12 crew rescued as cargo ship M V Kanchan sinks off Gujarat coast
AHMEDBAD : A river sea vessel, M V Kanchan, sunk seven nautical miles west off Umargam in Gujarat on Wednesday night. It was going from Hazira to Mangalore
GIFT City collaborates with TASK Staffing for talent management
NEW DELHI : Country”s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), GIFT City on Thursday said it has joined hands with TASK Staffing Solutions for talent management in the
1,000 shrimp containers stuck in Chinese ports, half of them from Andhra Pradesh
VIJAYAWADA : Anywhere between 1,000 to 1,200 containers of shrimp exported from India are now stranded in the Chinese ports, locking up monetary transactions worth Rs 1,200 crore approximately. Reason:
17 Days at Sea – what does it mean for a Crew?
Captain Piotr Orzolek is master of Hapag-Lloyd’s “Tsingtao Express”. The vessel is sailing in the IOS (Indian Ocean) service and sometimes spends 17 days at sea without berthing
Pakistan’s first company joins TradeLens
Al-Hamd International Container Terminal (AICT) has been the first inland depot operator in Pakistan to join TradeLens, a blockchain-powered digital container logistics. TradeLens is an open and neutral
Maersk changes the logistics landscape in Bulgaria and launches intermodal weekly service connecting
Sofia, Cargo transport in Bulgaria is highly dominated by road. In the mid-2000s, railways remained a major mode of freight transportation, but with increasing problems with the maintenance of
Rotterdam freight volumes rise led by Iron and Coal
ROTTERDAM : Freight volumes in the port of Rotterdam rose 5.8% on a yearly basis in the first half of 2021, as international trade recovered from its coronavirus
Port of Piraeus receives new quay cranes
The Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has announced the arrival of the new Super Post Panamax Quay Crane capable of handling large mega-vessels with a capacity of 20,000TEU at
UK unveils plans to reduce shipping emissions
The United Kindom’s (UK) Government Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has launched plans to examine the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the shipping sector to the minimum.
Operations in southern Vietnamese ports slow to a crawl with Covid-19 outbreak
Ho Chi Minh City is now the Covid-19 epicentre of Vietnam and the resulting lockdown of the country’s commercial capital has slowed port operations in the southern part
