Cosco Pacific to bid for Shanghai port project COSCO Pacific Ltd, the port unit of China's largest shipping company, plans to bid for a stake in Shanghai's new port, the latest company to seek business in a city where sea trade may rise as much as a fifth this year.
Who's to go - PSA staff will know today TODAY ends an anxious wait for PSA Corporation's 5,750 employees, who will finally know for certain who made the axe list of 496 to go in the terminal operator's controversial retrenchment exercise.
N-waste shipping nations meet over Pacific fears A meeting to discuss concerns over radioactive waste shipments across the Pacific opens in Fiji today with delegates from the shipping nations, Britain, France and Japan, taking part but with little expectation of anything coming out of it.
Sunken ship to be salvaged in 6 months THE Tricolor ship that went down in the English Channel in December with a cargo of thousands of luxury cars will be recovered within six months, the ship's Norwegian owners said.
Bosphorus waterway reopens after snowstorm TURKEY re-opened its Bosphorus straits to oil tanker traffic on Saturday after being closed for most of the day as a heavy snowstorm cut visibility on the narrow waterway passing through the city of Istanbul.
Air and Land Transport
Airlines will go bust if war breaks out: Qantas chief QANTAS chief executive Geoff Dixon predicted yesterday that airlines would go bust if war broke out in Iraq, although he insisted his own airline's future was bright.
Lufthansa cuts capacity as economy stings
Gulf Air will keep flying in region
Thai Airways pushed to cut more domestic routes
Pilots union turns up nose at Virgin Atlantic pay offer
ANA likely to incur operating loss: report
Dockyard
Uncertain times in Middle East Gulf IIVALID font S the Iraq situation appears to be coming closer to a showdown, the shiprepair yards in the region have to Invalid font carry on as normal.
Cosco Pacific to bid for Shanghai port project COSCO Pacific Ltd, the port unit of China's largest shipping company, plans to bid for a stake in Shanghai's new port, the latest company to seek business in a city where sea trade may rise as much as a fifth this year.
Who's to go - PSA staff will know today TODAY ends an anxious wait for PSA Corporation's 5,750 employees, who will finally know for certain who made the axe list of 496 to go in the terminal operator's controversial retrenchment exercise.
N-waste shipping nations meet over Pacific fears A meeting to discuss concerns over radioactive waste shipments across the Pacific opens in Fiji today with delegates from the shipping nations, Britain, France and Japan, taking part but with little expectation of anything coming out of it.
Sunken ship to be salvaged in 6 months THE Tricolor ship that went down in the English Channel in December with a cargo of thousands of luxury cars will be recovered within six months, the ship's Norwegian owners said.
Bosphorus waterway reopens after snowstorm TURKEY re-opened its Bosphorus straits to oil tanker traffic on Saturday after being closed for most of the day as a heavy snowstorm cut visibility on the narrow waterway passing through the city of Istanbul.
Air and Land Transport
Airlines will go bust if war breaks out: Qantas chief QANTAS chief executive Geoff Dixon predicted yesterday that airlines would go bust if war broke out in Iraq, although he insisted his own airline's future was bright.
Lufthansa cuts capacity as economy stings
Gulf Air will keep flying in region
Thai Airways pushed to cut more domestic routes
Pilots union turns up nose at Virgin Atlantic pay offer
ANA likely to incur operating loss: report
Dockyard
Uncertain times in Middle East Gulf IIVALID font S the Iraq situation appears to be coming closer to a showdown, the shiprepair yards in the region have to Invalid font carry on as normal.
Cosco Pacific to bid for Shanghai port project COSCO Pacific Ltd, the port unit of China's largest shipping company, plans to bid for a stake in Shanghai's new port, the latest company to seek business in a city where sea trade may rise as much as a fifth this year.
Who's to go - PSA staff will know today TODAY ends an anxious wait for PSA Corporation's 5,750 employees, who will finally know for certain who made the axe list of 496 to go in the terminal operator's controversial retrenchment exercise.
