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Shipping News
- IMB tells industry not to lower guard despite drop in piracy
THE ICC International Maritime Bureau has warned the global maritime community not to become complacent after its 2005 piracy report showed worldwide pirate attacks at their lowest level since 1999, including a drop in attacks in regional waters.
- Malacca Strait attack seen rocking world economies
A maritime terrorist attack in the Malacca Strait could send economic shockwaves around the world even it was not a major strike, the commander of the United States Pacific Fleet said yesterday.
- MPA gets 2 new board members
TWO prominent private sector personalities in shipping have been inducted into the board of Singapore's maritime regulatory body, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
- Over 100 rescued from sunken Indonesian ferry
- French journalists held after filming in Indian shipyard
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- Yangshan handles 200,000 TEU in 1st month of operation
- WTSA to also calculate fuel surcharges on monthly basis
- Vancouver sees 6pc rise in container traffic in 2005
- SaviTrak comes to ports in HK, Shenzhen
- Yuancheng opens 7 YRD branches
- Luoyuanwan to build 2 berths
- Xinjiang Customs to open 3 new border checkpoints
- HKIA to undergo major expansion
- Design of Boeing 737-900ER nears completion
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- GE Shipping’s 3rd quarter profit put at Rs 185.21 crore
- Varun Shipping unveils ambitious plans for offshore sector
- Transworld Group orders 4 containerships
- TAMP holds talks with shippers
- Fieo seeks cut in import duty on capital goods
- Leather industry swinging to brand new image
- MbPT, JNPT to share cost of dredging channels
- Paradip Port handles 11.15 pc more cargo in 2005
- Iron ore shipments resume
- Kolkata Port Trust may hire equipment to boost productivity at non-BOT berths
- Bharati Shipyard posts 126 pc jump in Q3 net profit
- M. A. Bhaskarachar takes over as Dy Chairman of NMPT
- E. Coast gateway ports see privatised rly container operations bringing in more hinterland cargo
- Atul Housing launches Custom-bonded public warehouse in Panvel
- Singapore Minister to rope in investors for India’s SEZ projects!
- Malaysia ready to assist in freeway projects
- Developed nations must cut farm subsidies for progress in WTO talks-Kamal Nath
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- Thomas Held quits Schenker
- MSC upgrades Far East-USA west coast service
- China Airlines introduces third Europe-Delhi service
- France: Alainé acquires Transports Duverneuil
- "LeShop.ch/Migros-Shop" planning new logistics centre
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- Exmar’s strong results
- Olympic orders sub-sea vessel
- Specialist ro-ros for Airbus
- Pirates rake bulker with gunfire
- Chemical tanker sinks in Channel
- MIT-Panama takes 22-slot cranes
- Siba Ships buys largest livestock ship
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- ST Marine to build Airbus RO/RO's
- L-3 SAM wins cruise ship orders
- Scorpion orders fifth jackup
- M80 Stiletto set for further trials
- Jail in ferry sewage dumping case
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- Port of Everett onboard AAPA environmental program
- NAFTA partners see jump in surface transportation numbers
- Two Panama Canal divisions earn ISO 9001:2000 certification
- WTSA changing procedure for setting fuel surcharge amounts
- Crowley names Rudy Leming Caribbean/Bahamas vice president
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- Felixstowe £240m terminal gets UK nod
CONSTRUCTION of a new deepsea container terminal at the Port of Felixstowe is expected to start within six months, after getting the go-ahead from the UK government yesterday.
- UK and France on pollution alert as Ece sinks
FRANCE and Britain went on to pollution alert yesterday after the Ece, the chemicals tanker holed in a collision with a bulk carrier in the English Channel on Tuesday, sank with its cargo of 10,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid while under tow.
- UK operators say port security licensing is too costly
CONTRACT security staff at UK ports will have to be licensed by the Security Industry Authority from March 20, despite opposition by operators on cost grounds.
- Ex-agent Basham is new head of Customs
THE director of the US Secret Service and career intelligence man, Ralph Basham, has been tapped to become Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, closing a gap created last year by former incumbent Robert Bonner’s return to the private sector.
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- GE Shipping slipping
MUMBAI-based Great Eastern Shipping Co, which is now being divided, said its net profit for 4Q05 has fallen by 36% to Rs1.8Bn ($42M) over a year earlier
- Freight shippers to go direct
ONLINE service provider DirectFerries.co.uk has set up a dedicated freight site to take bookings for European ferry services in a bid to cater for the growth in the sector
- Curacao gasoline unit shut
STATE-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has shut a gasoline unit at its La Isla refinery in Curacao for six weeks for planned maintenance
- Car industry faces growing shipping costs
- Bush sets new energy targets
- Curaçao Drydock steps on the gas
- Migrant Watch: US/Caribbean
- Navy searches for ferry victims
- Emission proposals backed by ports
- Ece sinks while under tow
- K-Line opens bulk division in China
- IMB praises anti-piracy efforts
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- LA-Long Beach eyes 'green' leases
New terminal leases with strict environmental measures are now the rule at the nation's largest container gateway.
