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Shipping News
- Neutral-flagged patrols to deter pirates in Malacca Strait urged
NEUTRAL co-operative patrols are needed urgently to end the scourge of piracy in the Malacca Strait, a Singapore-based former victim says.
- Tg Pelepas port's container volume up 40% in Q2
- Hyundai gets more time to repay loans
- MBC forecasts higher profit
Air and Land Transport
- Airlines face worst slump in decade
AIRLINES are facing the worst slump in almost a decade as slowing economic growth, high fuel prices and rising labour costs threaten to end a seven-year streak of profits, investors say.
- Cathay charters 10 jets for typhoon, pilot delays
- Compensation for Concorde crash kin soon
- Qantas, SIA upgrade inflight entertainment systems
- KLM warns of much lower 1st qtr revenues
- BA's traffic down 8.9%
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- ACL: Yes and no to Grimaldi
ACL told shareholders that Grimaldi's bid price was too low, but advised them to sell anyway.
- Cho Yang eyes new services
The carrier wants to revive a number of services, including one between Asia and the U.S. West Coast, as soon as next January.
- Halifax proposes Scotland port link
A plan for a proposed deepwater port would make Halifax a transshipment hub for North American traffic heading to Europe.
- Creditors bail out Hyundai
Creditors agreed to a billion-dollar bailout after the carrier submitted a plan to sell off terminals, vessels and other assets.
- Coyne offers partial charters
- Court rules NY oil tax unconstitutional
- LevelSeas launches Web chartering
- Bank of China joins Bolero.net
- Japan lines in LNG charter
- CP Ships names Canna
- Taiwan OKs mainland air link
- United States Consolidation adds China-So. Cal. LCL
- Army's Sunny Point moves first commercial cargo
- Bangladesh strike worries shippers
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- Swissair will not go to Brussels
- Yellow Freight to raise rates
- TNT Post to acquire Thai express company
- European truckers demand a lowering of the tolls
- KLM down after warning
- BA cargo down
- Slots agreement in Far East Middle East Trade
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- APL Direct Logistics ties up with leading Web services firm
- Evergreen launches Ever Eagle, first of 5 new, post-Panamax boxships
- MOL launches new 3-year plan
- Evergreen realigns, improves transit times on Caribbean services
- Uniglory launches its 10th P-type boxship
- ECU-line starts direct service to Vitoria
- MISC unveils major expansion plans
- Dalian Container Terminal wins best container port award
- CMA-CGM names new post-Panamax boxships
- Tasman Orient and NZUE end slot-sharing
- Maersk orders 3 product tankers from China
- New call at Paranagua for TMM Lines
- O’Neil to remain IMO chief for 2 more years
- APL in JV with Scandinavian agents
- Panama Canal Authority plans dredging project
- Russia, US sign new maritime pact
- Hanjin Shipping opens terminal at Oakland’s new facility
- Maersk Logistics takes on new IT
- Taranto Container Terminal opens for business smoothly handling 3 vessels
- Cargo traffic soars by 13 pc at New York port
- Container traffic continues to surge in LA
- Fangcheng port ties up with P&O Ports to expand services
- OOCL plans to explore China’s western logistics market
- CP Ships strengthens corporate management
- 11 pc spurt in exports to EU during Jan-March 2001
- Anti-dumping duties on SBR mooted
- Anti-dumping duty imposed on animal feed imports
- Anti-dumping probe begun into acrylic yarn from Nepal
- Import tariffs cut on 50 Pak items
- Certificate for export of organic farm items only from Oct.
- Chief Commissioner of Customs welcomes interaction with trade ... admits snags in Computer Dept
- Good scope for India-China trade: Li Peng
- Nhava Sheva Customs admits huge backlog of E.P. copies
- Paradip Port posts Rs 73 cr profit in 2000-01
- ‘Service tax on port services likely from next week’ - DG of Service Tax
- Concor’s ICD at Jodhpur to become operational - Trial run today
- Wheat exporters given still more time to effect shipments
- Cotton export restrictions lifted
- Ministerial group formed to boost pulses output
- CII amalgamates three divisions to establish CII International
- ESC, EEPC to host buyer-seller meet
- Opec agrees to keep production limits unchanged
- FEMA monitors realisation of export proceeds
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- Slow post-holiday market in the US Gulf
- US East Coast: Avails improved in N.Y.
- Volatile week for ARA markets
- North European market review
- Singapore firms again, some report tight DMA
- Gibraltar OK for prompt with most suppliers
- Softer market in Italy and Malta
- More fuel oil expected in Piraeus next week
- Market steady in Istanbul this week
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- First Wave files reorganization plan
First Wave Marine, Inc. has filed a plan of reorganization in its Chapter 11 proceeding and says the filing should pave the way for its emergence from bankruptcy in early fall
- Izar lands order for 900,000 bbl FPSO
Belgium's Exmar has awarded Spanish shipbuilder IZAR a contract to build a 900,000 bbl FPSO
- Vela replaces VLCC liferaft winches
Safety specialist Schat-Harding has won an order to replace the winches on the lifeboat stations of seventeen VLCCs owned by Vela International Marine Ltd, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco.
