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Shipping News
- Cargo bonanza for Asian container ports in H1 2007
Asian container ports experienced a cargo bonanza in the first half this year as shippers in China rushed to beat the end of a tax rebate on thousands of export items.
- Zero attacks in Malacca Strait in Q2: IMB
The Malacca Strait recorded zero incidents of pirate attacks on ships in the second quarter of 2007 compared with three attacks in the same time last year, local media reported yesterday.
- Container line stocks fall on Goldman downgrading
China Cosco Holdings Co and China Shipping Container Lines Co led declines among Asian container shipping lines after Goldman Sachs Group Inc cut ratings in the sector, saying that stock prices exceeded earnings expectations.
- Sunken ship's captain tells how he struggled to survive
- Spanish govt seals off sunken ship
- Port Services to manage Khasab
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- Flurry of orders and deliveries for newbuilds
- 'K' Line forecasts return to the black for box shipping
- MOL, HMM and German shipowner take delivery
- APL offers 'fastest' container service from Westports to New York
- India edges closer to US container security customs scheme
- Odense sells the Volkswerft shipyard to German group
- Georgia Ports Authority appoints new external affairs chief
- Tianjin Airport cargo mail volume up 27.4pc in first half
- Qingdao Airport cargo mail volume reaches record high
- Dubai airport takes top honour from ACW Air Cargo Awards
- Air carriers to deploy thermal blankets for cold chain transport
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- Shakes up international container services
- MSC commences Jade service for Far East-Europe trade
- Maersk unit sells Express Offshore to Macquarie
- Shanghai port registers 24 pc throughput rise in H1 2007
- China Shipping Container Lines to end round-the-world loop
- APM’s shipyard unit sells East German outfit
- APM-Maersk aims to gain from Italian port modernisation
- China aiming to become‘super shipping power’ by 2020
- NYK Line, TDG open maritime academy
- Global Link Logistics to manage own shipments at origin from Asia to North America
- Marshall Islands only open registry to attain USCG Qualship 21 status
- Namsung launches Nanjing/Xiamen-Japan services
- Record container moves at Felixstowe
- AGL Logistics announces launch of AGL Express, to Almaty & Bishkek
- Consortium to develop Rotterdam container terminal
- Ficci moots 6-point formula to improve maritime infrastructure
- MMTC to import 31,000 tonnes of pulses
- ABG to dilute stakes in Kandla, Kolkata box terminals
- APL IndiaLinx offers seamless, reliable & time-bound service for ex-im trade
- Japan agrees to let industrial corridor pass through MP
- Truck rates remain unchanged
- Role of CHAs in boosting ex-im trade appreciated
- Advance tax collections up by 34 pc
- CBEC unveils automated customer service at Vizag
- ECGC chief spells out benefits of insuring cargo
- Govt reviewing CVD on import of technical textile machinery
- Relief package may help recover some losses, says SRTEPC chief
- Govt sops rekindle EEPC hopes of meeting export target
- IIP registers 11.1 pc in May
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- More executives to strengthen OeBB Holding
- CMB acquires 27% of Anglo-Eastern Group
- British Airways to fly to Houston
- Baltiisk–Ust'-Luga ferry to be launched in July
- PostLogistics strengthens position in overnight logistics market
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- BRUSSELS' SPOUT
- Scientists warn on iron dumping plan
- New EU report slams EC over conferences ban
- Camillo Eitzen sells another old LPG ship
- New EU wastes shipment rules in force
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- Labroy books PSV orders
- Promotion for AMSEC's Harris Leonard
- Orders for MAN Diesel 7K80ME-C, Mark-9
- Grounded tanker refloated
- $16.8 million for sub R&D
- $49.3 million DDG 51 award to BIW
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- Appropriations bill holds funds for Port of Vancouver, USA project
- Vessels rescue survivors of sinking bulk log carrier
- Port of Longview brochure wins AAPA Award of Merit
- Schnitzer Steel sets records for third quarter earnings/net income
- Diana Shipping chartering bulk vessel to Hanjin
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- Asian shippers to step up battle against THC
ASIAN Shippers' Council seek ways ways to challenge liners anti-trust immunity in Asia.
- British-flagged tanker in pipeline damage probe
MAIB launches investigation as to whether oil tanker Young Lady damaged North Sea gas pipeline.
- Worker dies in tanker blaze at Greek yard
ONE worker died and another missing following a fire on a Panamanian-flagged tanker at Greece’s Perama Shipyard.
- Let’s hear it for shipping
PERHAPS our industry ought to be less polite and diplomatic and respond to the denigrators in a more muscular fashion.
- Visibility matters
'VISIBILITY' is a major reason for the decision to float Bureau Veritas in the coming months.
