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October 24, 1997

  • Weaker S'pore dollar a boost for local shipyards
    The decline, if sustained, may improve yards' competitive position
  • Kukup island off Johor put on full alert
  • Malaysia warns ships of smog in Malacca Strait
  • Samudera in 3-year charter of chemical ship
  • Proposal to build Pearl River Delta bridge

  • Boeing expects to report loss in third quarter
    US plane maker to take US$1.6b charge; it has problems increasing production
  • SIA grabs top spot in several surveys this year
  • TOKYO MOTOR SHOW
  • Virgin Express' IPO will trade at US$39 to US$45
  • Ford sets up joint venture in Nanjing
  • S Korean firms optimistic on Washington-Seoul car talks

  • What it means for shipowners
    This is part of a paper presented at a seminar on the code organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore

  • Need for welding does not make vessel unseaworthy: Court of Appeal


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OCTOBER 23, 1997
  • CMA rationalises European ports
    ZEEBRUGGE is to gain at Antwerp's expense in schedule changes being made to CMA's French Asia Line service.
  • Korean yards trim profits to win orders
    SOUTH Korean shipbuilders have trimmed their profits to win newbuilding orders.
  • Keppel's stake in Chokhani 'not for sale'
    SINGAPORE'S Keppel Corp says it will not sell its 20 per cent stake in Madras-based shipyard Chokhani International.
  • US lines seek to handle own cargo in Japan
    SEA-LAND, APL and Maersk Line may apply to set up cargo handling operations at Japanese ports, now that Tokyo has agreed tentatively to reform waterfront practices.
  • IACS 'disappointed' over ISM figures
    IACS, the classification societies' organisation, has expressed disappointment at the number of ISM certificates issued in the three months to September 30.
  • Dockers reject Mersey Docks' offer
    DISMISSED Liverpool dockers have voted to reject the offer put forward by their former employer, Mersey Docks and Harbour Company.
  • Australian port productivity up
    AUSTRALIA'S new Maritime Reform minister Peter Reith has welcomed an improvement in waterfront productivity reflected in new government figures.
  • Clinton allows a cruise monopoly in Hawaii
    PRESIDENT Clinton has decided to retain spending for two new Hawaiian cruise ships contained within a major $248bn defence spending appropriations bill.
  • Halter Marine group posts record earnings
    GULFPORT-based Halter Marine Group reports that its second quarter fiscal 1998 earnings doubled from the level achieved in the second quarter of fiscal 1997.
  • India's Kerala state seeks port investment
    THE south Indian state of Kerala has invited investment proposals from private individuals and firms for infrastructure development of minor ports in the state.
  • St Lawrence season may be extended
    OFFICIALS at the Canadian and American St Lawrence Seaway authorities are looking to extend its shipping season following predictions of a mild winter.
  • India needs mega ports, says senior JNPT manager
    INDIA needs two mega ports if the country is to match international port standards, according to a senior manager at Jawaharlal Nehru Port.
  • CMA-CGM group increases its capital
    COMPAGNIE Maritime d'Affr'tement (CMA-CGM group) has undertaken a Ffr40m ($6.75m) capital increase.


  • ABP head announces shake-up
    ASSOCIATED British Ports managing director Andrew Smith yesterday announced a company-wide management reorganisation as part of his drive to kick-start a period of high earnings growth.
  • IMO report set to dispel gloom over ISM code
    SURPRISE research findings from the International Maritime Organisation, due to be released shortly, are set to challenge gloomy industry assumptions about the rate of compliance with the Inter-national Safety Management code.
  • Still straining to read box market
    IN the past month, activity in the containership charter market has continued to intensify.
  • How Pennsylvania politics came to Warnow yard
    PHILADELPHIA mayor Ed Rendell looked just like a kid in a candy store during his tour through the Kvaerner Warnow shipyard in Rostock-Warnemuende. Mr Rendell and Tom Ridge, governor of the State of Pennsylvania, were the focus of attention during the afternoon stroll through the yard, for both the accompanying media and Kvaerner's representatives, write Sabina Casagrande and Herbert Fromme.
  • Market boost as Worldscale 100 barrier is breached
    ON Wednesday brokers proudly trumpeted the fact that W100 had been paid for a VLCC fixture from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to Japan.
  • Otal revamps to fend off rivals
    OT Africa Line is simplifying its corporate structure as part of a marketing effort to fend off competition from global players that are starting to encroach on trades traditionally controlled by smaller carriers.
  • Union seeks probe into CGM sale
    A FRENCH seafarers' union has called on the French government to re-examine last year's privatisation of Compagnie Generale Maritime (CGM).
  • Expanding Freightliner moves into the black
    FREIGHTLINER, the UK railfreight company, yesterday revealed six-month profits of around '500,000 ($800,000), the first profits in the company's history.


