In the UK the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has launched a new consultancy service to help shippers plan for container weight verification rules that come into force on 1 July.

ZIM is to enhance its Asia to US East Coast and Gulf service offering, with seven different weekly services, extensive direct port-to-port coverage and best-in-market Transit time from key ports in Asia to US East Coast & Gulf.

In their "Best route market study for containerised imports to South Germany", published at the beginning of March, the Drewry Group's supply-chain consultants investigated via which ports containers imported from Shanghai can be transported fastest and cheapest to southern Germany, i.e. Munich, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Ulm and Nuremberg.

Nordic Logistics and Warehousing has doubled capacity at its Savannah location, holding a ribbon cutting last Friday for a new 200,000-square-foot cold storage and blast freezing facility.

Port of Virginia in March set its new record for the amount of rail cargo handled in a month having processed 46,600 rail containers, or 39 percent of March's total container volume.

Leading French port Marseille Fos has launched operations under a European Union (EU) pilot project to create sea/rail logistics corridors moving perishable goods from the Mediterranean basin to markets in central and northern Europe.

Cargo shipments at the Port of Long Beach were up 6.1 percent for the first three months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, starting the year off strongly. Lifted by big gains in January and February, the quarter was the Port's best since 2007.

The Argentinian power plant operator AES Argentina Generacion S.A. (AES) has ordered a Terex® Gottwald Model 2 portal harbour crane in the G HSK 2224 variant from TPS.

The Hyster® Special Projects Engineering Department has delivered a flexible solution to enable a Hyster® ReachStacker to overcome the challenge of handling varied load types.

Strainstall, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has secured a significant order from DP World Southampton (DPWS), one of Europe's largest container terminals, for its innovative Container Weight System (CWS)™. The order is the first major commitment by a global container terminal, with DPWS being one of the first operators to launch a container weight verification service for its customers.