- Heavy lift barge Giant 4 to be converted for Kursk salvage
The project to salvage the Russian submarine Kursk, lost last August with all its crew, has brought a significant conversion order to Netherlands repair yard Shipdock Amsterdam.
- De Hoop takes over Houma Fabricators
Houma Fabricators, Houma, Louisiana, has been taken over by Shipyard de Hoop of the Netherlands. The new ownership of the yard starts on a positive note in the shape of an order for six OSV's from Otto Candies, Des Allemandes, La.
- Leiv Erikkson sea trials make progress
Ocean Rig reports that, since starting sea trials on May 7, its first rig, Leiv Eriksson, has completed the inclination testing and numerous other technical system tests
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- Port of Portland commissioners vote in $678.7 million budget for fiscal year 2001-02
- Port of Tacoma part of team looking to cleanup contaminated Blair Waterway sediment
- Bellingham port commissioners vote to raise cruise terminal parking charges
- Hyundai Merchant Marine ship rescues drifting fishing boat crew
- Tacoma organizations host event featuring Cuban diplomat as guest speaker
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- Uganda Drafting New Laws on Water Transport
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- Navi da crociera in frenata
Le compagnie temono i rischi di un eccesso di offerta nonostante la crescita del mercato
- Alla Hutchison il terminal Ect di Rotterdam
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- Widening explodes on to Panama Canal
Dynamite explodes on the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal yesterday as the Panama Canal Authority works to widen the narrow section of the cut to allow simultaneous passage of two ships. AP...
- Texaco turns on the gas
O il major Texaco has approached shipyards to build up to five liquefied natural gas carriers for a project transporting Angolan gas to the US markets. This is believed to be the company...
- Ocean Glory I hit by three fires on its way to Dover
AS M aritime and Coastguard Agency chief executive Maurice Storey attacked flag state Panama over the state of detained cruiseship Ocean Glory I , it emerged that she suffered three fires on her sh...
- Eight killed in Daewoo helicopter crash
A HELICOPTER which is owned by Daewoo Shipbuilding crashed yesterday, killing eight people on board including four shipyard officials and the chairman of a South Korean steel mill. The acci...
- Onassis chases suezmax pair
CONTINUING the expansion of its tanker fleet, the Onassis group has clinched a deal with a leading Japanese shipbuilder for construction of a pair of suezmax tankers. A final contract for t...
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- Strike halts Chile copper exports
- BC's fast ferries may be scrapped
- Singapore vetoes towage deal
- New box delays at Durban
- Hyundai Petro faces receiver
- Bangladesh plans gas-free breaking
- PTP volume soars 40 per cent
- Eight killed in Daewoo air crash
- Death 'cover-up' dogs PMMA
- Pakistan to drop ship import duty
- Ceuta official arrested
- ANL returns to "Tranztas" route
- Cho Yang back in business
- Strike averted at Auckland
- P&O steps closer to Kandla
- Nine action plans for St Lawrence
- Court stops dredging merger
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Maritime Contract News
Breaking News
- U.S. Oil Rises High
- MHI Orders Thordon For Cruises Newbuilds
- Internet Ship Broker Goes Live
- Cammell Laird Cuts Another 71
- CP Ships Appoints Communications Director
- Collar Appointed Vice President, Special Projects
- First Wave Marine Files Reorganization Plan
- Schat-Harding secures Vela contract
- RINA surveyors on board detained cruise ship
- Lawrence Graham Urges Swift Action On Problem Deals
- Exmar Announces LNG Deals
- ABB lands $42M contract with Santa Fe Intl.
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- Maersk business boosts Malaysian newcomer
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas saw container throughput rise sharply in the second quarter.
- Vinalines worried over yard capacity
The national line of Vietnam fears lack of domestic shipbuilding capacity could slow fleet expansion.
- Bid to save Sea Austral fails
Crew saved as Pacific & Atlantic cargoship sinks in Mediterranean.
- Gorthon sideloader fetches $3m
Ragna Gorthon sold but 22-year-old sisterships still on the market.
- Analyst backs Precious
Kim Eng Securities reckons Precious Shipping stock will prove a good investment in 2001.
- Kvaerner profit warning
Weakening demand and dispute in California likely to produce lower than expected result.
- Caspian Shipping pencils in newbuilding
The Azerbaijan owner is going ahead with the first of two cargoship projects this year.
- Tankers held up in Bangladesh port strike
Qatar Shipping and Polys Haji-Ioannou tankers face delays as industrial action intensifies.
- Mobil tanker in Aussie petrol spill
A tanker owned by the Australian arm of the US oil major has spilt some 4,000 litres of petrol.
- Master pleads guilty to being drunk
Australian court hears master of French-registered ship described as "paralytic" when it went aground.
- RINA distances itself from Ocean Glory 1
Italian class society attempts to clarify its role in the ship's detention.
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