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Shipping News
- Master of S'pore tanker arrested in US
[SINGAPORE] The Greek captain of the Singapore-flagged oil tanker detained in San Francisco Bay since Sept 24, has been arrested by US federal authorities over safety and environmental violations.
- PSA, P&O Ports take equal stakes in S'pore Internet venture
- Indon fishermen to be roped in to clean up oil spill
Air and Land Transport
- Loss-making Virgin Express aims to post profit next year
[BRUSSELS] European airline Virgin Express, hit by the weakness of the euro and expensive fuel, hopes to deliver a profit next year after losing money in 1999 and 2000, the company's managing director said.
- Ansett makes A$15.3m takeover offer for Aussie airline Hazelton
- MAS/FlightSafety training centre eyes regional market
- US airlines await word on award of China flights
- DHL to build new IT centre in Malaysia
- Qatar Air orders Airbus business jet
Features
- Taiwan bids to be global hub
Taipei's planned global-logistics centre should allow companies on the island to save distribution costs of $11b.
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- Customs posts list of companies that paid import fraud penalties
Zenith, 3M and Alcoa are among the names of more than 300 companies that paid section 1592 penalties during the first six months of 2000.
- House members ask Justice to investigate USPS-FedEx link
Three senior House of Representative members have sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno questioning the deal between the U.S. Postal Service and FedEx and have asked for a Justice Department review.
- Open Skies bid close to collapse, next week's talks in doubt
The Clinton administration's attempt to liberalize air transport between the United States and Britain is on the verge of collapse. Officials are weighing whether talks would be fruitful enough to proceed to the next round of 'open skies' negotiations on passenger and cargo services scheduled for October 18 in London.
- ILWU president Spinosa to speak at Wesccon
- Weidemeyer named chief operating officer at UPS
- Coffee trade group to spur traffic to Port of Houston
- FreightDesk.com partners with Vastera
- Transportation.com partners with Volvo trucks
- ASEAN Shippers' Council head calls for end to rate-fixing
- Pegasus Aviation picks former Crowley official as CFO
- China carrier closes air cargo depots in consolidation moves
- Germans, Italians seek ways to speed transport
- SIA boosts freighters to US, Asian and European points
- PSA, P&O buying into online logistics provider
- Kintetsu World Express upgrades Chinese infrastructure
- A.T. Kearney goes deeper into e-transportation
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- Empty vessels make most noise at HK's land borders
- ITIC Forum 2000
- Government boost for Malaysian air cargo
- Strong August for Cathay
- Pilots found SPA
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- Container shipping less profitable
- 'Open skies' agreement 'overcast'
- Kühne & Nagel in for Texbid logistics
- Repairs on Mont Blanc tunnel
- Maersk Sealand restructure pacific services
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- MOL sets vessel productivity record at PSA’s Keppel Terminal
- Maersk Sealand orders 10 Kalmar straddle carriers
- Milk powder export prospects brighten
- Assocham study sees need to find new leather markets
- New north-south corridor with Russia to expedite trade, cut costs
- Handsome Lankan orders for red split lentils likely
- It’s ‘Open Sesame’ for exporters now!
- Garment exports up 11 pc in Jan.-Sept.
- PHD Chamber to hold global tax conference
- Knitwear’s share in garment export basket rising
- BSES, GPPIL sign MoU to develop India’s first SEZ at Positra
- Curtail fiscal gap to 3 pc: Assocham
- E-com business projected to grow 50-fold by 2005
- RBI withdraws credit margin on free sale sugar
- 16 pc growth target set for textiles
- RBI removes restrictions on EEFC account
- Rajnath Singh to meet top brass of road industry
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- Reactions to IMO compromise on single hull tanker phase-out
- New Company listing on Bunkerworld.com
- KPC reports partial restart of major export refinery
- Russian fuel oil exports set to fall in October
- Oil continues higher on unexpected drop in US inventories
- Posted prices for Dammam and Jeddah
- Mexican price indications
- Price indications for Argentina
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- TPL launches direct Hong Kong/US west coast service
- Chapter 11 for Fine Air
- DHL opens logistics center in Ohio
- ISPA projects in Poland
- Russia admits more Azerbaijan vessels
- General Parcels Slowenija
- Fiege christens MC Warsaw
- Global Mail and DHL
- Vaernes considers salmon terminal
- Swiss forwarders fear chaos
- Pesa and Henriot take over Grandjean
- Through the night at 100 mph
- Amtrak is restructures its cargo sector
- F.S.Mackenzie forms alliance with Allstates WorldCargo
- Cathay to London Heathrow nonstop
- UA nonstop flight to Hong Kong
- Delta flights between Atlanta and Bogota
- DFDS Tor Line nine instead of six Immingham-Rotterdam crossings
- Cosco upgrades Genoa-New York
- APL increases commitment on the Atlantic
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- Infinity will be late
Royal Caribbean says that after carefully reviewing the status of its newest ship, Infinity,in conjunction with shipbuilder Chantiers de L'Atlantique, it has decided to delay the launch date by four weeks.
