New requirements on shipping Lithium batteries starting from 1st Jan 2013 may bring impact to the industry players.
Almost all carriers including Maersk, MSC, G6 Alliance, Cosco, K-Line, Yang Ming and CSCL have announced the General Rates Increase (GRI) from Asia to Europe effective 1st November 2012.
MSC, CMA / ANL & G6 Alliance have announced to omit some of the sailings during the golden week in China (1st Oct to 7th Oct) which is the long holiday and people expects the gloomy market will be even worse.
SHIPPIING lines belonging to the CKYH alliance - Cosco, NYK Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin – will temporarily suspend the service NE4 fm Asia to Europe as from the beginning of October 2012.
Air France Cargo freighter flights to CDG will no longer be operated as from 5 August 2012.
Shipping lines keeps on re-structuring their service although the service level has no prominent improvement.
All time and temperature sensitive healthcare shipments must be labelled with the standard IATA "Time and Temperature Sensitive" label.
Air France-KLM Cargo has launched an enhanced Online Tracking Service via the iPhone app.
Air France launch an embargo for Cargo to LOS with immediate effect until further notice.
On April 02nd, 2012 Herport opened its first logistics platform in France through its logistics subsidiary SC-2.