• Globalisation, IT will have great impact on industry
  Greater liberalisation and competition will take place, says S'pore minister
• Hongkong shipowners plan to hire seafarers from China
• Dalian vice mayor and govt team on S'pore visit
• IBM launches network based service

• Boeing's and Airbus' business not affected by Asia's currency crisis
  Airlines may alter their aircraft deliveries slightly; air cargo growth toremain strong
• Different views on demand for superjet
• Honda, Opel bidding for stake in China joint venture
• Malaysian motorcycle maker starts exporting to Cambodia
• General Motors to launch two new models in India
• Car maker willing to mediate in dispute over Maruti venture
• British Airways to ban smoking on all flights

• Hotbed for shipping pirates
  Up to 20 merchant vessels have been hijacked in the region since 1994 and annual losses amount to US$200m

• Port control authorities have tough message for non-ISM compliant ships

• Katoen Natie s'implante sur le complexe pétro-chimique de Fos
• L'efficacité de marché du Baltic Freight Index laisse à désirer
• Une nouvelle loi sur le marquage des camions est en préparation
• Anvers est le premier port ferroviaire pour l'hinterland allemand

• Burma's new container terminal comes on-line
• Brisk business moves Lailon
• Plans for Indonesia's ports
• US and UK logistics companies join forces
• China and South Korea agree to boost air services
• Finland and Malaysia sign flight deal
• Assembly line moves again at Boeing plant
• Polar Air Cargo appoints new safety boss
• Loan for Vietnam water transport
• Port Everglades acquires 270 acres for expansion
• K Line adjusts expected profits
• Faster unloading at Indian ports

• P&O Nedlloyd wants strong partner on the Pacific
• HCI buys two US chemicals distributors
• Sensor in road surface against trucks overloading
• Judge forbids Sara Lee truckers strike
• Camera on Ymuiden locks

• Columbia River Alliance wants open salmon meetings
• Aaron wins confirmation as under secretary for trade
• Spanish terminal orders container cranes
• Neptune Orient’s APL purchase is welcomed by Orient Overseas
• Railroad book of facts now hot off the press
• Oil spill response companies merge

• IMO cuts member fees by 5%
  MEMBERS of the International Maritime Organisation will pay 5% less if budget appropriations for 1998 and 1999 are approved next week.
• Brovig contract for Govan
  CLYDESIDE shipbuilder Kvaerner Govan yesterday disclosed it had secured a letter of intent from a Norwegian principal for a well intervention vessel.
• Kawasaki meets strong call for side thrusters
  TOKYO-based Kawasaki Heavy Industries has said it is confident sales of side thrusters will exceed 100 by the end of the current financial year.
• CGM and TNX in box trade link-up
  FRANCE'S Compagnie Generale Maritime (CGM) has moved into the North America-South America container trade through an agreement with existing operator Transroll Navieras Express (TNX).
• Tankers spill blame 'unfair'
  TANKER owners get an unfair level of blame for pollution at sea, a London conference was told yesterday.
• Petrobras tipped to sell Fronape
  AS Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras edges along the privatisation road, rumours are circulating that it may sell off its subsidiary Fronape, the oil and chemical tanker operator.
• Philippines initiative on 'white list' compliance
  THE Philippines is determined to make it to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) 'white list' of countries complying with the requirements of the revised Standards for Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW).
• NCL 'Aida' loan agreed
  NORWEGIAN Cruise Line (NCL) has arranged an $80m syndicated loan with Den norsk Bank for the purchase of the year-old cruiseship Aida from German owner DSR.

• Fury over block on Blasco vessel sale
  LAWYERS acting on behalf of a bunker supplier are furious that the UK Foreign Office has blocked the sale of a vessel owned by Blasco, the Ukraine state operator.
• Pirates kill 45 in first nine months
  PIRATES killed 45 seafarers in the first nine months of this year, a significant rise compared with last year.
• Daewoo bids for major stake in lng market
  DAEWOO Heavy Industries has put into operation a won24.5bn ($25m) production facility which will enable the South Korean yard to become a major lng vessel builder.
• Venezuelan project attracts 50 bidders
  MORE than 50 companies from 17 countries have already registered to bid on a $1bn project to build a deep water port, connecting railway and bridge over the Orinoco River.
• Cosco restructures container operations
  COSCO'S container subsidiary is to move to Shanghai, merge with another company and seek a listing on the Shanghai stock exchange.
• Huge cocaine haul found in containers
  VENEZUELAN authorities discovered two tonnes of cocaine hidden in five containers at the port of La Guaira, ready for shipment to Barcelona.
• Frontline gives ICB shareholders new deadline
  FRONTLINE, the Bermuda-based tanker company headed by John Fredriksen, has granted the shareholders of ICB Shipping one more week to consider its offer to buy the Swedish firm.
• Korean builders profits lifted by weaker won
  PROFITABILITY at South Korean shipyards has been given a boost by the weakening won, according to a research institute report.
• Mosvold seeks approval for rights issue
  MOSVOLD Shipping has called an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to approve the issue up to 15m new shares.
• ICB gives shareholders time over Singapore move
  SINGAPORE-based ICB Shipping has extended the acceptance period for exchange of shares from the Swedish to the Singapore company to December 10, 1997.
• Mixed fortunes for Japan's big five
  NET profits of Japan's big five shipping companies for the first six months of this year show a mixed outcome.

• Freo go-slow after 'nick-off' sackings
  Patrick was yesterday preparing to notify the Australian Industrial Relations Commission of a dispute which has led to a go-slow at the company's facilities in the port of Fremantle.
  This follows the dismissal of two workers, members of the Maritime Union of Australia, for "nicking off" last week.
  The two workers were found to be absent from work last Thursday at a time when the Patrick facility was involved in emergency drills.
• Western Stevedores, MUA battle over numbers
  Western Stevedores has indicated it will put up a strong fight against the traditional MUA practice of allocating labour when it negotiates arrangements for manning at Dampier's public wharf. WS does not want to employ any other stevedore's surplus, director John Peraldini says.
• Auckland sell-off plan raises ire
  A row has broken out in New Zealand over plans by the Auckland Regional Services Trust to sell down or quit its controlling stake in the Port of Auckland. Meanwhile, planning process appeals have delayed urgently needed work to expand and upgrade the port's Fergusson Container Terminal.
• Unions 'ban' ATN over AWAs
  Tasmanian branches of the TWU and PTU are threatening bans against the Australian Transport Network - the new owner of Tasrail - over what they claim are "union busting" tactics involving individual contracts and Australian Workplace Agreements.
• Renew ship safety push: Morris
  Australians should renew and strengthen efforts to ensure the safe operation of ships according to the Federal Member for Shortland, Peter Morris.
  Mr Morris, who spoke this week at the Shipsafe Seminar 1997 in Sydney, said that these efforts should be applied particularly at what he described as the world's largest coal export port, Newcastle.