  • Le Rhin d'Acier via Venlo?
  • Les transporteurs belges peuvent désormais demander leurs Ecopoints électroniques
  • Arcus Logistic est le principal client d'ICF en Espagne
  • Buoyant Freightliner moves into early profit

  • IJzeren Rijn via Venlo?
  • Belgische vervoerders kunnen voortaan elektronische Ecopunten aanvragen
  • Arcus Logistic belangrijkste klant van ICF in Spanje
  • Buoyant Freightliner moves into early profit


  • Mosvold-Farsund bargains for big tanker order
    Privately owned Mosvold-Farsund of Norway is said to be in the process of ordering up to six Suezmax tankers at the Hyundai shipyard in South Korea.
  • Tsakos rides wave of acquisitions
    With ship purchases totalling close to a quarter billion dollars already under its belt this year, the Tsakos group of Greece looks set to continue its buying spree. Group executive Nikolas Tsakos, however, denied reports this week that the group has bought a newbuilding resale contract from Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) of Singapore for a 107,000-dwt tanker.
  • VLCC rates hit new high point
    Rates for VLCCs hit the World Scale 100 level this week for the first time in almost eight years.
  • Singapore spill response 'not working'
    The last movements made by two tankers involved in a collision that resulted in Singapore's biggest oil spill ever came under intense scrutiny this week, as investigators tried to determine the cause of the accident.
  • Norddeutsche powers on in shaky market
    Martin Smith is an expatriate British subject who has found happiness in Hamburg. After 20 years in Germany, Smith finds himself leading major ship financier Norddeutsche Vermogen and its fleet of 44 vessels. It's a challenge he clearly relishes.


  • APL and NOL move closer to final merger
  • Public meetings planned for steelhead restoration
  • Rail organization publishes motor vehicle facility info
  • Boeing shows loss for third quarter
  • Corps achieves ISO 9001 award
  • What does ISO mean?
  • Airbus finds 1997 to be banner year


Cargowebweb site
OCTOBER 23, 1997
  • Attempt to set up single European front for Open Sky
  • Dismal situation for Ukrainian ships
  • Iberia and KLM were close to an agreement
  • German parliament scraps postal monopoly
  • German resistance to Road Pricing


  • Airport privatization sputters as deadline nears in Argentina
  • Former Mersey employees reject company's offer
  • Second-guessing increases as STB gets opinions on Conrail buyout
  • Shipper groups pan rate bureaus
  • Clinton team opposes GOP-written Amtrak bill
  • TBS to expand service
  • Political flak fails to ground interest in Argentine air sale
  • Chile's Senate approves some attachments to port bill
  • Controversy over camera access causes cancellation of debate on Jones Act
  • Box traffic growing at Port of Salina Cruz
  • GM chairman blames car, truck stockpiles on the shortage of Union Pacific railcars
  • Norwegian shipbuilder to reopen yard in Philadelphia, vows to build 3 vessels
  • American's files seized in hazardous cargo crackdown
  • 5,000-acre Japanese port, due by 2020, hopes to set own prices
  • Kitty Hawk, Kalitta renegotiating deal
  • CSX hit by expenses, weak rates
  • Oil-drilling boom bolsters shipyards along Gulf Coast
  • Hong Kong's biggest container line says it will buy majority interest in China's second-largest boxport

