The Port of Oakland announced that its loaded shipping container volume reached an all-time high in 2016. The Port said it handled the equivalent of 1.83 million loaded 20-foot containers last year. That was up 7.6 percent from 2015, topping the...
27 July 2021
Categories: Freight News
The Container Throughput Index of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) recorded a healthy increase to 122.1 points in November. The Institute notes that index figures for September and October had to...
27 July 2021
Categories: Freight News
More crew were kidnapped at sea in 2016 than in any of the previous 10 years, despite global piracy reaching its lowest levels since 1998, according to the ICC International Maritime Bureau's (IMB) annual piracy report. In its 2016 report, IMB...
27 July 2021
Categories: Freight News
According to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation (NRF) import cargo volumes at U.S. major retail container ports saw an unexpected increase during the industry's busy holiday season. "We won't see final sales numbers for...
27 July 2021
Categories: Freight News
During a ceremony awarding the traditional Gold-Headed Cane to the captain of the first ship to arrive in the harbour in 2017, the Port of Montreal announced that it handled 35.2 million tonnes of freight in 2016. The preliminary statistics (unaudited)...
27 July 2021
Categories: Freight News
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