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Shipping News
- Fast-growing Turkish shipyards are hazardous workplaces
Turkey is jockeying to be Europe's biggest shipbuilder, but a spate of deaths shows the need for sector reform and the cost of spectacular growth on the fringe of the European Union.
- Sembmarine unit wins $100m contract
SEMBCORP Marine is riding on the oil boom not just in rig-building but also in the building of support vessels. The company announced yesterday a $100 million contract from Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) to build a 19,000- tonne DP2 fallpipe vessel.
- Truck drivers can now get port info on their cell phones
SINGAPORE Technologies Telemedia and Singapore Telecommunications joint venture Grid Communications has launched an SMS-based service to enable hauliers to receive port data on their mobile phones.
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- Maersk to cut Kaohsiung TEU capacity by half in October
- CTSA lines to hike BAF and CAF surcharges
- Billionaires in clash wills over how to spend expected Hapag-Lloyd sale money
- US cargo volumes still rise, but sluggish until October: Port Tracker
- Maersk and PSA win container terminal licences for north Morocco
- Cosco ranked fourth financially by Marine Money globally
- Sea-rail intermodal seminar held in Changsha; customs clearance improved
- India containerships hit by tax to sustain 'useless' light houses
- BALtrans forwarders gain AEO status from UK customs
- Brisbane awards Agility for Darling Downs Power Station
- Planned UPS-DHL tie-up in US may extend to Asia, Europe
- Cargo plane from Bogota-Miami crashes, killing 5
- Troubled ABX fire probed after carrier received threat
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- ABG Shipyard only negotiating jack-up rig deals
- Shipyards unfurl sails for voyage of fortune
- SCI places fresh orders on hold, with global shipyards' books full
- Strengthening $ to yield more for textile exporters
- 41 pc surge in chilli exports
- JNPT chief lavishes praise on Rani Jadhav's proactive role in steering MbPT's fortunes
- With talks having failed, spectre of ports strike looms
- Major Ports post 8.8 pc growth in traffic throughput during Q1
- Ennore Port to invest Rs 2,700 cr. during XI Plan
- Cotton import duties withdrawn
- Inflation singes core sector growth rate
- Upswing in tax collections
- Stage being set for CTL-IMEX 2009 at Bombay Exhibition Centre
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- Dr Sebastian Jürgens to join HHLA
- Maersk and MCC Transport launch new intra-Asia service
- AF-KLM reduces capacity expansion
- 24plus partner Lagermax starts service to Montenegro
- Swisslog to build distribution centre for Norwegian wholesale group
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- TCC orders capesizes at Daewoo
- US congress passes MARPOL VI
- $1.5 million 'magic pipe' fine for B.Navi
- Siba Ships increases bulk fleet
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- LCS 1 set for dock trials
- DOF ASA splashes out
- Aker yards delivers Skandi Acergy
- Korea indicts Chinese "industrial spy" with ties to ABS
- NASSCO gets Navy contract with growth potential
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- Corps grants final permit for Maury Island barge dock
- Freight services index posts gains during May
- Coast Guard closing Columbia for Tri-Cities hydroplane races
- Ronald Widdows takes helm of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd.
- Greenbrier announces third quarter numbers
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- Engine failures on new ships hits 'shocking' high
NEARLY 10% of main engine damages happen to new ships, indicating that machinery is not becoming more reliable.
- Engine manufacturers defend product quality
- Freight rates flop as curtain comes down on FEFC
FAR Eastern Freight Conference principals have held their last meeting but their final attempt to raise freight rates failed.
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- Sulpicio loses bid to stop Stars inquiry
MANILA regional trial court has blocked a bid by Sulpicio Lines to prevent the Board of Marine Inquiry from investigating the Princess of the Stars disaster
- Scan Trans split from Danish partner
DUBAI-based investment group Kellet & Singleton has acquired two-thirds of the equity in ship-charterer and broker Scan-Trans Middle East & South Asia
- Schulte bulker back after clean-up
THE Hong-Kong-flagged bulker Portland Bay is underway again this morning after being involved in a minor oil spill and emergency overnight cleanup in the Columbia River
- Sulpicio ban hits shippers
Shippers in the Philippine domestic trade are suffering from a shortage of ships after Sulpicio Lines' ro-pax ferries were banned from operating
- Crude prices to remain high, says IEA
In its latest report, the International Energy Agency says it expects crude oil and distillate prices to remain high into 2009
- Horizon boss welcomes shortsea legislation
THE US Congress has begun the process of repealing the repetitive harbour maintenance tax on shortsea cargoes, a move praised by Horizon Lines chairman Chuck Raymond
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- No deal in ILWU talks
- Panama Canal transits flat
- TWIC enforcement expanded
- Bill seeks beef import ban
- Russian rejects Fredriksen offer for TUI shares
- Miami River re-opened following vessel blaze
- Customs busts illegal Chinese transshipments
- Exports boost Seaway traffic
- Arcapita in joint venture to develop China wind farms
- U.S. fines Italian vessel operator for illegal dumping
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- China Cosco Holdings' H1 2008 net profit jumps by 90%
- Elimination of US harbor tax to ease congestion
- Log-In's new link with Manaus
- Brazilian exporter goes live with GT Nexus
- Former Rotterdam port ceo Scholten to face the dock
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- Discharge attack
US congressman goes after cruiseship discharges with new legislation.
