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Shipping News
- Hanjin Heavy opens training centre in Subic Bay
ANTICIPATING a shortage in skilled shipyard workers, Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction has formally opened a US$5 million skills development centre at the Subic Bay Industrial Park.
- DP World gets approval to build container port in China
DUBAI Ports World has received approval to build a container port in China, a news report said, a year after the United Arab Emirates company's planned purchase of US port operations caused a political uproar.
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- MOL, "K" Line see profits tumble despite higher revenue
- Mainland posts top 10 container ports in 2006
- House of Fraser turns to Kuehne + Nagel for furniture deliveries
- Indian intermodal licence application response disappoints
- CMA CGM offers S America, Persian Gulf, India service via the Cape
- Dragonair ramps up services for Lunar New Year, summer schedules
- Hactl posts 0.4pc increase in January tonnage
- UPS orders 27 Boeing 767-300ER freighters
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- Global container shipping downturn seen bottoming out
- ICS forms panel to promote Mumbai chapter
- Improved, effective hinterland linkages vital to expand port capacities-Baalu
- Golden era of infrastructure development has dawned, asserts Dr Kelkar
- DRS Logistics acquires Dilip Road Lines
- Integrated approach to capacity creation in logistics sector emphasised
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- Ruedi Reisdorf celebrating 80th birthday tomorrow
- Hutchison Whampoa new port of Manta operator
- Finnair boosting services to India and China
- Record for SBB Cargo...
- ...and a record for Railion too
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- HK owners blast ICS fuel policy
- Samskip boss gives US$14.5m to charity
- Euro shippers and lines talk - but not about conferences
- "K" Line’s green flag
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- Carnival in Spanish joint venture plan
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- Tsakos Energy Navigation reports double-hull tanker 'touched bottom'
- US rail freight traffic still slowed by winter weather
- Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center holding annual Career Day event
- Coast Guard Cutter POLAR SEA at work at McMurdo, Antarctica
- NYK inks charter contract to ship iron ore for Bao Steel
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- Calls for higher standards among pilots
SHIPOWNERS and their insurers are pressing for higher standards for seapilots, as recent casualties bring the issue to a head.
- France opposes plans for European Sosrep network
INSTITUT Français de la Mer has come out against Brussels plans to set up a network of decision-makers for dealing with emergencies at sea in the EU.
- Dispute grows over ship emission cuts
HONG Kong Shipowners' Association reject approach proposed by International Chamber of Shipping to reduce marine air pollution.
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- Ferry officer charged with manslaughter
PORTSMOUTH 09 February – Ship’s officer Michael Hubble, 61, is facing a manslaughter charge over the death of three yachtsmen through his alleged gross negligence
- DHT cites rising tonne-miles
DOUBLE Hull Tankers (DHT), the ship-owning offshoot of Overseas Shipholding Group, grew 4Q profits despite lower VLCC rates
- Parkroad enters PCTC business
SOUTH Korea’s Parkroad Corp is making its first foray into the car-carrying business, with a newly-converted PCTC in its fleet
- Hunt for Express replacement goes on
DESPITE searching in the UK, the Baltic and the Mediterranean, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co has still not been able to find a replacement for its fast ferry Sea Express 1
- Battistello threatens to leave Gioia Tauro
CONTSHIP Italia (Eurokai-Eurogate) has threatened to close the MCT Medcenter Container Terminal transhipment facility in Gioia Tauro after a second three-day strike
- Fake ferry captain sentenced to jail
A NEW JERSEY man who used a fake master’s licence to pilot a ferry that was involved in a minor casualty will spend five months in jail
- European cruise market up for grabs
- Cruise port security 'not as good as airports'
- Chemoil to run oil terminal in UAE
- Wunma to be towed to Weipa
- Higher value jobs benefit Pan United
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- Environmental strategies are key to U.S. port expansion plans, says Marad chief
In smog-filled Los Angeles (left), other locations, cutting pollution is a critical factor in port expansion plans, says Sean Connaughton.
- Matson raising China-U.S. rates
- Downturn hits NYK profits
- Houston opens Bayport hub
- Finnerty, former Sea-Land executive, dies
- TACA holds fuel charges
- China port signs carrier trio
- Port Everglades gets Hapag-Lloyd services
- Werner founder steps down, son named CEO
- CONECT elects leaders
- Truckers, highway users team up against toll roads
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- Tianjin takes a further step into transhipment business
Three liner operators, CMA CGM, MSC and Hanjin Shipping, signed letters of intent yesterday to start transhipping cargo at Tianjin’s tax-free port zone.
- Australian audit office slams Customs failure
- Cost and demand prompt Indian shipper switch from airfreight to seafreight
- Houston opens Bayport terminal
- Yang Ming Marine, Taiwan Navigation to form alliance
- Growth prompts Shreyas Shipping to upgrade India-Pakistan service
- Progress halted in reducing Deltaport box backlog
- Export surge drives Vladivostok figures
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- Oaktree cashing out Genco stake
Private investor could reap more than $120m from sale of nearly half its holding in Peter Georgiopoulos' dry bulk company.
