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Shipping News
- Marina at Keppel Bay wins Best Asian New Marina award
Marina at Keppel Bay has beaten seven other new marinas in the region to win the Best Asian New Marina/Yacht Club award at the Christofle Asia Boating Awards in Shanghai.
- Keppel sponsors pilot coral nursery project
THE marine leisure community and a major corporate with major links to the sea have come together to help put back something into the environment that sustains them.
- PSA, Doosan ink $160m deal for 79 new RTGS
PSA Singapore Terminals is continuing to expand its capacities with the award yesterday of a $160 million contract to Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction for 79 new rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTG).
- Maersk Logistics names new Asia-Pac manager
- Port Authority seeks role in NY rail station project
- CSX Q1 earnings jump 46% on fuel surcharges
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- HK up 7.4pc to 5.3m TEU in Q1, Singapore up 12pc to 7.12m TEU
- Evergreen to offer butterfly loop on Asia-US trade
- Coscon launches Zhangjiagang-Taiwan container service
- Tianjin breaks records, up 22.3pc to 1.9 million TEU despite bad weather
- Maersk's Youship.com offers cargo bookings - and holiday prizes
- Guangdong to develop five hubs and nine regional ports
- Rickmers gets financing for US$1.3 billion newbuilding plan
- India's box terminals struggle to cope with insufficient capacity
- DSR considers building three Baltic container terminals
- Montreal Port Authority expects continued container growth until 2015
- Asiana Airlines launches Yantai-Seoul freighter service
- Hactl wins Jet Airways contract on Mumbai-Hong Kong flights
- LOT Polish Airlines recommences Warsaw-Beijing service
- Swiss WorldCargo offers seven summer destinations once A340s enter service
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- UASC takes delivery of m.v. Al Bahia
- India, Pakistan holding talks on IPI gas pipeline project
- Immense tie-up scope seen for India, UK SMEs in sports infrastructure
- New airport policy poised to take off
- KPT floats global tender for dredging channel
- VPT remembers its fire-fighters who perished in action
- ChPT invites RFQ proposals to develop MEGA BOX TERMINAL
- L&T to develop integrated shipyard & port facility near Ennore
- EOUs allowed to ship out even partially-processed goods
- EEPC sees higher export billing caused by global inflation
- SEZ issues to be taken up at eGoM meeting on April 29
- Rs 1.2 LAKH CRORE! Exports by SEZs in 2008-09 seen
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- Ricci elected president of Unione Interporti Riuniti
- Singapore Airlines pure business flights to NY and LA
- International pallet exchange to be terminated?
- Globe Express Services opens office in Beijing and rebrands in Canada
- UK: visit the ITJ at Multimodal 2008
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- IMO praise for French anti-piracy action
- ABS's remarkable year
- MOL's LPG charters
- Road map for marine highway
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- Economou takes a chunk of Heidmar
- Dubai completes Aker H-6e hull
- $37.7 Navy award for BAE Norfolk Ship Repair
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- Corps eyes mitigation land changes for Columbia River channel project
- Horizon Lines executive backing US marine highway
- Port Tacoma breakfast will discuss 2007 accomplishments, 2008 priorities
- Proposed Oregon LNG facility nets go-ahead for road improvements
- Crowley wins contract for Nea Bay response tug
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- Economou buys into Heidmar
GEORGE Economou buys 49% stake, coinciding with the setting up of new VLCC pool at Heidmar.
- Hartmann to place newbuildings in pool
- Wilhelmsen undecided over Norway flag exit
SHIPOWNER does not ruled out leaving Norwegian registry as tax claim deadline looms.
- Cautious optimism greets Berlusconi return
ITALIAN shipping leaders react with cautious optimism the return of Silvio Berlusconi following elections.
- The master's view
IN THE second of a four-part series on the shipping life, the man at the helm of CMA CGM Puget shares his story.
- For the price of a ship
THE current inflationary environment will separate the weak from the strong among ship buyers as well as builders.
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- Economou buys in at Heidmar
THE George Economou-led Shipping Pool Investors today bought a 49% share of tanker pool giant Heidmar, according to joint statements.
- Gas could solve Bolivia/Chile standoff
BOLIVIAN president Juan Evo Morales has hinted that a resolution of the dispute with Chile over Pacific access might be moving closer
- Ports roped into Oz transport plan
AUSTRALIAN infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese is prepared to include ports and shipping in the country's A$38bn ($31.5bn) AusLink land transport plan
- Savannah boxship collision probed
TWO container ships are being inspected for seaworthiness today after a Sunday collision that occurred when one of the vessels broke free of its mooring
- Peter G goes green
SHIPPING boss Peter Georgiopoulos has launched a new, environmentally focused private equity fund, Green Maritime Partners (GMP).
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- House panel expresses alarm with FMC
Anderson (left), other Federal Maritime Commission members taken to task for low employee morale, lack of leadership.