- Tanker captain held without bail
According to the San Francisco Chronicle a tanker now at the center of a federal criminal probe broke down 12 times on its voyage from Australia to San Francisco last month and was "in such poor condition that the captain prayed for his safety and that of his crew."
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- Port Seattle plans business mission to Vietnam February 25 to March 8
- Totem Ocean Trailer Express wins Pollution Prevention award from Alaska
- Port of Seattle officials briefed on Fishermen's Terminal redevelopment
- Port of Portland staff meet neighbors to discuss Ramsey Rail Yard issues
- GAO denies last two protests against MARAD's latest awards to manage vessels
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- PSA reiterates overseas ambitions
- Growth for Rotterdam
- Keelung hits records
- IRA lines raise rates in Middle East
- Two ships for Evergreen AWS
- Savannah call on AUE service
- Allies hub Dubai
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- The Royal Navy's prototype Triton Warship Demonstrator sails past the Thames Barrier yesterday
The Royal Navy's prototype Triton Warship Demonstrator sails past the Thames Barrier yesterday on its way to mooring next to the Royal Navy ship HMS Belfast at London's Tower Bridge. The experimental trimaran will remain on show for a week before commencing sea trials.
- Daewoo Heavy in yard spin-off
SOUTH Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries is to be split into three later this month to help creditors restructure and sell off the world's second largest shipbuilder.
- Mosvold predicts volatility on rates
MOSVOLD Shipping, the Oslo-listed tanker operator, is predicting a volatile freight rate scenario over the next couple of years, but does not expect a sudden drop in rates overall.
- BP charter deal pays dividends for Nordic
SUEZMAX operator Nordic American Tanker Shipping has become the maritime version of the United States Mint, thanks to a booming freight market combined with a fortuitous charter deal with BP Shipping, writes Rajesh Joshi, Oslo.
- Strike is averted after P&O clinches Rotterdam deal
MANAGEMENT and workers at ro-ro shipping company P&O North Sea Ferries in Rotterdam have reached a new collective working agreement, narrowly averting the threat of strike action.
- New North Sea oil spill response team ready
UK-BASED Oil Spill Response and Briggs Marine Environmental Services have teamed up to offer an enhanced oil spill response service to operators in the North Sea oil industry.
- Cableship bound for Far East from A&P
CABLE Innovator, the world's first purpose-built all stern working cableship and Global Marine's flagship, is pictured here sailing from Falmouth, southwest England, where she underwent a three-week refit at the A&P Falmouth shipyard.
- FEFC members divided over call for reform
SHOULD the Far Eastern Freight Conference have a facelift?
