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Shipping News
- S'pore to have central body to train seafarers
S'pore Maritime Academy will maximise use of training resources, facilities
- Philippine Martime Training Council to administer STCW
- Privatisation of Saudi road transport, shipping urged
- Hyundai buys stake in shipping dotcom
Air and Land Transport
- Stiffer competition drags down JAL profit by 26%
Japan's biggest carrier blames fare cuts, drop in demand for pricier seats
- MAS' absence in alliances may hurt KLIA
- Boeing confirms S$4b 737 order
Features
- IMO turns eye to ships' waste
Developing a global legal instrument to regulate management of ballast water on ships is a high priority
Columns
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- Jakarta dockers rally against Hutchison deal
- NOL withholds dividends for third consecutive year
- Shipyards offer services to scrap aging US fleets
- Merger, higher freight prices boost MOL profit
- Newship for Rickmers-Linie
- Southern Seas eyes South Africa
- UTi expands into Czech Republic
- Boeing rolls up sleeves for super-carrier fight
- Pudong doubles daily flights
- UK open skies investigation
- Chinese made MA60 set to flourish
- Continental to offer seasonal Mexican destinations
- ECT to do battle with air couriers
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- Postal services: slow opening of european postal market
- More flights to Amsterdam
- Net profit Air France rose 42 percent
- APL expands container fleet
- Danzas expands in Middle East
- CityMail and The Post Office in Swedish agreement
- Evergreen to establish its own agencies in France and The Benlux
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- Ministry declares SEZ areas as 'foreign territory'
- S. Africa offers expertise in core sectors
- Railways, Pipavav Port to form SPV
- EOU, STP units allowed to take up trading activities
- Fema dilutes RBI role to a facilitator
- Fixed $-denominated duty imposed on SBR imports
- State seeks defence land for Nagpur multimodal hub airport
- New tax board chiefs appointed
- Centre for state govts acquiring stake in SEZs
- Ircon bags Syrian contract
- Karnataka to award Tadri port project shortly
- Specific norms for gem & jewellery units in SEZs laid down
- Aluminium output up
- Swiss pharma majors focusing on India for investment
- Amend law to assure JVs on sanctity of contracts: Ficci
- IMC Ladies' Wing office-bearers
- New laws in offing to facilitate ports corporatisation
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- Bunker barge service planned for Cape Town
- IBC: Aftermath of the "Sour diesel affair" - Lawyers and environmentalists raise questions
- Brent up amidst RFG and crude shortages
- IBC: Events leading up to the "Sour diesel affair"
- Iraqi oil production continuing to rise
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- New Agency to Maintain Roads in Tanzania
- KPA Officials' Reform Efforts Praised
- Old Ships Come Under EU Fitness Scrutiny in September
- Uganda Plans to Delink Water, Railway Services
- Now French Navy to Police Tanzania Waters
- Joint Railways Secretariat Set for Kampala
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- FGH to sell repair yards to Bollinger
Friede Goldman Halter, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its vessel repair unit to Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. of Lockport, La for $80 million
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- CSAV goes global with Norasia coup
INDEPENDENT Chilean carrier Companhia SudAmerica de Vapores has expanded out of South America by acquiring the name and liner activities of Norasia, the privately-owned Swiss carrier.
- ITF leader Cockroft seriously hurt in fall
INTERNATIONAL Transport Workers Federation leader David Cockroft has been rushed into intensive care following a serious accident while hill walking in Wales over the Whitsun holiday weekend.
- Frontline says best is to come
THE best is yet to come was the message from John Fredriksen's Frontline as the leading tanker company unveiled a return to profit in the first quarter.
- Creditors claim scalp of Hyundai boss
CHUNG Ju-yung, the founder, owner and honourary chairman of Hyundai Group, is to quit his managerial position, bowing to pressure from its creditors and the government to hand over day-to-day running of South Korea's largest conglomerate, writes Dale Wainwright.
- Rights are wrong for Kvaerner
KVAERNER yesterday unveiled a NKr2.5bn ($279m) rights issue to "exploit growth and development opportunities", but the stock market did not like the group's ambiguity and sent the group's shares plummeting to a 19-month low.
- Boxship CMA CGM Gascogne
The 7,075 dwt boxship CMA CGM Gascogne is pictured in the port of Le Havre during her first call. The vessel, which has a capacity of 558 teu, is deployed in the Atlantic feeder service of CMA-CGM. She was built in 1994 by Verolme shipyard of Heusden.
- Plan to raise capacity of Oman LNG plant
OMAN LNG, the company behind the new LNG plan in Qalhat, said it was actively seeking to expand the facility with a third gas liquefaction train which it hopes will be operational by 2004.
- BP Amoco alliance boost for Sembawang yard
AN evergreen alliance between BP Amoco Shipping and Sembawang shipyard yesterday is expected to be worth around S$25m (US$14.6m) - S$35m year to the Singapore yard.
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- Marshalls declare war on Liberia, Panama
- Churchill hopes for extended season
- Sugar cheats face charges
- India Steamship building to be sold
- Norasia sells Med services to CSAV
- Canada maintains tough line on steel dumping
- New container terminal for UAE
- W Australia to finance new port
- Hyundai might reduce cruise service
- Security objection to port project
- China to restructure shipping
- H&W wins cruise ship order
- Jakarta terminal strike ends
- US bill aims to normalise links with Cuba
- Fujimori rejects election criticism
- Reprieve for Indian steel exporters
- Sunken tug closes Houston Channel
- Primorsk transfers to Singapore
- NYK lifts stake in water transport company
- Stowaway ship auctioned
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Home
- Norasia deal elevates CSAV to global status
- Logistics on the Web: Hurry up and wait
- Fine Air to use grace period for debt payment
- West Coast ports strain to keep up with surging Asian imports
- Lines announce Pacific rate increase
- UPS, dot-com plan Mexico logistics alliance
- International Lease Finance Corp. orders 50 Boeing 737 jets
- Dot.com incubator to use iLink Global as logistics provider
- Cosco unit launches financial service for freight transactions
- STB finds railroad can't be common carrier and contract carrier simultaneously
- Yang Ming Line leasing more space at Port of Kaohsiung
- Canada's KnightHawk loses Canadex air freight contract
- Swisscargo quarter up 8%
- United-USAir merger concerns freight forwarder
- Supreme Court to resolve dispute over maritime rules
- APL adding $100 million in boxes to fleet
- JOC Opinion -- Lesson for shipping
- Dull named Polar executive
- Justices to clarify court role in tariffs
- UP tanker car is blown up
- Mike Berman's Tech Talk: A no-frills surf-ari on the Internet
- Seattle port on the comeback trail
- Transport interests to profit from closer U.S.-China ties
- Editor's Notebook -- In NY-NJ port, a turf contest between pilots
- Amazon taps Manugistics
- Rail corridor planned between Baltic, Black seas
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Maritime Contract News
- Harland & Wolff Wins $350M Order
Breaking News
- SembCorp Gets BP Shipping Deal
- Thirteen Die In Tanker Fire
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- ILFC orders more Boeing aircraft
- Danzas establishes joint venture in Oman
- Embraer launches China operation
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