Please find herewith extract taken from the FTW Online, for your information Additional pledges for Chinese infrastructure development funding have been received after the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region took its multi-billion-dollar infrastructure...

Truckers and TPT address Pier 2 challenges Moving containers in and out of Pier 2 – the home of the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) – has been a major challenge and container hauliers are fuming as “thousands of rands go down the drain each day” because of Transnet...

In its proposal to the SA Ports Regulator, the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) acknowledges that the current port tariff structure is sub-optimal and presents several issues in terms of transparency, compliance, fairness and overall acceptability by port...

With their continually growing refrigerated (reefer) container capacity, containerships are grabbing a worrying share of perishable transport from specialised reefer operators. But reefership operator Seatrade is investing in a new-building programme of fully...

Huge explosions at a chemical storage terminal near the port rocked China’s northeastern port city of Tianjin late Wednesday. The owner of the warehouse was identified as Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai International Logistics, whose website says it is a...

The latest attempt by carriers on the Asia-Europe main trade to impose general rate increases (GRIs) is already being eroded by dropping spot rates – the eighth time since January that GRIs have failed to hold. At the end of last week the Shanghai Containerised...