Starting June 9, Cosco and ANL will jointly operate Sino Australia Service with six vessel deployments, including five vessels from Cosco and one from ANL.
APL will boost rates for dry and refrigerated cargo in its trade from Asia, Australia, East Africa, the Middle East and West Asia to Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, starting June 1.
Cosco Container Lines will hike rates for all shipments, including refrigerated cargo, in its trade from the Far East to South America’s east coast, starting June 14.
The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index saw further rate erosion in European lanes, pulling the overall SCFI index below the $1,000 per 20-foot container mark for the first time since February 2012, to $990.78.
Fesco, the operator of Russia’s largest ocean carrier, has successfully sold $75 million of corporate bonds, just weeks after it closed on a $800 million bond sale.
Backhaul rates from Los Angeles to Shanghai saw a 7.6 percent increase in the week of May 16, according to the latest release of the World Container Index.
Transport Corp. of India reported its group net profit in fiscal year 2012-13, which ended March 31, 2013, was $12.86 million, jumping 17 percent from $11 million in 2011-12.