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Shipping News
- Supply chain security now more important than ever
A major issue in the future for the ports of the world, which have become more security and safety conscious nowadays, is how to secure the entire logistics chain from beginning to end.
- Demand for million-barrel tanker to rise: broker
DEMAND for suezmax-class tankers, which carry about a million barrels of crude oil, will increase amid changes in the flow of oil exports around the globe, shipbroker EA Gibson said.
- Daewoo's Romania yard wins US$280m in orders
SOUTH Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering yesterday said its shipyard in Romania had secured US$280 million in new orders to build four container ships for two German clients.
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- Shanghai January-June throughput to reach 10 million TEU
- Shippers reiterate call for conference elimination in Europe
- Beijing urges neighbours to ramp up road investments
- N American west coast ports lag behind Asian counterparts development-wise, says group
- Cathay Pacific clinches biggest freighter deal in its history
- Haeko to expand China capacity
- EU, New Zealand agree to open skies
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- Georgia Ports Authority names trade development director
- Shippers' response to ELAA proposal
- China Southern expands Sino/American services
- Bridgestone Europe to build truck tire plant in Poland
- Haiti company joins Worldwide Project Consortium
- Fed "Beige Book" sees growth as well as economic deceleration
- Dakosy launches SAP-integrated AES solution for Germany
- SITL South China 2006 trade fair opening soon
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- Golden Ocean adds panamax
- Bergesen’s Yara fleet buyout put back
- ESPO praises Euro ports moves
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- USCG awards Response Boat contract
- Matson's Andrasick to keynote Global Greenship
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- Matson plans to add bi-weekly service to Guam
- Weekly rail freight traffic sees gains in intermodal/carloads
- Union Pacific bucking trend with continued call for workers
- Port of Tacoma nets awards for 2006 Budget Document
- NASSCO makes delivery of new T-AKE vessel
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- Goldman Sachs bid lifts stakes in battle for ABP
GOLDMAN Sachs has raised the stakes in the battle for control of Associated British Ports with an increased bid of almost £2.8bn ($5bn) as it attempts to blow the opposition out of the water.
- Forth Ports shares leap after upbeat statement
SHARES in Forth Ports, which is set to be the sole surviving port company on the London Stock Exchange, moved ahead on Friday, boosted by an upbeat trading statement and the increased bid for rival ABP, writes Tony Gray.
- Eagle Bulk bolsters market with $105m supramax deal
EAGLE Bulk Shipping has given the dormant US shipping equity market a fillip by uncorking a private placement designed partly to bankroll a three- supramax expansion worth $105m.
- Aker adds chemical expertise with Kleven
AKER Yards has once more demonstrated its appetite for acquisition, snapping up the Kleven FlorØ yard in a bold move into specialised chemical carrier construction.
- Venezuela adds Panama to list of energy cooperation partners
VENEZUELAN president Hugo Chavez has signed broad energy cooperation deals with Panama, including an agreement to build an oil refinery with a capacity of at least 150,000 barrels per day.
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- Ministers oppose Novoship merger
A multi-billion dollar proposal to merge Russia's two state-controlled shipping companies has been opposed by senior Russian government officials
- US beef heading back to Japan
WESTBOUND Pacific reefer interests have received good news that Japan will soon begin allowing US beef imports – following a tiff over mad cow disease
- UK marine response group test
- Buenos Aires improvements unveiled
- NOAA proposal to protect whales
- Aker buys Kleven tanker expertise
- Indians challenge unfair tax hit
- No second chance for yards: Robles
- Stolt-Nielsen goes to the very top
- Heidmar confirms Morgan Stanley bid
- Cannon gives pilots an ultimatum
- Condo Cruise Lines claims progress
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- DOT Secretary Mineta to step down
Two-time cabinet member who supervised overhaul of nationwide transportation security after 9/11 has submitted his resignation, effective July 7.
- Goldman Sachs raises ABP bid
- PSA sells $1B in bonds to fund Hutchison stake
- GAO hits U.S. pest checks
- JoC to hold C-TPAT teleconference
- Heat victory parade to block Miami port access
- Egypt joining CSI
- Japan agrees to resume imports of U.S. beef
- Railroads set service forum
- LA port awards contract for box inspection facility
- Eagle Bulk plans stock offering
- India airport plans separate express terminal
- Russia will cut alcohol tariffs for WTO
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- Update2: Admiral puts into ABPorts, though rivals not ready to relinquish their Quarry
An increased offer for Associated British Ports Holdings, by Goldman Sachs International-backed Admiral Acquisitions UK, has prompted an immediate retort from rivals Macquarie, urging shareholders to await a possible counter-offer.
