Here the News on the NYK Gothenburg Service: Please be advised that with effect from August 2014, NYK will change the transshipment hub for Gothenburg / Sweden to Rotterdam, providing an enhanced service with increased frequency and improved transit times. The last sailing of GTE will be WVQ 090E32/ 090W32, ETD BRV 4 Aug & ETD [...]
Trans Atlantic Trade Peak Season Surcharge Trans-Atlantic Trade – Peak Season Surcharge Dear Valued Customer, In view of the on-going high demand for space on Westbound services to WE go the following from OOCL: Quote Canada, please be advised that we are increasing the Peak Season Surcharge on our Trans-Atlantic Trade with [...]
Cosco Americas announced the move today, saying it would close offices in Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Henderson, New York, Norfolk, San Francisco and Seattle. All functions will be transferred to the new operations center to be opened by January 2015, the company said. In addition, most of the customer service and operation functions performed at the [...]
On Monday July 21st, Belgium is celebrating a public holiday! All container terminals will be closed so that no pick up or drop off of containers will be possible!
This is what we got from Hanjin: Raise Awareness of Possible Port Congestion From / to /via Port Said/ Egypt on Asia – Europe Trade Please kindly note that heavy port congestion in Port Said / Egypt (EGPSD) affects feeder and trunk vessel utilization on our operating partners’ vessels. This may result in long-staying shipments for [...]
Please find here below some important questions and answers on the US West Coast Labor Negotiatons: Why is there concern about possible disruption at U.S. West Coast ports? Negotiations for new longshore labor agreements on the West Coast, indeed at ports generally, are when the risk of disruption is at its highest. West Coast longshoremen [...]
Please note the latest circular of Hapag Lloyd: While suspending their peak season surcharge as of August 4th, Hapag announces a low water suracharge for Canada as per below: In line with our pre advice announced on April 11, 2014 we would like to inform you that with effect from July 28, 2014 Hapag-Lloyd will [...]
We got the following MOL announcement for the Far East to Euro Trade. The Peak Season Surcharge is supposed to start as of August 1st! Quote We would like to inform you that MOL has decided upon the implementation of a Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) for cargo moving from Far East Asia (including South East [...]
This is a nice experiment and we are very curious to see, if it succeeds! Evergreen just announced a GRI for the Transatlantic westbound trade in the middle of the strongest summer month, in August! See here the details: Trade: Europe to USA & Puerto Rico (EGLV 615) Effective date: August 15, 2014 (carrier's [...]
To all customers, carriers and friends of the OL Network Transatlantic Again the shipping world keeps on being very interesting and often even the insiders are missing the logic behind the business, the volumes, the rate levels etc. Reading the Drewry report we are surprised to learn the the volumes across the Atlantic [...]
