranged for Variomax Lowbed for delivery to the clients site. All cargoes were delivered on time and in safe condition.
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Published December 14, 2020 — Our Tandem partners in Turkey, Element Int'l Forwarding & Logistic Ltd were requested to ship one so called Plasser & Theurer Machine weighing 62 tons, from Gebze Train Station to the nearest port Gemlik and all the way down to Vigo, Spain by a breakbulk carrier.
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Published December 4, 2020 — The Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express (ONE) is currently assisting owners and managers of the container ship "ONE Apus" (IMO: 9806079; Japanese flag) with investigations into the loss of containers overboard during severe inclement weather on 30 November 2020 as the vessel was transiting the Pacific Ocean.
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