Mondiale is proud to announce the following service improvement on offer ex the United Kingdom to Auckland available from the 1st April: AIRLINE WAREHOUSE - CUT OFF HEATHROW - ETD AUCKLAND - ETA Air NZ Direct Thursday Friday Sunday Air NZ Direct Saturday Monday Wednesday…
From 16th July all LCL rates will increase by EUR 2.00 per w|m. This is to recover a container rate increase announced by HAMBURG SUD to take effect from July.
Both major German ports Hamburg & Bremerhaven continue to experience congestion issues due to regional booking volumes combined with bad weather. This is leading to backlogs at both German inland depots & at rail terminals of surrounding countries, ie Hungary, due to large container volumes being…
Space & equipment continues to be in high demand out of the UK & Northern Europe with many Shipping Lines now not taking bookings out to mid to late April. As a result of this Maersk Lines are implementing a price increase out of this region in the vicinities of USD100-150 per TEU effective 1st…
Currently all shipping lines ex UK & Northern Europe Ports are experiencing larger than normal export volumes which is leading to space and equipment shortages. We would advise you to allow greater lead times when placing orders (up to 2 weeks additional) to allow sufficent time to book space &…
Due to heavy traffic congestion issues throughout the UK, our airfreight agent WTA has advised that they can no longer uplift and transport airfreight shipments on Fridays in order to meet weekend departures ex London. It is even unlikely that high priced Express Transport pickups would be able…
In order to clear the current congestion that has built up at Cartagena Port, Hamburg Sud is not taking any bookings for departure week 21 ex UK & Belgium to Australia/ New Zealand. With this we have moved this week's UK Groupage sailing to the MAREN MAERSK 520E with an ETA Auckland 03/07/15. At…
Further to our advise last week to expect delays to the LCL service on HAMBURG SUD ex Europe / UK / MED - we have just been advised that with immediate affect no container bookings will be accepted by HAMBURG SUD from the above origin points to New Zealand until earliest mid May. The container…
All shipping lines servicing the Europe - SE Asia trade lane are desperate to increase ocean freight rates on this sector. Part of the strategy to achieve this is to create a space shortage on what are particularly large vessels. The lines are achieving this by having blank sailings - where bookings…
Mondiale has been using HAMBURG SUD from Nth Europe, UK and the Med for all of our LCL services in to New Zealand for some time now. This is due to our policy of using the Carrier with the quickest transit time and most reliable service to New Zealand. However this year we have had a number of short…
Maersk have announced their intention to increase container rates from the above origin points by US$250.00 per 20' / US$350.00 per 40' from 1st March 2014. We have yet to discuss this rate increase with Maersk as it has only just been announced. Should they proceed with the increase at these…
For some time now we have concentrated most of our LCL services from the above areas on HAMBURG SUD. This service tranships cargo on to NZ call vessels at the Port of Cartagena in Columbia. This has over time proven to be the most consistent and quickest service. Just lately however there have been…