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Shipping News
- Mitsui plans faster, bigger ships for trans-Pacific
WITH business booming, Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines is planning to deploy eight significantly bigger containerships on the trans-Pacific beginning in 2003.
- Lauritzen buys Cool Carriers for US$35.4m
- Port shots
Air and Land Transport
- Narita airport faces overload even with second runway
[TOKYO] Tokyo's controversial Narita airport, opened more than two decades ago amid environmental protests, is suffering from a serious overload, despite the planned opening of a second runway, an official said.
- Busy time for Japanese airport, trains during holiday exodus
- Mitsubishi Heavy may make wings for Boeing 747X
- Log Book
Features
- Smooth sailing a year after
THE Panama Canal is operating smoothly a year after the US handover, but the Americans' departure has aggravated an economic slowdown and doubts about Panama's ability to defend its southern border.
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- Shanghai Christmas cheer
- Fruitful operations by Textile Task Force
- MOL to add eight panamax vessels to transpacific fleet
- Logipolis gains international renown
- CMA CGM named company of the year
- SAS orders three more B737s
- LanChile gets Espana in the works with Iberia
- Xiaoshan Airport spreads its wings
- UPS announces new rates for 2001
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- DB Cargo: GPS for the wagon fleet
- Romania writes off debts
- More shipping goods in Germany
- Basel's Rhine river ports on a high
- New ferries for TT-Line
- Galex with new partner
- Pan-American becomes Montemar
- CSCL wants LA terminal
- CMA CGM will leave the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement
- New North American west coast-Australia/New Zealand service planned
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- Owners squeezed in hull cover scramble
MAJOR shipowners have been forced to take out costly emergency insurance for hull and machinery, after a scramble in the marine market left some without cover beyond yesterday's deadline.
- A Chinese couple sit under a Chinese national flag
A Chinese couple sit under a Chinese national flag on a tourist boat after passing near a small Taiwan-controlled island yesterday.
- Canal authority in upbeat mood
A year into its administration of one of the world's leading trade routes, the Panama Canal Authority says it has kept its pledge to shipowners to manage the waterway efficiently.
- Hamburg Süd profit fails to impress board
GERMAN liner operator Hamburg Süd's return to profitability in 2000, after losses in 1999, has failed to impress the company's management.
- Northlink extra for Aker Finnyards
Aker Finnyards of Rauma has received a surprise seasonal bonus on the back of a Fm550m ($81m) order for two ropax ferries from Northlink, the 50:50 joint venture put together by UK-state owned enterprise Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
- Scandlines predicts steady year of growth
BALTIC ferry operator Scandlines expects stable results for 2000, said Scandlines chief executive Ole Rendbaek in an interview with German news agency dpa. In 1999, the company reported sales of Dm918m ($417m) and Dm52m in after-tax profits.
- Emissions drive at Gothenburg
NEW vapour recovery units and a revamping programme for existing oil facilities could lead to a 50% reduction of gaseous hydrocarbon emissions at the Port of Gothenburg, Sweden's leading oil port.
- Six dead, 50 missing as Pati breaks in two
AT least six people died and nearly 50 were missing after a Georgian flagged cargoship bound for Greece with dozens of people in its hold split in two and sank off Turkey's Mediterranean coast yesterday, reports Reuters.
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- MOL plans boxship ordering spree
Owner continues fleet investment programme and is lining up a series of panamax containership newbuildings.
- Fredriksen takes another slice of Osprey
World Shipholding continues buying shares as shareholders prepare for offer advice from Osprey board.
- Hvide exercises tanker firm option
The Florida based tanker operator has exercised an option to buy the remaining equity in Lightship Tankers.
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