N-waste shipping nations meet over Pacific fears A meeting to discuss concerns over radioactive waste shipments across the Pacific opens in Fiji today with delegates from the shipping nations, Britain, France and Japan, taking part but with little expectation of anything coming out of it.
Sunken ship to be salvaged in 6 months THE Tricolor ship that went down in the English Channel in December with a cargo of thousands of luxury cars will be recovered within six months, the ship's Norwegian owners said.
Bosphorus waterway reopens after snowstorm TURKEY re-opened its Bosphorus straits to oil tanker traffic on Saturday after being closed for most of the day as a heavy snowstorm cut visibility on the narrow waterway passing through the city of Istanbul.
Air and Land Transport
Airlines will go bust if war breaks out: Qantas chief QANTAS chief executive Geoff Dixon predicted yesterday that airlines would go bust if war broke out in Iraq, although he insisted his own airline's future was bright.
Lufthansa cuts capacity as economy stings
Gulf Air will keep flying in region
Thai Airways pushed to cut more domestic routes
Pilots union turns up nose at Virgin Atlantic pay offer
ANA likely to incur operating loss: report
Dockyard
Uncertain times in Middle East Gulf IIVALID font S the Iraq situation appears to be coming closer to a showdown, the shiprepair yards in the region have to Invalid font carry on as normal.
European cartel police raids ship-owners European Commission and national authority inspectors searched the premises of numerous major shipping companies in the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, under suspicion of price-fixing.
Amsterdam airport result down Schiphol Group posted a net result for 2002 of 141 million euros compared with 191 million euros in 2001.
5 billion NY port budget The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey yesterday approved a $5 billion budget that includes no toll or fare hikes, but provides $300 million for the bi-state agency's anti-terrorism operating expenses and $100 million for security upgrades.
USPS wants more flexibility The US Postal Service needs more flexibility in setting its rates, possibly changing them at different times for businesses and the public, an agency official said Thursday.
US anti-terror rules causing concern American businesses largely support the 24-hour rule, which requires detailed cargo information to be filed with authorities a full day before containers are loaded aboard US-bound vessels, but have sown confusion and frustration among the world's shippers, traders, retailers and port officials.
More containers at US West Coast Containerized shipments surged in January 2003 through the U.S.'s largest port complex at the West Cost. Container transhipment in LA was up 27 per cent, in Longbeach down.
Deutsche Post had a good January Deutsche Post AG started 2003 on a positive note with January 2003 business coming in ahead of plan, Chief Executive Klaus Zumwinkel told.
Virgo accused allowed home leave THE long quest for freedom of the three Russian crew members of the tanker Virgo has moved a step closer to fruition after a Canadian court granted them leave to return to their homeland.
SK Corp chief held on insider trading charge CHEY Tae Won, 42, the chairman SK Corporation - the flagship of South Korea's third largest conglomerate or chaebol - was arrested on Saturday, along with Kim Chang Keun, the division's president, after a marathon 34 hours of questioning on charges of insider trading.
Ocean carriers will charge to file BOLs Shippers can expect to begin paying a surcharge for bills of lading that ocean carriers file for them under U.S. Customs' 24-hour advance manifest filing rule.
Shipper group eyeing East Coast ports The West Coast Waterfront Coalition is changing its name and bringing its drive for improved productivity to marine terminals on the East Coast.
Fire closes New York harbor waterway
Integrators to raise fuel surcharge
Customs reviewing comments on trade reporting
Port of NY OKs $500M for security
Maersk Sealand launching India-U.S. direct service
From Hyde into Jekyll: Durban efficiency becomes 'model for industry' A new berthing reservation system for ships arriving at Durban has been so successful in expediting ship handling that it has been hailed as a model for other commercial ports.
Lobby group takes up cudgels over problems of US ports
Closer collaboration from Coscon/CSCL?
Management overhaul at CP Ships
Sinotrans forges shipping agency JV with Japanese partner
UK's Freighliner in $27m intermodal box capacity expansion
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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