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Shipping News
- Ships going to some India ports lose insurance cover
ESCALATING tension between India and Pakistan has prompted the powerful Joint War Committee of international hull underwriters in London to issue a general notice of cancellation of hull and machinery policies for vessels calling at certain Indian ports.
- US to airlift bomb sniffer dogs onto ships at sea
- Rates to go up on Asia- S America trades
- Star Cruises in talks to order two new ships
Air and Land Transport
- Govts, involved parties must all help to save aviation industry
GOVERNMENTS, airports and air traffic control services must share the burden of the downturn in aviation and skyrocketing insurance costs to save the industry, says the International Association of Air Transport's newly appointed director general Giovanni Bisignani.
- Aussie air controllers to stop work on Friday
- US Airways seeks govt guarantee for loans
- Carrier wants to cut pilots' pay by 32%
- Second bidder for Sydney airport loses equity support
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- Lykes adds Italian ports to Gulf-Mediterranean service
- Famous Pacific opens Fiji office
- Schenker acquires Australian ACCO Logistics
- Deutsche Post AG increases dividend by 37 per cent
- Hactl sees tonnage up 25pc
- Emirates orders extra airbuses
- SAS offer to buy remaining Wideroe shares
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- Growing security fear US cargo
Security measures designed to prevent terrorists from placing bombs in the cargo holds of passenger planes have huge loopholes.
- P&O Ferries boss has to leave
P&O announces that Graeme Dunlop, Chairman and Managing Director of P&O Ferries, is to retire at the end of 2002 and will become a Special Adviser to the Chairman and the Board.
- Third KLM destination in Nigeria
Effective August 15, 2002, KLM will commence round-trip services to the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
- Unilever, ProLogis and Genco in huge distribution facility
Unilever, ProLogis and Genco Distribution Systems opened their expanded distribution center in Palmetto, Georgia.
- US Airways demands loan guarantee
US Airways yesterday asked the Air Transportation Stabilization Board of the US government to guarantee $900 million in loans that it needs to stave off bankruptcy.
- Logistic cost down again
Logistics costs as a percentage of the U.S. gross domestic product declined to 9.5 per cent in 2001 from 10.2 per cent in 2000.
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- WSA Lines to open Indian Subcontinent regional office in city - WSA (Bombay) felicitated for excellent performance
- India to supply 3 lakh tonnes wheat to Lanka
- Manila buys more Indian rice
- Trade team clinches deals worth $ 1.5 m with Myanmar
- 5 new berths of Haldia Dock Complex to be constructed on BOT basis
- Vizag Port off to grand Q1 start, sets 2 new records in June
- Govt allows import of vanaspati from Nepal
- Govt holds crucial meeting with EPCs, commodity boards to fix export target
- Textile export target set at tentative $ 15 bn
- Ficci findings on stocks of divested firms
- Foreign exchange reserves swell by $ 333 m
- Indian companies anticipating increase in export demand in 6 months: CII
- CMIE projects 6.8 pc rise in exports this year
- Kerala to have separate zones for different sectors
- Raw pearl, gems exempted from Customs duty
- EEPC to hold flagship event in 4 countries
- Move to boost salt exports
- Ficci-MPs team to visit US
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- Coastal Petroleum in Chile and Argentina become casualties of El Paso repositioning
- Panama deliveries running as usual despite lock works
- IEA oil demand forecast
- First ever VLCC fixture of Russian Black Sea crude oil to the US impresses
- Argentina market update: Improved avails at Buenos Aires
- Brazil: Avails back to normal in Itaqui but deteriorate in other ports
- Analyst warns of sudden bounce in crude price despite bearish market, sharp rise later this year
- API forecasts neutral to bullish, IEA lowers demand growth forecast
- Rotterdam market report from Marine Bunkering
- Australia: Bhpbilliton announces sale of Gladstone marine fuels terminal
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- Brittany Ferries orders second vessel
- MSC pendulum service to Savannah
- Famous Shipping with new office in Fiji
- Dilmun Navigation Group
- New equipment and operator at Sharjah
- World loss of USD 12 billion for airlines
- DAS Air Cargo with new service in Africa
- USFreightways makes big loss in first quarter
- UTi Worldwide is growing worldwide
- New appointments to NOL, with Tim Rhein
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- Metro buys $2 million robo stripper
Metro Machine Corp has agreed to purchase a high production prototype robotic paint removal system
- Maersk Supply aims deep
Maersk Supply Services is to build and equip a vessel with a 200 tonne crane to perform a variety of tasks related to deep and ultra deep water exploration, production and construction work.
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- Gibraltar Strait terror plot foiled in Morocco
A maritime catastrophe in the Strait of Gibraltar may have been averted after Moroccan security services arrested three suspected al-Qa’eda members, who were allegedly planning terrorist attacks on British and US naval vessels in the area.
- Eastbound Pacific cargoes head for new high
Load factors and volumes are marching higher for eastbound transpacific cargoes in May and June following a record 710,605 teu in April, writes Matthew Flynn in Hong Kong.
- Dunlop leaves helm at P&O Ferries
P&O Ferries’ chairman and managing director Graeme Dunlop is stepping down at the end of the year although he will retain a role as special adviser to the chairman and the main board of P&O, writes Sandra Speares.
- Bids to boost Australia freight rates
TWO Australian rate agreements are trying to shore up dire freight rates, writes Matthew Flynn.