›››File
FROM THE HOME PAGE
At the end of the year Fret SCNF will cease to exist and the activity will be detected by the new companies Hexafret and Technis
St. -Ouen
The deal is aimed at averting the payment of 5.3 billion euros.
Tzitzikostas : At the beginning of my mandate I will present a strategy for European ports
Tzitzikostas : At the beginning of my mandate I will present a strategy for European ports
Brussels
"The competitiveness of the transport sector must be based on sustainability," the European Commission said.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings records record quarterly revenue
Miami
In the July-September period of this year, the group's ships have embarked on 812mila passengers (+ 9.7%)
The intermodal hubs of Melzo and Milan Smistamento will be retaken in the ZLS of the port and retroport of Genoa
Milan
Deliberation approved by the regional junta of Lombardy
It amounts to 39 billion euros per year the public investment needed to decarbonize European transport.
It amounts to 39 billion euros per year the public investment needed to decarbonize European transport.
Brussels
The estimate in a new study of Transport & Environment
The crisis in the Red Sea has caused a hole of six billion dollars in Egypt's coffers
The crisis in the Red Sea has caused a hole of six billion dollars in Egypt's coffers
Cairo / Alexandria
Scali at the Egyptian port of El Dekheila of the services of Vuxx Shipping between China and Russia
In the third quarter, freight traffic in Chinese seaports grew by 1.7% percent
Beijing
The only volumes to and from abroad have increased by 5.0%
In the July-September quarter, naval traffic in the Bosphorus Strait grew by 6.4%
Ankara
In the first nine months of 2024, the increase was 7.1%
DFDS will not acquire the international transport network of Ekol Logistics
Copenhagen / Istanbul
Exchange of allegations : The Danish group claims that certain contract conditions have not been met ; the Turkish company replies that it has received a discount request in the last 24 hours
In the first quarter of this year, traffic in European Union ports fell by -3.2% percent.
In the first quarter of this year, traffic in European Union ports fell by -3.2% percent.
Luxembourg
The only traffic in containers (+ 5.2%) is growing. Still doubts about the figures attributed to Italy
ECSA and T&E are calling for the Clean Industrial Deal to support the energy transition of shipping
Brussels
Among the demands, make ecological naval fuels available in ports
In the July-September quarter, ONE revenue grew by 65.2% percent.
In the July-September quarter, ONE revenue grew by 65.2% percent.
Singapore
The volumes of containers carried by the fleet increased by 6.6%
In the third quarter, the financial and operational results of COSCO were substantially increased.
In the third quarter, the financial and operational results of COSCO were substantially increased.
Shanghai
The volumes of containers carried by the fleet increased by 8.6%
Maersk records glowing quarterly results
Maersk records glowing quarterly results
Copenhagen
A strong performance in the containerized shipping industry has been decided. Also growing terminal and logistics
Confitarma lists actions to increase the contribution of shipping to the Italian System
Naples
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ITS Costruttori, il futuro dei cantieri inizia in Accademia
Oltre 420 posizioni aperte in 17 corsi totali, con un tasso di occupazione post diploma di circa il 95% in media
In the third quarter the traffic in goods in Turkish ports decreased by -1.8%
Ankara
Volumes to and from Italy have increased by 2.9%
The Court of Appeal in Reggio Calabria gives reason to the AdSP of Gioia Tauro in the litigation that juxtaposes it to the Corap
A litigant remains pending in front of the Court of Cassation
Maersk signs an agreement with Chinese LONGi to supply its own dual-fuel vessels of methanol
Copenhagen
The Danish group already has agreements in place to meet more than 50% percent of its demand for methanol planned for 2027
Royal Caribbean again records financial results and record quarterly operating
Royal Caribbean again records financial results and record quarterly operating
Miami
In the July-September period, revenues increased by 17.4%
The association of European ports is alarmed for the planned reform of EU funding to transport infrastructure
Brussels
Transport policy and transport funding must be based on a European approach.
In the third quarter of this year, the transits of large vessels in the Panama Canal were down -38.3% percent.
In the third quarter of this year, the transits of large vessels in the Panama Canal were down -38.3% percent.
Balboa
-36.9% reduction in the volumes of goods transported through the Central American waterway
CMA CGM associates with Marsa Maroc for the management of a container terminal in the port of Nador
Marseille
Expected an investment of 280 million
Maersk confirms participation in service between Turkey and East Coast USA with scallops in Salerno, Livorno and Tanger Med
Copenhagen
Will be activated on 1st February 2025
Hapag-Lloyd will introduce shots at Italian ports in two services between the Mediterranean and East Coast USA
Hamburg / Haifa
Touches in Genoa, Livorno and Salerno in collaboration with ZIM
In the third quarter the terminals of COSCO Shipping Ports handled 29.1 million containers (+ 4.8%)
Hong Kong
Wan Hai Lines orders eight new container ships from 16,000 teu
Taipei
Committed to South Koreans HD Hyundai Samho and Samsung Heavy Industries
Fincantieri-EDGE agreement for the development of solutions for the underwater needs of military navies
Abu Dhabi / Trieste / Paris
The joint venture Maestral will deal with the design, development and construction of underwater systems
WSC, crucial mandate of new European commissioner for transport to ensure decarbonisation of shipping
Brussels
The shipowner association indicates some other priorities to be addressed
