TURKISH Airlines (THY) cargo flights will fly to Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport rather than the Sheremetyevo Airport, the company has announced.
A ceremony took place at the Vnukovo Airport to mark the first flight of a THY cargo jet with the participation of THY Russia manager Mefail Deribas, deputy director general of THY marketing and sales Department Halit Anlatan and Vnukovo cargo department manager Valeriy Sturmin.
THY passenger jets have been flying to Vnukovo Airport since March 25.
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MARSEILLES based French shipping giant CMA CGM has announced US$385 per TEU "emergency rate restoration" on all cargo from Asia to north Europe, Russia, Mediterranean and Black Sea ports starting May 1.
CMA CGM rates will also rise $300 per TEU on all cargo from Far East and south east Asia to the Indian subcontinent. A few days earlier, Maersk announced it would increase its rates on cargo from Far East Asia to the US on May 1, noted London's International Freighting Weekly.
Shipments to the US west coast will increase $400 per TEU, $500 per FEU, $565 per 40-foot high-cube and $630 per 45-foot high-cube, east coast rates will rise $560 per TEU, $700 per FEU, $790 per 40-foot high-cube and $885 per 45-foot high-cube.
Europe-Asia backhaul rates will increase $160 per TEU, $200 per 40-foot high-cube and $250 per 45-foot high-cube.
Far East to Canada rates will increase $400 per TEU, $500 per FEU, $565 per 40-foot high-cube and $635 per 45-foot high-cube, and from Far East Asia (excluding Japan) to Europe, rates will rise $400 per TEU. Backhaul rates will rise $160 per TEU and $200 per 40-foot and 45-foot high-cube starting May 10.
Rates on cargo from the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent and to north Europe and the Med will increase $200 per TEU and $400 per FEU and routes from Latin America to India, they will rise $1,000 per TEU from May 5.
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THE Port of Los Angeles posted an 8.27 per cent increase in March container volume to 650,452 TEU year on year and reported a 55.1 per cent increase from February, but the big leap was attributed to the late February arrival of the Chinese New Year factory shutdown in China this year, which in 2011 came in January, thus skewing 2012 comparative results.
Imports increased 9.34 per cent to 324,758 TEU while exports declined 2.43 per cent to 188,155 TEU. Empties increased 23.99 per cent to 137,538 TEU. Year to date volumes were up 3.23 per cent to 1,874,820 TEU from January to March year on year.
Exports were not expected to go up 14 per cent as they did last year, said port spokesman Philip Sanfield, but the port was "cautiously optimistic about import growth in the coming months".
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DENMARK's Maersk Line is forecasting revenue losses and ongoing freight rate increases following its implementation of increases on March 1 and April 1, said company chairman Michael Pram Rasmussen.
Maersk Line's two rate increases of US$750 and $400 per TEU achieved a measure of what is needed, but higher rates will be applied to make up the difference, Mr Rasmussen told the company's annual general meeting in Copenhagen. "This is not done, there will be more," he said.
The carrier has also cut capacity on its Asia-Europe trades by nine per cent since February and will also be reducing the speed of its ships and increasing the number of port calls, reports Reuters.
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WAN Hai Lines has held a naming ceremony, with company chairman Po Ting Chen in attendance, for the line's latest newbuilding, the Wan Hai 275, at the CSBC Corporation's Keelung shipyard in Taiwan.
The carrier said in a statement that it has ordered a total of 14 vessels from CSBC Corp, including four 1,800-TEU vessels, four 1,000-TEU ships and six 4,500-TEU ships that are slated for delivery over the next two years.
The Wan Hai 275 has a length of 172 metres, a draft of 9.5 metres and a cruising speed of 20 knots. The containership is also said to be equipped with the latest and most advanced naval technologies to ensure quality services.
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CHINA posted a US$5.35 billion trade surplus in March, a reversal from the$41.48 billion deficit in February and almost entirely because of a sluggish 5.3 per cent growth in imports, reports the Wall Street Journal.
This was below the 9.3 per cent forecast and far below the 39.6 per cent growth in February prompting fears about a fall of in consumer demand.
China customs statistics chief Zheng Yuesheng expected a "relatively big" risk of a downward slide.
Said Credit Agricole economist Dariusz Kowalcyzk: "This suggests domestic demand is weakening and may revive hard landing concerns. It is also likely to convince policy makers to ease monetary policy to stimulate the domestic segment of the economy."
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering revising downward its projection of China's long-term current account surplus to five per cent from seven per cent, a move analysts say would bolster Beijing's argument that the yuan is valued fairly.
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THE Port of Algeciras posted a 28 per cent 2011 increase in container volume year on year to 3.6 million TEU, "exceeding the most optimistic forecasts", said the port authority.
