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Shipping News
- Wilhelmsen attributes success to big flexible fleet
[SINGAPORE] For the world's largest vehicle roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) transportation and logistics company, Wallenius Wilhelmsen, a large flexible fleet enables it to keep on top of rapidly changing market conditions, says its president Wilhelm Wilhelmsen.
- Making it easier for seafarers to call home
- Korea ship orders soar
Air and Land Transport
- British Airways acts to get Concorde flying again
[LONDON] British Airways (BA) is due to start key modification work to ensure that Concorde flies again, a spokesperson for the firm said.
- French Concorde to make subsonic flight
- Rats! Rodent grounds flight
- UAL forecast to post Q4 loss due to labour, fuel costs
- Lawyer to sue airlines over blood clot
- Malaysia Airports expects to beat 2000 traffic growth targets
Features
- Changing commuting patterns by pricing
[NEWARK, New Jersey] The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, long known for its ambitious building programmes, will begin public hearings this week on toll and fare increases intended not only to finance its largest construction effort ever but also to change how commuters behave.
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- FedEx Express to buy Airbus A380-800F freighters
The package carrier said that it plans to take delivery of 10 of the the high-capacity, long-range aircraft beginning in 2008. Price was not disclosed, but the aircraft carries a list price of $230 million.
- ILWU won't open early talks
Longshore chief James Spinosa said the union won't open early contract negotiations to discuss the implementation of technology at marine terminals.
- UPS acquiring First International Bancorp
One week after it announced a $6 billion order for Airbus Aircraft and the purchase of Fritz Cos. Inc. for $450 million, the giant express carrier disclosed Tuesday that it plans to acquire the Hartford, Conn. financial services company.
- Little railroad has big plans
Trucks nearly made New York Harbor's rail link obsolete. Now, the metropolitan area's last car float operation is eyeing a bigger share of the logistics market.
- BAX Global Wins Polaroid Latin America contract
- Lufthansa Cargo reduces fuel surcharge
- Port of Baltimore wins forest products contract
- British Midland, United Airlines ink trans-Atlantic cargo agreement
- Evergreen to speed West Coast transit times with two new services
- Tanker operators brace for cut in OPEC production
- Danish transport group to strengthen ro-ro services
- Cargo volume rises 5.8% at Le Havre
- Australian site aims to provide online logistics
- Railtrack takes $884 million charge for emergency repairs, European service still delayed
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- ZPMC gets HIT with order
- Lykes extends Asian operations
- Senator extends AWP service
- New simplified Nigeria tariff
- HKIA sees cargo figures rise
- Changi takes off
- UPS aquires Fritz
- Airborne's profits nose-dive
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- Panalpina, Korean Air and Alitalia to rejoin Cargo 2000
- Motorola to outsource logistics with Exel
- Penske Truck Leasing to acquire Rollins
- Public money for privatised rail
- TMM Lines upgrades Gulf/Mexico-Mediterranean Service
- Port terminals Rotterdam might merger
- EC clears merger United Airlines and US Airways
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- UASC committed to providing steady & quality service to Indian trade
- Chinese goods worth $ 115 m flood Indian market
- EU ‘think-tank’ for stronger trade ties with India likely
- 11 pc safeguard duty on methylene chloride imports mooted
- Seafood exports cruising towards $ 1-bn mark
- EU begins dumping probe against 6 Indian granite exporting cos
- Textile exports up 8.3 pc during April-Nov.
- 4,000 bales of raw cotton exported
- IT industry wants to be relieved of export burden
- Russia may go for more Indian tea, wheat
- National convention of port & dock workers in Cochin tomorrow
- CWCL hauls 40 containers from JNPT to Haryana in one day
- Onion, soyabean corporations on anvil
- Move to accord J&K fruit trade industry status
- Apex chambers in favour of ‘protectionist’ Budget
- Assocham study sees growth phase
- Woven sacks units seek cut in customs duty
- IMC hails state’s decision on labour law reforms
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- Oil prices little changed as 1.5 million OPEC cut looks a done deal
- Mexican bunker prices
- Crude hits month-long highs as market waits on OPEC
- New supplier and broker in Indonesia
- Brazil bunker prices steady
- Iraq oil exports to increase as OPEC meets to cut
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- Barcelona: increased turnover
- Algeciras: container record
- Euromaroc trade between Spain and Morocco
- Naviera Pinillos uses Alicante
- Promar Iberia: a new shipping agency
- Airport Porto: where can the cargo go?