Federagents ready to illustrate to institutions the priorities of Italian ports
Rome
Pessina : available to our know-how to suggest the measures to be taken
Sébastien Romani is the new CEO of Forship Spa
Go Ligure
Subenters to Giuseppe Scognamiglio
Restyling of the landing area of the Cruserists in the port of Catania
Catania
In 2023 the traffic of cruises in the Sicilian stopover increased by 43.7% percent.
Resume work for the completion of the commercial docks of the Milazzo Port
Messina
The realization of 18,000 square metres of new aprons is planned.
In the third quarter, Kalmar's turnover fell by -16% percent.
Helsinki
New orders increased by 6%
Approved the 2025 forecast budget of the West Liguria AdSP
Genoa
Ok also at the annual review of the Triennale Operating Plan 2023-2025
Approved the 2025 forecast budget of the Central Adriatic System Authority of the Central Adriatic
Ancona
The first crane arrived to make Giammoro's pontile operating near Milazzo.
Messina
Will be installed by end of year
Green light to the forecast budget and the three-year plan of the work of the Eastern Liguria's AdSP
The Spezia
In the first nine months of 2024 the traffic of containers at Spezia grew by 8.1% percent. On 14 and November 15 the event "A Bridge To Africa"
Approved the forecast budget 2025 and the POT 2025-2027 of the AdSP of the Southern Tirreno and Ionian
Joy Tauro
Port of Livorno, seized a 40-pound load of cocaine
Livorno
Tracts under arrest three people
Approved the 2025 forecast budget of the AdSP of the Northern Tirreno
Livorno
Ok unanimous also at the Triennale Operating Plan 2024-2026
Rail Cargo Group activates a rail service between Belgrade and the port of Rijeka
Vienna
Two weekly rotations
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
HHLA reaps upward forecasts for the full financial year 2024
Hamburg
Also expected to be a slight increase in the volumes of container traffic handled by port terminals
In the third quarter, the revenues of COSCO Shipping Ports grew 11.2%
Hong Kong
In the first nine months of 2024, the increase was 5.8%
Approved the 2025 forecast budget of the AdSP of the Sardinia Sea
Cagliari
Also free from the three-year programme of works
Savino Del Bene has acquired the Seabridge Transport in Hamburg
Hamburg / Florence
The company was already acting as the administrative headquarters for the German operations of the Italian group.
In the third quarter, freight traffic in Albanian ports grew by 14.0% percent.
Tirana
In the first nine months of this year, the increase was 14.3%
In 2026, for the first time, MSC Cruciere ships will reach Alaska
Geneva
"MSC Poetry" will carry out weekly itineraries from Seattle
COSCO Shipping Lines orders six new container ships from 13,600 teu to Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding
Shanghai
They will be taken in delivery by 2027
Wärtsilä records a robust uptickdown in quarterly turnover
Helsinki
In the July-September period, the value of new orders rose by 1% percent.
Unified concession for formal act for the Intergroup terminal in Gaeta port
Cyvitavecchia
Has a duration of 12 years
Arrive in the port of Gioia Tauro the last two of the 13 new quay cranes of the MCT
Joy Tauro
They can work on capacity container carriers up to 25mila teu
Assologistic has published a practical guide to customs reform
Milan
Illustrated and analyzed the novelties and critiques of the new legislative plant
In the third quarter, shipping containers in Spanish ports increased by 9.9% percent.
Transhipment traffic grew by 13.2% percent, the import-export trade of 6.4% percent.
USB Mare and Porti criticizes the agreement for the renewal of the contract of port workers
Rome
Signed the voluntary agreement "Ancona blue agreement"
Ancona
The aim is to reduce the impact of emissions from cruise ships, ro-ro and ferries that climb the dorsal port.
Italian Coast Guard and the Italian Academy of Mercantile Academy in support of the Maritime Administration of Ukraine
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
On Friday, the public assembly of Federagents will be held in Rome.
Rome
The Federation celebrates the 75 years since its founding
Spediporto has organized a two-day trip on the Green Logistic Valley and Italy-China trade
Genoa
It is scheduled on 22 and October 23
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Argentina enfrenta tarifas portuarias hasta 500% más altas que otros países de la región
(Pescare)
Russia and India join forces in the Arctic, leaving China aside
(News.Az)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
Fincantieri opens in San Francisco a center for the development of dual-use technologies applicable both in civilian and military sectors
Trieste / San Francisco
It is housed at the Mind the Bridge Innovation Center
Japan's MHI-MME initiates a license agreement with Chinese Jiangsu Masada
Nagasaki
The aim is the development of the production and sale in China of turbochargers for two-stroke marine engines
By November the ownership of the Victory Shipyard will go to CNV
Venice
Mantovan (Veneto Region) : A new trade union agreement will be built that will cover the 48 workers in organic
In the third quarter, the commercial activity and financial performance of Konecranes grew
Helsinki
The value of new orders for the supply of port means increased by 44.1%
In 2025, a 3.9% increase in cruising traffic in Adriatic ports is expected
Ravenna
Responses Tourism believes that the traffic of ferries, catamarans and aliscafi will record further slight growth
COSCO Shipping Ports acquires stakes in the two port terminals of Hutchison Ports in Laem Chabang
Hong Kong
Investment of 110 million
GNV has taken delivery of the new ferry GNV Polaris
Genoa
First of four new ro-pax units built in China, it will enter service by January
John Xylas will be the new president of Intercargo.
John Xylas will be the new president of Intercargo.
London
He will subordinate to Dimitrios Fafalios, who has been named honorary president
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