Transportation News, Logistics, Ports and Trade

AAFA applauds passage of Informs Consumers Act with omnibus spending package

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | International Trade

Port of Long Beach receives stellar credit ratings

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

Nippon Express (China) participates in “briefing session on Hainan free trade port policies and business opportunities”

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | Logistics

Nippon Express (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "NX China"), a group company of NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC., participated in the “Briefing Session on Hainan Free Trade Port Policies and Business Opportunities” hosted by the Hainan International Economic Development Bureau (hereinafter "IEDB") in Chuo Ward, Tokyo on Tuesday, December 6.Nippon Express (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "NX China"), a group company of NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC., participated in the “Briefing Session on Hainan Free Trade Port Policies and Business Opportunities” hosted by the Hainan International Economic Development Bureau (hereinafter "IEDB") in Chuo Ward, Tokyo on Tuesday, December 6.

Port of Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project receives $157.3M in Federal funding for final phase

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | Ports & Terminals

Indian Register of Shipping completes prototype testing of indigenously manufactured ISO containers

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Ethiopian Airlines to resume flights to Mekelle

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Avianca announces new direct route from Boston to Bogotá

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | Air Cargo | Airlines

CO2 tanks in Hongkong delivered, erected and positioned

AJOT Newsroom | December 27, 2022 | Project / Heavy Lift | Maritime Project

Wangfoong Transportation Limited (Hong Kong), member to the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) delivered, erected, and positioned five units of CO2 tanks at the Hong Kong desalination plant.

Modi’s building boom setting up India as global steel savior

Bloomberg | December 27, 2022 | International Trade | Commodity

With China’s massive construction sector still in a funk and the US and Europe likely heading into recessions, India has emerged as a savior for flagging global steel demand.

International Trade

Bloomberg | December 27, 2022

US goods-trade deficit narrows to smallest in nearly two years

The US merchandise-trade deficit narrowed in November to the smallest since December 2020 due to a plunge in imports.

Hong Kong searches for flights to China soar as last curbs fall

Bloomberg | December 27, 2022 | Air Cargo | Airports

Southwest cancels 62% of flights as storm leaves it an outlier

Bloomberg | December 27, 2022 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. canceled almost two-thirds of its flights Tuesday, remaining hobbled by a massive winter storm that most major rivals were able to recover from with greater ease.

Air Cargo

Bloomberg | December 26, 2022

Amazon looks to sell excess air cargo space as demand cools

Amazon.com Inc. is trying to sell excess space on its cargo planes, according to people familiar with the matter, its latest effort to adjust from a rapid pandemic-era expansion to a slowdown in online growth.

Southwest Air faces gridlock with over 80% of flights scrapped or late

Bloomberg | December 26, 2022 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. canceled almost 3,000 flights and had hundreds of others run late, disrupting more than 80% of its schedule as operational woes mushroomed in the wake of the massive winter storm that pummeled the US.

Russia may raise crude oil exports if EU ban cuts refining

Bloomberg | December 25, 2022 | Energy

Air Cargo

Bloomberg | December 24, 2022

Power outages, flight delays as US storm leaves trail of chaos

Dangerously cold temperatures settled over a wide swath of the US and Canada on Saturday as a massive winter storm upended Christmas holiday travel and left millions without power or facing rolling blackouts.