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Shipping News
- Higher fuel surcharges on US-Asia trade from July 1
HIGHER fuel costs will drive up container shipment costs between Asia and the US from July 1, as lines move to recover rising operating expenses in the lead-up to the traditional peak season surcharge period.
- Bergesen aims to be leading player in natural gas market
- Pakistan to set up free port at Gwadar
- Maritime show put off by a year due to economic woes
Air and Land Transport
- European air traffic controllers threaten strike
DESPITE strike threats from air traffic controllers, European transport ministers were to press ahead yesterday with a continent-wide, 'single-sky' plan backers say will reduce congestion and delays for travellers.
- Changi voted among world's top 3 airports
- Star's US partners to get nod for linking flights via HK
- FAA may fine American for cargo violations
Features
- A history of pollution
ON April 19, the Carnival Corp pleaded guilty in US District Court in Miami to criminal charges related to falsifying records of the oil-contaminated bilge water that six of its ships dumped into the sea from 1996 through 2001.
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- Hanjin opens Ningbo service, restarts direct Portland call
- Safmarine teams up with Unicorn in Africa service
- Transpacific carriers to raise fuel surcharges
- Ecu-Line recruits CargoLine
- MWC opts for O'Brien
- May figures healthy for Cathay
- SAS reshuffles senior, top management assignments
- Belgian brewer outsources distribution to Exel's Tradeteam
- Southwest takes on new marketing manager
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- Panalpina IPO postponed
Panalpina Group's sole shareholder, the Ernst Guehner Foundation, has now decided not to go ahead with the IPO this year, as it considers that the stock market situation is currently unfavourable for a successful share flotation.
- Rotterdam terminal for empty containers
Mayor Ivo Opstelten opened a terminal dedicated to the handling of empty containers last Friday in the port of Rotterdam. The company is called Delta Container Services (DCS), a joint venture between Kramer Container Depots and ECT.
- Bethune 'not eyeing' CEO-job United
Continental Airlines Inc.'s chief executive Gordon Bethune said he is not interested in taking the helm at rival United Airlines and that his company is likely to hand its pilots a raise during upcoming contract negotiations.
- Inmarsat to shelve IPO
Inmarsat, the satellite company, is to shelve plans for a flotation in London with a secondary listing in New York this summer due to poor investor sentiment towards the telecommunications sector.
- Shenzhen open to foreign investment
China has allowed its most successful special economic zone, Shenzhen, to accelerate market access for foreign investors.
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- GE Shipping posts highest net profit
- SCI Board meet today to decide on Greenfield JV
- North-South Corridor to reduce transaction costs, transit times for exim trade
- New era dawns with 1st mainline container vessel calling at CCT - Goyal launches Indfex 2
- APL voted Shipping Line of the Year by IFW
- Garments exports to quota countries move up
- Dumping duty on citric acid from Indonesia, Thailand
- Seafood exports through Vizag Port up
- US security plans upset European box ports
- Goyal confers with Trustees & users of Tuticorin Port
- Foreign exchange reserves up by $ 333 million to $ 56,148 million
- Cashew kernels export demand rising again
- Ficci team to visit Algeria, Libya
- Maran to lead team for Switzerland tomorrow
- Apeda expects 28 AEZs exports to touch Rs 3,440.53 cr in 5 years
- Higher filing fees for foreign firms
- New guidelines for grant of Export House status
- Diesel, petrol prices hiked
- Industrial output records 2.9 pc rise in April
- Inflation inches up
- IMC meet with Consul Gen. of China today
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- Avails situation still not completely resolved in Italy
- Houston opens firmer, sluggish demand
- Greece expecting more strikes this week
- Crude oil rises on US-Iraq, Norway strike cancelled
- Chile market report from PMC
- OPEC to maintain current crude oil production ceiling
- Rotterdam market report from Marine Bunkering
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- ICS and ISF meet in Oslo
- Interforest and Volvo relieve European road network
- DFDS Transport wins project freight contract to deliver 7,000 tonne cement production line
- Menzies Aviation Group wins GBP17 million staff car park coach contract at Heathrow
- Mann Lines adds Kiel to its schedule
- Arkas Holding takes delivery of new containership
- British Airways and Finnair expand codeshare deal
- Emirates introduces fuel surcharge index
- Strike at Eurogate's container terminals
- Neckermann builds new high-tech logistics facility
- SolNiver Lines appoints Menzell & Co. as agent for liner services
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- Mineta announces port security grants
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta today announced the award of $92.3 million in grants to 51 ports
- All Rowan offshore rigs now under contract
Rowan Companies, Inc. says that all six of its Gorilla Class rigs are now under contract.
