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Shipping News
- Hapag-Lloyd upbeat on volumes, rates
CONFIDENT of continuing export growth in China and other areas in Asia, Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is optimistic it would not face overcapacity next year with new ships it has ordered.
- Chinese bulk carrier escapes pirate attack
PIRATES attacked a Chinese-owned bulk carrier in the Singapore Strait last Friday, a maritime official said yesterday.
- Growth of tanker fleet in '04 fastest since 1970s
THE world's fleet of oil tankers grew last year at its fastest pace since the 1970s as owners kept older carriers in service to take advantage of record freight rates, London-based shipbroker Simpson, Spence & Young said.
- Phase two development on schedule: PTP
- ASC for talks, but keeps options open
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- Hamburg Sud, Allanca, NYK expand NGX service
- FEFC raises westbound rates
- Beijing approval sought for HK-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge landing points
- China-Asean agricultural forum to be held in summer
- VPA appoints two new board members
- PTP passes 1m TEU mark in Q1
- Cosco Dalian completes maiden voyage
- CN orders 75 locomotives, secures options for 75 more
- Hactl registers moderate growth in 1st quarter
- Airbus awards logistics contract to K&N subsidiary
- United, Air Wisconsin reach agreement on transition plans
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- Delmas CrossTrade-Barwil Forbes celebrate 2 decades of successful partnership
- Another record performance by Hapag-Lloyd AG
- Sinotrans unveils new Asia services
- TSA member lines eye increase to offset Panama Canal rate boost
- NOL starts 2005 on good note
- Ecu International Asia stations Koen Roeyers as Reg. Coordinator
- Port community EDI update - By Stephen Vincent
- Non-Major Ports, ICDs, CFSs allowed to import handling gear at a discount
- R. R. Sinha conferred Fellowship of prestigious ICS, London
- 14 firms show interest in Vizhinjam container terminal development
- CONCOR to start a train a day from ICD-Dadri to JNP
- GDP slows down to 6.2 per cent in Q3
- Kamal Nath gives exporters reasons to smile again
- Advance licence norms simplified
- Corporate India hails decisions on DEPB, I-T in FTP supplement
- Export cess withdrawal can help save Rs 60 crore a year, says SEAI
- Enough safeguards in Patents Act to curb drug price rise—Kamal Nath
- Forex reserves go up by $ 297 m
- CII holds seminar on Sharjah Airport Int’l Free Zone
- Mexican Envoy to speak at IMC today
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- Crude prices cooling off for the sixth day
Crude oil prices are declining for the sixth consecutive day following OPEC comments and easing concerns over US gasoline demand.
- Lungshan manager charged with corruption, released on bail
Former general manager of Lungshan Petroleum has been released on bail after being charged with corruption charges last Friday.
- Qatar: Ras Laffan port expecting new bunkering unit
Construction of new bunkering unit to commence soon, aimed at the thriving bunkering market in the middle east.
- Pirates attack Singapore-flagged bunker tanker
Singapore bunker tanker the latest target of pirates in the Malacca Strait.
- Asian lube shortage hitting other markets, prices to rise
Castrol boss warns of shortages and price rises in the marine lubricants market as problems in Asia hit other markets.
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- Hamburg Süd expands its website
- France allows 44-t trucks to operate around ports
- Management buy-out at MAN Logistics GmbH
- Cemat continues to grow
- Lufthansa Cargo Charter offers An-12
- CMA CGM and MacAndrews on the move in Liverpool
- WCA Family of Logistic Networks appoints new director
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- Pirates attack tanker off Johor
- Ulstein builds "revolutionary" AHTS
- New string for Good Hope Express Service
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- BIW gets $16 million LCS long lead materials award
- Alaska LNG ship proposal moves forward
- Discharge permits needed for ballast water?
- New index shows containership charter rates are accelerating
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- Corps taps Tapani Underground for repairs to Columbia River jetty
- Port of Bellingham hires real estate director
- Dick Montgomery guest speaker at Columbia River Propeller Club lunch
- Xtreme Companies sells boat to Lakewood, Wa., Police Department
- Korean Air Lines orders up to 20 Boeing Dreamliners
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- London losing its maritime status says Maersk executive
AP MØLLER-Maersk’s top executive in Britain, Michael Hassing, has launched a stinging rebuke of Westminster and the Chamber of Shipping’s "apathy" towards maritime policy that could consign London’s pre-eminence as a world shipping centre to history.
- Nasdaq set to be top US market for shipping
THE Nasdaq Stock Market is within sight of becoming the leading US marketplace for shipping stocks and expects the Greek market alone to yield up to 10 new initial public offerings within the year, a senior Nasdaq official has said.
- Bullish Fincantieri mulls public listing
ITALIAN state shipbuilder Fincantieri is considering a public share listing after another successful year that included a further rise in profitability and the payment of its first-ever dividend to shareholders.
