• Jurong Island project poses logistics challenges
  Solution needed for handling of dangerous goods for export, Exxon manager tells conference
• APL sale to NOL completed
• P&O Bulk Shipping chief sceptical on freight futures
• 5 seamen missing after collision
• One dead as Chinese freighter sinks off Japan
• Canada raises penalties for oil pollution
• Japanese port seeks more business from China

• Airlines told to stop slashing fares or industry will suffer
  Price-cutting one of key factors to blame for fall in industry profits last year: Iata
• At least 3 airlines in Asia face collapse: report
• Branson demands massive fine for BA
• HK govt will use other bus firms if CMB workers strike
• Major US car makers view options after unveiling of Brazil's austerity pac
• Delta to add 5 US-Europe routes

• Yard finds ways to stay afloat
  Russian shipyard near remote Vladivostok wins new oil equipment orders in a successful defence conversion project

• Court has no power to review arbitrators' interlocutory decision

• La fonction de transit du port d'Anvers est menacée
• Global Alliance II: quelles alternatives pour OOCL?
• Vers une hausse des prix du transport routier en Allemagne?

• Singapore's handling at all-time high
• Alps open in Singapore
• P&O Nedlloyd changes Southeast Asia route
• Canal commission reports large losses

• Big shippers switch to rail
• Professors draw EVO's attention to future
• Possibly political Eurotunnel price reduction
• Eurotunnel claims regained market leadership
• Invention of more economical motor
• Foreign captains allowed

• APL now wholly owned NOL sub
• Vancouver port board votes down tax boost
• Unusual project wins exemption from Portland Port Commission
• Marine container company inks extraordinary profit gain
• Secretary of Transportation pleased with Congress’ extension of ISTEA
• Greenbrier announces dividends for quarter

• EU to set up 'white list' on marine safety
  THE European Commission seems certain to take an increasingly hard and independent line on marine safety, delegates at the LSM European Manning and Training Conference were told yesterday.
• Ministers split over European plan to reform shipyard aid
  EUROPEAN Union industry ministers are split over European Commission proposals for reforming shipbuilding subsidies, including the end to operating aid of up to 9% of contract value, writes Nigel Tutt, Brussels.
• No slip-ups on bananas as owners learn their lesson
  SEVERAL shipowners have turned their backs on the traditional October-November vessel trek to the Caribbean region ready to offer their services for early banana cargoes.
• Maersk bites into meat market
  MAERSK Line has quietly gained an important foothold in the transport of sheepmeat from New Zealand, writes James Brewer.
• Halla signs tanker deal
  COMPETITION in the crude carrier construction sector has been given a new edge with the first successful foray into the suezmax field by South Korean shipbuilder Halla Engineering & Heavy Industries.
• Germany's shipbuilding aid continues
  Germany will, after all, continue shipbuilding aid for vessels ordered in 1998, according to a vote taken in the Bonn parliament's budget committee, write Sabina Casagrande and Herbert Fromme, Bonn.
• Brussels will back RfD sale
  THE sale of Channel Tunnel blocktrain operator Railfreight Distribution (RfD) will be approved by the European Commission within the next two weeks, the prospective buyer said yesterday.
• 'Nissos' master faces jail and fine
  KONSTANTINOS Spiropulos, master of the Greek-flag Nissos Amorgos which grounded in Venezuela's notorious Maracaibo channel in February, faces up to three years imprisonment and a $25,000 fine if found guilty of damaging the Venezuelan environment, writes Sandra Speares.

• Stolt Spirit fires now under controlFIRES which spread from the engineroom to upper deck areas of the petrochemical tanker Stolt Spirit on November 11 have now largely been contained.
• MTW lays keel in Europe's largest building hall
  WISMAR, Germany-based MTW Shipyard is to lay the keel section of the first of five 2,470 teu containerships tomorrow.
• Olsen companies fall into the red
  HIGH rates paid for freight ferries chartered in and problems with a cruise liner have dragged the combined pre-tax result of two Olsen companies heavily into the red.
• Jahre Tankers contracts suezmax from Halla
  JAHRE Tankers, a publicly listed Norwegian owner of Suezmax tankers, has ordered a 152,800 dwt suezmax from the Halla Shipyard in South Korea.
• Sri Lanka seeks $1bn for Colombo plan
  SRI Lanka is seeking public and private sector investment amounting to $1bn to develop Colombo as south Asia's hub port.
• Chinese repairer to seek foreign finance
  NEWLY established Dalian Cosco Ship Repair Co says it intends to bring in foreign investment for the second and third stages of construction of the facility.
• Five missing after Aegean collision
  FIVE Lithuanian seamen have been missing since the early hours of this morning after their ship sank following a collision with another vessel in the Aegean Sea.
• Singamas moves out of mid-stream
  SINGAMAS Container Holdings is sub-contracting its mid-stream operations in Hong Kong in a move to cut costs.
• Taiwanese line to inaugurate catamaran link
  TAIWAN'S Victoria Transports is planning to inaugurate a high-speed ferry service between Taichung and the islands of Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu.
• Lines divert to avoid LA diversion
  CONTINUING rail congestion in the Los Angeles area has resulted in more ships diverting to other ports while some carriers have changed their west coast schedules.
• US rail congestion delays grain shipments
  SEVERE rail congestion problems in the US are delaying grain shipments as the 1997 harvest begins to move to market.
• Hanjin to offer global network
  HANJIN, the South Korean operator, is planning to provide a global liner network by March 1998 in co-operation with DSR-Senator Line and Cho Yang.
• China proposes training exchanges
  BEIJING has proposed exchanging students and professors between academies in China and Hong Kong to achieve higher standards of seafarer training.
• Seventeen vessels left Greek flag in October
  THE Greek ship register saw a significant decline in October as 17 vessels aggregating 271,885 gt departed, most heading for the Panamanian or Liberian flags.
• Lamnalco to invest $240m
  LAMNALCO, the UAE-based marine and offshore contractor, is to invest $240m towards a five-year expansion programme.
• Japanese dockers to strike on November 21
  THE National Council of Dock Workers' Unions of Japan has called a 24-hour strike on November 21.
• OSG to sell ten bulkers
  NEW YORK-based Overseas Shipholding Group is to sell ten of its oldest bulk carriers in an effort to reduce outstanding debt.