- Tanker resale nets $13m
Nanjing Changjiang Oil Transportation Co has sold one recently delivered products tanker.
- Blystad bags banger
A 25-year-old capesize bulker has brought $15m.
- Jaanivald fleet to be sold
Estonian owner’s two ro-ros to be auctioned off to pay debts.
- ‘Buy’ buoys Maersk
A strongly favourable analyst prediction has set AP Moller-Maersk AS shares bouncing .
- Neste earnings down
Finnish tanker owner suffers in poorer Baltic market in 2006.
- Ukrrichflot takes three at Aker
Ukrainian national shipowner signs for multi-purpose trio with Aker Yards as European Bank loan pending.
- BP finds fault again
Oil giant owns up to third defect on hugely expensive Alaskan suezmaxes.
- EC clears Italian scrap deal
Government free to provide EUR 12m to help with phasing out of small single-hulled tankers.
- Peter Finnerty dead
Former vice-president of US boxship owner Sea-Land suffers massive heart attack at home.
- DHT does well
Unseasonable weather and third-quarter stockpiling fails to derail Double Hull Tankers in latest period.
- Bourbon still growing
French bulker and offshore vessel group piles on revenue in 2006.
- POL-Levant snaps up cargoship
Polish owner strikes deal with compatriot Euroafrica for 1980-built vessel.
- Fire disables ship off Oz
Vessel carrying ammonium nitrate towed back to Newcastle after fire wrecks electrical cables.
- Share swaps spread to Taiwan
Yang Ming Marine and Taiwan Navigation become latest shipowners to exchange stock.
- Inui faces tough quarter
Inui Steamship builds on last year's result but reaching 2006 forecast still looks a stretch.
- Time called on Lanterman
Holland America's 75-year-old chairman forced, finally, to hand in Carnival directorship.
- Prosafe hits new peak
FPSO owner has its service rig fleet to thank for its best ever annual profit.
- Grounding scare for Tsakos tanker
Aframax carrying 100,000 tonnes of crude damages ballast tanks in Gulf of Finalnd but no oil spill.
- Smit breezes to bigger profit
Dutch salvor’s 2006 earnings boosted by increased towage activity due to strong winds in Europe.
- Kyoei improves
Better nine-month profit for Japanese VLCC owner will not be enough to beat last year’s annual profit.
- Genco profits inch up
Peter Georgiopoulos’ dry-bulk venture ups dividend to share holders as profits and revenue rise.
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- Japanese carriers’ profits hurt by liner downturn
- ESC, ELAA discuss documentation "problem areas"
- APL buying back two 5,506-TEU vessels from Danaos
- TECO mulls sale of barge business
- Yang Ming allies with Taiwan Navigation
- Zim captain freed in Mobile, Ala.
- Wan Hai Lines contracts All Set Marine Lashing
- A.P. Moller-Maersk sells rubber hose company
- Weather forecast halts “MSC Napoli” container salvage operation
- NCBFAA criticizes Senate air cargo security bill
- Volga-Dnepr, Motor Sich managing AN-124 relaunch
- U.S. rail freight slowed by weather, weak housing and motor sectors
- Pacer’s 4th quarter profit up 5.4%
- CN to keep rolling if conductors strike
- Meetings begin over proposed rail line through Yuma, Calif. Area
- Northern California train route may soon see freight trains
- C-TPAT program to revalidate 1,200 companies in 2007
- Four Soft relocates in Liverpool, U.K.
- General Atlantic backs out of equity bid for EGL
- BAX Global opens Chicago logistics campus
- Grindrod on acquisition trail
- Hutchison joint venture to build South China container terminals
- Global Insight: Slow February will still best 2006 TEU counts
- Mizuho Corporate Bank wins financial contract for Panama expansion
- Tacoma expands WUT for Hyundai’s growing business
- Prince Rupert’s breakbulk tonnage grows
- North Carolina ports roll back wages
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- Oil tanker aground in the Gulf of Finland
The Greek-owned crude oil tanker Propontis (116.600 DWT, owner Tsakos Energy, built 2006) ran aground in the Gulf of ...
- Russian bunker association blacklists shipping companies
The Russian Association of Marine and River Bunker Suppliers, formed in the summer of 2005, has drawn up a blacklist ...
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- US prices part ways
Mixed market signals as Asia down but crude up.
- Annex VI could threaten local pollution measures
California fuel rules may be superceded by federal-level legislation.
- Report: Shell returns to Platts window
Major places offer on Platts Singapore fuel-oil trading window after a break of almost three months.
- Gibraltar bunker sales dip
Western Mediterranean hub sees bunker sales fall in 2006.
- Barge delivery starts in South East African port
Bunker company plans to grow Maputo operation.
- Rotterdam market firms Friday morning
- Hong Kong faces heavy barge congestion
Congestion at the terminals to ease only after Chinese New Year, local bunker traders say.
- Barge with heaters debuts in Hong Kong
Supplier takes takes delivery of barge with heating devices to allow delivery of 500 cst bunker product.
- East Asian ports apply holiday surcharges
Bunker delivery surcharges to be imposed in many ports during Chinese New Year holidays.
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