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- French press for pollution charges
A French public prosecutor is calling for a suspended jail sentence and a fine to be brought against the captain of a ro-pax ferry as a way of warning others not to pollute French waters
- Singapore plans for box surge
SINGAPORE has started planning for the next phase of development at Pasir Panjang container terminal, Minister for Transport, Yeo Cheow Tong, stated yesterday
- PTP tops 1M TEU in first quarter
MALAYSIA’S Port of Tanjung Pelepas has smashed the 1M TEU mark for the first three months of 2005
- Call for Mid East to tackle piracy
YEMENI prime minister Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal has called on countries in the Middle East region to stand together against piracy and armed robbery
- BC ramps up coal exports
COAL exports from W Canada are gearing up as mines that once catered exclusively to the Japanese steel industry are now also looking to China, South Korea and India
- US ponders nationwide port study
PORT capacity and use across the US would the subject to a sweeping nationwide study under a bill just introduced in the US Senate
- Mombasa cleans up oil spill
- Activists held over demolition yard
- Pakistan-Indian link delayed
- Safety enforcement is missing link
- Few liner vessels on the market
- Hapag confident of rate increases
- Four look at Panama port
- Senegal ferry link to resume this week
- Melbourne indecision frustrates MSC
- Mexican port to serve California
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- Air cargo industry cautious about RFID
Largest carriers UPS and FedEx (left) do not currently offer radio tags as part of their regular services.
- Hamburg Süd, NYK add Asia-S.A. string
- CMA CGM Montreal slots
- Hapag-Lloyd's mega-ship
- Increase for Boston TEUs
- Upgrade for MOL intra-Asia
- CN offers instant carload rates
- Intermodal leads RR traffic
- China trade surplus grows
- DHL: China revenue to grow 45%
- Pasha gets China Cadillacs
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- FEFC chairman: Port congestion surcharge not likely this year
The Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) is unlikely to impose a congestion surcharge this year but may do so next year if the problem persists, said chairman Adolf Adrion.
- Lines resist calls to end Durban congestion charging
- Spring crop for Grand Alliance, as 25,000TEU brought in within a week
- CMA CGM to return to Montreal aboard co-ordinated service
- New Good Hope Express to split into two-string service
- Fifth box-terminal for JN Port ‘on the horizon’
- MOL links Thailand, Vietnam and China
- Exports and local cargo drive PTP to 1m TEU in Q1
- Coscon provides direct service between Panama and China
- India seeks US help to develop port road links
- Sierra Leone 100% screening regime established
- K+N renews Poole Lighting UK import contract
- New services will lift Gwangyang's Q2 performance
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- CMA buys Canada slots
French line replaces own transatlantic Canadian service to Europe with slots on Canmar and OOCL ships.
- Heavier tankers in the offing?
Common rules set for IACS vote, ABS chief tells Intertanko.
- Seatruck charters Lembitu
Clipper group’s Irish Sea offshoot takes Estonian ro-ro on two year deal.
- Five in Bulgarian bid
A Cyprus based shipmanager and a Hungarian forwarder remain on privatisation list but Peter Gram drops out.
- Seatrans set to expand
Bergen shipowner acquires chemical carrier newbuilding and seeks out more deals.
- Texas terminals sold
Pipeline operator Kinder Morgan bulks up dry cargo business with $245m deal.
- Singapore warns on bribes
Top bunker supply port warns it will not tolerate fraud or other illegal practices.
- Ezra builds earnings
Singapore offshore owner lifts profit and revenue in six months to end-February.
- Eimskip earns more
Restructuring paid off for Icelandic owner in 2004, as international business and profits grew.
- Cosco ups its tally
Chinese owner takes over state cargo-measuring company Costaco to boost competitiveness.
- Cash injection for Braila?
Aker Yards reportedly considering increasing share capital of Romanian yard outpost.
- Icap-Hyde future for Toyne
New joint venture makes its first move into trading tanker derivatives.
- USCG urges more patrols
Deputy chief of the US Coast Guard calls on Malacca Strait's littoral nations to beef up anti-piracy presence.
- Tanker attacked off Pelepas
Latest incident sees small products carrier robbed of $5,000 barely miles from Malaysian coast.
- Crewman suffers burns
Seafarer evacuated from Sovcomflot’s Tropic Brilliance off Malaysia after receiving 70% burns.
- ST Marine sees strong start
Singapore shipbuilder and repairer sees profits more than double in first quarter from a year ago.
- MOL eyes Thai trade
Thailand’s emergence as a major automobile production centre prompts Japanese firm to start service.
- MBC inks domestic COA
Robert Kuok’s Malaysian Bulk Carriers to haul coal for Tenaga Nasional Bhd for the next three years.
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- Transatlantic bunker charges soar 44%
- China grabs larger share of Asian exports to U.S.
- New World Alliance ends transatlantic Le Havre call
- Carriers to start second Asia/East Coast South America link
- MOL joins RCL intra-Asia loop
- Worldwide air cargo up 9% in 2004
- Lufthansa Cargo moves back into the black
- U.S. holds out hope for aircraft subsidy talks
- Korean Air orders Boeing 787's
- Canadian grain distributors say CN rail service still inadequate
- DHS sticks with hazmat placards
- Pakistani shipper indicted on trafficking nuclear weapons components
- PSA in talks to build new port in Panama
- Tanjung Pelepas tops 1 million TEU traffic in first quarter
- General Motors selects Pasha to process China-bound Cadillac’s
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- Accident on Sovcomflot tanker
A Russian crewmember suffered 70 per cent burns in an accident onboard the Sovcomflot suezmax tanker "Tropic Brilliance" of 154,870 ...
- The "Hamlet" coup solved by Ringkøbing police
The coup where three men took more than DKK 1 million from the Scandlines ferry "Hamlet", while laying in Helsingør ...
- Star Shipping partner may split
The 45-year long cooperation between the Grieg and the Westfal-Larsen families in Star Shipping my be over soon ...
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