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Shipping News
- Container shipping expected to grow 10%
THE head of the world's biggest container shipping line is expecting a healthy container market demand growth of around 10 per cent overall this year.
- HK shipowners slam ICS fuel emissions policy
IN A remarkably blunt statement, the Hong Kong Shipowners Association has disassociated itself from an International Chamber of Shipping statement on emissions policy.
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- Matson to implement China-Long Beach Express rate hike
- Maersk Logistics helps set up supply chain innovation hub in HK
- Port of Tianjin January container volume rises 29.8pc
- APL to buy 2 leased box ships, purchase a new one from Danaos Corp.
- Memphis sees itself centre of container trucking over 10 years
- Hactl cargo up 0.4pc in January as exports, transshipments fall
- Air India regards airfreight market as cash cow
- Canada's aviation security net found to be riddled with holes
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- BM Shipping India Pvt. Ltd launched
- CMA CGM’s ‘Vasco Express’ service commencing today
- Indian tonnage drifts in regime of costly ships, plethora of taxes & sluggish freight market
- GE Shipping sells single-hull Suezmax crude carrier
- 16 carriers plan to raise Europe-Asia rates from March
- A.P. Moller-Maersk celebrates latest newbuild
- Samsung Heavy, Daewoo win $ 2.37-bn LNG tanker orders
- Move to increase Panama Canal tariffs
- PSA’s Viet JV to build container port
- PSA Int’l signs accord to run Pak’s Gwadar port
- NYK & Panalpina agree on global cooperation
- 50 years on board!
- Hanjin Shipping launches two 6,555-TEU boxships
- $ 1.47-bn new orders in Jan. from Greek shipowners
- Port of Hamburg moves record sea freight in 2006
- Maersk Contractors wins drilling rig lease deal
- Famous Pacific Shipping seeks Group Exec. Dir.
- Antwerp Port’s volumes up 4.6 pc
- Jebel Ali Port to expand cargo capacity
- 4 lakh tonnes sugar ready for export
- PIB clears 4-laning of road to Cochin ICTT
- Setting records becomes easy for Vizag Port
- Rail freight corridors to foster friendship with Japan
- Lalu may ride PPP model to success in Rly Budget
- Railways hauls 593.65 m tonnes freight during April-January
- Private sector invest 75 pc more than public sector
- Fieo chief pleads for indefinite extension of DEPB scheme
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- Mehdorn elected European president in UIC
- TT-Line remains market leader in Germany-Sweden ferry traffic
- New service from Vatry airport to Algeria
- Intercontainer increases volumes in 2006
- Gruber Logistics takes over Jung & Leyener
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- EMSA snubs bunker industry
- Erika trial starts
- ICTSI’s disaster recovery deal
- Sharjah expansion underway
- Honour for shipping lawyer
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- Federal agencies collaborate on ballast water regs
- Aker American secures product tanker financing
- Omega breaks into Panamax ice niche
- LR gains USCG authorization for FOI's
- Cruise ship and rice barge collide
- $300 million contract for Sembcorp Marine unit
- VT Group buys MILCOM
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- Vancouver USA port board Oks use of IDD tax levy
- Oregon lottery dollars going to transportation projects
- Port of Newport bond project earns honor for committee members
- State of Washington buying PCC rail freight system
- Carnival selects names for two new luxury liners
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- Erika trial kicks-off
DEFENDANTS alleged to have used inadequate vetting procedure and to have badly supervised major repairs.
- Erika final judgment unlikely before September
- Restis inks new $278m supramax order
GREEK group orders up to eight super-handymax bulkers after last year shedding 10 handymaxes from its existing fleet and order book.
- Bid to takeover Adsteam wins Britain's support
BRITAIN’S competition authorities have backed SvitzerWijsmuller’s A$693m bid, subject to the disposal of some interests in Liverpool.
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- Trade deals threaten Canadian yards
CANADA'S struggling shipbuilding industry could be placed in even greater jeopardy under proposed free trade agreements, a report has warned
- SK Corp to tap oil development in Vietnam
A move by SK Corporation to buy a 25% stake in Vietnam's offshore oil resources will mean work for the six VLCCs acquired last year by SK Shipping
- Carnival Corp drops yield outlook
CARNIVAL Corp has cut its 2007 pricing outlook due to Caribbean weakness, but its earnings forecast remains unchanged on lower fuel
- Ship-to-ship LNG transfer successful
- Adsteam approval needs Liverpool sale
- Chevron to bid for Yukos assets
- Corsica operators make their bids
- Rice barge hits Carnival's Fantasy
- MSC boxship collides on maiden call
- Shipping split on air emissions
- Erika trial begins today
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- Vancouver seeks Deltaport partner
Canada’s Port of Vancouver is looking for a partner to design, build and operate a $1.2-billion terminal project at Deltaport (left).
