PSA, Hutchison eyeing Indon port project: reports INDONESIA's 6.5 trillion rupiah Bojonegara container port could be back on track to being the country's foremost container port, after PSA International and Hutchison Port Holdings both expressed interest in the project.
Mitsui sees rosy future for ocean shipping CONTINUING globalisation and expanding worldwide trade will create tremendous opportunities for long-term growth of ocean shipping, according to the head of one of the world's oldest shipping companies.
Xiamen Int'l IPO swells by 15% to meet demand XIAMEN International Port Co, which manages China's seventh-busiest container port, has raised the size of its Dec 19 initial public offer by 15 per cent to HK$1.36 billion to meet investor demand.
NY ferry pilot jailed for 18 mths over fatal crash
Strait Talk
Lessons from the Bow Mariner THE challenges of running a ship register, as Singapore does very successfully, were underlined by an official investigation in the US and that came into the public domain last week.
PSA, Hutchison eyeing Indon port project: reports INDONESIA's 6.5 trillion rupiah Bojonegara container port could be back on track to being the country's foremost container port, after PSA International and Hutchison Port Holdings both expressed interest in the project.
Mitsui sees rosy future for ocean shipping CONTINUING globalisation and expanding worldwide trade will create tremendous opportunities for long-term growth of ocean shipping, according to the head of one of the world's oldest shipping companies.
Xiamen Int'l IPO swells by 15% to meet demand XIAMEN International Port Co, which manages China's seventh-busiest container port, has raised the size of its Dec 19 initial public offer by 15 per cent to HK$1.36 billion to meet investor demand.
NY ferry pilot jailed for 18 mths over fatal crash
Strait Talk
Lessons from the Bow Mariner THE challenges of running a ship register, as Singapore does very successfully, were underlined by an official investigation in the US and that came into the public domain last week.
Bligh quits MCA with parting shot at 'alarmists' BRITAIN'S Maritime and Coastguard Agency chief executive Stephen Bligh has quit his job by mutual consent, using his farewell letter to colleagues to launch a stinging counter-attack against his many critics.
Singapore reveals its hand to trump DP World offer for P&O The long-awaited bid approach by Singapore's PSA International for rival ports group P&O has finally emerged at £3.5bn ($6bn), a price that trumps Dubai Port World's offer by 6%, writes Tony Gray .
Former Norasia boss returns from gardening leave with his own venture VIKAS Khan, the former chief executive of Hong Kong-based container line Norasia, is launching his own liner company, Emirates Shipping Lines. He is expected to launch services next month.
'Can-opener' used against Japan whaling support ship JAPANESE supply ship Oriental Bluebird was deliberately rammed by a conservation vessel early on Monday morning in the latest round of a dispute between conservationists and Japanese whalers in the Antarctic.
Last ditch fight on ports vote Members of the European Parliament have until 1800 hrs tonight to table amendments to the proposed ports services package ahead of next week's crucial vote, writes Janet Porter in Brussels.
T&T energy minister resigns TRINIDAD & Tobago energy minister Eric Williams has resigned in the wake of bribery allegations
MCA chief executive Bligh resigns STEPHEN Bligh has resigned as chief executive of the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Ruling on 'uneconomic' definition A US District Court has backed Marathon Ashland Petroleum in its dispute over charter terminations ' in the process ruling on the definition of the leasing term 'uneconomic'
BP failing in Grain gas commitment BP is seeking spot LNG cargoes to meet a commitment that it has made to keep the UK import terminal at the Isle of Grain full during the winter period
Updated: P&O: PSA has made approach and has 2 weeks extra The P&O Board has put off its January 20 Court and shareholder meetings about the DP World offer, in anticipation of a possible offer at 470p (US$8.31), from PSA International.
Delay in HPH India security clearance concerns other bidders
Senator: Lines and forwarders joining DB would secure HHLA's neutrality
Brazil export boom could be choked by lack of port capacity
CMA CGM's China Shipping partnership shifts to transatlantic
Container ship runs aground in silted Chittagong Port channel
KCTA invites operators into Gwangyang Port phase III-1
Do, Re, Mi, FAL' One of Opera quartet goes to FAL service
Indonesian shippers forecast 10% increase in 2006 shipments
Restructuring clarifies Latvian railway activities
Singapore v Dubai P&O is denying wire reports that it has already endorsed today's PSA bid to take the ports group over from under the nose of rival Dubai.
New Delhi shakedown The Indian state wants public companies like Sabyasachi Hajara-led SCI to shovel out up to $2.2bn in special dividends.
Gard faces Aries payout Loss of hire claim is filed with Norwegian insurer over cracked products carrier.
DSR mulls Scandlines bid Rostock shipping group could join fight for control of German/Danish owned ferry operator.
Gdansk sell-off draws nearer Polish yard's split from parent Stocznia Gdynia should be launched in March.
Filipino officer jailed US court sentences chief engineer to imprisonment for a year and a day for oily water separator offences on Japanese reefer.
Ferry pilot jailed Eighteen months for Richard Smith, who fell asleep at wheel of New York ship, killing 11 people in pier collision.
Ocean Jewel on auction block Cash-strapped Titan Cruises taking bids for 1982-built gambling ship in Florida.
Hanjin expects currency hit Stronger won will erode operating earnings in 2006, Korean boxship owner warns.
Farstad clinches charter deals Norwegian owner secures work for ships worth NOK 280m in Australia, Africa and Brazil.
Farstad secure charters for NOK 280 million Farstad Shipping subsidiaries have secured charters or extension of existing charters for 9 vessels. BHP Billiton Petroleum has chartered the ...
Hogia system choosen for safer ferry traffic in Africa Three years ago, the ferry 'La Joola' sunk off Dakar in West Africa and more than 1,800 people lost their ...
Green Reefers looking for bigger vessels Bergen-based reefer owner/operator Green Reefers is looking to buy modern, efficient 300,000 to 400,000 cu.ft capacity vessels as ...
Brazil: Paranagua avails tight Limited supplies of IFO grades available and no gasoil according to Brazilian supplier.
Freeport operations return to normal Refinery and bunker operations returning to 'pre-hurricane Wilma' status.
Chief engineer jailed for pollution offences Chief engineer sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to pollution charges.
Kenya: Crack-down on oil tax evasion hits bunker sector Kenyan government said to be losing revenue through illegal sale of bunker fuels into the domestic market.
Rotterdam barge market quiet, congestion set to increase
Bominflot announces new managing director
OPEC brushes aside output cuts at upcoming meeting OPEC has disclosed that an output cut may not be necessary when it meets at the end of this month.
High-tech hull coating reduces fuel consumption Ecospeed hull coating has been tested to show a reduction in fuel consumption due to lower frictional resistance when a vessel is moving through water.
Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL), the subsidiary of the Chinese shipping group COSCO Shipping Holdings that operates containerized maritime transport services with ...
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