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Shipping News
- Antwerp pips Hamburg to become Europe's No 2 port
[SINGAPORE] The Port of Antwerp has created a minor stir among European ports, climbing a notch to second position based on first-half figures for the year.
- EU plan to phase out single-hulled tankers slammed
- Ports of Auckland's profit jumps 25%
- Port Klang aims for a top 10 spot by year-end
- Manila's ICTSI seeks to expand in Japan, Brazil
Air and Land Transport
- Major air crash every week by 2010, pilots warn
[LONDON] A major aircraft will crash every week by the year 2010 unless the current accident rate can be reduced, the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations warned (IFALPA) on Tuesday.
- Virgin Express plunges into red
- China Airlines struggles to shed risk-taking military culture
- Cathay, BA vie for premium class travellers
- France threatens S Korea with WTO action
- Air India passengers appalled by treatment
Features
- Investigators rule out sabotage
[WASHINGTON] OPENING the final chapter in the longest and most expensive crash investigation in its 33-year history, the United States National Transportation Safety Board began a two-day meeting on Tuesday to review a draft of its final report on the cause of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 over Long Island four years ago.
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- Embattled Halterm loses MSC service
MSC picks container terminal Cerescorp Inc. over competitor.
- Smith steps down from Liberian ship registry job
His plans are to work for the registry as a consultant and as its liaison with organizations such as the International Maritime Organization.
- Typhoon rakes Taiwan, closes Kaohsiung port
High waves battered sea walls at the world's third-largest container port, and scores of flights were cancelled.
- Savannah, Georgia ports hit record cargo volume
Total cargo handle was 12.1 million tons, up 4.3%, in fiscal 2000.
- General Electric will take stake in rail Web market
GE has signed a letter of intent to be a strategic investor in FreightWise, BNSF's online transport exchange.
- Air Canada, pilots study contract proposal following difficult mediation
- San Juan reopens after brush with Debby
- No labor agreement for ECT
- Tropical Shipping posts higher earnings
- G-Log, Consolidated Commerce form partnership
- Profits sink at SAirGroup, but cargo improves
- Brazil customs ends protests
- Port of Tianjin upgrades navigation channel
- Estonia blazes a new trail with rail privatization
- San Juan shuts down as hurricane approaches
- Descartes loss narrowed in second quarter
- MOL appoints trans-Pacific marketing manager
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- SCT answers online
- Sri Lanka rate restoration
- Cosco leans towards logistics
- CCNI to lease APL Americas slots
- LA reduces box parking time
- Container shipping summit
- Landstar sets sail with ocean cargo services
- SAirGroup drops Portugalia bid
- NWA breaks July record
- FedEx introduces GTM
- Mercury deal with Alitalia
- Express One leases Boeing from Pegasus Aviation
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- Lufthansa revises profit expectations upwards
- ECT fears strike
- Break-up airline holding Mexico
- Earnings Swissair down 33 percent
- Drivernet to link with driver club
- China Southern with New York-China cargo service
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- Cambodia Ship Registry eyes top 20 position
- West Coast Logistics completes year of successful operation
- Hanjin Shipping nets record profit in H1
- Small exporters deserve a better deal: Fieo chief
- ITPO to organise week-long agro fair in Nepal
- Tex-Styles India fair slated for January 2001
- Coal import duties may be raised: Minister
- WTI to start 20th batch on Foreign Trade
- Sugar exporters may reap a bonanza
- Car, boilers exports fetch more revenue to ChPT
- MbPT awards recipients under Volume Discount Scheme
- Ficci organises national conference on Development of Ports & SEZs
- UP to throw open 250 projects to private sector
- Road project phase-I for Nagpur cleared
- BA to augment cargo flights on Delhi-London sector
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| AUGUST 23, 2000 |
- Rodriguez to visit Norway next month
- OPEC could pump more oil
- Crude up as API stats show decreased stocks
- Baltic price indications
- Mexican price indications
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| AUGUST 23, 2000 |
- John T. Essberger and VOPAK form alliance for chemical tankers
- Covenant transport acquires Con-Way Truckload services
- Overnite adds five states to regional advantage services
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- URC Does Not Intend to Reinstate Passenger Service
- Dar, Ishaka Ready to Rival Mombasa
- 'Erika' Owner Says He's Not to Blame Over Spill
- Tanzania Seamen Don't Qualify for Compensation
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- FedEx opens office in Richards Bay
- Lloyd Triestino will continue slot charter
- Portnet juggles its charges
- Strike cripples Richards Bay
- Labour laws to be discussed
- Slow-movers lose out on free entry into US
- East London first SA port of call in Hual's new service
- Law helps importers
- Safmarine man receives shipping award
- Going intermodal
- New operators for Maputo harbour
- Check on those customs code numbers
- Road hauliers combine to start driver training programme
- Coega container plans detail two layout options
- Insurance against stowaways
- Safmarine looks into joint venture community projects
- Maputo corridor stages a comeback after rains
- Blood flowed at El-Shaddai
- Vehicle exports on a roll
- Rice boiled over into a dilemma for the sheriff
- Is Max a seafarer or a landlubber?
