News

The latest industry news and PSA BDP Happenings from across the globe.

December 19, 2018

The 2M alliance is to phase in six more ultra large container vessels (ULCVs) into its 10 Asia-Europe service strings from next March in an endeavour to improve schedule reliability, which it said had been blighted by bad weather and terminal congestion.

December 19, 2018

UK airports are facing crunch time with the country’s pending departure from the EU set to pile on the strain.

December 18, 2018

Luminar announced its collaboration with Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH (AID) to provide the forward-facing high fidelity and long-range LiDAR technology and accelerate plans towards AID’s first fully autonomous deployments in 2021.

December 18, 2018

THE Alliance members Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express(ONE) and Yang Ming have published details of a rationalised revamped network for east-west trades effective from next year which will include a new pendulum service.

December 18, 2018

China moved a step closer to launching a formal World Trade Organization inquiry into whether President Donald Trump’s $250 billion in tariffs against Chinese goods violate international trade rules, a process that could move forward next month.

December 17, 2018

The prospect of unmanned container vessels serving global container supply chains took another step forward today.

December 17, 2018

West Coast ports point to a strong holiday season and a rush to beat tariffs as reasons for near record-breaking import volumes in November 2018. The Port of Oakland had its busiest November ever for imports.

December 17, 2018

As of Dec. 11, 2018, 266 ships representing 2.2 million TEUs have been fitted with scrubbers, Drewry Maritime Consultants wrote in their Container Insight Weekly analysis.

December 17, 2018

In the retail sector, artificial intelligence (AI) represents a $300 billion opportunity for those companies able to scale deployments across the entire value chain.

December 17, 2018

For the European Commission, the verdict is clear: the EU-Canada free trade agreement has been a success well before entering its second year this past fall.