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Shipping News
- ASF to set up permanent office in Singapore
ASIAN shipowners have taken a major step in strengthening the global voice of Asian shipping with the setting up of a permanent secretariat to be located in Singapore.
- Orient orders ship from Samsung Heavy
ORIENT Overseas Ltd, owner of Asia's sixth-largest container shipping line, has placed a US$66.2 million order for a vessel from Samsung Heavy Industries Co to expand its fleet.
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- Hanjin Shipping, Heung-A Shipping to provide N China-Indonesia service
- Coscol to order eight multi-purpose ships
- Toll votes for dual listing, takes stake in HK forwarder
- Manila International Container Terminal opens online booking service
- Northport pleads to keep inter-terminal haulage subsidy
- Danaos lands charters for two more 6,500-TEU vessels in five-ship series
- Kuehne + Nagel wins food handling contract from Italy's Agora
- Air France-KLM suffers cargo earnings fall, but group profit rises
- China's Link Global to buy German air cargo airport
- Qantas adds more flights between Brisbane and Perth
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- Mercator Lines diluting stake to raise funds for vessels purchase
- ...plans shipyard at Palghar
- Bharati Shipyard bags Rs 418-crore order
- Deutsche Post World Net & Lemuir to consolidate JV by forming DHL Lemuir Logistics Pvt. Ltd
- Shipping lines may impose $ 100 surcharge on heavier-than-normal import boxes
- India, EU to hold talks on FTA soon
- Dismantle barriers to commerce, Nath urges UAE
- India describes WTO views on SEZs as ‘premature’
- Nafed to import more edible oil
- JNPT celebrates 18th anniversary with families & friends
- CoPT appoints US-led consortium to prepare feasibility report for cruise terminal
- No tax benefits for contiguity projects in SEZ plots
- Textile sector attracts over Rs 64,000 cr. investment
- Foreign Trade Policy Analysis: Current Trends-By M. Sreedharan
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- Cool Chain Association re-elects secretary general
- Hutchison consortium wins operating rights for port of Alsancak
- Etihad expands services to India and Canada
- Deutsche Bahn interested in EWS
- Turkey to privatize main highways and bridges
- Ceva Logistics wins contest for EGL
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- Bunker tanker master murdered
- Salvors applaud new convention
- Eitzen Chemical buys and sells
- Busan boosting New Port
- Team Lines to call at DCT Gdansk
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- Dubai Drydocks World swoops on Singapore yard
- Chinese yards get help meeting new coatings code
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- Brussels issues warning over stranded migrants
BRUSSELS says ship masters have a legal obligation to rescue refugees stranded at sea.
- Shipwrecked West African boat migrants saved off north Senegal
- ASF sets up permanent base in Singapore
ASIAN Shipowners’ Forum agrees to set up a permanent office in Singapore.
- Dubai Drydocks makes swoop for Pan-United Marine
DD World makes first major overseas acquisition by buying a 70% stake in Singaporean yard.
- Time to hard sell the 'soft values' of ports
WOULD an 'independent commission' of the good and great have been enough to get the Dibden Bay container terminal built?
- Storming in on storm damage
IT is curious why insurers get excited over hurricane forecasts since it is where they go that will ultimately affect claims.
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- Safety Board hands over Queen data
BC Ferries has now received data obtained from the sunken Queen of the North's electronic chart system from Canada's Transportation Safety Board
- MSC bids alone for Log-In
MSC is believed to be one of the few companies ready to buy into Log-In, the subsidiary of Brazilian mining and logistics giant CVRD
- Panama detains ex-Coast Guard chief
PANAMA has arrested the former head and the current chief of operations of the country's coast guard agency for money-laundering in a shipboard drug-smuggling case
- 'Motorways' deadline falls back
FRANCE and Spain have verbally agreed to postpone the deadline set for bids for sea motorway services on the Atlantic coast and the English Channel until November
- Hapag running on empties
HAPAG Lloyd is rejecting low paying cargoes on the Europe-Far East run in an attempt to accelerate the repositioning of its equipment to the Asian loading ports
- Fake tug master jailed for 30 months
- Tribunals 'the future for disputes'
- Aboitiz boosts cargo over pax
- Disney to drop Med in 2008
- Singapore chosen as Asian focus
- Mombasa congestion stops traffic
- MOL, Oman in bulk shipping tie-up
- Hanjin shifts tankers to Singapore
- Dubai Drydocks bids for Pan United
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- Average rates for APL still sliding
Average revenue per container edged down as volumes rose sharply in the most recent four-week period.
- Lines plan rate increases for U.S. ag exports
- TGA upgrades Med-Asia
- CMA CGM ties up buy of Morocco line Comanav
- Hapag-Lloyd to limit Europe-Asia heavy containers
- Maryland ports win "E" Award
- Draft limits may spur Nehru port charge
- Hamburg Süd christens 3,752-TEU Bahia Grande
- DHL adds China flight
- India eyes expansion of Kolkata, Haldia boxes
- Maher to donate $1 million
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- Integration possible for Chinese state owned shipping companies?
- Irish Continental Group takeover offer drags on.
