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International Maritime Organisation's recent ruling on protection of environment will hit ship owners, says Shipping Gazette quoting a report in The Container Shipping Manager.

Liepaja Port in Latvia plans to build two modern container terminals by 2017.

BASS says it is completing the installation of its BASSnet Fleet Management Systems for CMA CGM on schedule. The software solution will enable the French shipping giant to realise substantial cost savings and streamline the management of its fleet.

Rising break bulk rates and burgeoning container availability has led to an expectation that half of white sugar exports from Brazil this year will be containerised, Reuters reports.

Panama's maritime authority is predicting that container volumes will increase by 10 per cent next year despite the economic slowdown in the US.

Figures from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 2.1 million TEU in May, an increase of 1.6 per cent over the 2.067 million in May last year. Month-to-month growth was up from the 2.04 million TEU handled in April.

Eurogate Container Terminal Bremerhaven GmbH and Shenzhen's Shekou Container Terminals (SCT) have signed a cooperation agreement at the transport logistic China 2008 trade fair in Shanghai.

Hamburg Sud is launching a new container shipping service between Asia, the Far East, India and Pakistan with simultaneous sailings from Port Kelang and Shanghai.

The four regional finalists representing the future of the freight forwarding industry will attend the Fiata World Congress in Vancouver, Canada on September 23.

Schenker Singapore (Pte) Ltd has been named the "Best Pharmaceutical Logistics Service Provider" (LSP) for the healthcare industry in Singapore, in an independent Voice of the Customer survey conducted by consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan.

Member of the Sailors Union of the Pacific have given the go-ahead to launch a strike after labour contracts expire June 30.

Evergreen Line has signed a terminal service agreement with APM Terminals Virginia, to facilitate the relocation of one of the shipping line's services from Virginia Intermodal Terminals' (VIT) Portsmouth Marine Terminal, to APMT's new Portsmouth facility.

Soyuztranslink (STL), one of Central Asia's fastest growing forwarding and logistics companies, plans to build bonded warehouses and an intermodal terminal at the Kazakhstan town of Khorgos, on the Chinese border, according to a company statement.

The week-long truckers strike over soaring fuel costs has ended after a compromise was reached between drivers and freight owners and container transportation companies on haulage rate hikes, reported The Korean Times.

The world's largest container shipping line by fleet size, Denmark's Maersk Line has signed a 10-year agreement for the carrier to use the Trinity Terminal at the UK Port of Felixstowe.

Cosco is adding Prince Rupert to the shipping line's existing CEN service, doubling its weekly calls, beginning with the 5,400 TEU Cosco Hong Kong on July 5.

Karachi Port Trust (KPT) cargo handling has registered a record growth of 25 percent this year as KPT is handling over 101,000 tonnes of cargo daily and has crossed the figures of 37 million tonnes.

Daehan Shipbuilding has celebrated today the christening of its first vessel at its shipyard located in Haenam, Korea.

Nobody of the 25 crewmembers and four passengers aboard the burning vessel in the Sea of Japan was hurt, Itar-Tass reports. The transport refrigerator Akademik Khokhlov is drifting near South Korea's coast. The crew continued fighting the fire, according to reports as of Friday morning, Moscow time.

The terminal operator Finnsteve will during the summer take delivery of four Post-Panamax container cranes from Kalmar Industries for their container terminal in Helsinki's new Vuosaari port, which will be operational in November 2008.