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Joint drug bust nets shabu worth P6.8M
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Philippine rice imports are projected to reach a record 3 million metric tons (MT) by year-end, making the country the top rice importer in…
AISL: foreign carriers ready to comply with IMO 2020
Members of the Association of International Shipping Lines (AISL) are ready for the strict enforcement next year of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) global…
ICTSI declares 25% income growth for first 9 months
Port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) reported a net income of US$204.968 million in the first nine months of 2019, 25% higher…
Cebu Pacific group profit surges 143% from Jan-Sept
Low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific and subsidiary Cebgo reported a net income of P6.754 billion in the first nine months of 2019, up 142.9% from…
Fall in shipping revenue drives 2GO loss in first 3 quarters
2GO Group, Inc. incurred a net loss of P758 million in the first nine months of 2019, higher than the P707 million loss for…
Transportation, communication key to reaping BIMP-EAGA gain for Mindanao
Mindanao can only reap the benefits of being part of the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) sub-region if Mindanao’s…
IMO launches free online reporting tool
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has made available online and free of charge a tool used by software developers for creating systems for exchanging…
CJ Logistics inaugurates new parcel distribution center in Thailand
South Korean-based CJ Logistics has launched a new parcel distribution center in Thailand with plans to invest a total of US$43 million in the…
Supply Chain Perspective to be held in Davao City
The Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines, the country’s premiere supply chain organization, will hold a day-long conference, Supply Chain Perspective, in Davao…
BOC releases guidelines for submission of advance declaration to CTS
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has issued operational guidelines on the submission by foreign carriers and their agents of the advance cargo declaration and…
PPA uniform rules on port tariff out
Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has issued uniform port tariffs for use as base tariff on contracts categorized as Tier 3 under the agency’s new…
South Harbor’s Pier 13 closed from Nov 12—PPA
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is closing condemned Pier 13 in Manila South Harbor from commercial and non-commercial maritime and ancillary activities starting November…
PAL Holdings president Lucio “Bong” Tan, Jr. dies
PAL Holdings, Inc. president Lucio Tan, Jr. passed away on the morning of November 11 due to brain herniation. Tan, Jr., 53, was hospitalized…
US-led Blue Dot Network launched to counter Belt and Road Initiative
The United States, Japan and Australia unveiled recently the Blue Dot Network, whose goal is to “advance high-quality, trusted infrastructure development standards” and which…
Cathay transfers 16 Airbus jet orders to HK Express
The Cathay Pacific group announced it will allocate half of its 32 A321neo aircraft for delivery between 2020 and 2024 to HK Express, as…
The Movers Are Moving Away
On our way back from our extended weekend break, we passed by a newly-built distribution center, with many trucks, seemingly new, parked outside. …
Optimize Your Resources Using Technology
Wastage of resources can have a crippling effect on the logistics business as it is a resource-intensive service industry. Ineffective use of resources has…
Maersk looks to battery power to reduce fuel consumption
Global shipping service leader Maersk will install in a trial this December a containerized 600 kilowatt-hour (kWh) marine battery system on board the Maersk…
DSV Panalpina’s CFO turns 50
Jens Lund joined DSV as Group CFO in 2002 – at the age of 32. In 2000, he was working for Carnegie Investment Bank…
