• Tanker owners urged to scrap 25-year-old VLCCs
  Orderly renewal of fleet good for industry and environment, conference told
• Box trade to outperform tanker, bulker markets
• S'pore re-elected to IMO Council
• Korea likely to get more ship orders than Japan

• Delta, Swissair to dissolve 8-year alliance with SIA
  Singapore Airlines to announce tie-up with Germany's Lufthansa today
• Taiwan denies it will start direct air services with Cambodia
• TWA crash victims' families say fight for truth goes on
• DHL opens its first floating hub in Amsterdam
• Jakarta objects to findings of Japan's air crash probe

• Safety on priority list
  Grouping will also set policy on issues like environment management and usage of data recorders

• Proper maintenance the key to extending lives of old tankers

• Resolution for US-Japan port problems
• Yokohama port revamps to handle more boxes
• Nissin signs Kazakhstan rail deal
• Hot new service hits Chile
• States say yes to acquisition
• Danzas expands into central eastern Europe
• Control towers linked in Korea
• New logistics centre in Miami
• Triumph sell shares

• FESCO adds newer vessel to FANAL run
• Japanese shippers settle FMC charges
• Salt Lake City fishing company taps Northwind for spotting boats
• Candidates sought for Seattle port board
• America West Airlines gives holiday travel tips
• Boeing forms joint company with CSA
• Exec predicts 72 percent of Boeing sales from customers outside North America

• Outrage grows after 'Haven' acquittal
  UPROAR over the near seven-year-old Haven tanker disaster continued yesterday, after a Genoa court exonerated shipowners Loucas Haji-Ioannou and his son Stelios of any blame for the tragedy, which killed five crewmen and polluted the Italian and French rivieras.
• 'Star Princess' in Belfast
  BELFAST'S Harland and Wolff shipyard has docked Princess Cruises' 64,000 gt cruiseship Star Princess, writes Kris Thorpe. The joint venture between Harland and Wolff Ship Repairers and Mivan Marine will carry out extensive drydocking and refit work, together with the conversion and major upgrading of the passenger facilities.
• Port Said in final burst for expansion
  PORT Said, on the northern end of the Suez Canal, has almost reached its maxi-mum growth potential, since the city tightly encases the port, leaving little room for further growth.
• Neptun sale 'untrue'
  COMMUNICATION difficulties in government circles have clouded the purchase of German shiprepair and diversified steel construction company Neptun Industrie Rostock, successor to Neptun Werft, by Papenburg-based shipbuilder Meyer Werft.
• Debate over 'Haven' rages despite ruling
  SIX and-a-half years after the Troodos-operated VLCC Haven blew up during a cargo transfer operation in Genoa harbour, shipowners Loucas Haji-Ioannou and his son Stelios were on Friday acquitted of manslaughter and four other criminal charges.
• Sietas wins Godby contract
  FINNISH shipping company Godby Shipping has ordered two 7,250 dwt ro-ro vessels for an undisclosed price from German shipyard Sietas.
• Charter parties - to sign up or not to sign up?
  I RECENTLY read the text of a magazine interview with a shipbroker. He made some interesting observations about the changing role of shipbrokers, and one point in particular stuck in my mind - that shipbrokers are a source of business for lawyers.
• Dutch face crew and ports staff crisis
  THE Netherlands has fended off the threat of an exodus of owners from its national flag, but the country now faces a shortage of seafarers and qualified port personnel.