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...The ship, which was carrying a cargo of steel products and trucks from the Chinese port of Lianyungang to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Aqaba in Jordan, was flying the flag of Barbados....
...Many of Accell’s brands have been focused on growing in the higher value e-bike market, particularly for e-cargo bikes used to deliver goods....
...A competing route, the $1.6bn Liberty Pipeline, last week received a green light to connect the Bakken and Rockies production areas to the tank complex of Cushing, Oklahoma starting in 2021....
...IAG Cargo improved in the quarter due to stronger Asia Pacific demand compared to last year. Photo: Bloomberg...
...Amazon has been making moves towards running its own delivery logistics network in recent years – filing patents for a drone delivery system, leasing planes, opening its own cargo air hub and buying a fleet...
...However, the outlook for the cargo business is good and we expect robust demand and growth in cargo capacity, yield and load factor in the second half of this year....
...Mr Lee added: “Although we expect 2H17 to remain loss-making, we believe losses have bottomed as management forecasts passenger and cargo yields to sequentially improve.”...
...Last July, the conglomerate announced the $2.8bn acquisition of Swissport, the ground handling and cargo services group that was also formerly part of Swissair....
...He was passionate about the potential for gas to replace coal for power generation and oil for transport, telling an Oklahoma TV station in 2012: “You can’t really be against hydro-fracking and say you’re...
...This makes sense since only when the industrial sector is buzzing with activity will there be demand for bank credit, transport services, hotels and other services....
...It is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday at Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas plant on the coast of Louisiana, to be loaded with the first cargo of LNG to be exported from the “lower 48” contiguous...
...Partly thanks to the swelling supply, tanker rates sank so low in parts of 2013 that prices on some routes were showing negative — owners were paying cargo owners to let them carry cargoes to reposition...
...Extra capacity has also come into the cargo market, which added to the drag on profitability, as well as adverse affects from currency movements....
...Other clients include Rhein Cargo in Germany and Europorte in France. Ted Gaffney, president of Beacon, will continue to head the company....
...Friday, the Baltic Dry index, which reflects the daily charter rate for vessels carrying cargoes such as iron ore, coal and grain, dropped 11.4 per cent to 1,512 points on concerns about reduced demand for cargo...
...US tanker companies have been boosted by a domestic energy boom, the lingering after-effects of Hurricane Sandy and the Jones Act, which requires that tankers moving cargo from one US port to another must...
...(Wall Street Journal) A Chinese cargo ship is attempting the country’s first ever commercial transit of the Northeast Passage above Russia, as a changing climate opens a short-cut that promises to reduce...
...The Seaway pipeline is this week set to almost treble capacity from Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for WTI oil futures contracts, to its Gulf of Mexico destination....
...“The strong run-up has made the hangover worse,” says Mark Long, the London-based global head of transport and services for HSBC....
...Russian transport assets have been changing hands at a fast clip as investors bet on steady growth in cargo volumes across the world’s biggest country....
...Sistema is already eyeing other rail transport acquisitions and plans to bid for the government’s remaining 25 per cent stake in Freight One, Russia’s biggest rail cargo company, at an auction expected to...
...Coal at Qinhuangdao, the largest port, fell in price to Rmb660-680 a tonne this week, compared to around Rmb850 a tonne last summer, according to the website of the China Coal Transport and Distribution...
...US state of Virginia is taking “very seriously” a proposal that would privatise control of some of the country’s most important port facilities in the run-up to the Panama Canal’s expansion, the state’s transport...
...oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to the U.S....
...Water transport’s inherent fuel efficiency will give AFL a significant advantage over rival transport modes if fuel prices remain high, Mr Pyne goes on....
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