- Strike hits Canadian National
- Retailers urge Congress to extend fast-track authority
- NRS building transload facility in Savannah
- Aker secures financing for Jones Act tankers
- Malaysia terminal to expand
- Lufthansa cargo gains
- Mumbai port bid approved
- Unisys upgrades airfreight management system
- India OKs Cochin highway
- 'Green' plans key to port expansion, says Connaughton
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- Management team departs Rotterdam’s ECT Euromax
The APMT management team of Rotterdam’s Euromax container terminal has departed, leaving the terminal’s completion to be overseen by ECT staff, ci-online can reveal.
- Strike hits CN freight network in Canada
- Mumbai Port Board confirms successful bidder for offshore box project
- Svitzer’s Adsteam takeover moves closer
- Inchon Port to add two more berths
- Court challenge to Patrick Shipping sale
- Brazil terminal operators call for extension to investment-boosting law
- Multi-user retailer centre to open at Savannah
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- Tug spill closes waterway
Coast Guard says 700 gallons leaked from Kirby unit has closed six-mile stretch of intercoastal near Lake Charles.
- ONE takes two, with ice
US-listed Omega Navigation Enterprises brings products fleet to eight with buy of two ice-class panamax newbuildings at $64.5m each.
- Houston, we have a tanker
Aker Philadelphia shipyard completes delivery of first products tanker to be leased to OSG subsidiary and end-user Shell.
- Fraud claims rise to $500m
Sovcomflot dramatically raises the stakes in bribery and corruption battle with Yuri Nikitin and Dmitry Skarga.
- Regasification milestone
Cargo of LNG carrier Excelsior is discharged at innovative Teesport facility.
- Myklebust makes it three
Norwegian yard to build third coastguard ship for Remoy Management.
- Erika trial kicks off
Landmark criminal action sees Total, Rina, shipowner Giuseppe Savarese and others in a French dock over disastrous 1999 sinking.
- Propontis seeks shelter
Damaged Tsakos aframax heads under own power towards Finnish port of Porvoo to await cargo discharge.
- Jaya jolted
Interim profit down at Singapore shipbuilder and owner, as costs jump.
- Q-Ship in the money
Qatar owner banks $26m profit from sale of 2003-built products carrier to Vietman.
- Cosco Corp smiling
Shipyard group Cosco Corp (Singapore) sees bright 2007 after announcing 28% rise in annual profit.
- Southern challenges sale
Tasmanian owner will go to court over Toll’s deal with consortium on Bass Strait shipping operation.
- Corral Line upgrades
Danish owner brings two livestock carriers up to new Australian export standards.
- CMT ready for Taiwan Nav battle
John Peng-controlled owner has cash ready to take over Taiwanese bulker owner.
- FOP finds it feet
Fred Olsen FPSO spin-off to list in Oslo after completing $190m share offering.
- Ferry burnt out in Philippines
Bridge and upper deck of Gothing Lines vessel badly damaged in blaze, but no one hurt.
- Fantasy in barge clash
Departure of Carnival cruise ship from New Orleans delayed after collision in Mississippi River.
- Great Eastern sells suezmax
Mumbai-based owner remains mum on price and destination of fifteen-year-old unit.
- Fearnley Fonds ups ACM stake
Norwegian finance house emerges as significant shareholder in recently listed London shipbroker.
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- Industry recalls Finnerty contributions
- MergeGlobal: Fast-track ocean services offer reliability to shippers
- Hapag-Lloyd switches from Miami to Port Everglades
- Matson raises rates on China/Long Beach service
- Maersk adds North Europe calls to Paranagua Express
- TACA’s BAF, CAF unchanged
- Maersk Line Ltd. appoints Speers
- U.S, China work to expand bilateral air service
- Trucker, motorist groups join to fight privatizing toll roads
- CN prepared to sue over conductors strike
- Intercontainer-Interfrigo posts 4% volume growth
- CBP budget represents 31% increase above 2007
- ITC investigates new trade benefits for Haitian textile industry
- ITC investigates import effect on U.S. canned fruit sector
- House of Fraser picks Kuehne + Nagel
- Schenker Philippines inaugurated
- FMC receives 15 OTI license applications
- U.K. commission puts condition on Svitzer’s Adstream takeover
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- Port of Göteborg launches new investment program
The Port of Göteborg recently concluded a SEK 1.7 billion (EUR 190 million) investment program and is now about to ...
- Number of cruise guests to Norway up 20 per cent
Over 1.1 million cruise guests visited Norway in last year, or 20 per cent more that a year earlier. Bergen ...
- Maersk signs up for more car carriers
A. P. Møller-Mærsk has signed up for more car carriers to the new pool with Höegh Autoliners. This week ...
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- Carnival lowers fuel price prediction
Cruise company seeing lower bunker costs for 2007.
- Rotterdam market stable
- Korean researcher develops oil-absorbing balls
Oil-absorbing balls developed in South Korea effective even in soaking up 500 cst bunker fuel.
- HKSOA disagrees with ICS emission paper
The Hong Kong Shipowners' Association rejects views in an ICS emission paper put forth for updating MARPOL Annex VI.
- MPA: Bunker industry will be regulated with 'a light touch'
Singapore official defends port's record on fuel quality and points to "unique" set of standards and procedures protecting buyers and sellers.
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