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Aircoolbox targets air cargo pharma market.
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A new company has entered the air cargo container market, taking aim at
the pharmaceutical sector. At last week’s Temperature Controlled
Logistics event in London, Aircoolbox announced it would begin targeting
the air cargo pharmaceutical market with its passive container product.
Aircoolbox managing director Keith Packer said the re-usable container
can be flat packed to one third of its size to help reduce the cost of
transporting the box back to its origin.
The container was launched in the perishables market last year, but
Packer said the company is now looking to expand into other sectors.
The units are constructed from eight panels made of food-safe high
density polyethylene filled with polyurethane foam. They protect products and
keep them within a temperature range of 2°C to 8°C and 15 °C to 25°C without
additional refrigerant for up to 120 hours. The fact extra gel packs
are thermal blankets are not needed saves space and weight within the container,
he said.
Swissport to handle Emirates SkyCargo at three French airports.
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Swissport Cargo Services France, a subsidiary of
global aviation service provider Swissport International, will handle the
freight of Emirates SkyCargo at the three French airports of Paris Charles de
Gaulle, Lyon and Nice.
The agreement comes into force on April 1 this year. It covers the full
range of cargo handling services, including full-freighter and warehouse
handling.
The deal is said by Swissport to have been agreed following a “rigorous
selection process”.
Emirates SkyCargo offers bellyhold cargo capacity on its passenger
flights to Paris, Lyon and Nice, and also offers main deck space on its
scheduled weekly freighter flights to Paris and Lyon.
Simon Messner, senior vice president Europe for Swissport International,
commented: “Swissport is in the right position to meet the daily needs of
Emirates SkyCargo in France and will be a reliable local partner for this
outstanding cargo carrier.”
Hamad International Airport still on the up.
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Aerial view of HIA
Doha’s Hamad International Airport (HIA) handled a total of 1.7
million tonnes of airfreight (cargo and mail) last year. This
represented a 20.8% increase over the previous year’s throughput.
The Qatari capital’s air gateway also processed a total of 245,800
landings and take-offs during the year, up by 15.8% on the figure for 2015.
According to the airport operator: “During 2016, HIA invested in
increasing its capacity, improving its product offering and redesigning its
operational processes to efficiently accommodate the increasing traffic over
the coming years.”
On the apron, 15 new aircraft parking stands were constructed to
support the operations of Qatar Airways, the flag-carrier that hubs on HIA.
During 2016, Qatar Airways began connecting Doha directly to 14 new
destinations.
Good start to the year for Leipzig/Halle.
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Leipzig/Halle airport, Europe’s fifth-busiest and
Germany’s second-biggest airfreight gateway, handled 84,782 tonnes of cargo
in January this year, an increase of 6.9% over the same month of 2016.
Operated by Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (which also operates Dresden
airport as well as cargo and ground handler PortGround), Leipzig/Halle
handled approximately 1.05 million tonnes of airfreight over the course of
2016. This represented an increase of 6.5% over the 2015 figure.
A new monthly cargo throughput record was set in December last year, when
the airport handled 97,105 tonnes of cargo.
DHL Express Courier has its European air cargo hub at the airport and
contributes heavily to Leipzig/Halle’s overall cargo throughput.
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India Tradeways
Kamarajar Port Ltd, the only union government-owned port that is run as a
company, will raise $100 million from Axis Bank Ltd to part-fund a Rs 1,220
crore expansion of the port located at Ennore near Chennai. Kamarajar Port
Chairman M A Bhaskarachar told India Tradeways that the port has picked
Axis Bank for raising the dollar loan after it quoted the lowest interest
rate of 3.15% from among two other lenders – Kotak Mahindra Bank and HDFC
Bank – in a tender. The all-inclusive rate quotation of about 3.15% (six
months LIBOR plus 195 basis points) submitted by Axis Bank, India’s third
largest private lender, for the loan was approved by the Board of Kamarajar
Port in January, he said. The loan has a tenure of five years including a
moratorium period of one year from the date of fist disbursement.
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Maritime Standard
Captain Anoop Sharma took over the reins as Chairman and Managing Director
of The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI) in September last year. SCI
is India’s largest shipping company with an owned fleet of 69 ships
aggregating to 5.85 million DWT (3.27 million GT) and in addition
manages/operates another 53 ships on behalf of various organisations.