- London Gateway decision expected soon before Blair hands over?
- Comanav in the bag for CMA CGM
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- NEPIA swells surplus
Albert Engelsman takes the chair as Newcastle P&I club rings up positive result.
- Pyrrhic victory for ADIC
Arab bank wins legal battle over Norasia chiefs’ deceit but will recover only $6m.
- It's a start
Cantor likes Top Tankers' buyback, but still sees owner in the red for next 18 months.
- Top buys back four
Greek owner cuts bareboat charter costs by reacquiring suezmaxes sold to Eitzen-led investment company in March 2006.
- DD goes up a size
Emirates shipyard group Dubai Drydocks World snaps up 70% stake in Singapore’s Pan United Marine.
- Lasco lets rip
Latvian tanker owner posts big first quarter profit, partly thanks to ship sales.
- Samso-Linien retains route
Danish ferry owner wins tender to keep operating between Samso and Sjaelland.
- Eckero wins Birka battle
Finnish ferry owner crawls over finish line in race for compatriot company with 50.1% of the votes.
- A voyage too far
Ship which sank off India at the weekend was only 30 miles from final destination on breaker’s beach.
- Marginal money for mutual
Steamship Mutual confirms small surplus as record claims hit underwriting result.
- Somali pirates bag ransom
UAE owner coughs up $100,000 to secure release of ship captured on first trip to Somalia.
- Jinhui doubles up
Hong Kong and Oslo-listed owner sees first-quarter profit soar on increased freight rates and port congestion.
- Brostrom buying again
Swedish tanker player adding more ships to the fleet with the acquisition of Alan Chan's Petroships Group in Asia.
- Acergy orders at Merwede
Oslo-listed owner's Seaway heavy-lift joint venture signs for crane vessel at Dutch yard.
- Fish kills bulker doctor
Chinese doctor on Cosco capesize dies after eating poisonous Japanese dish Fugu off Australia.
- Hello, goodbye at Eitzen
Chemical tanker arm sells 24-year-old unit and welcomes 14-year-old into fleet for conversion.
- Shipping Land behind STX sextet
South Korean reefer owner boosts its owned bulker fleet to seven units with $254m splash at local yard.
- Siem picks up resale
Norwegian investor’s Siem Offshore buys Faroese supply ship for delivery next spring.
- BLT buys three
Indonesian owner appears to confirm Sovcomflot suezmax deal, as well as deal for smaller tanker.
- Mercator linked to yard deal
Indian tanker owner reportedly buys site in Maharashtra to build shipyard.
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- Report: China integrating its state-owned shipping businesses
- CMA CGM completes takeover of Morocco's Comanav
- IMO adopts new wreck removal convention
- APL's average revenue per FEU down 1%
- MOL signs agreement with Oman, opens offices in Italy
- Hapag-Lloyd restricting heavy containers in Europe-to-Asia market
- Evergreen, COSCO add Mexico's Lazaro Cardenas to Asia/Panama service
- Two Korean lines rework Indonesia/North China service
- Hanjin starting second Korea/China feeder service
- OOCL christens 8,063-TEU ship, orders 4,506-TEU vessel from Samsung
- NYK takes delivery of bulk carrier
- Hamburg Sud names fourth 3,752-TEU ship from DSME
- Envirotainer sees high demand from health care sector
- BNSF looks to software system to cut fuel costs
- Shippers hope Congress signs off on U.S.-Panama free trade agreement
- Crane alleges EGL bid undermined by insider leaks
- Ahern named new CBP deputy
- Contaminated alfalfa sprouts recalled
- SJ Consulting adds transportation research team in India
- Menlo expands in North Carolina
- Report: China integrating its state-owned shipping businesses
- CMA CGM completes takeover of Morocco's Comanav
- IMO adopts new wreck removal convention
- APL's average revenue per FEU down 1%
- Panalpina names Kropf CEO for AMEC region
- BIFA makes board appointments
- Port Klang stops inter-port transfer subsidies
- UP likely to "watch from sidelines" on Punta Colonet development
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- Distillate fuel in all US ports by 2010
New legislation proposing low-sulphur fuels for all ships entering and leaving US ports.
- ConocoPhillips announces new bunker team
- Two new double-hulls for Norwegian market
New bunkering vessels should arrive in time for peak 2008 cruise season.
- Ferry will 'revolutionise how we move on water'
New York ferry operator says 'state of the art' solar and wind powered vessel would cut bunker consumption by one third.
- Chevron hangs on to Benelux marine and lubes businesses
Sale of Benelux fuels marketing business will not include Chevron's marine lubricants, additives and bunker businesses in Europe.
- Chinese fuel oil buying in Singapore set to rise
Tax cut will encourage Chinese importers to revert to Singapore product.
- 20 years of ABC
Independent ARA bunkering company marks anniversary in style, plans for more double hulls.
- Rotterdam market down Tuesday morning
- Saudi minister blames politics for high oil prices
Official says oil market has never been 'more balanced' than today.
- Shenzhen prices above Hong Kong
Shenzhen losing bunker stems to Hong Kong.
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