Transportation News, Logistics, Ports and Trade

Spectacular unloading for the four latest-generation gantries brought to Le Havre

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

Over the space of a week, from Monday 17 to Sunday 23 August, the teams mobilized on site worked to unload the gantries: an exceptional operation organized by GMP.

CMA CGM FAK rates - from Asia to North Europe for September 2020

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

New applicable CMA CGM Freight All Kinds (FAK) rates(*) as follows as from September 15th, 2020 (date of loading in the origin ports) until further notice (but not beyond September 30th, 2020):

CMA CGM FAK rates - from Asia to North Africa for September 2020

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

New applicable CMA CGM Freight All Kinds (FAK) rates(*) as follows as from September 15th, 2020 (date of loading in the origin ports in Asia) and until further notice but not beyond September 30th, 2020:

CMA CGM FAK Rates - from Asia to the Mediterranean for September 2020

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

SeaLand update on Hurricane Laura

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Hurricane Laura is moving toward the north near 15 mph (24 km/h) and this motion should continue through the day. A north-eastward to east-north-eastward motion is expected tonight and Friday.

Virgin Atlantic launches first-ever Pakistan routes to fill void

Bloomberg | August 27, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Intermodal

Bloomberg | August 27, 2020

Truckers strike, block roads in Chile to protest arson attacks

Truck drivers temporarily blocked highways in Chile after a long-running conflict with indigenous groups in the south of the country led to a spike in arson attacks on their vehicles.

Port of Corpus Christi added to Argus American GulfCoast Select (AGS) Crude Pricing Index

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2020 | Energy | Ports & Terminals

Indonesia’s biggest airport operator looks to cargo amid slump

Bloomberg | August 27, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airports

Indonesia’s largest airport operator is pushing ahead with the construction of a new goods-handling facility in Jakarta, betting the movement of cargo will help an industry laid to waste by the reduction in passenger flights.

VW CEO backs Gates’s proposals for greener transportation

Bloomberg | August 27, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

International Trade

Bloomberg | August 27, 2020

Dismissal of EU trade chief sets awkward precedent for bloc

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen headed off a brewing political storm by accepting her top trade official’s resignation, and in the process she may have set a dangerous precedent by letting national political concerns affect the institution.