- Air cargo growth
- Full steam ahead to change Spoornet's locomotive fleet
- Is it the haulier or the road builder who is the real villain?
- Export management
- Fuel price plays big role in inflation
- Policy dispute stymies Treasure's insurance claims
- P&ON restructures to reflect logistics focus
- Vessel arrest threat adds twist to drug bust
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- Masa-Yards wins another Carnival order
Kvaerner has secured its second major cruise ship agreement this week
- Cammell Laird and Aker team on FPSO's etc.
Cammell Lairds Holdings PLC and Aker McNulty, a subsidiary of Aker Maritime, have signed a teaming agreement for offshore floating production conversion work.
- P&I club warning on California Block Stowage
The London P&I Club has warned its members that some charterers are still trying to persuade masters of bulk carriers loading large steel slabs in China that the controversial California Block Stowage (CBS) configuration is safe
- New appointment at LISCR
LISCR, the managing company for the Liberian Registry, has appointed Scott Bergeron as Maritime Operating Officer.
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- Family sues for damages over Malta tanker blast
The family of one of the nine Malta Drydocks victims who lost their lives on board the Libyan tanker Um el Faroud in February 1995 have filed an action for damages in the Maltese Civil Court, writes Cecil Jones in Malta.
- Grimaldi in ACL swoop
ITALY'S Grimaldi family has spent around $50m scooping over a third of Atlantic Container Line, the north Atlantic carrier with a sizeable interest in the deepsea car trades.
- Star to list in Hong Kong
Star Cruises shareholders have approved the company's proposed listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange and plans to raise as much as S$1.89bn (US$1.09bn) by issuing up to 300m new shares.
- Simon plays down Humber rivalry fears
UK ports and logistics operator Simon Group yesterday played down the prospect of increased competition on the Humber estuary, despite the fact that its recently completed Humber Sea Terminal will break Associated British Ports' monopoly on port facilities in the region.
- APL outlines aggressive intra-Asian fleet expansion
RIDING on the back of strong Asian trade growth, APL is planning to deploy up to 13 new ships in the region and double the size of its intra-Asian business.
- Toisa returns to Appledore for support ship
Toisa has awarded a contract to Appledore Shipbuilders to construct a multi-role offshore support vessel to be delivered at the beginning of June 2001.
- Opec moves too late to stop oil price spikes
HIGH oil prices are here to stay as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries has left it too late to protect winter crude levels, according to analysts.
- Seven operators cited for Alaska smoke pollution
Seven cruise companies have been cited for pumping excessive smoke into the atmosphere in Alaska.
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- Cruise ship spree goes on
- 'Gherkin' go-ahead upsets Baltic
- Union releases Burmese ship
- Double drugs bust at Canadian ports
- Cape rates continue slide
- Carib upcoast spike blunted
- China plans Shanghai-Ningbo bridge
- Go-ahead for Star fund-raising
- ICTSI subsidiary attracts offers
- ECT faces strike action
- German yard boosts Kværner
- Austeel signs gas deal
- Patrick may quit Newcastle
- Osprey shares surge
- Easy to build own German port
- Peterswerft saved from closure
- ABD rejects Ennore equity offer
- Eleven missing from lost bulker
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Maritime Contract News
- Kvaerner To Build Cruise Ship For Carnival
Breaking News
- Latest GOM Lease Sale Draws More Bids
- Tankers Stop Drifting Runaway Rig
- Kursk Lifting Unlikely Before Mid-2001
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