Monday, March 11, 2013

CargonewsXpress - Edition 1446





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- Edition: 1446


Headlines

IAG accepts mediator's plan in Iberia row

Security staff to strike at Duesseldorf Airport

Maersk expects 11% capacity rise in 2013

Syrian conflict turns Lebanon into transhipment hub

Kuehne wants Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Sud to heve equal power

CKYH revamps Asia-Europe network

Two Japan forwarders fined for price-fixing





Contents

IAG accepts mediator's plan in Iberia row
International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), the holding company for Iberia and British Airways, has decided to accept a mediator's proposal to end a labour dispute at Iberia, reported Dow Jones Newswires.



Security staff to strike at Duesseldorf Airport
Security staff at Duesseldorf airport are to strike Monday in a dispute over wages with the German federation of security firms, or BDSW, labour union Verdi said, reported Dow Jones Newswires.



Maersk expects 11% capacity rise in 2013
A P Moller-Maersk expects container ship capacity to grow 11 percent this year, outpacing demand, the chief of its container shipping business said, reported Dow Jones Newswires.





Syrian conflict turns Lebanon into transhipment hub
Before the conflict in Syria erupted in 2011, potatoes exported from the Bekaa Valley would travel by truck to Latakia's port, where they would be loaded onto a container vessel and shipped by sea to different markets in the Middle East.



Kuehne wants Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Sud to heve equal power
Hapag-Lloyd co-owner Klaus-Michael Kuehne wants the container shipping group's prospective merger partner Hamburg-Sud to have equal say in the mooted tie-up, he told a German paper.



CKYH revamps Asia-Europe network
CKYH, whose members are Coscon, "K" Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin Shipping, is reorganising its service network for Asia–North Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trades in 2013.



Two Japan forwarders
fined for price-fixing

Japanese freight forwarders Yusen Logistics and "K" Line Logistics have agreed to pay a combined US$18.9 million in criminal fines for conspiring to fix fees, the US Justice Department said.



 

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