On 15/02/2020, Tan Cang – Cai Mep International Terminal (TCIT) has once again set the new highest handling record per vessel while dispatching ONE GRUS (belong to FE5 Service connects Vietnam - Europe) deployed by THE Alliance with the handling volume of 12,562 TEU (1 TEU = twenty-foot equivalent unit), broken the previous record set on December 2019 on the same vessel.

The Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), Ministry of Commerce granted the Excellent Logistics Management Award 2019 or ELMA 2019 to “JPK Cold Storage Company Limited”, “Leo Global Logistics Public Company Limited”, and “ThaiSomdej Service Company Limited” for demonstrating their world-class logistics management practices.

The company said it does not properly declare the dangerous cargoes before shipment is a violation of the Hazardous Materials Regulations. Violators may also be subject to monetary fines and/or criminal prosecution under applicable law.

Smart devices could transform radically the utility and value of shipping container equipment assets, according to Drewry’s latest Container Census & Leasing Annual Review & Forecast 2019/20 report.

Fanos Theophani and Alexander George of lawyers Clyde & Co have reported on London Arbitration 13/19, which they described as “a cautionary tale for charterers”, highlighting the manner in which a defective Notice of Readiness (NOR) could result in charterers being liable for demurrage and in repudiatory breach of the charterparty. Theophani acted for the successful disponent owners.

Chemical tanker reported fire in the afternoon Aug 16 in East China sea. Later tanker reported water ingress, developing heavy list, crew abandoning the ship in life boat and rafts. All crew were rescued, one injured. No danger of sinking reported, AIS probably off.

Thanks to enormous consolidation container shipping has reached an “unprecedented” level of rate stability around the world, according to the latest weekly report from Copenhagen-based box analysts Sea Intelligence.

Canada’s Montreal Port Authority (MPA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) to advance the project development of a new container terminal in Contrecoeur.

Ocean-going vessels going on full electric propulsion may still not be a foreseeable scenario at least in the near future. However there’s no denying that shipping has an eye on a battery-powered future, attested by an increasing interest in the development of electric vessels.

A dispute panel was formed to examine U.S. global safeguard tariffs on solar cells, and the U.S. continued to object to Appellate Body operations.