Spain used Prestige capt as scapegoat: P&I club THE chairman of the London P&I Club has blasted Spain's handling of the Prestige casualty, saying the jailing of its captain was clearly designed to make him the scapegoat and shield those ultimately responsible for worsening the situation.
Port Klang's June throughput up 5.9% year-on-year MALAYSIA's main port operator saw a 5.9 per cent rise in shipments in June versus a year earlier, providing further evidence that the Sars outbreak had a limited impact on trade in Asia, economists said.
Auckland port's full-year volumes rise PORTS of Auckland, New Zealand's largest port, said the volume of containers it handled in its financial year ended June 30 rose 9.5 per cent from a year earlier.
Air and Land Transport
Branson plans budget US airline VIRGIN Group chairman Richard Branson announced plans on Wednesday to set up a 'quality low-cost' airline in the United States by the end of June 2004 to rival jetBlue and Southwest.
Ukraine may suspend flights to US, Europe
French legislators oppose third Paris airport plan
Star partners launch tender for 200 new jets: report
FedEx to run 12 new cargo services through HK
Brussels Air to fly to Gatwick airport
Admiralty Casebook
Terms of bills of lading work against MISC's claim THE terms of its own bills of lading left a Malaysian carrier without recourse recently when an Australian appeal court held that the carrier's only possible claim for the late return of its containers was against a third party that was not contractually bound to it.
Spain used Prestige capt as scapegoat: P&I club THE chairman of the London P&I Club has blasted Spain's handling of the Prestige casualty, saying the jailing of its captain was clearly designed to make him the scapegoat and shield those ultimately responsible for worsening the situation.
Port Klang's June throughput up 5.9% year-on-year MALAYSIA's main port operator saw a 5.9 per cent rise in shipments in June versus a year earlier, providing further evidence that the Sars outbreak had a limited impact on trade in Asia, economists said.
Auckland port's full-year volumes rise PORTS of Auckland, New Zealand's largest port, said the volume of containers it handled in its financial year ended June 30 rose 9.5 per cent from a year earlier.
Air and Land Transport
Branson plans budget US airline VIRGIN Group chairman Richard Branson announced plans on Wednesday to set up a 'quality low-cost' airline in the United States by the end of June 2004 to rival jetBlue and Southwest.
Ukraine may suspend flights to US, Europe
French legislators oppose third Paris airport plan
Star partners launch tender for 200 new jets: report
FedEx to run 12 new cargo services through HK
Brussels Air to fly to Gatwick airport
Admiralty Casebook
Terms of bills of lading work against MISC's claim THE terms of its own bills of lading left a Malaysian carrier without recourse recently when an Australian appeal court held that the carrier's only possible claim for the late return of its containers was against a third party that was not contractually bound to it.
Spain used Prestige capt as scapegoat: P&I club THE chairman of the London P&I Club has blasted Spain's handling of the Prestige casualty, saying the jailing of its captain was clearly designed to make him the scapegoat and shield those ultimately responsible for worsening the situation.
Port Klang's June throughput up 5.9% year-on-year MALAYSIA's main port operator saw a 5.9 per cent rise in shipments in June versus a year earlier, providing further evidence that the Sars outbreak had a limited impact on trade in Asia, economists said.
Auckland port's full-year volumes rise PORTS of Auckland, New Zealand's largest port, said the volume of containers it handled in its financial year ended June 30 rose 9.5 per cent from a year earlier.
Air and Land Transport
Branson plans budget US airline VIRGIN Group chairman Richard Branson announced plans on Wednesday to set up a 'quality low-cost' airline in the United States by the end of June 2004 to rival jetBlue and Southwest.
Ukraine may suspend flights to US, Europe
French legislators oppose third Paris airport plan
Star partners launch tender for 200 new jets: report
FedEx to run 12 new cargo services through HK
Brussels Air to fly to Gatwick airport
Admiralty Casebook
Terms of bills of lading work against MISC's claim THE terms of its own bills of lading left a Malaysian carrier without recourse recently when an Australian appeal court held that the carrier's only possible claim for the late return of its containers was against a third party that was not contractually bound to it.
West Coast markets still quiet, prices little changed
Aggressive major brings prices down in Vancouver
ARA region: Improved avails, loading problems persist
Singapore: Muted market as both suppliers and buyers sit tight The most unusual feature of the Singapore market this week was that suppliers by and large reported that there are currently no problems with product avails, nor any congestion at loading or for barges.
Demand drops slightly as Gibraltar softens
Canary Islands: Las Palmas low on fueloil
Rotterdam soft to steady, barges tight
Italy follows Med lower, Genoa remains tight The overall availability situation in Italy seems to have improved somewhat compared to huge problems experienced over the past couple of weeks or more, although there continues to be trouble hot-spots, in particular Genoa.
UK: 'Jambo' bunker removal operation completed SMIT Salvage and Klyne Tugs announced yesterday that they have successfully removed and recovered 85 tonnes of bunker oil aboard the Jambo, which sank off the coast of Scotland at the end of June.
Everard blasts Brussels over post-Prestige 'failures' BRUSSELS has come under damning criticism from leading shipowners' association Bimco over its "failure" to address the real maritime safety issues arising from the Prestigeincident.
Pritzker siblings sue father for $5bn over 'looted' trust funds TWO members of billionaire cruiseship clan the Pritzker family - the largest shareholders in Royal Caribbean and Celebrity - are seeking $5bn in damages from their father, after accusing him of 'looting' their trust funds.
Angelicoussis takes plunge into LNG THE Angelicoussis Group is breaking new ground with an order for a liquefied natural gas carrier which could represent the first step in building a sizeable presence in this sophisticated shipping market, writes Tony Gray.
Danaos Shipping snaps up legendary Big Whites quartet DANAOS Shipping of Greece has bought the Big Whites, four of the world's best known containerships which have been serving the Europe-South Africa trades since the late 1970s.
Box charter rates soar Containership charter rates near seven-year highs as liner shipping companies chase a dwindling supply of tonnage to cope with record cargo flows on major trade routes.
Claim: Counterfeiting no longer a Customs priority U.S. Customs is paying less attention to counterfeiting and other forms of intellectual property theft, says a counterfeiting expert -- a claim disputed by a former Customs official.
Former DHL Airways owner refuses to testify in probe of carrier An Idaho investor and former principal owner of DHL Airways defied a judge's order in a federal inquiry into the cargo airline's ownership.
Lufthansa Cargo opens new JFK terminal
Texas ports suffer minimal damage from Claudette
British Airways halts most Heathrow cargo operations
Waterborne box traffic at German inland ports leaps 19% Container traffic transiting Germany's inland ports surged 16% last year to 1.57m TEU, against a decrease in overall volumes handled, according to the Federal Association for Public-User Inland Ports.
Nhava Sheva congestion drives JNPT customer to Mumbai
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