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Brokers report and Splash understands that Danish product tanker owner Torm is selling one of its oldest MRs, the 2008-built Torm Laura, to China's Seacon Shipping group for $22.5m; the 50,000 dwt scrubber-fitted vessel was built at Guangzhou Shipyard International.
Read summary →Rio Tinto is reported to have sold two 2013-built post-panamax bulkers en bloc for $42.8m, extending its owned-vessel sell-down beyond the newcastlemax fleet cleared this year.
Read summary →Revised schedules indicate Premier Alliance will send the 8,100 TEU One Continuity through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, with the vessel scheduled to depart Laem Chabang on 19 October, according to ONE.
Read summary →Kuehne+Nagel inaugurated a new technology centre in Chennai, India, to expand global engineering capabilities and accelerate digital logistics solutions.
Read summary →Belgian tanker owner Transpetrol Maritime Services sold the 2016-built aframax TP Affinity to Turkish buyers for $73m, while VesselsValue put the vessel’s market value at $80.72m.
Read summary →Bleckmann has added H&M Group as a client at its Crick site near Northampton, supporting logistics for several H&M Group brands from the UK warehouse after an early August go-live.
Read summary →Norden CEO Jan Rindbo says fragmented shipping markets require flexibility, and the Danish group is reducing tanker exposure because dry bulk offers a more attractive balance of risk and reward.
Read summary →China Merchants Energy Shipping said its dry bulk arm Hong Kong Ming Wah signed a 25-year transport agreement worth at least $2.8bn covering six very large ore carriers (VLOCs) in the emerging Simandou iron ore trade.
Read summary →Integrated Wind Solutions has ordered four Skywalker-class commissioning service operation vessels at China's Nantong Rainbow in a €260m ($295m) deal.
Read summary →The agreement with Boeing covers eight new-generation 777-8Fs and two current-generation 777-200Fs, plus options for eight more 777-8Fs.
Read summary →Swissport announced the launch of Swissport Cargo Services France at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse, with 3,000 square metres of cargo space, including a 1,000-square-metre French customs zone and 2,000 square metres for international cargo handling.
Read summary →According to the report, a year after CH Robinson announced its Carrier of the Year winners, six family-owned trucking companies filed a racketeering complaint on September 23 in federal court in Marshall, Texas.
Read summary →Airbus reported the first flight of the A350F freighter MSN700 from Toulouse, starting a certification campaign expected to involve about 400 flight hours over roughly 10 months.
Read summary →A portal inspection and screening complex has been launched at the Pogranichny road checkpoint, scanning vehicles without stopping them and, according to the source, speeding up inspection and increasing throughput.
Read summary →Suardiaz Group has taken a new-generation dual-fuel PCTC, RS Atlantico, into service with a departure from China, saying it is the first Spanish shipowner with an LNG-powered vessel in the car carrier segment.
Read summary →Freight traffic between Russia and China on the Russian Railways network rose 5.4% over eight months to more than 130 million tonnes, while container traffic reached 2.4 million TEU.
Read summary →Allied Aviation will become SAS Scandinavia Cargo's General Sales and Services Agent in India from 1 October 2026, supporting five-weekly Mumbai–Copenhagen services.
Read summary →DHL's Logistics Trend Radar 8.0 describes how artificial intelligence is moving from an assistive role to autonomous execution across supply chains, alongside related changes in work, skills and governance.
Read summary →At Aviation Connect in Athens, an Accenture Cargo executive said air cargo needs to link fragmented supply-chain data rather than only digitise more processes.
Read summary →Transpacific rates are expected to fall despite a China-US agreement to mutually cut tariffs on $30bn worth of goods, many shipped in containers.
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