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New York and New Jersey port authority has launched a study to determine how best to maintain the east coast as a leading destination for international cargo.

Batumi International Container Terminal LLC (BICTL), the operator of the Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), has recently acquired two new mobile harbour cranes.

Murmansk Commercial Seaport in Russia handled 1,115,267 tonnes of cargo in July, an increase of 3 per cent over the same month a year earlier.

India and south east Asia exports to America will grow, but will still lag behind China's output for some time to come, according to new study, called Containerised Intermodal Goods Movement Assessment 2008.

Chongqing has launched a comprehensive five-year plan to build a road, rail, sea and air network around inland metropolis on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, linking it to six major centres, and the three major cargo handling ports of China.

American President Lines unit APL Logistics has announced expansion of coverage of its OceanGuaranteed service, which is the world's first time-definite container consolidation shipping service jointly operated with US-based trucking company Con-way Freight.

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has taken delivery of a new ship, the Jazan, at Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan shipyard in South Korea.

Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has confirmed it has been invited into the second stage of bidding for Hapag-Lloyd container line.

The Asia Australia Discussion Agreement (AADA) has announced it will implement a peak season surcharge from September 1 as a necessary step to assist carriers to recover extra cost incurred because of an "upsurge of cargo movement".

Cargo volume at major US retail container ports is anticipated to fall by 4 per cent this year compared with 2007 as a result of the nation's economic slowdown, according to the latest monthly Port Tracker report from the (US) National Retail Federation and Global Insight.

Shipping as an industry has been attracting a rather interesting mix of entrepreneurs, investors and staff during the past two years. The profits earned are so appealing these past few years, that a large number of businessmen, which weren't related to the sea business, decided to turn into ship owners, or investors in ship owning companies.

Last week, the Union Defence Ministry announced that it was clearing the project proposal for the Rs 5,348 crore international deepwater seaport and container transshipment terminal at Vizhinjam, 16 km south of Kerala's capital, Thiruvananthapuram, close to the famed beach destination of Kovalam.

Software leader Integrity has kicked off a project with a budget EUR12 million (US$18.7 million) to implement procedures and software to be adopted throughout the container supply chain.

The German Port of Hamburg handled 71 million tons of cargo in the first half of 2008 and five million TEU, with box traffic up 3.8 per cent compared to the same period a year ago.

India's total container traffic has registered year on year growth of 19 per cent during the 2007-08 fiscal year after throughput reached 6.7 million TEU at the nation's ports.

China International Freight Forwarders Association's (CIFA) third council meeting has recently been held in Huangshan, Anhui province.

The 2008 China Logistics Festival will be held Chengdu November 12 -16, with the pre-event China Logistics Tour 2008 having already been launched from there and is now touring 10 top logistics hub cities in China.

Japanese shipping group NYK has announced the opening of its representative office in St Petersburg.

"K" Line says it has reached an agreement with the holding company of Titan Quanzhou Shipyard Ltd (TQSL), a shipyard under construction in a suburb of Quanzhou, a city in Fujian province.

Schenker announced the appointment of a new board member for Sales at Railion Deutschland AG.