- Genoa celebrates a record
- Take-off over Milan
- One more bridge for Venice
- Spinelli takes over Genoa terminal
- Lufthansa Cargo reduces fuel surcharge
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- $65 million in new projects for FGH
Friede Goldman Halter, Inc.'s backlog is starting to build. Today it announced new projects with a combined value of more than $65 million.
- EPA to regulate ship emissions
Environmentalist group the Bluewater Network says that In an agreement finalized Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pledged to establish emission standards for large sea-going vessels
- Chinese yards cut losses, build orders
China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) produced an industrial output of 11.8 billion yuan in 2000
- Kværner considers shipyard merger
Norwegian daily Aftenposten said last week that Kværner has expressed interest in a proposal by Kjell Inge Røkke's rival Aker group to merge Kværner's and Aker's shipyard operations.
- Barge order for Bender
Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc, Mobile, Ala., is to build a 150 ft x 60 ft 10,000 bbl capacity well test barge for the Hanover Company of Houston
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- Bachmann Megafreight takes centre stage
- New India service to be launched
- Bunkers drop on Europe route
- Dubai stages spring trade fair
- East Africa service gets underway
- Handy maritime reference guide out
- MOL changes
- 'Punitive' import duties shut out US poultry exporters
- Safari members finalise plans
- Container depots
- New MSC depot creates one-stop shop
- CMC provides diversified product range
- SACD offers customers e-commerce incentive
- Depots devise new concepts to attract cargo
- Cape Town depot takes on leasing companies
- IT system will provide real time unpack advice
- 'Bush unlikely to interfere with Agoa'
- Stowaway captain escapes murder charge
- Border delays are history as new system gets the all clear
- Car exports expected to rise 55%
- MSAS focuses on Africa growth
- Second avocado train gets moving in May
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- Boom set to bust as Opec meets
THE tanker boom that stole the headlines for most of 2000 is in jeopardy today, as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries prepares to cut back production.
- Owner warns of risks of Castor open sea salvage
The salving of the Cypriot tanker Castor, lying in exposed waters in the Mediterranean might be expected to deteriorate in the open sea, a spokesman for the owners told Lloyd's List yesterday.
- Irish Continental takes duty free hit
A STRONGER than expected second-half was not enough to prevent ferry operator Irish Continental Group suffering a fall of almost one-third in full-year profit.
- Norden sets the pace with share options scheme
DS Norden, the bulk and tank owner-operator, is setting the trend in Denmark with the introduction of share options for senior employees and the executive board.
- Castor fears overplayed - ABS
FEARS that stricken product tanker Castor will cause serious pollution have been overplayed, according to American Bureau of Shipping, writes David Osler.
- Lintec named as VTG-Lehnkering nears URAG sale
INDUSTRIAL logistics and transport group VTG-Lehnkering, which is part of Hapag-Lloyd, is reportedly close to selling its Bremen towage subsidiary Unterweser Reederei URAG, writes Sabina Casagrande, Cologne.
- Box bottleneck in US
MORE than a quarter of containers handled by US ports are probably empty.
- Tug Taurus to pull in more trade at Gdansk
A single 42 tonne bollard pull tug, delivered to Gdansk, has been cast in the unlikely role as a linchpin in developing the Polish port's wider 'gateway' ambitions.
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- Commodore crew ends strike
- ISMA seeks action on safe havens
- Bandar Abbas raises charges
- French demand Dieppe ferry jobs
- Carnival ship death an accident
- Former NCL boss sues for $500,000
- Limited risk from Castor - ABS
- Novocherkassk towed into Vigo
- Malaysia reinforces Pelepas
- NZ fast ferry to stay fast
- JNP seeks massive rate hike
- Union wades into Malta's USN row
- German yards in share swap talks
- Cyprus adopts tonnage tax
- Docenave sale rumoured
- Sharjah ports plan finalised
- Queensland gets marine focus pledge
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- Commission des transports: “le réseau infrastructurel multimodal est un must absolu”
Le Parlement européen (PE) débat aujourd’hui à Strasbourg du programme d’action de la Commission en terme d’intermodalité et de transport fret intermodal dans l’UE. La parlementaire européenne Adriana Poli Bortone a rédigé un rapport en la matière au nom de la Commission de transport du Parlement. Elle y affirme, sans aucun doute aussi au nom d’une large majorité de parlementaires, qu’un réseau infrastructurel multimodal est un must “absolu” - certainement à l’aube de l’élargissement de l’UE - pour un meilleur fonctionnement du marché interne, une plus grande mobilité, une véritable concurrence et une plus vaste union économique et sociale.
