IMO urged to help end piracy menace ASIAN shipowners have called upon their respective governments to work with the International Maritime Organisation to find an effective solution for the ongoing problem of piracy and armed robbery in the Malacca and Singapore Straits.
Throw your weight behind IMO: Cheow Tong TRANSPORT Minister Yeo Cheow Tong yesterday made a strong call for a unified and global support for the work of the International Maritime Organisation and urged individual countries and regional blocs not to make unilateral decisions where international solutions are required.
S'pore to sponsor lectures at World Maritime University THE newly formed Singapore Maritime Foundation is introducing an Asian Maritime Lecture series at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, in an attempt to broaden insights on Asian maritime issues and policies among the university's graduates.
Pirates take 4 Thai fishermen hostage ARMED pirates believed to be Indonesians have kidnapped four Thai fishermen in the busy Malacca Straits off Malaysia's Penang state, police officials said yesterday Guan Beng Kang, deputy police chief in Balik Pulau district, said the pirates have demanded a 40,000 ringgit .
TANKER MARKET VELA International Marine Ltd, a unit of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil company, hired three tankers with capacity of two million barrels each to ship oil to the US as fuel demand rises, brokers
Air and Land Transport
Qantas' low-cost arm JetStar takes off AUSTRALIA's newest domestic airline took to the skies yesterday as market leader Qantas Airways Ltd launched its own no-fills carrier to challenge Richard Branson's discount rival Virgin Blue.
Paris airport roof collapse a big blow to Air France's hub plans
Boeing bets on efficiency, comfort for new 7E7 jet
Iraq expects Airbus plane deal
Strait Talk
Double-hulled bulkers: IMO stops chasing a red herring LAST week, something very unusual occurred. The International Maritime Organisation's Maritime Safety Committee took a formal vote.
IMO urged to help end piracy menace ASIAN shipowners have called upon their respective governments to work with the International Maritime Organisation to find an effective solution for the ongoing problem of piracy and armed robbery in the Malacca and Singapore Straits.
Throw your weight behind IMO: Cheow Tong TRANSPORT Minister Yeo Cheow Tong yesterday made a strong call for a unified and global support for the work of the International Maritime Organisation and urged individual countries and regional blocs not to make unilateral decisions where international solutions are required.
S'pore to sponsor lectures at World Maritime University THE newly formed Singapore Maritime Foundation is introducing an Asian Maritime Lecture series at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, in an attempt to broaden insights on Asian maritime issues and policies among the university's graduates.
Pirates take 4 Thai fishermen hostage ARMED pirates believed to be Indonesians have kidnapped four Thai fishermen in the busy Malacca Straits off Malaysia's Penang state, police officials said yesterday Guan Beng Kang, deputy police chief in Balik Pulau district, said the pirates have demanded a 40,000 ringgit .
TANKER MARKET VELA International Marine Ltd, a unit of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil company, hired three tankers with capacity of two million barrels each to ship oil to the US as fuel demand rises, brokers
Air and Land Transport
Qantas' low-cost arm JetStar takes off AUSTRALIA's newest domestic airline took to the skies yesterday as market leader Qantas Airways Ltd launched its own no-fills carrier to challenge Richard Branson's discount rival Virgin Blue.
Paris airport roof collapse a big blow to Air France's hub plans
Boeing bets on efficiency, comfort for new 7E7 jet
Iraq expects Airbus plane deal
Strait Talk
Double-hulled bulkers: IMO stops chasing a red herring LAST week, something very unusual occurred. The International Maritime Organisation's Maritime Safety Committee took a formal vote.
IMO urged to help end piracy menace ASIAN shipowners have called upon their respective governments to work with the International Maritime Organisation to find an effective solution for the ongoing problem of piracy and armed robbery in the Malacca and Singapore Straits.
Throw your weight behind IMO: Cheow Tong TRANSPORT Minister Yeo Cheow Tong yesterday made a strong call for a unified and global support for the work of the International Maritime Organisation and urged individual countries and regional blocs not to make unilateral decisions where international solutions are required.
S'pore to sponsor lectures at World Maritime University THE newly formed Singapore Maritime Foundation is introducing an Asian Maritime Lecture series at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, in an attempt to broaden insights on Asian maritime issues and policies among the university's graduates.
