Tuticorin reviews expansion plan for PSA-Sical terminal STAGNATING container volumes at PSA Corporation's PSA-Sical Container Terminal in India have led the Tuticorin Port Trust to re-evaluate earlier expansion plans for the port.
Maersk Moeller still going strong at 90 MAERSK Mc-Kinney Moeller, the head of a Danish shipping and oil empire with 60,000 employees, is a living legend who, despite turning 90 yesterday, still walks up the six flights of stairs to his office every day to attend to business.
Suez Canal chalks up record revenue of US$2.3b THE Suez Canal, one of Egypt's biggest sources of income, has pulled in record revenue of more than US$2.3 billion this year, the canal authority reported.
First US-flagged vessel in 40 years docks in Cuba AN American-flagged vessel has docked in the Havana harbour for the first time in nearly four decades, delivering a cargo of wood and paper to Cuba.
Panama signs pacts with 4 US ports PANAMA has signed four shipping information exchange agreements with several US port cities on the Atlantic Ocean.
Copenhagen Airports to build terminal for ships, trains COPENHAGEN Airports, the operator of the two airports serving Denmark's capital, said it hopes to build a container terminal serving ships, trucks and trains by 2008 to encourage freight-transfer traffic.
Air and Land Transport
Greece makes last call for cash-tight Olympic Airways GREECE is making a last-ditch effort to save its cash-strapped national flag carrier Olympic Airways from the gallows.
Lufthansa makes takeover offer for Swiss, says report
Air India to continue talks on Boeing, Airbus planes
Boeing plans US$100m joint venture in China
Dockyard
IMO committee ponders rules for liquid cargoes THIS is going to be a long hot week at the International Maritime Organization's London headquarters, and not just because the temperatures in the UK capital are forecast to be close to those in Singapore.
Tuticorin reviews expansion plan for PSA-Sical terminal STAGNATING container volumes at PSA Corporation's PSA-Sical Container Terminal in India have led the Tuticorin Port Trust to re-evaluate earlier expansion plans for the port.
Maersk Moeller still going strong at 90 MAERSK Mc-Kinney Moeller, the head of a Danish shipping and oil empire with 60,000 employees, is a living legend who, despite turning 90 yesterday, still walks up the six flights of stairs to his office every day to attend to business.
Suez Canal chalks up record revenue of US$2.3b THE Suez Canal, one of Egypt's biggest sources of income, has pulled in record revenue of more than US$2.3 billion this year, the canal authority reported.
First US-flagged vessel in 40 years docks in Cuba AN American-flagged vessel has docked in the Havana harbour for the first time in nearly four decades, delivering a cargo of wood and paper to Cuba.
Panama signs pacts with 4 US ports PANAMA has signed four shipping information exchange agreements with several US port cities on the Atlantic Ocean.
Copenhagen Airports to build terminal for ships, trains COPENHAGEN Airports, the operator of the two airports serving Denmark's capital, said it hopes to build a container terminal serving ships, trucks and trains by 2008 to encourage freight-transfer traffic.
Air and Land Transport
Greece makes last call for cash-tight Olympic Airways GREECE is making a last-ditch effort to save its cash-strapped national flag carrier Olympic Airways from the gallows.
Lufthansa makes takeover offer for Swiss, says report
Air India to continue talks on Boeing, Airbus planes
Boeing plans US$100m joint venture in China
Dockyard
IMO committee ponders rules for liquid cargoes THIS is going to be a long hot week at the International Maritime Organization's London headquarters, and not just because the temperatures in the UK capital are forecast to be close to those in Singapore.
Tuticorin reviews expansion plan for PSA-Sical terminal STAGNATING container volumes at PSA Corporation's PSA-Sical Container Terminal in India have led the Tuticorin Port Trust to re-evaluate earlier expansion plans for the port.
Maersk Moeller still going strong at 90 MAERSK Mc-Kinney Moeller, the head of a Danish shipping and oil empire with 60,000 employees, is a living legend who, despite turning 90 yesterday, still walks up the six flights of stairs to his office every day to attend to business.