The bulk of the Spanish port's container volume was in transshipments from Asia to the east coast of South America, reported London's International Freighting Weekly. There was also a 13.8 per cent increase in ferry-borne trucking across the 14-kilometre Gibraltar Strait to Morocco.
Ferry traffic is expected to increase with the opening of a Renault car manufacturing plant near Tangiers with anticipated boost in exports from the Tangier-Med container terminal for Algeciras and then into Europe. But Barcelona and Valencia also compete for this traffic.
Algeciras also hopes to develop as an important rail hub now that a 750-square metre intermodal terminal is nearing completion. The port is part of a long-term EU-backed project to create a Mediterranean rail corridor, initially linking Spain and France. Again, Barcelona and Valencia are also competing.
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VIETNAMESE producers, the new stars of the Asian export world now that Chinese labour costs have risen, are facing an 80 per cent increase in shipping costs that make it difficult to stay in business, reports VietNamNetBridge.
Rates went up US$400 per TEU in January. In February and March, terminal handling charges went up and an eight per cent bunker surcharge was added. In April, Vietnamese shippers faced another $400 per TEU rate hike, which comes to a $1,350 per TEU increase since January, and with other attendant costs, nearly $2,000.
Vietnamese exporters also have to pay a series of fees and surcharges, called local charges, which puts a heavy burden on them, said the report.
A representative of Saigon Palm, which exports bamboo products, said that the export value is low, while the shipping fee is too high. A container of souvenirs, for example, is valued at $10,000 dollars, while the shipping costs alone would cost $2000 dollars.
Import companies have suffered most, because they have to pay freight and other fees. An executive of HL Cargo, a forwarder, said that the freight to Europe has increased by 80 per cent in comparison with the same period of last year.
CMA-CGM Vietnam director Duong Quoc Chien has warned that the fees and surcharges would increase further in the time to come. Shipping firms tend to raise fees to get money to offset the loss they incurred in 2011. The higher fuel cost has also been cited to explain the fee increases.
Mr Chien said that the freight would not increase sharply, but the fees and surcharges would increase.
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THE Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is extending its dues concession for all ocean going ships with a port stay of not more than 10 days and harbour craft engaged in commercial activities, for another two years effective from July 1 to June 20, 2014.
MPA introduced the concessions during the downturn, and with the shipping industry facing continued uncertainty, it will be extended as part of the phasing out of port dues to help the industry make gradual adjustments.
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INTTRA, the world's largest multi-carrier e-commerce network for ocean freight, and WCA Family of Logistic Networks have formed a strategic alliance that is intended to deliver critical ocean shipping planning, management and optimisation capabilities to WCA Family members.
Bangkok-based WCA Family is a global network of independent forwarders with 4,100 member offices located in more than 176 countries.
WCA Family can now access INTTRA's global network of over 30 major ocean carriers through the Worldwide Information Network (WIN), which is a cloud-based software platform for freight forwarders and one of the WCA Family's key technology platforms.
By integrating with INTTRA's multi-carrier network, WCA Family said in a statement that its members achieve: global standardised shipping processes, a faster and more streamlined document flow, improved data accuracy and increased visibility to ocean shipments. INTTRA delivers critical ocean freight transaction functionality that helps freight forwarders compete in today's competitive marketplace.
"We are pleased to offer our members the most advanced multi-carrier, ocean freight shipping solution via the INTTRA platform. WCA Family members will be able to reduce redundant manual processes, increase efficiencies, and improve customer satisfaction with standardised ocean freight processing. Additionally, members that manage import cargo will now have a fast and easy way to attain visibility data for their customers' import shipments by using INTTRA's standardised track and trace e-commerce tool," said WCA Family president David Yokeum.
Said INTTRA senior director Sanddep Govil: "We welcome the WCA Family to our alliance network of over 70 members and believe they will see significant benefits from a seamless connection to the INTTRA network of leading global ocean carriers and NVOCCs."
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THE Port of Amsterdam's trade mission to India has resulted in the signing of an agreement with Samsara Group, a major shipping agent with 54 offices in India.
Trade representatives, including the city's mayor Eberhand van der Laan and the port of Amsterdam's CEO Dertjie Meijer, signed an agreement with Samsara president and CEO Mukesh Oza at a session to promote activities between the two cities of Amsterdam and Mumbai.
The Samsara Group, a fully-owned subsidiary of the Dubai-based Sharaf Group, offers logistics services include chartering, inland container terminal operations, heavy cargo transport and automobile logistics, shipping up to 1.2 million TEU annually on its trains.
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VANGUARD Logistics Services has announced the promotion of Collin Rozario to the position of general manager air freight, South Pacific and Southeast Asia, effective immediately.