• Ship reform, subsidy bills dead for '97
• Conrad Everhard to retire
• UPS posts loss of $10 million
• Canadian truckers seek more US market rights
• China's Guilin extends air links to Korea, Japan
• Newport News Shipbuilding
• KPN sells units to TNT managers
• Congress agrees to extend highway program into 1998
• Britain's Prudential eyes Cunard
• STB to decide on key immunity from antitrust laws
• Canada wants new thinking along northern US border
• ECU Line shifts containerized cargoes from Dar es Salaam to Mombasa
• Commercial fishing remains a grim reaper
• Shipments of raw product to mills, as well as a lively import trade, have been a boon for the Port of Philadelphia-Camden
• Asian financial woes put the brakes on short-term recovery in container rates
• Shippers brace for higher truck rates -- just not too much higher

• Patrick suspends five in Brisbane
  Patrick yesterday suspended five members of the Maritime Union of Australia in Brisbane.
  The five workers were apparently caught "nicking off" on Wednesday.
  As the suspensions took place at press time, no further information was immediately available.
  However, the suspension of five workers in Brisbane and two in Fremantle is likely to increase tensions on the waterfront.
  While a strike and a go-slow followed the dismissals in Fremantle, there was no indication at press-time whether similar action will be taken in Brisbane.
  The company has dropped plans of pursuing the alleged go-slow in the port of Fremantle with the Australian Industrial Relations.
  The go-slow followed the dismissal of two workers who were alleged to have been caught "nicking off" last week.
• ITF challenges P&O in Colombo
  The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) move to oppose the privatisation of a port facility in Colombo was yesterday described as "disappointing" by the managing director of P&O Ports Ltd, Captain Richard Setchell.
  P&O Ports Ltd is one of the partners in the Colombo venture and holds a seven year management concession over the facility.
  "They don't understand the facts or the commercial realities of today's world," Captain Setchell said with reference to the ITF's opposition.
  "Everywhere around the world, even their neighbours in the north, are privatising their ports so the government can spend whatever surplus funds it's got on more needy social needs, such as hospitals, roads and schools."
  Captain Setchell made the point that the infrastructure developed by private industry can never be taken away from Sri Lanka.
  "So why not let foreign money build these infrastructure projects and they forever belong to Sri Lanka," he added.
  He said there was no intention of withdrawing from the project with the Sri Lankan authorities nominating 15 December for the signing of the 30 year concession and 1 March, 1998, for the takeover of the facility by the joint venture.
• Port Kembla to ship softwood logs
  The first shipment of softwood logs has sailed from Port Kembla to South Korea.
  About 20,000 tonnes of logs will be exported over the next few months, developing an export industry that could earn New South Wales about $1.5 million per annum and create more than 30 jobs in harvesting, transport, log marshalling and stevedoring.
  "The New South Wales government plans to expand its softwood plantations to 210,000 hectares by 2000 and logs surplus to domestic downstream processing needs can be exported to boost the regional economies of Oberon and Wollongong and the state as a whole," the New South Wales Minister for Land and Water Conservation, Kim Yeadon, who attended the first shipment, said.
  The Port Kembla Port Corporation worked closely with State Forests to secure the export contract with Australian Plantation Exports which will on-sell the logs to South Korea's Hyosung Corporation.
  The contract is part of the Corporation's strategic development plan to utilise the large amount of available land to develop new cargo handling and storage facilities at the port.
  "Our 80 hectares of greenfield sites, coupled with our flexible pricing packages for new users, will allow us to build a more diverse profile of importers and exporters and ensure profitable returns for the port and for this region," the chief executive officer of the Port Kembla Port Corporation, Phillip McGavin, said.