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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...

French air traffic controllers (ATC) plan to strike for at least 36 hours, starting on the evening of Wednesday, Mar. 30, Airlines for Europe (A4E) lobby group said in a statement. A4E said this will be the 43rd strike day in France since 2009, resulting in the cancellation of hundreds...

Brussels Airport remained closed through Sunday. The airport said March 25 that it was still uncertain when forensic investigators would finish their work in the terminal and the airport authorities would regain access to the building. Even after they do so, a survey will have to be conducted on any...

Freighter flights resumed Wednesday at Brussels Zaventem Airport, although it remains closed to all passenger traffic following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. A cargo source at Brussels Airport said landside cargo operations had resumed Wednesday morning, “and the airport will open again for full cargo flights operating at apron 9, the BRUcargo...