This promotion is an expansion of his current responsibilities as the air freight GM for the South Pacific region. In this new role, Mr Rozario is charged with developing the organisation's air freight operational and sales capabilities in Southeast Asia by leveraging the company's own and agency air freight networks.
Based in Sydney, Mr Rozario showed an aptitude for building strong customer relations and advancing operational growth in the successful development of the south Pacific air freight programme, his primary focus since joining the company in 2003. These new responsibilities will allow him to apply his experience to Vanguard's Southeast Asia network with his initial focus set on Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, a company statement said.
Since beginning his career in air freight in 1983, Mr Rozario has held a variety of managerial posts, having been stationed in India, Nigeria, Dubai, Australia and New Zealand.
"We are very pleased with this development," said Jeff Lee, Vanguard's regional managing director for Southeast Asia and the Middle East. "Vanguard is ideally situated in the region and I am confident in Collin's ability to successfully extend our reach into air freight. We are counting on the support of Vanguard offices around the world to work closely with our region to pursue and develop every air freight opportunity."
Over the last few years, the neutral handling of air freight proved to be an important offering in Vanguard's service portfolio, developed to meet the growing needs of the freight forwarding community. "It is a profitable product for Vanguard as a whole," said Mr Lee. "Southeast Asia is a significant source of merchandise, machinery and a whole range of products for the rest of the world. We look forward to working with other Vanguard offices to make the most of this great opportunity."
Mr Rozario will continue to report directly to Zeljko Blazic, regional managing director, South Pacific, and work with Mr Lee on Southeast Asia.
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PHILIPPINES global port operator, International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), recently announced the appointments of Nathan Clarke and Roger Yee as civil engineering managers for ICTSI's ports worldwide.
Mr Clarke joined ICTSI in 2008 as assistant resident manager where he assisted mainly in the contract administration and design management of the Berth 6 project at the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT).
Before joining ICTSI, he was assistant resident manager Maunsell/AECOM Philippines Inc and with Maunsell Australia in 2004 as engineer where he handled various civil port projects in Manila and in other parts of the world. In 2002, he worked with Western Earthmoving as assistant engineer.
A Bachelor of Engineering graduate, Mr Clarke was a first class honour student at the University of Sydney, and he is also a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia.
Mr Yee was the contracts manager responsible for tender documentation of the site preparation works package for the Independent Deepwater Petroleum Terminal in Pengerang, Johor. He worked on different container terminal-related projects, and held numerous managerial posts in Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China and New Zealand.
A New Zealand national, Mr Yee obtained his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland. He also holds a master's degree in Business Administration from APESMA/Deakin University.
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MILAHA, previously known as Qatar Navigation, is to launch an electronic data base at Doha Port in a changeover from its current paper-based system which manages 400,000 TEU movements a year.
Since Milaha took over management in February 2011, it selected Jade JMT software at a cost of QAR19 million (US$5.21 million) and plans to go live this quarter, said port services vice president Alan Middleton.
"The easy configuration and scalability of JMT supports our efforts to increase efficiencies, optimise processes and manage costs as we bring Doha Port operations to the best worldwide standards," said Mr Middleton, reported the Gulf Times.
Qatar expects cargo growth in the million tonnes resulting from multibillion dollar infrastructure projects which include new hotels, rapid rail and construction of stadiums in the lead up to the world's largest sporting event, the Dubai World Cup 2013.
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GERMAN forwarding giant DHL has been awarded three accolades in Hong Kong, the "CAPITAL Outstanding Enterprise Awards - Outstanding Express Service Provider," the "Sing Tao Excellent Services Brand Award 2011 for Delivery & Logistics" as well as the "MTR Advertising 'The Best of the Best Awards' silver medal for the best innovative campaign."
DHL's bold and innovative wall-wrap advertisement at Hong Kong MTR Station, enhanced with LED lighting effects, secured the silver in the MTR Advertising Best of the Best Awards, said a DHL press release.
Organised by CAPITAL Magazine, the Outstanding Enterprise Awards recognise the contributions and efforts of Hong Kong enterprises with outstanding business performance and achievements. The win marks the fourth time DHL has been honoured, which combines a public vote together with a panel of judges of business personalities representing diverse industries in Hong Kong.
It also received the Excellent Services Brand Award organised by Sing Tao Daily for the fourth time in six years since this award was launched in 2006. This award comes in recognition of the express delivery firm's record and commitment to service excellence.
DHL Express Asia Pacific CEO Jerry Hsu said the achievements reflect the company's investment in staff and its international network. "We have invested in our people through our Certified International Specialist (CIS) training programme. More than 100,000 employees worldwide have attended CIS training. The training encourages employees to exemplify DHL values through our four key attributes of speed, a 'can-do' attitude, passion and getting it right first time."
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