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Six German airports including Frankfurt/Main, Munich, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Dortmund and Hannover will be affected if the strike by German public services trade union Verdi moved forward on Wednesday, April 27. Frankfurt Airport will be affected from early morning until 3 p.m. local time, including ground-services, check-in, maintenance areas and also...

Workers at several German airports including Frankfurt will strike on April 27 in support of a wage increase, the Verdi union said. Strikes will affect Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund and Hanover airports. At Frankfurt, ground services, check-in, shops, aviation security inspectors and the fire service will strike until about...

Indonesia fears piracy on a shipping route along its sea border with the Philippines could reach Somalian levels and has told vessels to avoid danger areas, officials said on Thursday, after a spate of kidnappings. Analysts say the route carries $40 billion worth of cargo each year. It is taken...

Following the severe earthquake that struck Ecuador on April 16th, 2016, the ports of Guayaquil, Puerto Bolivar and Esmeraldas are 100% operational. The Port of Manta has stopped all operations until the complete revision of its structure, piers and yards. Until further notice, vessels are being diverted to other ports. 

Logistics providers out of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust are again reporting long truck queues and frequent gate closings at terminals in India’s busiest public container gateway. Trade is facing massive traffic and port congestion on a regular basis at all three terminals i.e. NSICT (DP World Nhava Sheva), GTI (APM...

More than 100,000 customers lost power and Houston’s airports canceled hundreds of flights as a line of thunderstorms dropped more than a foot of rain across southeastern Texas on April 18th. The National Weather Service declared a flash-flood emergency until 1 p.m. local time. George Bush Intercontinental Airport declared a...

Work action by Belgian air traffic controllers brought flights to a halt at Brussels Airport on Tuesday. The air traffic controllers staged an unannounced action on April 12th to protest Belgocontrol making changes to employees’ retirement benefits. Brussels Airport, which reopened on April 3 after being closed by the terrorist...

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach do not have the infrastructure that would allow them to weigh containers before they are loaded onto ships, so shippers will have to make other arrangements for obtaining the required verified gross mass (VGM) of the containers before a July 1 international deadline takes...

Brussels Airport has restarted services following the terrorist attacks on 22 March in a reopening ceremony attended by government ministers. The first flight took off on 3 April at 13.40h, destined for Faro (Portugal), and was given a salute of honour by the emergency services in a ceremony held in...

There are now less than 100 days before a new international container weight rule goes into effect and the rollout is taking shape in very different ways in each of the 162 participating nations, with some governments giving clear guidelines while others haven’t provided any direction at all to date. Effective July...