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Shipping News
- LevelSeas buys rival SeaLogistics
ONE of the few remaining big fish of the maritime e-chartering world, LevelSeas, has bought out Houston-based rival SeaLogistics. The latter's investors, which include Bergesen, World-Wide Shipping, OMI and Leif Hoegh, will now join the ranks of LevelSeas' backers not long after the company saw seven of its 26 potential second-phase investors pull out.
- Warning over sea state measurements
- IMO team, Asia officials to meet on anti-piracy measures
Air and Land Transport
- Bush ready to stop airline strikes
[WASHINGTON] US President George W Bush is prepared to act to prevent a strike at any of the major US airlines, the White House said on Tuesday amid controversy over Mr Bush's move to block a strike at Northwest Airlines Corp.
- JAL to cut ground staff, debt under new plan
- Congress asked to overturn pilot retirement rule
- US domestic air traffic to rise 50% by 2012: FAA
- Air France says it feels no impact from US slowdown
- Log Book
Features
- The pioneering spirit lives on
[SINGAPORE] PSA Corp helped to pioneer the idea that the transhipment of container boxes can make the transport chain process much more efficient. The concept was not new and in many ways quite obvious when container shipping revolutionised the industry in the late 1960s.
Logistics
- Looking to greater China presence
WITH DHL Worldwide Express planning to open three additional gateways in China, the battle for dominance in logistics is getting tougher.
- Subic Bay getting 810m peso facelift
- Vanguard opens S'pore office
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- U.S. ports, airports on foot-and-mouth alert
The alert is part of the USDA's ban on livestock and food products imported from Europe, where the disease has already spread from Britain to France.
- Customs makes reconciliation changes
The changes include reduced data requirements for "no-change" aggregate reconciliation summaries, and elimination of interest charges on liquidated damage claims.
- EU approves TPG postal venture
The Amsterdam-based logistics group said European regulators cleared its joint mail venture with Britain's Royal Mail and Singapore Post.
- Vietnam port to reform customs procedures
- Changes roiling Duisburg port
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- NOL sees highest profit ever
- NWA takes on Le Havre
- MSC correction
- Asian yards vie for boxships
- Kochi sees increased box traffic
- ONT to build new cargo facility
- Long hot summer for SAS
- JSA expresses concern over Haneda airport
- China Southern flies high during Spring Festival
- Web site for logistics executives
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- Hapag Lloyd participates in Inttra
- New players on Rotterdam boatsmen field
- Accenture Technology forms strategic alliance with Vigilance
- Shipping minister deals with drunken sailors
- CMA-CGM rejoinces in record profit
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- Evergreen all set to start direct service ex-JN Port to Europe - Committed to quality & absolute reliability
- EU must revoke and refund bed-linen dumping duties, India tells WTO body
- STC strikes wheat deal with Russia
- Bangladesh seeks duty-free market access for 25 items
- Govt reviewing KPT Board’s rejection of P&O Ports’ bid
- Dhamra Port Co’s proposal to induct 13 pc foreign equity cleared
- Ship-to-ship crude transfer at Kakinada port soon
- CoPT to offer fixed-window services for container vessels
- QRs being dismantled by April, India tells WTO
- Excise duty applicable only on garments with registered brand name
- Sinha confident of $ 50 bn software exports by 2008
- Cabinet clears crude import by PSU refineries
- RBI rescinds 50 pc import finance surcharge
- Steel industry seeks higher duty on import of ship-breaking scrap
- Assocham seeks separate EPC for drugs sector
- CII mission for Ukraine from May 14
- IMC-ICC seminar on documentary credit
- WTC seminar on ‘Trends in FDI’ today
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- Demand sluggish in Panama, St Eustatius avails resumed
- Chile market steady, Ecuador IFO380 firmer
- East African bunker market review
- West and South African bunker markets this week
- Suez bunker market steady this week
- Softer prices in the Fujairah market
- Brazil bunker prices softer
- New posted prices for Saudi Arabia
- API stats show a rise, crude oil little changed
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- World Trade Center Tacoma and Kyle Smith to present formula for importing success
- Port of Seattle plans to dredge Terminal 18 berths to 51 feet for $10 million
- Port of Bremerton's becomes alternate airport for Boeing Field runways damaged in earthquake
- Canadian National Railway says merger with Canadian Pacific a matter of survival
- Columbus adds Portland and Seattle to upgraded west coast service
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- US suspends meat and dairy imports
- P&O honours Brazil newbuild pledge
- Stowaways target Tangier
- Boxer shorts upset USCG
- Iraqi increases oil export capacity
- 'Slaves and ships' report assessed
- North Pacific partners against crime
- Suape box terminal goes to ICTSI
- Builders welcome academic input
- MOL denies Thai ban
- Convention 'will fail salvors'
- Mare-Denholm launch confirmed
- Insurance pools worry Asian owners
- Steel industry seeks scrap stability
- Australia bans EU produce
- ROCL back in the black
- Cartagena joins space race
- IMO attacks piracy in Singapore
- Greece counters counterfeit papers
- Amer Reefer files for Chapter XI
- Dockwise makes friendly OHvertures
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- Darse à marée: Anvers mobilise ses Etats-généraux pour débloquer la situation
Compte tenu de la situation qui s’est développée suite à la décision du Conseil d’Etat d’annuler le deuxième permis de construire de la darse à marée au sud de Doel sur la rive gauche, et des dangers considérables qu’elle comporte tant pour l’économie locale que nationale, l’AGHA lance un appel à tous les partenaires impliqués dans les activités portuaires. Sont ainsi concernés: l’administration portuaire, les syndicats, le patronat secteurs public et privé. Le but est d’organiser dans les plus brefs délais les Etats généraux du port, dont l’objectif sera de discuter ensemble des conséquences catastrophiques de cette affaire et partant, d’avancer des solutions adéquates.