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- Abu Dhabi yard expands
- Mexico to tackle port inefficiency
- Guayaquil monopoly move opposed
- USCG set for terrorist crackdown
- Singapore contains oil spill threat
- Shanghai takes pollution measures
- Peace breaks out over Trieste
- Ocean Princess in disease scare
- Detained ships ruin India's plans
- QM2 sailing schedule released
- Lukoil takes over Russian project
- Bangladesh ferry strike ends
- KSS Line puts listing on hold
- Trasmed faces strike action
- New seafarer contract implemented
- Port reform targets crane drivers
- Europeans protest against Directive
- Stevedoring Services to sell stake
- Security costs 'must be assessed'
- P&O's Dunlop to retire
- Oldendorff joins Aframax pool
- Brazil shipbuilding revival forecast
- Carriers fear further losses
- BPL drops out of Shipping Corp race
- Asia-Australia rates hiked
- Delaware dredging may be scrapped
- Canadian steel hearings this week
- Tighter box inspections favoured
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- EU trade sanctions will hit box carriers
Container shipping lines on the North Atlantic are facing a significant loss of traffic this summer in the face of new trade sanctions against the U.S. Weblog: Coast Guard warns of attacks by sea
- Asia-to-U.S. air freight surges
Hongkong Air Cargo Terminals saw exports for the United States jump 53% in May.
- Korea plans logistics upgrade
Having just set aside billions for port development, South Korea said it is drafting a five-year plan to upgrade logistics as part of its strategy to become northeast Asia's transshipment hub.
- U.S. announces steel tariff exclusions
- Ups, downs for Korea air cargo
- CN, IC engineers in "ground-breaking" agreement
- Truck tonnage up in April
- FedEx Ground opens automated terminal
- Kobe boxes up in 2001
- End for Del. River dredging project?
- Euro-Log, Freightek in clearance deal
- MSC names Bozzo
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- Anvers entend combiner terminaux dédiés ou semi-dédiés et concurrence interne
“En tant qu’autorité portuaire, nous ne sommes pas restés insensibles à la globalisation et à ses effets sur le plan économique. Ainsi nous avons encouragé la fusion entre nos deux principales entreprises de manutention et sommes rapidement passés d’une situation présentant une forte concurrence interne et un certain nombres d’acteurs à une situation où un seul opérateur traite 85% du trafic containérisé. Nous accueillons les acteurs étrangers de gabarit mondial... PSA Corp et P&O Ports”. C’est ce qu’a déclaré l’échevin du port d’Anvers L. Delwaide lors de la première session de la conférence TOC 2002 qui se tient ces jours-ci à Anvers.
- L’héliportage des pilotes sera-t-il bientôt impossible la nuit?
En cas de gros temps, on fait depuis quelques années appel à un hélicoptère pour porter des pilotes à bord de navires maritimes qui s’approchent de la côte belge. Cet hélicoptère a en raison de prescriptions techniques sur le plan de l’environnement droit à un contingent de mouvements nocturnes limité par an. Il est fort probable que ces vols de nuit seront supprimés d’ici la fin de l’été, car le contingent est quasiment entièrement épuisé et la ministre compétente flamande Vera Dua reste sourde aux implorations du service de pilotage DAB-Loodswezen afin de rémédier à la situation. Cela pourrait mener à des situations dangereuses au poste de pilotage ‘Westpost’ et en tout cas à une sensible hausse des coûts pour
les clients armateurs en raison de retards.
- Boluda (Naviera Pinillos) a acheté José Carrillo
Le groupe logistique espagnol Boluda et le holding d’investissement Inversiones Ibersuiza se sont alliés pour acheter le transporteur routier Transpores José Carrillo Benitez. Celui-ci est un acteur majeur sur le marché espagnol du transport frigorifique. Il est aussi le plus grand transporteur routier entre les Canaries et la Péninsule, et un des plus grands clients de la société ferry d’Etat Trasmediterránea. Celle-ci sera bientôt privatisée et un des candidats les mieux placés est... Boluda.
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- Higher cargo traffic expected at LA port
Stronger container cargo statistics at Los Angeles port may not indicate a rebounding US economy.
- LNG demand to jump by 50%
The global LNG demand is projected to increase to 230m tonnes in 2010.
- US West Coast ports face work slowdown
A work slowdown by port workers is likely after the exisiting contract expires on 1 July.
- Rasmussen returns rocket
Norwegian owning group pulls in another record result.
- US Marad denies shipping dispute with China
US is hoping for China to adjust controversial new shipping laws.
- Premuda confirms FPSO job
Italian owner Stefano Rosina details offshore move with tanker conversion.
- Maritime terrorism not on the rise
Norwegian Shipowners' Association report says 11 September gives insight into ship security threat.
- Awilco sells two tankers
Norwegian owner books $3.9m profit by scrapping one products carrier and selling on another.
- 130 ill on P&O Princess cruiseship
US calls for "aggressive sanitation" after this nasty bug bites the Ocean Princess.
- Oman LNG hauls in the cash
Middle East gas producer announces huge profits, but may see these slimmed this year.
- Japan detains 39 ships during May
Port state checks land Asahi tanker among slew of general cargoships and handful of reefers.
- Graeme Dunlop calls it a day
Another P&O director to retire narrowing search for new chiefs.
- Jeju tax breaks lure Korean owners
HMM, Pan Ocean and Hanjin all switch vessel registrations to island free trade zone to save money.
- Japanese owners get all clear on Snohvit ships
K Line is setting up new European office to further promote its LNG business.
- Rokke wants assembly line at Philadelphia
Kvaerner chairman Kjell Inge Rokke must build US supply network to turn profit at shipyard.
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