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- Stricken Napoli being pulled apart
Attempts are underway to break the stricken container ship MSC Napoli into two pieces, after salvors found the wreck to be more badly damaged that had been thought
- Indian owners gather behind SCI
INDIA'S ship owners have issued a statement defending Shipping Corp of India after senior SCI officials were charged with abetting suicide and criminal breach of trust
- New cracks in submerged Don Pedro
DUTCH salvor Wijsmuller is attempting to seal new cracks found in the submerged ro-ro vessel Don Pedro, which sank a mile off Ibiza on 11 July
- Princess master 'was seeking shelter'
THE master of the capsized Philippine ferry Blue Water Princess says he was seeking shelter from abnormally high waves last Thursday, when his ship struck a reef
- Oil industry admits 'hard truths'
EVEN the oil industry now acknowledges that conventional fuel supplies will be outstripped by demand over the next 25 years
- Japan, Philippines focus on crewing
JAPANESE and Philippine interests are outlining plans for a manning conference to be held in Manila as crewing climbs to top of the agenda for Asian shipping
- Battered cruise ends at Port Vila
- Grounded Aframax refloated
- LA, LB unions threaten strike
- Sydney Ports chief exec resigns
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- Strike deadline passes for ILWU office workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach
Union preparing 'final offer' as strike threat looms for largest U.S. box gateway.
- ILA’s Bowers: Tiered wages should expire
- Boxship charter rates surge
- Maher's Saturday gates win temporary reprieve
- Vancouver port bans some trucks
- Highway funding cuts loom
- MSC hikes westbound rates for Asia wastepaper
- Con-Way buys Contract Freighters
- APL Logistics wins contract for military exchange
- General Freight opens international logistics division
- APL expands India box trains
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- Explosive ending?
Wrecked containership MSC Napoli may be blown apart as cracked hull resists salvors.
- Eitzen is 'very happy'
Oslo-listed Camillo Eitzen & Co is "very happy with" the fortune it just made selling two two-year-old ships.
- Anek splashes share cash
Greek owner buys Japanese ferry with proceeds of rights offer.
- Slow: whale ahead
Shipping is being harpooned in a row over speed limits to save right whales off the US East Coast.
- Yard worker dies in fire
One man dead after blaze breaks out on tanker at Perama shipyard in Greece.
- Nam Cheong aims for global stage
Malaysian offshore vessel builder expecting to double overseas revenues by 2010.
- Piracy attacks see spike
Attacks on shipping are up 37% compared to last year with Nigeria and Somalia the hotbeds of activity
- Qatar Nav nails it
Dominant position in Qatar trade and better investment returns boost feedership operator’s profit.
- Eitzen pockets LPG profit
Sales of two elderly ships will see Axel Eitzen deposit $8.9m in the bank.
- Banana skin for Fyffes
Direct link from Ireland to Caribbean turns sour after engine trouble on boxship.
- Cruise cancelled
P&O Australia pulls the plug on Pacific Star voyage after ship is battered by gale force winds.
- Hamworthy supplying HHI again
UK gas systems maker breaks into mid-sized LPG carrier sector with deal in Korea.
- Two crew in coma
Turkish seafarers on chemical tanker exposed to solvent fumes after discharging at BASF in Antwerp.
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- MSC hikes wastepaper rates
- Tanker freed in New York harbor
- Sea Star plans intermodal fee increase
- Siba vessel completes record livestock shipment
- ABX Air creates new COO position
- Con-way buys Contract Freighters
- FEC to settle shareholder challenge to acquisition
- Conway opens new terminal in New York
- New overnight service connects Newark, Toronto
- Con-Way suing Dell for unpaid freight charges
- Daylight Transport hires another former Con-Way executive
- Private-sector groups push for Latin trade agreements
- S. Calif. ILWU office workers strike looms, talks continue
- Murray seeking $2 million for Port of Vancouver, USA rail project
- Port of Tampa, county, plan rail improvement
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- Europe wants 'holistic' maritime policy
MEPs endorse integrated European maritime policy, call for assessment of emissions trading for ships and better protection of vessels' bunker tanks.
- Bahamas terminal likely to go to US investment bank
Reports say Morgan Stanley is frontrunner to buy the BORCO oil storage and bunkering terminal.
- Uphill struggle on emissions at IMO
No new resolutions on air pollution after week-long IMO committee meeting.
- Ceyhan refinery project wins initial approval
Refinery could boost bunkering prospects on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
- Bunker spill threatens nature reserve
Environmentalists say Ibiza oil slick shows need to restrict shipping off the Balearic Islands.
- Rotterdam remains firm on tight supplies
- 'Triple-digit' oil prices in sight
Analysts divided, but some predict tight supplies and strong demand will drive oil prices sharply higher.
- Ceylon Petroleum to stage comeback
Plans in the pipeline to buy bunker tankers and to go into joint ventures.
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