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Shipping News
- Piracy attacks on global shipping up 40% in first half
[SINGAPORE] World-wide pirate attacks on international shipping are up 40 per cent for the first half of the year over the same period last year with Indonesia once again topping the list.
- Guangdong port gets 200m yuan investment
- UK studying impact of wash waves
Air and Land Transport
- Officials certain of events before crash but unable to link them
[PARIS] Accident investigators discussed last week's crash of an Air France Concorde for the second day on Tuesday, after establishing four virtual certainties about the disaster but without establishing any definitive link between the events that doomed the supersonic aircraft.
- Demand for Concorde services holding up: BA
- Continental's top executives sign 5-year contracts
- Delta creates executive personnel post
- Log Book
Features
- Firms vie for European stake
EUROPE has become the make-or-break market for the world's leading air express companies. As the industry's consolidation gains speed, a half-dozen top operators are trying to stake out positions. Europe's express, courier and parcel business is undergoing the same process of change that reshaped the US industry in the last decade.
Logistics
- Asia transport sector backs landmark Sino-US trade pact
TRANSPORT firms in Asia are weighing in behind the definitive US Senate vote on bestowing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) on China. The US Senate voted last week to proceed to debating the landmark Sino-US trade pact, putting the accord on track for expected approval in September.
- Paying cargo bills the faster, e-commerce way
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- Miami Air to enter cargo arena with lift from EGL
The charter operator will convert its fleet of eight 727s for freighter use.
- UPS e-Logistics provides one-stop e-business shop
The express provider plans to offer complete Web commerce packages.
- Pusan labor charges feel boom of port business
August saw stevedoring rates at the Korean port rise 5-8%.
- BA, KLM are expected to extend air merger talks
The airlines still must reach agreement on their shares in a combined carrier.
- E-mail going postal? USPS to test e-services
The move would bolster the $35 billion per year first-class mail business.
- Scratching the itch: Customs tries to wish away a legal defeat
The agency is ignoring a 1970 court decision on country of origin
- BA, KLM expected to extend merger talks
- E-mail going postal? USPS to test electronic services
- Emery breaks ground at Harrisburg Airport
- Interpool reports record 2Q profit
- Charleston sets port improvements, sees service changes
- MOL relocates Dallas office, promotes two
- Earnings jump 37% at Expeditors International
- Smit International acquires Vancouver barge company
- Rising fuel costs cut Wisconsin Central earnings
- FedEx Custom Critical acquires Passport Transport, expands into specialty automobiles
- Circle links logistics partnership in Singapore
- Hamburg-Sud bolsters North American logistics unit
- Phoenix opens DFW office
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- Far East rate restoration
- IRISL upgrades fleet
- Austral Line changes agent
- Sea-Land claims world record
- Dex establishes Advisory Council
- MOL online bunker site
- Marine cargo terminal for HKIA
- GAC opens in Indonesia
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- Four chemical companies in Rhine shipping Internet portal
- Panalpina to take care of logistics ASML
- Result truck maker Scania down by lower margins
- BA and KLM to extend negociation period
- Qantas to negociate Malaysia stake
- Korean contract for Descartes
- FedEx Custom to acquires Passport Transport
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- Thomas Poulsen joins APL Logistics
- Essar Shipping net profit up 64 pc
- IOC exports 9,000 t. light diesel oil
- Dumping duty on Chinese drug
- Exports register robust 28 pc growth in first quarter
- Govt plans tariff protection for auto-ancillary units
- IIFT signs MoU with Harvard Institute
- US move to check steel overcapacity in exporting nations
- Japan's demand recession tells on export growth
- Sugar exports stalled
- CWC-CFS Dronagiri Node notified as LCL Hub for JN Port
- Concor launches parcel van express service between Delhi, Chennai
- Pipavav Port sets cargo handling record in July
- TN defers Cuddalore port update programme
- Haldia Dock resumes iron ore traffic
- ICRA projects GDP growth at 6.6 per cent
- Oil firms cut furnace oil, LSHS prices
- Nagpur, Hyderabad take pride of place in fliers' satisfaction
- IGC forecasts higher global wheat output
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- Panama market update
- Asian price update
- Avails good in Durban despite refinery maintenance
- Crude rallies on massive US stock draw
- New posted prices for Jeddah and Dammam
- Singapore starts August on low, should rebound with crude
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- End of the line as Global Mariner sinks
FORMER International Transport Workers Federation exhibition ship the Global Mariner has sunk in Venezuela's Matanzas harbour following a collision with ice strengthened multipurpose cargoship Atlantic Crusader.
- Costa Crociere back in frame for Festival
COSTA Crociere appears to be on the verge of entering new takeover talks with Festival Cruises following last month's failure of the proposed merger between P&O Cruise and Festival.
- Gard earns surplus in tough year
GARD has become the latest protection and indemnity provider to feel the heat of tough underwriting conditions - but has edged into surplus on the huge account that covers 89.8m gt of owned and chartered ships.