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- Secretary of Transportation naming recipients of seaport security grants
- Funds buy 73 percent interest in Seabulk International Inc.
- International Trade Commission inks annual trade review publication
- Small Business Administration answers Washington Governor's call for aid
- Pennyslvania transport agency wants bids on new rail cars
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- Kenyan Firms Accuse Foreign Shippers of Hijacking Services
- Dar bans Three Trawlers to Save Prawns
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- Political breakthrough on Brussels ports plan
the European Commission and the member state Council of Transport Ministers came to an agreement yesterday on the controversial ports services directive in a move that received a cautious welcome from port groups.
- Jurong pips Keppel to $244m Petrobras FPSO deal
SINGAPORE’S Jurong Shipyard has beaten rival Keppel Corp to clinch a $244m FPSO conversion from Petrobras, writes Marcus Hand.
- Asian lines sign port of LA clean air initiative
FOUR major Asian lines are the first to sign up to a clean air initiative pioneered by the Port of Los Angeles.
- Insider Brownrigg to head UK Chamber of Shipping
MARK Brownrigg is to be the next director-general of the UK’s Chamber of Shipping, writes Julian Bray.
- Lloyd's List Focus- Maritime security under the spotlight
SINCE the terrible events of September 11, security has become THE most important global issue.
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- Danish ferry lines in merger rumour
- New order brings Brazil yard fear
- Crown Agents close to LISCR audit
- India-China links strengthened
- Pasha wins Jean Ann court battle
- Forest venture takes Volvo off-road
- India eases SCI acquisition process
- Lines call for Japan pilotage cut
- Sri Lanka ports bans bribes
- Tajima task force looks at the law
- Officers lose on penalties
- Study highlights cultural clashes
- Zimbabwe explains GM crop rejection
- Singapore spill clean up successful
- Greeks fear ferry chaos
- Gwadar to mirror Jebel Ali
- Blind eye turned to asylum seekers
- Lederer resigns from Babcock
- Koreans target 40 per cent share
- Pay cut deal saves yard jobs
- Oldendorff vessel trapped in ice
- Four missing after collision
- No one hurt in Malta yard fire
- Owners of 'cocaine' ship arrested
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- $92.3M in port security grants
The Transportation Security Administration on Monday handed out security grants to 51 ports, terminal operators and carriers.
- Air express sector lagging: Analyst
Air express and heavy freight carriers have yet to show any sustainable signs of a recovery, according to one Wall Street report.
- Atlas Air downgraded, Expeditors gets boost
A prominent Wall Street analyst had contrasting outlooks for the air freight carrier and forwarding concern.
- Russian boost for tanker market
- Panalpina IPO postponed
- American Airlines fined over cargo security lapses
- HK air cargo operators urged to cooperate
- CSX, NS cleared on Conrail reports
- RailAmerica carloads up
- More funding for Qiva
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- La directive portuaire pourrait se traduire par un libéralisation “à la carte”
Le forcing espagnol aura finalement porté ses fruits. Les ministres européens des Transports ont finalement accepté la dernière version de la proposition de la Commission en matière de libéralisation des services portuaires, version amendée suite aux protestations qui se sont manifestées dans certains ports. Les amendements qui ont été apportés, notamment en ce qui concerne le “selfhandling” nous amènent à penser qu’il n’était en fait pas nécessaire d’élaborer une directive et qu’on risque même d’arriver à des distorsions du marché sur la scène portuaire européenne.
