1:31 AM
Admin
Briefing Weekly News
(Video from YouTube, by 2btime -29 Oct 2009: There is always a variety of ships and passenger boats that travel up and down the river)
from Contract Logistics
* Waitrose awards primary contract to Gist
- Gist, the fresh food supply chain specialists, have been awarded a contract by Waitrose to become a key logistics provider for components of its primary transport operations. Read Full News Here* TCI's nine months revenues increase by almost 22%
- Transport Corporation of India Ltd. (TCI) has announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2010, with total revenues increasing by 21.78%. Read Full News Here* CEVA in Brazil announces new contract with Honda
- CEVA to provide parts distribution and transportation to Honda Automoveis do Brasil Ltda. Read Full News Here* CEVA signs international transportation contract with Levi’s
- CEVA Logistics has signed a contract with Levi's, the global fashion brand. Read Full News Here* Gazeley awarded £20m contract by Tesco
- Gazeley has signed a major deal with the UK’s largest retailer Tesco, to build a new e-commerce distribution centre at G.Park Enfield, north London. Read Full News Herefrom Express & Mail
* Kuehne + Nagel to expand overland network and introduce new "KN Euro-Line" product
- Kuehne + Nagel is set to significantly expand its European overland network. By 2014 the number of scheduled international lines will have increased from 300 to 500. The company has also introduced its new "KN Euro-Line" parcel service product. Read Full News Herefrom Road Freight
* Alibaba sets up Chinese logistics network
- Alibaba, the leading Chinese procurement website, has announced it intends to build a physical logistics network across China. Read Full Brief Here* Con-way Freight introduces SafeStack cargo loading system fleetwide
- Con-way deploys SafeStack system, an adjustable decking and securing system, to enable LTL shipments travel more securely and reduce cargo damage during transit. Read Full News Herefrom Air Cargo
* DHL station receives accreditation as qualified Envirotainer provider
- DHL’s Brisbane, California station receives accreditation as a Qualified Envirotainer Provider (QEP). More North American stations expected to be accredited by the end of 2011. Read Full News Here* Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. announces placement of two additional B747-400 Freighters in service for DHL Express
- Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings will add two additional Boeing 747s for DHL Express beginning March 2011. Read Full News Herefrom Shipping/Ports
* HFW Sanctions update: Iran
- HFW has released a sanctions update for Iran, considering the prohibition on insurance in light of imminent P&I renewals and recent UK legislation changes. Read Full Brief Here* Iranian shipping sanctions cause global logistics headache
- The politics of Iran and the Gulf are one of the more dangerous problems the world faces, both economically and militarily. Logistics is a key part of this global issue. Read Full Brief Here* CMA CGM upgrades its ACSA service between Asia and the Americas
- CMA CGM has announced the upgrading and reinforcement of its ACSA service linking Asia to Mexico, Central America and the West Coast of South America. This enhanced service will be operated in partnership with CSAV and CSCL. Read Full News Herefrom Intermodal
* JF Hillebrand enhances European multi-modal options
- JF Hillebrand, the global beverage logistics company, has announced the launch of an enhanced European service offering. Read Full News Here * Maritime piracy costs global community up to $12 billion a year
(Video from YouTube, by bartamaha -18 April 2009)
London,UK -One Earth Future Foundation/Oceans Beyond Piracy/Eye for Transport, by Sharon Gill -Jan 20, 2011: -- At the end of 2010, around 500 seafarers from more than eighteen countries were being held hostage by pirates. During the same year, around $238 million was paid in ransoms to Somali pirates. Piracy doesn't only affect the world's largest trade transport industry; it actually costs the global community a lot more than just ransoms and stolen cargo... Despite more than thirty countries (including the US) contributing to the navies patrolling the trade lanes around the Horn of Africa, pirates operating in the waters off the coast of Somalia are still doing a roaring trade. The pirates doubled the number of attacks and expanded their playground, so the actual number of successful hijackings increased... Furthermore, hijacked vessels are reportedly being used as "mother ships". This not only enables the pirates to expand their operating area, but also gives them some degree of protection since a naval vessel would hesitate to fire on pirates aboard a ship full of crude oil... OBP says that, between 2004-2009, only 15% of global piracy attacks occurred off the coast of Somalia. But in 2009, Somali pirates were responsible for 53% of reported attacks around the world, including 47 hijacked vessels and 867 seafarers held hostage... The One Earth Future Foundation says that the scourge of piracy will continue to increase because there is no effective international system to deal with the problem...
* Somalia - Pirates Seize Beluga Project-Cargo Vessel. Ship 'in severe distress and danger,' shipowner says
Somalia -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Peter T. Leach -Jan 25, 2011: -- Pirates off the coast of Somalia captured a German multipurpose vessel with 12 men on board... The Beluga Nomination, belonging to Bremen-based Beluga Shipping, was traveling from Malta to the port of Masan in South Korea when it was seized Jan. 22 some 800 nautical miles north of the Seychelles, Beluga Shipping said today. The crew of the ship comes from Poland, Ukraine, Russia and the Philippines, the company said... The Beluga Nomination, built in 2006, is a 9,821 deadweight-ton, multipurpose heavy-lift project-cargo vessel... The ship "is in severe distress and danger," said Beluga, which transports heavy-lift project cargo for the offshore oil and gas industry and to sea-based wind-energy projects... The crew was able to flee to a security room within the ship when the pirates attacked. Their captors eventually managed to break into the room and take control of the ship, which is now sailing toward Somalia, Beluga said...
* South Korea - Korea Line Files for Bankruptcy. Shipping line suffered losses after economic turndown