Speaking exclusively to The Maritime Standard, Capt. Sharma said, “For the
financial quarter ended 31st December 2016, we have reported a net profit
of Rs. 12.49 crores, including other comprehensive income which is better
than the results reported during the immediate preceding quarter. We are on
the definite course for significant improvement and will certainly end the
financial year in profit.”
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Baltic Course
There is a plan to test a container train route from the Indian city of
Mumbai to Riga this year, Verners Lusis, CEO of LDz Logistika, said at a
meeting of the Latvian Council of Ports, Transit and Logistics today.
According to the plan, containers from the port of Mumbai will be shipped
by sea to the Iranian port of Banda Abbas. From there, they will be carried
by train to Riga. “The problem is that there is still no railway in some
sections in Iran, which is why from Bandar Abbas containers are being
carried by automobiles to Azerbaijan’s border. Iranian officials have said,
however, that the construction of the missing railway sections will be
completed in March or April and then the containers could be delivered from
Mumbai to Riga in 15 days,” Lusis said. He added that interests in this
route is strong in India and that India ships about 50 million tons of
container cargo a year.
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Ruters
India's goods exports rose in January for the fifth straight month on the
back of stronger commodity prices, despite growing protectionist and
anti-trade sentiment in the United States and Europe. Merchandise exports
grew 4.32 percent year-on-year to $22.12 billion, while imports rose 10.7
percent to $31.96 billion, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a
statement. Oil prices - up nearly 18 percent since the end of November -
forced up the bill for crude oil, India's largest import item, by 61.1 percent
to $8.1 billion, threatening to reverse recent declines in inflation.
Countering that, oil exports also rose, by 29 percent to $2.7 billion, as
some crude oil is processed and re-exported by Indian oil refiners such as
Reliance Industries. The monthly trade deficit narrowed slightly to $9.8
billion.
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JOC
APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India at Jawaharlal Nehru Port
Trust has ended an extra charge on imports moved under the direct port
delivery program, clearing a major hurdle to gaining greater shipper
support for the productivity-boosting measure. The change follows on the
heels of authorities stepping up pressure on terminals to lift
“unauthorized charges” tied to DPD handling as the port has struggled to
meet its goal of moving 40 percent of imports via the program in the fiscal
year ending March 31. “The applicable charges for delivery of DPD
containers will not be billed to shipping lines,” said APMT Mumbai, which
accounts for roughly 40 percent of JNPT’s total throughput.Attempts by
JOC.com to reach DP World Nhava Sheva, which has two facilities in the
harbor, for comment on whether it would follow suit were unsuccessful.
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Sat Press
The world over, poor logistics often means poor trade. In other words, how
efficiently countries trade defines how they grow and compete in the global
economy. For India, good logistics will also play a critical role in the
success of the “Make in India” initiative, enable small-scale producers to
access newer markets, and allow farmers to benefit from the timely uptake
of perishable produce. India has already taken a major step forward in this
direction. When it is rolled out, the goods and services tax (GST) will
help integrate this vast and diverse country, transform it into one common
market, eliminate inefficient taxation, and go a long way in boosting the
manufacturing sector. But much more can be done. Logistics is a series of
services and activities that constitute supply chains—such as
transportation, warehousing, brokerages and so on.
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Shipping Watch
APM Terminals has been cleared in a competition case in India where the
Maersk Group's port unit was suspected of abusing its dominant market
position. According to a complaint filed with the Indian authorities, the
company had placed wrongful obstructions for its competitions in Jawaharlal
Nehru Port near Mumbai. This allegedly happened by, among other things,
demanding that carriers use only the logistics companies and facilities
co-owned by APM Terminals or with which the company has arrangements. The
port company, notes the complaint, has allegedly also made illegal
exclusive deals with stakeholders in another port, Pipavav in Guajarat,
where the company also owns a terminal as well as a stake in a rail company
servicing the Indian mainland.
