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Shipping News
- Asia Pacific Maritime show is 42% bigger
THE biennial Asia Pacific Maritime show kicked off yesterday with its best ever showing. The show has grown 42 per cent over the previous one, two years, organiser Reed Exhibitions said.
- Polish strike continues: ICTSI
OPERATIONS at the Polish container terminal of Manila-listed port operator, International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI), continue to be stalled as a workers strike entered its seventh day on Wednesday.
- PSA Gwadar port starts commercial operations
THE inaugural call of the 76,000 dwt Pos Glory at PSA's Gwadar International Terminal in Pakistan marks the beginning of a new phase in the development of port infrastructure there.
- Thuraya extends mobile satellite coverage to Asia-Pac
Strait Talk
- The European liner association takes a look into the future
FROM October this year, liner conferences will no longer be legal under European Union competition law.
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- 'Significant' rate hikes expected from Japan-EU liners, ditto for TSA
- CSCL, OOCL, ANL upgrade north Asia-Australia AANA service
- Xiamen United Logistics to launch cargo train service to Alashankou
- Gdynia strike threatens ICTSI's fast-growing Polish container operations
- Disaster looms for those who ship wine without temperature control
- Archangel port's cargo volume up 19 per cent in February
- Air China 2007 profit up 57pc to US$600 million
- HAFFA optimistic, but predicts challenging year ahead for airfreight
- Korean Air to start nonstop Incheon-LA-Sao Paulo flights from June 2
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- Hapag-Lloyd player swings best to become golf champion
- Wheat imports ruled out
- More raw sugar quota freed for EU intake
- Import duty on soya oil may also be cut
- Spices exports set scorching pace to overtake fiscal target in 11 months
- L. K. Advani makes snap call at MPSEZ & MICT
- Andhra thinks BIG on small ports
- Dynamic Logistics challenges imposition of CRCs on ICDs
- Minister Ramesh reveals plans to augment Vizag coffee acreage, new stress on tuna fishing
- Ball tossed into Consumer Affairs Ministry's court
- Germans coming to confer on collaboration
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- New Bulgarian state railway CEO
- Grotheer takes charge of TFG southern region
- CMA CGM strengthens Latin American-Mediterranean links
- Emirates to Cape Town
- TransLes starting new rail business
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- Finance costs to rise ' survey
- London Club sees major growth
- Lines change fuel rates
- Pumping complete on sunken Vietnam tanker
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- Rigdon takes delivery of fast supply vessel
- Navy expresses regret for Suez shooting death
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- Port of Vancouver, USA buys Renewable Energy Credits
- ILWU says security firm broke laws at Port of Tacoma
- Crowley taps Lee as human resources VP
- TSA member carriers see cost recovery results
- Ports of LA/Long Beach go with incentive program for emissions
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- Insurance dispute hits Van Gogh Cruises itinerary
UK-based operator has been forced to delay its 2008 cruise programme, cancelling 14 cruises from Falmouth, Harwich and Hull.
- Hellenic Carriers secures loans despite credit crisis
PIRAEUS Bank will provide a first advance of up to $110m to the Greek bulker operator.
- Divers recover two bodies in Hong Kong
SIXTEEN other crew on board the 1990-built, 1,393 dwt Neftegaz 67 are still missing after the collision with Yao Hai on Saturday.
- Brussels prescribes prevention as cure
THE commission wants to make the maritime industry liable for its actions ' but support is not universal.
- US shipping's honest broker
THE US Maritime Administrator is "an honest broker" but his role is by no means an easy one.
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- US takes blame for Suez shooting
A DAY after insisting that all shots fired from a US Navy-chartered cargo ship in the Suez Canal were "accounted for", the Navy is now accepting responsibility for the death of one Egyptian and the wounding of three others
- EU probes Gibraltar oil transfers
FEARS over safety, environmental damage and security are behind a plan by the European Commission to investigate oil transfer operations in the Gibraltar Straits
- Senator sees strength in Med-Canada
GERMAN carrier Senator Lines is beefing up its Mediterranean/Canada service with the phasing-in of a faster and larger vessel in May
- Owners on piracy warpath
BIMCO is up in arms about continued pirate activity off Somalia despite IMO and naval efforts, and will highlight the issues at a seminar in Dubai in June
- Rescue was a worrying omen
SAVING 42 seafarers and fishermen from a doomed fish processing ship in the Bering Sea on Sunday was the largest such rescue mission in USCG memory and portends things to come as the region is expected to see growing commercial traffic
- China forced back into LNG market
China has started to buy LNG on the spot market after a five month stop because of high prices
- California outlines fuel incentive
- New Brazilian port at Sao Sebastiao
- Vale-Xstrata deal collapses
- Swift IMO action urged on emissions
- Panama acts to cut congestion
- US port taxes need Congressional review
- Thuraya breaks into Asia Pacific
- Government praises 'green' shipping
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- Panama Canal cuts slots to ease backlog
Waterway will temporarily reduce the number of booking slots to ease the backlog of ships waiting to transit.