- MSC, Maersk allowed to work as Noumean talks continue
MSC and Maersk vessels at the centre of a New Caledonia dispute have been allowed to work through Noumea port as negotiations between local unions and French Government representatives continue.
- Gas leak hits PIL ship in Brisbane
- US Secretary of Transportation Mineta resigns
- Automators ECT to drive Euromax
- Tahiti turmoil afflicts shipping
- Negotiation 'marathon' of WTO trade and tariff talks continuing
- Kandla Port signs agreement for container terminal
- Busan to test electricity-driven cranes
- Shippers call for global ban on anti-trust immunity
- German owners order four panamaxes from Daewoo
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- Eagle swoops for three
US-listed supramax specialist Eagle Bulk Shipping keeps vessel details under wraps in $105m three-unit purchase.
- US lease fund buys eight
Lease financier Icon is paying $254m for four products carriers from Oceanbulk and four Zim boxships from KS owners.
- Coast Guard bill set for vote
US Coast Guard funding and other maritime legislation can go forward after a senatorial squabble over a wind farm has been resolved.
- Correction on Crowley
TradeWinds regrets errors in an article on Crowley Maritime Corp’s share price as published in today’s print edition.
- Blue Star to talk pay
Maersk’s German containership manager to discuss new crew deal with union after boycott.
- ABP bid hits $5.1bn
Share price of British ports group soars as Goldman Sachs raises takeover offer.
- Golden Ocean adds another
Fast growing bulker owner confirms purchase - and sale - of Kingston Trader.
- Aker swoops on Kleven
Norwegian shipbuilding giant snaps up Floro yard as it readies assault on chemical tanker market.
- MCA holds ten
UK detentions triple in May with white-listed flag states providing a third of the total.
- GO!
Vassilis Vintiadis and Konstantinos Dimitriou given their cards by new owners of Global Oceanic Carriers.
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- Tripartite Shippers' Group repeats call for conference abolition
- Morgan Stanley looking to buy tanker specialist
- Hamburg Sud to take over FESCO ships
- Sea Star Line vessel heading to Middle East for summer
- Coast Guard continues oil clean up in Calcasieu Ship Channel
- CLARIFICATION: USAID urges PVOs to get serious on late vessel arrivals
- Kitty Hawk completes purchase of trucking company
- RailAmerica culls 20 management jobs as part of organization restructure
- Shippers, industry groups press Congress to pass three trade agreements
- Weber completes acquisition of TaB Warehouse & Transportation
- TNT gets contract to operate Ford tire and wheel logistics
- Schenker opens Swiss logistics terminal
- Goldman Sachs consortium raises ABP bid again to $5.1 billion
- PierPass tweaks export fee payment process
- Port of L.A. approves design contract for container inspection facility
- Port of Portland joins diesel emission reduction group
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- New barge boosts Argentina fleet
Risler introducing additional capacity with locally-built double-hulled vessel.
- Ship channel closure disrupts US Gulf barge traffic
Lake Charles channel and intercoastal waterway closure keeping ships out and barges in until next week.
- India: Bunker pollution danger over
Bunkers removed from bulk carrier wreck, earlier pollution reports dismissed.
- New bunker trader for O.W. Bunker in Asia
- NYMEX to introduce Singapore 380 cst futures
The contract is expected to be launched in September 2006 and will be the first to offer physically delivered 380 cst products in Singapore.
- Rotterdam braced for gains after soft start
- The testing businesses of bunker fuel management
Viswa Lab has been working to promote Total Fuel Management and other new concepts as the bunker testing industry expands its scope.
- Australian government wins legal contest for bunkers
Court rules in favour of the Australian government to seize a vessel's bunkers, leaving supplier with no right to the fuel.
- MPA urges the use of Material Safety Data Sheets
Singapore's port authority urges the shipping community to provide Material Safety Data Sheets for MARPOL Annex I cargoes and marine fuel oils.
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