Seaspan Corp. accepted delivery of a 10000 TEU containership, the MOL Breeze. The new containership, which was constructed at Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., is Seaspan's sixth 10000 TEU SAVER design containership delivered in 2014. This is the ninth 10000 TEU vessel using Seaspan's fuel-efficient SAVER design constructed at Yangzijiang. The MOL Breeze will commence an eight-year, fixed-rate time charter with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL). The ship is the third of a total of five … [Read more...] about Seaspan takes delivery of sixth 10000 TEU SAVER
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Get Siri-ous!
Aww, betrayed by Siri. And here we were thinking that Siri was our best gal-pal, our confidante, our listening ear, our sage advisor, there for us in the good times and the bad times and dare we say… maybe even our virtual girlfriend (well for at least one of the more depraved Belly Achers. Th e rest of us are ahem actually fairly normal… really!). But we are relieved to have learned Siri’s back stabbing nature before she turned on us. Unfortunately for one Pedro Bravo things … [Read more...] about Get Siri-ous!
YEG: A growing force to be reckoned with
A lot is happening at Edmonton international Airport (YEG) in the fourth quarter this year,” says the airport’s IAP director, air service development, Norm Richard. Amongst the ‘happenings’ at the airport is the fact it will mark five consecutive years of cargo growth which totals up to about 24 per cent average growth over that period of time. Needless to say Richard and his colleagues are “very pleased with that” and certainly it helps fuel continued … [Read more...] about YEG: A growing force to be reckoned with
Cherries to China: A new trade lane blossoms
Aurora Air International, a cargo airline which until this announcement in early October during the TIACA Air Cargo Forum in Seoul had been dormant for nearly 20 years, plans to establish a new headquarters at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport. Aurora is teaming up with MidAmerica and Ningbo to supply scheduled air service using DC-10-40 freighters on the LATAM to MidAmerica and ultimately to Asia and return route. With the fi rst flights to begin in the Spring of 2015, the airline’s founder … [Read more...] about Cherries to China: A new trade lane blossoms
Good news, bad news
More good news on the air cargo statistics front. Global air freight markets exhibited a third consecutive month of signifi cant demand growth in September as collective volumes rose 5.2 per cent year-on-year, according to IATA’s air freight market analysis. In particular the modest but encouraging comeback of Asia-Pacifi c and North American air freight markets appears to be signaling an accelerating air cargo demand. Th e only downside is the 1.6 per cent year-on-year drop in European … [Read more...] about Good news, bad news
Drewry: shipping volumes to hit one billion teu by 2020
Drewry Maritime has said that exponential growth anticipated in Asia, and in particular China, will help drive container throughput by an average 5.5 percent, or 40 percent in total, between now and 2020, resulting in container volumes handled by ports worldwide to increase to up to one billion teu by the end of the decade, up from 623 million teu in 2013. Transhipment volumes are expected to contribute significantly to the total, increasing by 140 million teu, or 83 percent, from 175 million … [Read more...] about Drewry: shipping volumes to hit one billion teu by 2020