- WTSA carriers roll out quarterly bunker surcharges
- LA-Long Beach ports say two truck plans OK
- Vietnam inflation rises
- U.S. admits Egyptian killed by Suez vessel warning shot
- More TWIC centers to open
- APM, Rotterdam share R&D
- Customs Update: Pet food case stirs worries for traders
- Strike blocks French ports
- Japan trims U.S. trade gap
- Charleston switching fuels
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- Rotterdam partners with Indian firm to develop mega transhipment terminal in Gujarat
- French dock strike paralyses container operations
- Saudi Arabia's ports are in good shape
- NYK expects Saudi export boom
- CMA CGM and Maersk team up on another new transpacific service
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- EU probes bunkering
European Parliament's petitions committee launches a review of bunkering operations off Gibraltar.
- Britannia booms
Annual profits explode at London-based bulker owner, jumping from $2.4m to $46m.
- Mordashov backs TUI split
Russian billionaire supports Fredriksen-inspired move to spin-off or sell container line Hapag-Lloyd.
- Top confirms panamax fixture
US-listed owner puts a panamax bulker on a three-year charter for $54,250 per day.
- Aker Yards directors stay
Norwegian yard group finds no "compelling reason" to change board, despite pressure from Per Saevik.
- Atlantska orders Chinese quartet
Croatian owner signs up for another four bulkers at Jiangsu Eastern.
- Fire snuffed out
New Zealand firefighters extinguish small blaze on Pacifica Shipping ro-ro.
- Strikes cost Piraeus
Greek port has lost EUR 14m in series of walk-outs over privatisation.
- STX bags four biggies
Seoul-listed shipbuilder captures $595m order for VLCC quartet.
- US retracts Suez death denial
Cairo embassy admits warnings shots from Navy-chartered ro-ro may have been responsible for Egyptian's death.
- CSDC offloads quartet
Queensway Navigation of Greece buyer of two of four "outdated" product tankers with design defects posing "potential safety risks."
- Divers recover two bodies off HK
Search still on for 16 Ukrainian seafarers trapped in hull of tug which capsized off Hong Kong after collision.
- Bangladesh grabs eight more
Dutch shipowner Hollander Schultens has ordered eight small multi-purpose vessels at Highspeed.
- Shipmanagement boosts Erria
Danish tanker owner boosted by third party fleet operations in 2007, despite revenue drop.
- L&T lines up new order
Indian shipbuilder reportedly wins deal for up to four more heavy-lift ships from Dutch owner RollDock.
- Human error caused ferry crash
Sydney Ferries vessel going too fast before fatal collision with motorboat, but key factor was lack of lights on smaller craft.
- Lines bolster Asia-Oz route
ANL, China Shipping and OOCL are beefing up the tonnage between northern Asia and Australia.
- DSME set for sale
Korea Development Bank says it will soon appoint lead managers for sale of its stake in shipbuilder.
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- Insurers report "dramatic increase" in ship losses
- Company sells two containerships for $40 million
- Shots fired by Navy "security team" apparently killed Egyptian
- Carriers upgrade Asia/Australia loop
- Shipping leaders will be recognized at UN event
- Cargolux to start Miami, Houston flight
- Truckers urge Bush to tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- Agility buys stake in U.S. firm Industriaplex
- U.S. provides product safety advice to Vietnam
- Menlo consolidates Asia Pacific headquarters near Jurong
- UPS appoints executives in forwarding unit
- Carriers, terminal operators praise SoCal port's fuel subsidy plan
- MOL may begin Jacksonville calls this summer
- Marseilles-Fos' containers up 5% after two months
- Gwadar port receives first cargo vessel
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- Newbuilding delivered to SRAB
SRAB Shipping has taken delivery of the chemical tanker Prima, 7,000 DWT, the last vessel in a series of three built at Eregli Shipyard in Turkey. Prima will, as all the vessels in the SRAB fleet, fly the Portuguese flag ...
- Ports pay for fuel switchs
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Carlifornia have launched a voluntary program to reduce emissions from shipping. The ports will compensate the cost difference between currently used bunker fuel and low-sulfur distillate fuel for vessels that ...
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- Three European countries line up to support distillates
Germany, Norway and Finland tell IMO they back moves to phase out residual bunker fuel.
- Vitol takes Egyptian cargo
Traders say parcel could go to Fujairah as Vitol prepares to enter the bunker market.
- EU to investigate bunkering in the Strait of Gibraltar
Spanish environmentalists win right to have concerns brought to the European Commission.
- Several bids, no offers in Rotterdam at noon
- Fuel oil removed from sunken tanker
About 1,600 tonnes of fuel oil safely transferred to shore.
- Taichung 380 cst out for two more weeks
Taiwan's oil refiner says the bunker product is currently unavailable due to barging issues.
- Asian operator acquires fuel monitoring system
FuelTrax™ installed on new tug, fleet-wide use intended.
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