- Transport Nijs poursuit son expansion
L’entreprise de transport et de logistique Transport Nijs vient d’inaugurer un nouveau magasin d’une superficie de 13.000 m2. L’entreprise dispose ainsi à Lommel d’un espace d’entreposage de 31.500 m2, entièrement utilisé. Transport Nijs a par conséquent déjà acheté de nouveaux terrains afin de pouvoir construire prochainement de nouveaux magasins. De plus, ses services logistiques seront encore développés.
- IRISL reste un client important d’Anvers pour le breakbulk
“Anvers est pour nous un port d’attache et continuera à jouer un rôle important tant dans les trafics containérisés que dans les trafics de breakbulk”, a déclaré le capitaine M.J. Mozafari à l’occasion de la visite à Anvers du chargeur Rasselstein Hoesch GmbH, qui collabore depuis 15 ans déjà avec l’armement iranien. Le sidérurgiste allemand du groupe Thyssen a déjà représenté durant cette période un demi million de tonnes. IRISL représente à Anvers 3 à 400.000 tonnes sur une base annuelle.
- Les constructeurs de terminaux devront tirer les leçons de Dibden Bay
“ Ceux qui envisagent de construire un terminal à containers greenfield devront dans une large mesure tenir compte des exigences sur le plan des compensations environnementales. A l’avenir, une partie de plus en plus importante des investissements et de l’énergie des promoteurs de projets pour containers devra être consacrée à la préservation de l’environnement”. Tel était le message du Capt. Jimmy Chestnutt d’ABP, le responsable du projet Dibden Bay, un nouveau terminal à containers à Southampton. Malgré les efforts d’ABP pour répondre à certaines préoccupations environnementales, il y avait et il y a toujours beaucoup d’objections au terminal. Mais malgré la procédure épuisante concernant la réalisation du projet, Chestnutt est convaincu du fait
que d’ici le début de 2004 les premiers navires pourront amarrer à Dibden Bay.
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- US allocates $92.3m to port security
Marad and two other federal agencies will administer the grant programme.
- BCR Marine posts weaker revenues
Departure of two major customers stifles container traffic at Vancouver Wharves.
- Exxon Mobil facing $30m civil claims
Six Alaskan municipalities are seeking compensation with interest for Exxon Valdez oil spill.
- Vopak gets green light to split
Dutch chemical tanker owner's shareholders approve distribution network spin-off.
- Babcock Borsig to discuss HDW stake sale
The company will seek approval from shareholders for the HDW stock sale to US investment firm.
- Ensco clears regulatory hurdle
US Federal Trade Commission and Justice department end waiting period for approval.
- Voyager Cruises accelerating launch
The new cruise firm hopes to obtain approval to buy foreign built ships for US cruise market.
- Sohmen meets with Bergesen
World-Wide chief hooks up with his new LNG interest as he inches up share tally.
- Benetton tycoon wants Tirrenia
Fashion magnate Gilberto Benetton is interested in imminent privatisation of Italian state-owned ferry company.
- Umut gives Swedish Club new heart
Turkish owner boosts board as it seeks return to financial health.
- Richard Leslie to join IACS
Former British Marine chief switches from insurance to classification.
- UK "to clear cruise merger"
Newspaper claims government will sanction P&O Princess/Royal Caribbean combination.
- SCI row over LNG ship venture rumbles on
Market unmoved as Indian interests squabble on about participation in gas carrier Lakshmi.
- Bid to save ice-trapped Oldendorff ship
Rescuers set sail from Cape Town in daring bid to free bulker trapped in Antarctica.
- NITC storage business provides VLCC interest
Depressed large tanker market pulls in the punters for Iranian storage business.
- Russian crew refused leave in Texas
Lack of visas confines Russians to Murmansk Shipping cargo vessel at Beaumont.
- Scrap market sinks into summer lull
Bangladesh breakers lose competitive edge as budget measures and market saturation kick in.
- Two dead in Bosporus collision
Two more missing after accident involving small containership and passenger launch off Istanbul.
- FOCs come under US terror scrutiny
US officials cast eye over flags of convenience and their perceived threat to US national security.
- Greek ferry crashes in Aegean port
No injuries reported among passengers aboard Blue Star Ferries' Seajet 2.
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