Published January 10, 2018 — US-based CH Powell Company has acquired The Irwin Brown Company, a licensed customs brokerage and international freight forwarding firm headquartered in New Orleans LA (USA), with offices along the Gulf Coast. The acquisition allows CH Powell to expand its import brokerage services in that...
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Published December 22, 2017 — The typical freight forwarding business is evolving and changing due to technology. Recognizing this, Tandem Global Logistics (Canada) has been active in investing and pursuing the “last mile” in their business model. As evidence to this strategy, Tandem Global Logistics...
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Published November 28, 2017 — Global container volumes are continuing to rise and could massively overshoot the 200 million teu mark this year. In October, the London-based shipping consultancy Drewry predicted that world loaded container traffic (i.e total port throughput minus transhipment and empties, divided in two to...
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Published October 17, 2017 — Pakistan’s economic performance has improved significantly in the recent years, reflecting a strong commitment and a series of serious efforts undertaken by the Government and people of Pakistan. The inception of Gwadar Deep-Sea Port is to further enable economic development of Pakistan...
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Published September 26, 2017 — It gives us great pleasure to inform you that we have appointed ICL Intermodal Container Logistics to represent us exclusively in Romania. ICL Intermodal Container Logistics SRL Romania are a branch office of ICL Intermodal Container Logistics GmbH, Austria, who have been representing us since...
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Published April 19, 2017 — The railway administrations of Kazakhstan and China have signed an agreement in Beijing to increase cargo flows on the China-Europe route. According to the results of 2016, the volume of container shipments from China to Europe amounted to 104,500 teu, which is twice as much as in 2015. By...
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Published March 31, 2017 — The Japanese shipping line MOL set a new record when it received the “MOL Triumph”, the world’s largest containership to date, from Samsung Heavy Industries on 27 March 2017. The vessel is the first of six sister ships, each with a capacity in excess of 20,000 teu. The 400 m...
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Published March 14, 2017 — Our Member company Element Logistics International from Turkey recently shipped the below photographed drilling machine from Mersin in Turkey to Port Sudan. The cargo's dimensions were 16 x 2.7 x 4 metres with a weight of 43.7 tons and was shipped with Messina Lines. Element also handled the...
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Published January 26, 2017 — Global trade was good at the turn of the year. The container throughput index compiled by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) actually rose to an all-time record...
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