- Imports through California ports decline again
- Short sea taking hold, says Marad's Connaughton
- Ag companies accuse China, Canada of dumping
- Va. ports, Morocco in pact
- Yara breaks ground on Stockton fertilizer terminal
- JAL pleads guilty to fixing air-cargo rates
- Zim upgrades in S. America
- Catellus plans Bay Area hub
- French port strikes set
- Box record for Rotterdam
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- Irish ports clock up three million boxes in 2007
- Eurogate strikes record
- Vancouver selects partner for big container terminal
- Northport's volume for Q1 2008 more than triples growth forecast
- Latin American port lobby to be established
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- Titan sells single-skins
Greek owner takes two VLCCs off of Hong Kong-listed rival in $59m deal.
- Splosna reveals supra buys
Slovenian owner remains mum on identity of seller or ships but admits two 53,000-dwt purchases.
- Economou buys half of Heidmar
Morgan Stanley hives off 49% stake in US pools and logistics player to George Economou with Heidmar management taking 2%.
- Narrow squeak for diver
Repair worker briefly entangled in mooring ropes as DFDS ferry torn free from UK berth.
- NAT's flexible credit friends
Nordic American Tanker Shipping chief Herbjorn Hansson says extension of credit facility to offer flexibility.
- Rotterdam racks up profit
Dutch port authority salutes better throughput and lower costs in 2007.
- Jinhui sells supramax pair
Bulker owner will bank nearly $20m profit from the sale of two newly-built units.
- Pistiolis sells panamax
Top Ships cuts bulker fleet to four following sale of 1995-built vessel.
- Napoli report out next week
Delayed casualty findings to be published on 22 April as local inquiry begins.
- PV Trans sets out stall
Vietnam tanker operator eyes one purchase and doubling in net profit in 2008.
- Hosco renews with VLCC order
Owner of single-hulled Hebei Spirit invests in new tonnage at DSIC in China.
- Share sale hits Cosco Pacific
Shares fall almost 5% as unidentified investor seek Citigroup help to offload $96m of stock in port operator.
- Concor firms box plans
Indian logistics giant ready to buy slots in domestic coastal trade as prelude to chartering or owning ships.
- Strong start for Nakilat
First-quarter profit up 72% for Doha-based LNG carrier owner.
- MNP eyes Barrikady
Russian shipbuilding group wants to buy 100% of Astrakhan-based yard.
- Volumes slip at Long Beach
Container volumes at US west coast port have shown a year-on-year decline of nearly 8%.
- Flex exercises
Philip Fjeld-led LNG player adds a fourth FPSO to its orderbook at Samsung Heavy Industries.
- Forth Tankers frees cash
Scottish owner sells controlling stake in only tanker and will seek other investment opportunities.
- Seadrill keeps buying
John Fredriksen offshore drilling arm has acquired another chunk of shares in Malaysia's SapuraCrest.
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- Wilh. Wilhelmsen mulls flag switch due to tonnage tax changes
- FMC welcomes boost in president's proposed fiscal 2009 budget
- France, IMO agree on antipiracy tactics
- Maersk changes West Mediterranean ports
- UASC takes delivery of third 6,900-TEU ship from HHI
- Chipolbrok America adds East Coast option to heavy-lift service
- Yang Ming receives 4,250-TEU boxship
- CMA CGM (America) taps Maersk Inc.'s Dianora for transpacific imports
- Japan investigators raid express firms over surcharge price fixing
- DB Schenker doubles capacity on Dubai/Toledo air cargo link
- CSX sees revenues soar as volume drops
- U.S. firm buys Rotterdam short line railroad
- Quality Distribution reduces workforce
- Greatwide recruits UPS executive
- Women In Trucking name Voie president
- NS "Green Machine" to push rail's environmental benefits
- USAID invests $7.9 million to ease South Asian customs processes
- Globe Express opens Cambodia office
- Baja port project bidding reportedly pushed back to 2010
- Eurogate plans $1.7 billion investment
- CMA CGM wins bid for Marseilles dry dock
- COSCO Pacific sees throughput grow 27 percent in March
- PSA Singapore orders 79 Doosan RTGs worth S$160 million
- Coast Guard investigates accident in Savannah
- Horizon chief calls for port spending prioritization
- Los Angeles port signs TWIC contract with Unisys
- New cranes for Thamesport
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- Finnlines' minority shareholders demand continued meeting
At the annual general meeting of Finnlines Plc on 15 April 2008 the minority shareholders demanded the postponement of the handling of the closing of the books and the discharge of the Board to a continued meeting. Finnlines' President and ...
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- New cleaning treatment for bunker tanks
Cleaning system allows bunker residue to be blended back into fuel.
- Bunker market report from Praxis
- Oil at fresh high on weak dollar and US stock draw
- Cold ironing finds growing support
Climate change conference to discuss ways of cutting bunker consumption in port.
- Rotterdam market firming again
- Aegean chairman to invest in 'green' initiatives
Georgiopoulos launches equity fund targeting environmental projects within the maritime and clean energy sectors.
- SSA welcomes new sulphur standards
Singapore shipowners say goal-based approach will encourage technological innovation.
- Petron to charter new double-hull
The Philippines launches its first home-built double-hulled bunker tanker.
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