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New Indian Express
Chennai Port Trust is now taking steps to augment its capacity to contain
oil spills by planning to have an oil spill response vessel. This comes
after Chennai’s coast witnessed an oil spill when two cargo vessels
collided at Kamarajar Port last month. A Chennai Port official told Express
that tenders had been floated for an oil spill response vessel and other
equipment worth `14 crore. The new vessel will augment the existing oil
spill response vessel ‘Prestige’. Interestingly, Chennai Port had oil
recovery vessel ‘Annam’, a 23-year-old special purpose vessel used for
recovery of spilt oil from the sea. It has wing tanks to store about
50-kilo litres of oil. It has one propulsion engine and one generator
engine by which power supply is provided for the operation of skimmer and
spill spray system.
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Times of India
With two months left in the current financial year, the Visakhapatnam Port
Trust (VPT) has handled 50.9 million tonnes of cargo between April and
January 2016-17 as against 47.1 million tonnes during the corresponding
period of the previous year, thus registering a growth of 8.22%. The major
port is expecting to handle around 60 million tonne mark by the end of the
fiscal, which may be the highest traffic in the last four years. While VPT
is still at the fifth position out of the 12 major ports in terms of cargo
handled behind Kandla, Paradip, JNPT and Mumbai ports, the Vizag Port has
seen cargo volumes increase mainly on account of iron ore, container
traffic and other cargo. Container tonnage increased from 4.1 million tonne
during April-January 2015-16 fiscal to 5.3 million tonnes during the
April-January 2016-17.
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Maritime
Professional
Container throughput achieves 1.0 percent advance in 2016/ Setting a record
result for seaport-hinterland rail transport with 2.4 million TEU. In 2016
Germany’s largest universal port achieved a turnaround in seaborne cargo
throughput, reaching a total 138.2 million tons in the general and bulk
cargo segments. ‘Seaborne cargo throughput in the Port of Hamburg again
developed upwards with an increase of 0.3 percent. Stronger general cargo
throughput offset a slight downturn in bulk cargo throughput. The Port of
Hamburg is also contemplating a positive trend for 2017,’ said Axel
Mattern, Joint CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing. The successful development
of seaport-hinterland transport by rail was maintained. ‘Hamburg is further
extending its position as Europe’s leading rail port.
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Seatrade Maritime
New Korean container line SM Line is set to launch only one of its planned
two transpacific services. SM Line, which bought the Asia – US business of
bankrupt Hanjin Shipping, has scaled back its plans to launch two services
according to analyst Alphaliner. The new line will launch a Shanghai,
Ningbo, Busan to Los Angeles service in March utilizing five 6,650 teu
capacity vessels. The vessels are five of eight containerships that SM Line
bought from Hanjin, and final port rotations and transit times are yet to
be made public. Alphaliner noted that plans for a second string connecting
South China with Los Angeles have been put on hold.
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Hellenic Shipping
News
Thanks to a slot charter agreement with Maersk Line, Hamburg Süd will be
offering an improved service in the East–West trades in the future. In a
total of five trades, the number of weekly sailings will be increased from
the present eleven to 16. The number of ports called at will rise to over
60, the number of direct port pairs to more than 145. Volumes booked
through Hamburg Süd will be carried on the ships of the 2M network. “The
East–West trade lanes are an important part of our entire product
portfolio. They give our customers seamless access to the world’s largest
liner services – and do so in the customary Hamburg Süd quality,” says
Peter Frederiksen, Member of the Executive Board of Hamburg Süd.
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Gcaptain
The new Gas4Sea partnership has taken delivery of the world’s first
purpose-built LNG bunkering vessel from Hanjin Heavy Industries and
Construction in South Korea. Gas4Sea is made of French energy and utility
company, ENGIE and Jopan’s Mitsubishi Corporation and NYK Line. The
dual-fueled Engie Zeebrugge will be hompeported at the port of Zeebrugge in
Belgium. From there, the 5,000 m3 LNG capacity LNG Bunkering Vessel (LBV)
will supply LNG bunker fuel to ships operating in Northern Europe. The two
LNG-fueled pure car and truck carriers (PCTC) operated by United European
Car Carriers will be its first customers. She will run on LNG for her
maiden voyage from South Korea after a few days of loading LNG delivered by
trucks at HHIC’s Yeongdo shipyard, where the vessel was constructed.
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