VGL INDIA

Incorrect Container Packing Leads to 65% of Damaged Cargo: TT Club

"A Liberian flagged cargo vessel identified as APL Austria has suffered a major fire offshore South Africa" South African Maritime Saf. Aut.

CMA Swahili service will include the following ports: Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Jebel Ali, Khor Fakkan, Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam, Nhava Sheva (2/2)

CMA CGM has decided to upgrade two weekly services connecting India Middle East Gulf to East Africa, starting from February 20, 2017 (1/2..)

CCTPL & CITPL at Chennai port together handled record container throughput in a single day with a total handling of 10063 TEUs on January 28

Qatar Ports Management Co. in association with MSC has announced launch of the first-ever regular direct service between Hamad & Shanghai

PIL has introduced 2new weekly services,branded as ACS and AC5, will each cover Central and South China to the US West Coast in 42 round voy

Maersk Line plan to expand the Papa New Guinea coverage by adding two new ports of call (Port Moresby and Lae), starting from March 2017

Milaha, has signed an agreement with KICT to start the first direct common carrier feeder service between Dammam, Saudi Arabia and Kandla

Damietta Port saw a significant increase in 2016 Cargo throughput went up by 12% in2016& rose to 32 milliontons from 28.6 milliontons in2015

Zim ZNP New service : Port Kelang-Cai Mep-Da Chan Bay-Yantian-Xiamen-Qingdao-Ningbo-Shanghai-Busan-VANCOUVER-Busan-Qingdao-Shanghai-Ningbo

Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines(IRISL) is a launching a new service that connects the Le Havre with Iranian,MiddleEast & Asian ports

Hapag-Lloyd named its 2nd new 10500 TEU containership Cartagena Express at the Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries shipyard in Samho, South Korea

Gulf Air will open a new route to Georgia with direct flights to/from Tbilisi which will come into effect from June 2017

Govt Of India has issued a notification to collect Service tax on Import Ocean Freight @ 4.5% on PREPAID shipments as well wef from 22-Jan

CMA CGM upgrades its SEAS1 and SEAS2 services with two departures per week between Asia and the East Coast of South America

"Indian Finance Minister may choose to hike service tax atleast by 1% in the forthcoming Union Budget scheduled on 1st February" Sources

Air Transat will become the 1st Canadian carrier to launch flights to Israel with twice weekly link between Montréal & Tel Aviv from June 18

Qatar Airways will commence new 4 times weekly link between Doha to Las Vegas from January 8, 2018.It will be flown using a Boeing 777-200LR

Emirates brings widebody operations to Croatia with introduction of daily service between Dubai & Franjo Tuđman (Pleso)-Zagreb from 1st June