- Tacoma breaks TEU mark
- Felixstowe plan approved
- APL ship still stranded
- Halifax adds Suez service
- MOL buys P&O’s Europe-S. Africa service
- Hamburg Süd, CSAV swap SA slots
- Safmarine launches Angola breakbulk
- Manzanillo gets mega-cranes
- BAX sale completed
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- UK ports review one step closer, as Felixstowe South project approved
The UK government has approved Hutchison Ports UK’s Felixstowe South reconfiguration, leaving just final decisions on the Bathside Bay and London Gateway projects before the promised national ports review.
- Brazilian ports group slams ‘anachronistic’ truckers in Rio Grande action
Some 15,000 containers have piled up at Tecon Rio Grande box-terminal in southern Brazil due to a truck-drivers’ strike, prompting fierce criticism from the Association of Brazilian Port Terminals.
- Charter market tugged in different directions
- Black Sea market warming up
- Temas to launch Thai link
- RZhD gets on Ust-Luga wagon, as stakeholders vie to promote port
- ICL increases transatlantic capacity
- Two new users for Busan New Port
- BPA soon to select terminal operators
- Australian wine exports surge
- ANL appoints MacAndrews as UK agent
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- B+H switches auditors
It's out with Pricewaterhouse and in with Ernst & Young for Mike Hudner's Rhode Island-based company.
- Captain dies during cruise
Royal Caribbean says 'natural causes' claimed 38-year-old skipper of Monarch of the Seas but autopsy will tell more.
- Siba expands again
Italians buy world's largest livestock carrier from Singapore's Pan United.
- Western Shipyard ups profit
Lithuanian shipbuilder and repairer builds earnings and revenues in 2005.
- MOL launches SAf service
Japanese line starts first sailing for SAECs after buying out P&O Nedlloyd's share.
- Safmarine adds Angola
South African line links more African ports to US east coast with multipurpose service.
- P&O offloads property
UK ports and ferries group makes tidy profit from sale of land and buildings in Denver and London.
- Our man in China
K Line sets up new bulk division in Shanghai.
- Bharati batters last year’s profit
Indian yard steps up earnings and revenues in third quarter with help from subsidies.
- Turkey to hold new port auction
Royal Caribbean and Ofer consortium could get second chance to bid for Istanbul cruise terminal.
- HMM issues new bond
Company raises $156m from new three-year debt offering.
- Indonesian ferry sinks
One person dead and another 30 missing, but rescuers save 113 people in heavy seas off western Timor.
- ST Marine inks A380 ro-ros
Singapore shipbuilder to build pair of 3,500-dwt vessels that will transport parts of giant airliner.
- Ece sinks
Turkish chemical tanker damaged in clash with bulker disappears beneath the waves in the English Channel.
- Babcock to raise $530m
Aussie investment firm plans fresh equity issue to fund the acquisition of Britain’s PD Ports.
- Fire hits Speybank
Andrew Weir general cargo ship suffers blaze while under repair at Singapore’s Pan United.
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- Ships collide in English Channel
- Safmarine to start multipurpose U.S./West Africa service
- "K" Line (China) Ltd. opens bulk division
- China Shipping, CMA CGM add Liverpool to new transatlantic loop
- CP Railway 4th-quarter net income up 4.7%, full-year record
- TNT to invest in India
- Deutsche Bahn's purchase of BAX Global finalized
- Kuehne + Nagel adds just-in-time service for DaimlerChrysler in Hamburg
- Fish and Wildlife proposes tougher measures for trade in big cats
- Trans-Link to provide exhibition logistics in Hong Kong
- Management Dynamics names Yuen director
- Network America promotes three executives
- FMC reviews 4 OTI license applications
- U.K. government approves Hutchison's Felixstowe South terminal project
- Babcock & Brown completes PD Ports takeover
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- Two seafarers injured in carbon dioxide accident
Two crew members on the Cypriot-flagged general cargo vessel "Skarpoe" were injured, one reported severely injured, when a number ...
- Hull for Stena ropax at Fosen
The hull for the first new Stena ropax vessel finally arrived at Fosen Mek Verksted from Baltiysky Zavod in St ...
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- Bearish data sends crude markets lower
Crude markets tracked lower today after latest US inventory data revealed higher than expected builds for crude and gasoline.
- DOE & API at a glance: This week's key US inventory figures
- Three out, two in, at MPA board
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Chairman re-appointed for three years.
- Coastguard monitors pollution after tanker sinks
Phosphoric acid cargo poses little threat, but bunker fuel onboard vessel could lead to significant pollution damage.
- Barge launch brings 2008 double-hull target closer
Leading ARA barge operator launching its ninth double-hull newbuild, less than three months after its latest fleet addition.
- Prompt Antwerp offers below Rotterdam this morning
- No change to output ceiling, OPEC says
The OPEC meeting yesterday concluded with the oil cartel deciding not to change its oil output ceiling.
- China seeks direct imports of fuel oil from producers
China is looking to acquire more of its supplies directly from oil producing countries, bypassing oil traders in Singapore.
- Malacca Strait: Threefold drop in pirate attacks on year
The number of pirate attacks in the Malacca Strait dropped more than three times in 2005 compared to 2004.
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