English Channel to impose mandatory ship reporting [SINGAPORE] A new mandatory ship-reporting system for the English Channel is among the measures approved by the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) safety sub-committee in the wake of the Erika incident.
Grand Alliance starts direct calls to Tg Priok
Hutchison eyes stake in Ningbo port
Eastbound trans-Pacific route hits 10m TEU mark
Teekay profits soar on rising rates
Chao and Belgium's CMB win Wah Kwong
Ship sales
Port shots
Air and Land Transport
China merges 7 domestic airlines into big three [BEIJING] China announced a vast reorganisation of domestic airlines, merging seven carriers into the three largest to reduce the overlap of routes and half-empty planes that have plagued the industry for years.
Air-India pilots to bid for controlling stake
BA wins rights for more India flights; Virgin upset
Boeing to unveil 777X sales worth US$5b
Prove Tube plan is best option, British MPs tell government
English Channel to impose mandatory ship reporting [SINGAPORE] A new mandatory ship-reporting system for the English Channel is among the measures approved by the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) safety sub-committee in the wake of the Erika incident.
Grand Alliance starts direct calls to Tg Priok
Hutchison eyes stake in Ningbo port
Eastbound trans-Pacific route hits 10m TEU mark
Teekay profits soar on rising rates
Chao and Belgium's CMB win Wah Kwong
Ship sales
Port shots
Air and Land Transport
China merges 7 domestic airlines into big three [BEIJING] China announced a vast reorganisation of domestic airlines, merging seven carriers into the three largest to reduce the overlap of routes and half-empty planes that have plagued the industry for years.
Air-India pilots to bid for controlling stake
BA wins rights for more India flights; Virgin upset
Boeing to unveil 777X sales worth US$5b
Prove Tube plan is best option, British MPs tell government
Northwest Cargo axes fuel surcharge increase The surcharge remains at $.10/kilo.
Canadian rail rivals to share N. Amer. routes Canadian National and Canadian Pacific will share lines in Ontario, and Midwest and Northeast U.S.
APL seeks Maersk slots in Mediterranean-US service APL wants to enter the trade via a slot allocation from Maersk Sealand.
HK carrier OK'd for Euro, Mideast cargo flights Regional feeder Dragonair will fly to Dubai, Amsterdam and Manchester.
Matson profits up 10% despite bunker woes Hawaii automobile volume helped the carrier's second-quarter results.
Aeropolitics grounding multinational deals A foreign company can take over a U.S. firm working on a Star Wars project, but it still can't buy an American airline.
Grand Alliance-Americana Ships deal to be in place by Oct. 23
Danzas, Rebound.com team up in excess-inventory venture
Chinese box maker taps Korean cold technology
Indian express company to get third freighter
China completes first stage of Yangtze dredging
Leif Hoegh posts first-half turnaround
Crew of crippled cargo ship rescued off India
Philippines' ICTSI unit terminates Argentina port deal
ValuJet victims' kin got $262 million compensation
Order for 42 knot commuter ferries Lighthouse Landings Inc, parent of New York Fast Ferry Services Inc., has signed a contract with Derecktor Shipyards of Mamaroneck, N.Y. It covers the construction of a 35 m aluminum high-speed passenger catamaran that will be the first of four to be built for an already acquired run from Stamford, Conn., to New York City.
Litton gets go ahead to start LPD 17 full production Litton Avondale Industries has received approval by the U.S. Navy to begin full, sustained production of the lead ship in the U.S. Navy's new SAN ANTONIO (LPD 17) Class of amphibious assault ships.
ISC reports results New Orleans- based International Shipholding Corporation today reported results for the six months and the quarter ended June 30, 2000.
The 2,959 teu Antigua and Barbuda The 2,959 teu Antigua and Barbuda-flagged OOCL Haven, pictured in Southampton, is the first vessel in the Grand Alliance's new transatlantic schedule. The service is also the first major transatlantic link to use the British port for some 15 years.
Hermes to seal Russian cover Germany's export credit guarantee agency Hermes will finalise the details of a Dm600m ($300m) debt owed by Russian shipping companies this week.
OMI posts a sharp turnaround PROFITING from improving tanker markets and the benefits of its own sweeping restructuring programme, Stamford-based OMI Corp has posted net income of $9.3m for the second quarter of the year.
Privatisation for North Harbour Terminal Bidding for the privatisation contract for the Port of Manila's North Harbour terminal will be held beginning in August, the Philippine Ports Authority has announced.
