3 Chennai centres to train marine workers for S'pore Scheme will later be extended to other centres in India and other countries
Accident rate falls to record low
Zeebrugge port's cargo volume up 6.6%
Kawasaki Heavy posts half-year loss as strong yen erodes sales
Shipping Times will continue to defend free trade
It's unjust to portray Lloyd's List as anti-Asian
The Lloyd's List opinion entitled 'No favours'
Air and Land Transport
Crash of EgyptAir B767 a further setback for Boeing Prior to the latest incident on Sunday, two Boeing aircraft and one McDonnell Douglas have crashed since 1996, killing 685 people
US lawyer to form panel of experts on aviation safety
SriLankan, Asiana won't fly over Y2K critical period
3 Chennai centres to train marine workers for S'pore Scheme will later be extended to other centres in India and other countries
Accident rate falls to record low
Zeebrugge port's cargo volume up 6.6%
Kawasaki Heavy posts half-year loss as strong yen erodes sales
Shipping Times will continue to defend free trade
It's unjust to portray Lloyd's List as anti-Asian
The Lloyd's List opinion entitled 'No favours'
Air and Land Transport
Crash of EgyptAir B767 a further setback for Boeing Prior to the latest incident on Sunday, two Boeing aircraft and one McDonnell Douglas have crashed since 1996, killing 685 people
US lawyer to form panel of experts on aviation safety
SriLankan, Asiana won't fly over Y2K critical period
Cyclone wrecks port of Paradip PARADIP, one of India's 12 major ports, has been devasted by a huge cyclone which struck the eastern Indian state of Orissa over the last weekend, leaving death and destruction in its wake.
Fred Doll goes in Clarkson reshuffle LEADING shipping analyst Fred Doll has left Clarksons after a reshuffle of the London brokerage's research division, Lloyd's List can reveal.
Malta fleet faces Euro quality battle MALTA faces a tough battle to bring its merchant fleet up to European Union standards, a Brussels official has warned the country's maritime community.
ECT ownership structure is resolved THE future ownership structure of Rotterdam container stevedore Europe Combined Terminals seems to have been settled.
Norway tax plan angers shipowners ROLF Sæther, director general of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association, believes the minority government's budget compromise with the opposition Labour Party will seriously erode the gains posted by the 1996 tonnage tax reform and worsen Norway's competitive position in European maritime affairs.
A&P Group UK SHIPREPAIR and conversion company A&P Group has secured two refit conversion contracts from P&O Cruises, involving the Arcadia and the millennium refit of the Victoria, writes Dale Wainwright.
Crew fear for hijacked ingot ship HOPE is fading for the survival of the 17 Japanese and Filipino crew missing after the 8,913 dwt cargo ship Alondra Rainbow vanished after leaving Kuala Tunjung, Sumatra, in Indonesia.
EgyptAir Disaster THE hull of the EgyptAir Boeing 767 jetliner which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the Massachusetts coast on Sunday, with 217 passengers and crew on board, was insured for $53m, according insurance sources in London.
Lifting Fritz onto a new plane. Lynn C. Fritz talks to ITJ about plans and strategies for his international logistics group in the new millenium.
Maritime
Evergreen poised to leap ahead in Italy. The Evergreen Group plans to give substantial support to its Italian subsidiary Lloyd Triestino, according to chairman Dr Chang.
Aviation
Alitalia/KLM Cargo: virtual integration. From November 1, the airfreight sectors of Alitalia and KLM will cooperate even more closely with the development of new joint products.
Lifting Fritz onto a new plane. Lynn C. Fritz talks to ITJ about plans and strategies for his international logistics group in the new millenium.
Maritime
Evergreen poised to leap ahead in Italy. The Evergreen Group plans to give substantial support to its Italian subsidiary Lloyd Triestino, according to chairman Dr Chang.
Aviation
Alitalia/KLM Cargo: virtual integration. From November 1, the airfreight sectors of Alitalia and KLM will cooperate even more closely with the development of new joint products.
Lifting Fritz onto a new plane. Lynn C. Fritz talks to ITJ about plans and strategies for his international logistics group in the new millenium.
Maritime
Evergreen poised to leap ahead in Italy. The Evergreen Group plans to give substantial support to its Italian subsidiary Lloyd Triestino, according to chairman Dr Chang.
Aviation
Alitalia/KLM Cargo: virtual integration. From November 1, the airfreight sectors of Alitalia and KLM will cooperate even more closely with the development of new joint products.
National Mediation Board Chairwoman Maggie Jacobsen, who in 1996 brought railroads and rail unions through an atypical round of collective bargaining that produced new wage, benefit and work rule agreements without congressional intervention, is drumming for a cultural change in the collective bargaining process in hopes of producing partnerships rather than mutual resentment. Rail management and labor begin a new round of contract talks this week.
The trucking industry is treating its 300,000 independent contract drivers like "expendable commodities" and the solution is to scrap their mileage-based pay in favor of an hourly compensation plan with premiums for overtime, said Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association.
It takes an average of 45 days for information to wind its way through an enterprise; the product and service cycle averages 30 days; the cash-to-cash cycle is 75 days. Under the rules of e-commerce, those metrics will shrink to two days for information, 15 days for products and services and 10 days for cash-to-cash. This was just one of the perspectives offered by the "Conquering the E-Value Chain Challenge" panel at this year's Council of Logistics Management conference in Toronto.
The Teamsters union made good on its promise to try a nationwide strike against Overnite Transportation Co., the nation's fifth-largest stand-alone LTL carrier and biggest nonunion LTL carrier. The two sides predictably differed on the impact of the strike. The carrier said it was coping with minimal service disruptions. The union called it a success and pointed to Overnite's $6 million expenditure on its strike contingency plan as an example of how the strike is hurting. Shippers were caught in the middle of this classic labor struggle now in its fifth year.
Norfolk Southern recently conceded what many industry observers already had seen for themselves - that it screwed up in its operational integration of Conrail. However, according to NS Vice President of Strategic Planning Jim McClellan, most of the congestion that occurred on NS after June 1 had its roots in poor planning 10 years before the transaction took place. The key to long-term recovery and better service, McClellan said, will be determined by the railroad's ability to improve infrastructure.
Circle International is launching a new domestic service that will offer three levels of air freight forwarding between any two domestic points: next day by 5 p.m., second day by 5 p.m. and economy deferred with delivery on the third or fourth business day after pickup. The service is designed to funnel domestic work from its huge pool of international freight forwarding customers.
The Department of Defense is looking for ways to increase its commitment to using commercial carriers to move military equipment. The U.S. Military Traffic Management Command is testing the use of contractors to move cargo. It also is testing the use of third-party logistics firms to arrange and manage its shipments. According to top officials, a reduced military presence overseas places more emphasis on delivering American troops and equipment from the U.S. rather than supporting a global network of bases.
British Columbia Railway Co. is getting on track by getting on the web to provide better information and more personal service to key customers. BC Rail, a commercial crown corporation wholly owned by the province of British Columbia, is Canada's fourth-largest railway with 1,200 miles of track. The railroad mainly ships forest products, sulfur and coal. The initial idea, said Ian Banks, manager, electronic commerce for the company, was to lower shippers' costs of doing business with BC Rail and to help the company "improve our competitive advantage."
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