- Leif Östling: “Nous voulons rester les BMW du camion
”Il y a deux ans au Salon des Véhicules utilitaires de Bruxelles, on pouvait voir le président de Scania rugir dans un GSM en martelant du poing le châssis d’un de ses véhicules. Il venait d’apprendre que, sans y être invité, Volvo avait acheté un paquet d’actions, ce qui était la première étape d’une OPA qualifiée d’hostile par Östling. Volvo s’était toutefois trompé: la Commission européenne a mis le haut-là et a empêché le rapprochement. Depuis, Volvo s’est marié à Renault et Scania à Volkswagen. Nous avons rencontré Östling lors de son passage à Bruxelles, où il présentait le tout nouveau moteur turbocompound de 470 cv. Nous avons évoqué la vente des actions de Volvo, la relation avec Volkswagen,
les concentrations dans l’industrie et la globalisation. Östling n’a pas changé: il a confirmé la volonté du groupe de continuer à jouer cavalier seul. “Nous voulons être les BMW du camion. Il ne suffit pas d’être les plus grands pour être les meilleurs. Il faut produire de la qualité”, nous a-t-il dit entre autres.
- Le projet de grand bateau de soutage se concrétise
Le besoin de fournir d’approvisionner rapidement les navires en quantités de plus en plus grandes d’huile de soute pousse le secteur fluvial d’Europe occidentale à mettre au point des bateaux de soutage plus grands et équipés de pompes puissantes. Il y a quelques années, la direction de Verenigde Tankrederij (VT) avait émis le souhait de mettre en service un citernier de 10.000 t. Ce plan avait été abandonné parce que l’armement n’avait pas bénéficié d’une exemption à l’amende imposée aux entrepreneurs fluviaux dans le cadre du règlement “vieux pour neuf” s’ils mettaient en service du tonnage neuf.
- La DB va-t-elle devenir actionnaire d’ECT?
La Deutsche Bahn va-t-elle entrer dans l’actionnariat de l’entreprise de manutention rotterdamoise ECT? Cette perspective est fort plausible car elle résoudrait un problème que lui a posé la Commission européenne en manifestant pour la seconde fois son désaccord avec une nouvelle formule d’actionnariat présentée à la fin de 1999. Les menaces d’amendes étant bien réelles, il faut trouver autre chose.
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Maritime Contract News
- Bender Shipbuilding To Construct 10,000 BBL Oil Barge
Breaking News
- Northrop Grumman Plans to Refile Hart-Scott-Rodino Notification
- Is Globalstar Headed for A Downward Spiral?
- Spain Ousts Stricken Tanker From Its Waters
- Traffic Resumes Through LaGrange Lock
- Pacific Panamax Rates Remain Steady
- Petroleos de Venezuela Delves Into E-Commerce Arena
- Northrop May Amend Merger Agreement With Litton
- Knightsbridge Tankers Announces Dividend Surplus
- New COO At Canada Steamship Lines
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- Aker completes seismic assets disposal
France's CGG picks up two ships plus data in cash and equity deal.
- Improper cargo stowage sank Adriatic ro-ro
Croatian officials have released initial findings into the sinking of the Nautika 64.
- Long Beach in large gantry crane order
China's Shanghai Zhenhua Habour Machinery Corp has scooped a massive crane order form the US port.
- Knightsbridge declares $29m payout
The tanker owner is coining the cash with shareholders the winners.
- ISMA urges action on ports of refuge
Alan Ward, of the International Ship Managers' Association, has condemned the treatment of the damaged tanker Castor.
- Banks challenge "illegal" ship sale
Mortgagees to fight auction of five reefers for a quarter of market price.
- Ore bulker remains stranded off Taiwan
A grounded bulker is developing a list as bad weather delays salvage efforts.
- DFDS moves into LISCO driving seat
Danish owner heads negotiations for Lithuanian Shipping Co as Danny Johananoff's BB Bredo takes a back seat.
- Daewoo confirms gas ship newbuildings
Korea's Daewoo is now sitting on an enviable clutch of LNG carrier orders.
- Irish Continental profits crash
Ferry company Irish Continental has been hard hit by the abolition of duty free sales and higher fuel costs.
- Greek shipping on top of the world
The growing Greek-flagged and Greek-owned fleet remains the world's biggest, the country's Maritime Chamber said.
- UAE drydock off to busy start
Gulf drydock repairs seven ships ahead of official opening.
- Samsung sues banks over unpaid fees
The Korean chaebol is taking legal steps to recover fees due to its construction subsidiary.
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