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A dispatch from FT Alphaville’s maritime correspondent
...Train companies negotiate with the union, but the industry’s finances are controlled by the Department for Transport (DfT)....
Tehran has vowed to respond to a suspected Israeli air strike on its consular building in Damascus
Head of London market says disaster may produce largest maritime claim in history
...Rare — but the US accounted for most of the 35 bridge collapses caused by a ship or barge between 1960 and 2015, according to a 2018 report from the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure...
Divers will return to the water in the morning in an effort to recover bodies, authorities say
...Last year Danish group AP Møller-Maersk said the $987mn acquisition of its refrigerated container business by state-owned China International Marine Containers (CIMC) had been scrapped....
...Ukraine’s forces continued to push east, capturing the transport hub of Lyman, near the north-eastern edge of the Donetsk province, which it wrestled from Russian control on October 1....
Gang that seized bulk carrier in December forced to surrender after operation in Indian Ocean
Carmakers and insurers braced for fallout after bridge collapse shuts critical US trade hub
...The revived plan comes as momentum grows for Malaysia to enhance its transport system and help make Johor a regional investment destination....
...rerouted away from the Suez Canal towards the longer route around the Cape of Good Hope since Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi militants last month stepped up attacks on vessels transiting the Gulf of Aden and southern...
...“The Rafale is an important milestone, but not the whole story,” the official said, adding that the Balkan country had also bought French radar and missile systems and placed orders for Airbus transport...
...Some logistics companies offer a “southern route” that avoids Russia, going via Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkey....
...In 2023, transport backlogs pushed South Africa’s coal exports down to 50mn tonnes, their lowest since 1993. As with Eskom, the worst may be over....
...The Red Sea is a key route for sending internet traffic between the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe via undersea cables, which transport 99 per cent of intercontinental data....
...“They are on the 20-yard line to our homeland,” General Laura Richardson, commander of US Southern Command, said in August....
...China still remains by far the “stronger producer across all industries”, and its production and transport infrastructure is unmatched compared with those in most south-east Asian countries, said Andrea...
...Last week, Air China forecast a net loss of up to Rmb1.3bn for 2023, while China Southern Airlines said it expected to lose as much as Rmb4.7bn in the same period....
...Transport secretary Mark Harper agreed a contract extension of up to nine years in September 2023....
Announcement comes amid rebound in country’s tourism and economic recovery
...Piñera, 74, was piloting the helicopter when it crashed into Lake Ranco in the southern Chilean region of Los Ríos, where his family owns a summer home, according to local media....
...The country’s largest transport union on Thursday said its members had “spoken in huge numbers” to accept the offer....
...“We have given the government every opportunity to come to the table but it has now been a year since we had any contact from the Department for Transport....
...This attack will probably prompt more shipowners to avoid the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden....
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