- F. Traen (MBZ): “N’adopte-t-on pas aveuglément des procédures européennes?”
“La darse à marée qu’Anvers veut réaliser est un “must” pour ce port, car on ne traite plus les grands trafics derrière les écluses. Nous avons voté positivement pour ce projet en Commission portuaire flamande. Les difficultés du moment sont regrettables, et je pense que les législateurs doivent être conscients des intérêts en jeu et de l’impact que la situation actuelle peut avoir. On assiste à des manoeuvres procédurières de retardement qui sont dérangeantes. Certes il faut respecter les procédures légales, mais dans quelle mesure n’adopte-t-on pas aveuglément des procédures, notamment européennes alors qu’en pratique ce n’est pas si évident et pas adapté aux circonstances”.
C’est ce qu’a déclaré Fernand Traen président de la MBZ alors qu’il occupait mardi dernier la tribune du Propeller Club d’Anvers.
- La CE devrait bientôt se prononcer dans les dossiers Deutsche Post
La Commission européenne devrait se prononcer ce mois-ci encore dans deux des trois dossiers relatifs aux postes allemandes. Ce sont ceux relatif à l’abus de position dominante dans le courrier postal en Allemagne. Par contre, elle ne devrait pas se prononcer dans le dossier principal - celui sur l’abus d’aides d’Etat - avant le mois de mai. C’est ce qu’a appris Dow Jones auprès de deux responsables de l’administration du Commissaire européen à la Concurrence.
- Le transport de bétail et de viande mis à mal par la crise de la fièvre aphteuse
Les exportations d’animaux vivants sensibles à la fièvre aphteuse et les produits dérivés en provenance de la France sont provisoirement interdits. C’est ce qu’a décidé le comité vétérinaire de l’UE après la découverte d’un foyer de la maladie en France. Plusieurs pays européens avaient déjà décrété des limitations au niveau des importations. Comble d’infortune, de plus en plus d’Etats n’appartenant pas à l’UE ferment leurs frontières pour la viande européenne. Une interdiction d’importer de la viande argentine dans l’UE est également en vigueur, ce pays étant lui aussi touché par la maladie.
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- MAN B&W Extends MC Program
- Furuno's New NavNet Is Compact, Seamless
- Rolls Royce, Northrop Grumman Win UK Navy Contract
- Maritime Industry Mourns Loss Of RINA's Technical Director
- Frontline Says There's Still Room for Takeovers
- Blount Retires From ACCL; Names Daughter As Successor
- EU Seeks Criminal Penalties for Environmental Offences
- Crew Puts Out Cargo Ship Fire
- Recent Ship Sales
- Capesize Rates Take a Huge Dive
- Panamax Rates Firmer
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- Izar order cancelled
Delay in completing costly shuttle tanker leads to loss of contract for Spanish shipbuilder.
- HMM plunges into the red
Foreign exchange losses and a cruise venture have sunk Hyundai Merchant Marine's results for 2000.
- Finnish union lifts ro-ro blockades
A dispute which detained four UK-flagged vessels over crewing agreements has been settled.
- Frontline flags up New York listing
John Fredriksen will take his company public in the US this year.
- Aon forces brokers to pay
Victory against Graham Barnes a warning to teams on the move.
- Mols-Linien slashes losses
The Danish ferry company is heading in the right direction, but remains in the red.
- Tanker held in Indonesia
Conditions for shipping are proving difficult in strife torn Indonesia.
- DFDS posts huge profit
Denmark's ferry operator DFDS didn't quite live up to its 2000 profit forecast, but was still firmly in the black.
- New face of Swan takes shape
Plans to relaunch troubled Swan Reefer are moving ahead.
- Earth moves for Boskalis
The Dutch dredger owner increased its earnings in 2000.
- Eimskip buys another KiL boxship
The Icelandic owner has completed its fleet renewal with the purchase of the Grete Sif.
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