Pirates take 4 Thai fishermen hostage ARMED pirates believed to be Indonesians have kidnapped four Thai fishermen in the busy Malacca Straits off Malaysia's Penang state, police officials said yesterday Guan Beng Kang, deputy police chief in Balik Pulau district, said the pirates have demanded a 40,000 ringgit .
TANKER MARKET VELA International Marine Ltd, a unit of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil company, hired three tankers with capacity of two million barrels each to ship oil to the US as fuel demand rises, brokers
Air and Land Transport
Qantas' low-cost arm JetStar takes off AUSTRALIA's newest domestic airline took to the skies yesterday as market leader Qantas Airways Ltd launched its own no-fills carrier to challenge Richard Branson's discount rival Virgin Blue.
Paris airport roof collapse a big blow to Air France's hub plans
Boeing bets on efficiency, comfort for new 7E7 jet
Iraq expects Airbus plane deal
Strait Talk
Double-hulled bulkers: IMO stops chasing a red herring LAST week, something very unusual occurred. The International Maritime Organisation's Maritime Safety Committee took a formal vote.
US markets still firm after crude gains Good bunker demand expected as US Naval vessels arrive for New York's Fleet Week.
Singapore fuel oil market feels strain of falling China imports Brimming storage tanks and lacklustre end-user demand due to high prices may cause Huangpu's June imports to fall further.
BP unveils more details of giant Guangdong terminal BP and partner celebrate successful commissioning of Nansha oil products terminal and jetty.
Fujairah market slows down as buyers shun firm market Bunker prices lag cargo gains after solid rise today.
Crude rally pushes Hong Kong levels up
Tanker chief warns of potential for off-spec bunker disaster Intertanko managing director says introduction of Marpol Annex VI could reduce risk of off-spec bunker fuel entering supply chain.
Crude dips after new record-breaking rally Saudi pledge to boost supply failed to gain approval from other OPEC members.
ISPS deadline doomed to fail and must be extended, says GL SHIPPING has no realistic chance of meeting the July 1 deadline for new international anti-terrorism rules, and an extension of up to five months is now necessary, Germanischer Lloyd said yesterday.
Castle Harlan buys Horizon for $650m HORIZON Lines, the former Jones Act containership arm of transport giant CSX, has been sold for $650m to New York equity firm Castle Harlan only 15 months after Carlyle Group of Washington bought it from CSX for $315m.
Burke offers $100m equity infusion for MC Shipping A PLAN to transform the prospects of MC Shipping by injecting more than $100m of fresh equity into the liquefied petroleum gas carrier and containership operator has been put forward by Burke Investments.
Three dead in Karachi port blast NEWS is coming in of an explosion at Gate 17 at Karachi port in Pakistan
GL rallies response to ISPS CLASS societies began discussing today "a practical solution" to the problem of ships that do not have ISPS certification after the 1 July deadline
Alstom rescue plan 'imminent' AN agreement on Alstom's final rescue plan is imminent, a French finance ministry spokesman told the media this afternoon
IMO not Euro-centric: Mitropoulos IMO Secretary-General Efthimios Mitropoulos today denied that IMO was Euro-centric
New owner sees profits on Horizon HORIZON Lines has a new owner and Carlyle Group's investors are a lot richer after yesterday's $650M sale of the Jones Act container shipping company
Japanese yards face tough 2004 MOTOTSUGU Ito, chairman of the Shipbuilders' Association of Japan, is calling for further newbuilding price rises so SAJ yards can achieve a modest profit
Henderson head to invest in CSCL as a third Hong Kong tycoon China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), which has scaled down its initial public offering (IPO) twice before its Hong Kong listing on June 16, is kept afloat by a third tycoon within five days.
Court to oversee Suape's docker employment policy
Court convicts LA people smugglers
Strike adds to Chennai delays
Joint Customs operation snuffs out Russian cigarette smugglers
New World Alliance to enhance trans-Pacific services
Ro-ro important for the Port of Göteborg The Port of Göteborg is planning for an increase of the already substantial ro-ro operations carried out in the ...
Marpol VI could deal with inferior bunkers Marpol Annex VI, while deals with air emissions and fuel quality could deal with the problem of bad bunkers, according ...
Salvor face loss on "Tricolor" operation Salvage costs to remove all of the the 15,536 DWT, Norwegian controlled car carrier "Tricolor" is likely to be much ...
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