- Siba orders duo
Italian owner grabs kamsarmax bulkers at South Korea's STX shipyard.
- UN responds
United Nations and European Union experts headed to the Philippines to assess the Princess of the Stars disaster.
- Lazaro beckons
Terminal expansions at Mexican port lure containership players from rival.
- Bush gets Marpol
Congress sends Marpol Annex VI implementation bill to the US president.
- Production pays
Japan's largest shipbuilder Imabari Zosen increases turnover 45% on higher deliveries.
- Gold bust
Owner, operator and engineer of bulker Rio Gold hit with pollution charges in US as crew blow whistle.
- Strong Skaugen
Morits Skaugen-led owner and builder posts a rise in pre-tax profits in the first half and second quarter.
- Bocimar inks two
It's more capes than a Batman convention, as Hanjin Heavy takes recent order haul to eight.
- Danish blues
Denmark wants control over "problem" ships and global alcohol limits after another grounding involving fatigued, drunk or absent watchkeepers.
- Safety first
K Line to self manage more ships under Vision 100 project.
- Bunker spill
Schulte bulk carrier Portland Bay in 500-gallon overflow but boom limits damage in Columbia River.
- More for Pac Basin
Hong Kong owner takes a pair of ro-ro resales on order at Hyundai Mipo from Italy's Grimaldi.
- Dock death
US worker crushed by steel pipes from cargoship in forklift accident at Savannah.
- Dof rings changes
Norwegian offshore owner cuts its holding in subsidiaries and three newbuildings in a bid to raise cash.
- Second suit
Fresh from suing weather chiefs, Sulpicio turns ire on Del Monte over toxic cargo on Princess of the Stars.
- B Navi fined
Manager of Navalmar bulker stung in US port last year for pollution violation hit with $1.5m fine.
- Dof takes three
Helge Mogster-led owner back at Aker Yards for AHTS trio.
- PTP expanding
Malaysian port's boss Harun Johari lining up $920m spend to boost capacity.
- Mordashov moves
Russian steel billionaire builds stake in TUI after striking deal with director Abel Matutes Juan.
- Too busy
Deutsche Bahn is too wrapped up in its own IPO to consider buying Hapag-Lloyd.
- Yasa books capes
Yalcin Sabanci-led owner puts pen to paper on four ship series at Hanjin Heavy Industries.
- Last little bit
Teekay exercises right to purchase outstanding shares in Teekay Petrojarl.
- DEME's $73m deal
Dutch dredging firm goes to SembCorp Marine for 19,000-dwt DP2 fallpipe vessel.
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- Horizon Lines backs legislation to boost coastal shipping
- TCC orders two bulk carriers from Daewoo shipyard
- Zim receives 4,250-TEU ship
- Italian shipping company fined in pollution case
- Korea reportedly arrests shipyard worker from China
- Boeing to work on heavy-lift cargo blimp
- Boeing projects global shift to more efficient airplanes
- Fuel costs force Cathay into schedule reshuffle
- Lufthansa Cargo's volume marginally down in first half
- Transport groups opposed to EC "greening" package
- ITC hammers China for dumping nails on U.S. market
- U.S. soybean shippers press EC to relax low-level biotech traits in feed
- Heaney joins LOG-NET
- CORRECTION: Avalon promotes Brown
- Port Tracker: U.S. container imports slowly climbing
- Long Beach council to revisit SoCal truck plan
- Maersk to downsize operations in Kaohsiung
- Seattle approves sale of unused pier to state
- TWIC card delivery lagging behind applications
- First seaport terminal awarded 360 Quality Code
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- Only one more hurdle for US Annex VI membership
Port authorities welcoming House nod as bill heads for Presidential signature.
- Durban supply remains slim
Fuel oil only offered for end of July delivery with little advice on August outlook.
- Global bunker market report
- ISO parameters 'exceed MARPOL requirements'
Submission sent to IMO from the technical committee working on 4th revision of ISO 8217.
- Asian markets continue volatile run
Bunker prices at key Asian markets move in mixed directions on Thursday.
- Rotterdam bunker fuel prices up
- Singapore fuel oil stocks up 3.5%
Stocks up on high prices, weak Chinese demand.
- Oil may slide if 'financial factors' removed
BP chief economist says there could be a 'rapid', 'steep' fall in prices.
- IOC sells early-August cargo
The 380-cst cargo is likely to be sold into the regional bunker market.
- Sunken ferry's toxic cargo may be removed first
Refloating efforts stopped for the removal of bunkers and toxic cargo.
- Korean spot market under pressure
Trading firms grapple with tight credit lines as bunker prices rocket.
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