Doubts on tanker safety campaign With the high profile, three month concentrated inspection campaign on safety of oil tankers just five weeks away, there are reservations over the practicalities of the scheme.
Finland's Kvaerner Masa-Yards FINLAND'S Kvaerner Masa-Yards has reached two milestones in its cruiseship newbuilding programme, with the launch of the Carnival Spirit and the completion of sea trials for the Explorer of the Seas, writes Dale Wainwright.
San Francisco Bay plans under attack San Francisco Port Commission and the region's dominant bay environmental agency have unanimously agreed to a development plan that, in part, calls for the demolition of several piers despite objections from waterfront unions, writes Jim Lamb, San Francisco.
Egremont forced to seek new berth FORMER Mersey ferry Egremont, taken out of service 25 years ago, is seeking a new berth.
The federal appeals court decision upholding the Surface Transportation Board's rail merger moratorium may have painted regulators into a corner requiring they reverse course on decades of rail-lenient merger policy. As for Burlington Northern Santa Fe and the Canadian National, whose intended merger may be derailed by the delay, the two railroads are weighing an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Still undetermined reparations that could total millions of dollars will be paid by Union Pacific to a Mexican company in which UP competitor Kansas City Southern has an ownership stake, thanks to an STB decision The payments will compensate Mexrail, 51 percent owned by Transportacion Maritima Mexicana and 49 percent by KCS, for UP's use of a Mexrail-owned bridge segment spanning the Rio Grande and linking the United States and Mexico at Laredo, Texas, from June 1993 to March 1998.
If you place a frog in warm water and steadily increase the temperature to the boiling point, the frog will not recognize danger until he is boiled to death. Sound familiar, logisticians? Barry Flynn, European director of production and distribution for Oracle, thinks so. He says the logistics environment is changing so quickly that "we may not realize the water temperature is increasing." Oracle isn't standing still in the logistics arena, and has no plans to be boiled for a nice frogs' legs dinner, either. How Oracle is changing to take advantage of the logistics revolution is explained.
Supply-chain software giant Manugistics has a simple message to e-commerce networks and this is it: "You need us." The company is growing on several fronts and will soon power consumer packaged-goods Internet company CPG3, set to be launched this year. Manugistics' customer base includes 25 percent in consumer packaged goods, 13 percent transportation, 12 percent automotive, 12 percent pharmaceuticals, 10 percent retail and 8 percent oil. The government is "going to be a big area for us going forward," CEO Greg Owens said.
Publicly held LTL carriers are showing stronger earnings growth ratios than their brethren in the truckload sector, if second-quarter earnings reports are any indication. That's because of the hit truckload carriers are taking with a 50 percent rise in diesel fuel prices compared with a year ago. One analyst, Fred Leuffer of Bear Stearns, is out with some news that might hearten truckload executives. He is predicting that Saudi Arabia's recent decision to increase oil production will break OPEC unity and could lead to oil prices dropping from their current $30-a-barrel levels to perhaps as low as $20.
Now that the court has upheld the rail merger moratorium, what's next for the rail industry? A Wall Street analyst says Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and Canadian National Railway may have lost some of their momentum vis-á-vis their competition since their merger was first announced, but that they will likely wait and see what new rules the Surface Transportation Board comes up with before scuttling their merger in favor of new partners.
Con-Way NOW, four months after introducing its same-day air service, is pushing the envelope with new services. It has added 176 new cities to its roster. The emergency shipment unit of Con-Way Transportation Services is trying to chip away at the market that FedEx Custom Critical created and has controlled for much of the last decade. Both companies pride themselves on superior customer service and shipment tracking, but Con-Way NOW is taking a more traditional route of focusing on counter-to-counter shipments using commercial airlines. The company also will charter aircraft or offer an air-ground combination. FedEx Custom Critical has stayed out of the counter-to-counter business because of the lack of control, but is giving more and more shipments to its sister company as an alternative to chartering aircraft.
The international shipping community is launching a $7.6 million program to help countries prevent an ecological nightmare from occurring when harmful marine species transported in ships' ballast tanks are routinely disposed in the environment. Called the Global Ballast Water Management Program, the program will provide training and equipment for countries lacking resources in these areas. The main objective is to help Third World countries implement environmentally sound ballast water guidelines.
The Suez Canal Authority has announced that it will introduce surcharges on transit tariffs through the Egyptian canal for most major cargo vessels, effective July 15.
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