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- Polembros tanker captain arrested
- Dalian yard set for expansion
- Nicotine smugglers nicked
- Capesize obtains stunning rate
- Freeport set for fast development
- Fairplay focuses on family feuds
- Call to avoid sub-standard ships
- Australian apple barriers crumble
- Path cleared for DHI split
- Preussag lifts cruise profile
- Viking Line goes Swedish
- More Erika oil washed ashore
- P&O’s Chennai plans stalled
- Australasian ports form alliance
- Philippines to clean up ports
- Lines win stay of Santos tax
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- La CE prolongerait l’intervention PACT pour le short sea au-delà de 2001
La CE semble mettre un point d’honneur à faire prévaloir le short sea sur la scène du transport européen. Le 5e programme cadre prévoit un groupe de travail thématique pour le short sea, qui devra traiter plusieurs sujets, parmi lesquels la nécessité de développer un cadre pour établir des comparaisons statistiques se rapportant aux divers modes et établir des indicateurs de performance intermodale sur le plan de l’environnement, et enfin il y a l’examen des prix door-to-door impliquant le short sea pour comparaison avec d’autres modes. “Il est impératif d’établir si le prix est un obstacle au short sea où s’il s’agit d’un problème d’image, de même qu’il est essentiel de procéder à une décomposition du prix global
en fonction des éléments qui le constituent de manière à apprécier leur impact sur le prix total de la chaîne intermodale dans le concept porte-à-porte”, Cristobal Millan De La Lastra, attaché au directorat général TREN de la CE, qui occupait la tribune de la 4e convention Euro-Med tenue récemment à Valence, a laissé entrevoir des perspectives positives pour ce qui est du développement du short sea.
- Les exclus de la FNTR créent une nouvelle organisation, l’OTRE
Mardi a été annoncé à Paris - à la veille du Congrès de la FNTR, tout un symbôle - la création d’une nouvelle organisation professionnelle de transporteurs rotiers en France: l’Organisation des Transporteurs Routiers Européens (OTRE). Elle rassemble des fédérations départementales ayant été “délabellisées” par la FNTR en raison de leur attitude radicale lors de la crise du diesel. La création de cette nouvelle organisation risque de provoquer des chamboulements dans le paysage des associations françaises de transporteurs. L’AFTRI pourrait en sortir gagnante, car un rapprochement semble s’amorcer avec la nouvelle organisation.
- Noord Natie a inauguré le terminal mixte de Ventspils
Le 6 octobre dernier marquera une date importante dans l’histoire du port de Ventspils, puisqu’il s’agissait de l’inauguration officielle d’un nouveau terminal mixte ultra-moderne exploité sous le nom de “Noord Natie Ventspils Terminals”. Le manutentionnaire anversois a non seulement contribué pour 40% à cet investissement de 70 mio. de dollars, mais y a apporté son know how et de plus en assure la gestion. Les 60% restants représentent la participationn de partenaires portuaires locaux. En outre, ce terminal présente la particularité d’être intégré dans des trafics qui intéressent également le port scaldien.
- Les ports autrichiens du Danube veulent resserrer les liens avec Anvers
A peine 15 pour cent du petit million de tonnes de marchandises transportées chaque année entre Anvers et l’Autriche sont acheminés par la voie fluviale. “Dans les deux cas, ces chiffres peuvent être améliorés”, estiment les responsables des quatre ports publics autrichiens sur le Danube.
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Maritime Contract News
- Aker Maritime Gets Contract
- Shipping Company Secures Loan For 7 Ships
Breaking News
- Tanker Captain Charged In San Francisco
- Daewoo To Split Into Three Units
- Royal Caribbean Leads Oslo In September
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- Hundreds rescued from blazing ferry
Rescue operation averts major Philippine ferry disaster.
- OMI tankers log record rates
US tanker giant OMI Corp has something to smile about as its tankers pull in the big bucks.
- CMA-CGM forges ahead
French container line CMA-CGM has boosted its profits after starting new transpacific and Asian routes.
- New top man at Cosco HK
The former boss of Cosco's European outfit has been brought in to head up operations in Hong Kong.
- Bergesen gas ship falls foul of port state control
Australian port state control pulled in 14 ships with deficiencies for detention during September.
- Daewoo Heavy to spin-off shipbuilding division
Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries has said it will split into three companies after a new law was passed to reduce its tax burden.
- Buyers eye up Mosvold VLCC newbuilding
Tanker hungry speculators are circling a Mosvold Shipping VLCC newbuilding.
- Neptune Dorado captain arrested
The troubled tanker's master faces charges of lying to US Coastguard officials and falsifying documents, after oil was found in ballast tanks.
- Olympic orders offshore vessel
Norway's Olympic Shipping has returned to Aker Brattvaag for a new cable-layer.
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