Suez Canal chalks up record revenue of US$2.3b THE Suez Canal, one of Egypt's biggest sources of income, has pulled in record revenue of more than US$2.3 billion this year, the canal authority reported.
First US-flagged vessel in 40 years docks in Cuba AN American-flagged vessel has docked in the Havana harbour for the first time in nearly four decades, delivering a cargo of wood and paper to Cuba.
Panama signs pacts with 4 US ports PANAMA has signed four shipping information exchange agreements with several US port cities on the Atlantic Ocean.
Copenhagen Airports to build terminal for ships, trains COPENHAGEN Airports, the operator of the two airports serving Denmark's capital, said it hopes to build a container terminal serving ships, trucks and trains by 2008 to encourage freight-transfer traffic.
Air and Land Transport
Greece makes last call for cash-tight Olympic Airways GREECE is making a last-ditch effort to save its cash-strapped national flag carrier Olympic Airways from the gallows.
Lufthansa makes takeover offer for Swiss, says report
Air India to continue talks on Boeing, Airbus planes
Boeing plans US$100m joint venture in China
Dockyard
IMO committee ponders rules for liquid cargoes THIS is going to be a long hot week at the International Maritime Organization's London headquarters, and not just because the temperatures in the UK capital are forecast to be close to those in Singapore.
Q&A with MPA: Onus on suppliers under new Singapore regulations The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore is in the process of implementing more stringent regulations of the Singapore bunker market in a bid to prevent the repeat of widely publicised 'bunkering scandals' in 2001/2002. The MPA has been a pioneer in introducing bunker market regulation, and its CP60 Bunkering Code of Practice is being emulated elsewhere. The new Accreditation Scheme for Bunker Suppliers takes regulations a step further, putting the onus on suppliers to ensure bunker quality.
Strong demand in Gibraltar despite large gains
OPEC oil output in June below quota, basket price nears ceiling The latest IEA report said OPEC output fell in June to below its quota ceiling. Meanwhile, OPEC's crude basket stood just 2 cents short of the $28 ceiling yesterday.
Five days in Greece leaves IFOs back where they started
African market snapshots
Oil steady after IEA report, Claudette threat diminishing
Rotterdam: More market tightness expected short term
EU "post-Prestige" proposals high on MEPC agenda EU demands for faster phase outs of single hulled tankers are part of a busy agenda at next week's meeting of IMO's Marine Environmental Protection Committee
Dunlop scrap talks with Greenpeace European shipowner representatives have met Greenpeace in Brussels to discuss the maritime industry's progress towards environmentally friendly ship scrapping, writes Roger Hailey .
Teekay unmasked as Torm shareholder TEEKAY, one of the world's leading tanker groups, has stepped from the shadows as the intriguing owner of a 16% interest in Torm, the Danish bulk shipowner, which was bought 10 days ago by a mysterious Liberian company.
Evergreen kicks off boxship spree TAIWAN'S Evergreen Marine Group will sign the first part of what was a long-awaited $1.5bn 30-boxship deal later this month with Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
CMA CGM bolsters 8,000 teu tonnage CMA CGM is the latest carrier to add to its orderbook for 8,000 teu tonnage.
Inchcape wins massive ExxonMobil deal INCHCAPE Shipping Services has landed a huge contract from ExxonMobil that will cover about 10,000 port calls a year, writes Janet Porter.
US Customs seize illegal arms found on CP Ships' vessel Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspectors seized nearly half US$500,000 worth of arms yesterday found in a container at the Port of Portland but bound for El Salvador.
South American rises set to haul rates up from historic lows
AP Moller Terminals' Pipavav deal back on
Future role of NY/NJ terminal to be decided by year's end
Australian ports bridge productivity gap with trade partners
China's landside port facilities create obstacles for cargo
Fuzhou gives boxes preferential treatment
Horse trading to finalise US port security funds for 2004
Hanjin president's China visit aimed at consolidating volumes
'History in the making' on Europe/Canada service
CMA CGM orders four 8,200TEU containerships
Security innovators offered legal protection against failure
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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