- Defensive Storebrand doubles Kvaerner stake to 3.4%
THE Aker Maritime-Kvaerner news machine yesterday kept rolling in Norway with a revelation that leading insurer Storebrand had nearly doubled its Kvaerner stake to 3.4%, while the public pension fund had increased its percentage marginally to 7.35%.
- Cyprus 'sorry' for rustbucket
CYPRUS' maritime administration has taken the unusual step of apologising for the state of a tanker under its flag after the vessel was described as "a floating nightmare" by officials in Cape Town where she is under detention.
- Hellenic yard privatisation plan for 2001
GREECE is to press ahead with the privatisation of Hellenic Shipyards, the country's last state-controlled shipyard, with the stated intention of completing a sale by the first quarter of 2001, writes Nigel Lowry, Athens.
- China yards revamp brings in flood of orders
CHINESE shipbuilders saw their haul of newbuilding orders more than double in deadweight terms during the first half of 2000 compared to the corresponding period in 1999, according to London shipbroker Braemar.
- Dibden Bay in fresh setback
DIBDEN Bay, site of ABP's controversial planned container terminal near Southampton, has been included by the UK Countryside Agency within the draft boundary for the proposed New Forest national park.
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- ITF's Global Mariner sunk
- Crew rescued from sinking ship
- Cyprus acts over 'nightmare' ship
- Rotterdam e-bidding nets deal
- Fairplay predicts market trends
- China set for steel export record
- No rise seen in China grain imports
- Hellenic sale date set
- Virgins target cruise passengers
- Explosives ship raided
- BP to open Rhine web portal
- Smit acquires Rivtow
- LNG terminal for Kakinada
- Low water hits Lakes tonnage
- Unlucky casino ship in collision
- Divers to assess Carissa salvage
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- Le secteur pétrolier veut lancer une bourse électronique d'affrètement fluvial
Aux Pays-Bas, des sociétés actives dans le secteur pétrolier ont l'intention de créer une bourse électronique d'affrètement fluvial. A terme, le site serait développé en tant que système intégré pour l'activité fluviale, avec des liens vers d'autres sites Internet. Les promoteurs du projet estiment que "la bourse online révolutionnera la navigation rhénane traditionnelle".
- P&O Trans European se développe en Espagne et au Royaume-Uni
Ces dernières semaines, P&O Trans European a repris l'entreprise espagnole Transportes Internationales Marqueset et l'opérateur citernier britannique Forrestes. Le contrat avec la société de distribution italienne Rasimelli & Coletti a en outre été prolongé, de sorte qu'on peut parler d'une véritable percée en Europe du Sud. Pour couronner le tout, la filiale Ferrymasters a enlevé un contrat de transport de Thorn Lighting.
- Spliethoff aligne sa nouvelle génération de multipurpose sur Anvers
Escale remarquée ces jours-ci à Anvers à l'un des terminaux de Nova & Hessenatie Stevedoring du cargo-miltipurpose tweendecker "Schippersgracht" de 21.402 t.dw. (ou 1.025 TEU), que l'armement néerlandais Spliethoff aligne dans son service régulier conventionnel/breakbulk sur les Caraïbes et le nord de l'Amérique du Sud. Il s'agit de la première unité d'une série de 10, livrée en janvier 2000. Six sont déjà en service. Les quatre dernières devant être réceptionnées d'ici la fin de l'année. Normalement ce type de navire qui se distingue par deux grands sabords de charge à tribord, est aligné dans le cadre de transports inhérents à des contrats à long terme portant sur l'acheminement de papier de Finlande vers la côte Est des USA, le retour se faisant avec des cargaisons de pâte à papier. La venue à Anvers du "Schippersgracht", s'explique du fait que cette unité était libre et que le volume à destination des Caraïbes va croissant.
- Anvers: l'installation portuaire de réception de déchets Marpobel est opérationnelle
Depuis mardi, Marpobel, l'installation portuaire anversoise de réception de déchets d'exploitation des navires et des résidus de cargaison, est quasiment entièrement opérationnelle à l'extrême pointe de la quatrième darse portuaire, à hauteur du port 261. Seules les possibilités de dégazage et de rendre inerte font encore défaut, mais ces activités seraient assurées à partir de la mi-2001. Outres les flux de déchets liés aux navires, des déchets liquides provenant de l'industrie seront également traités dans l'installation. L'entreprise dispose en outre d'une installation de nettoyage pour poids-lourds et wagons-citernes.
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- Bollinger To Construct Double Hull
- Turkey to Rehabilitate Bank for Maritime Sector
- Ukraine To Sell Stake in Shipbuilder
- Moody's Rates Princess Cruises Bonds
- OceanConnect.com Accomplishes Premiere Bunker Transaction
- Conoco, Maritrans To Develop Gulf of Mexico Shuttle Tanker Technology
- Brazil Slaps Petrobras With Record Fine For Oil Spill
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