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August 18, 1998
Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Expansion by Korean, Japan yards may backfire
    Slowdown in newbuilding orders expected by turn of the century
  • Orient Overseas turns in US$14.6m loss in first half
  • Hitachi Zosen sets up China venture
  • Port shots
Air and Land Transport
  • Thai Airways dives further into red in second quarter
    Net loss balloons to 4.3 billion baht due to accounting changes and foreign exchange losses
  • Rolls-Royce wins US$390m jet engine order
  • British Airways to issue yellow card to tipsy trouble-makers
  • Korean Air, Asiana drop unprofitable domestic routes
  • Boeing, Raytheon to upgrade Australia's fighter jets
  • China-Tibet railway planned
Features
  • Supertrain ride into the future
    Transrapid's makers are hoping to finally get the superspeed train off thetest track and on to the profit fast track

Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Expansion by Korean, Japan yards may backfire
    Slowdown in newbuilding orders expected by turn of the century
  • Orient Overseas turns in US$14.6m loss in first half
  • Hitachi Zosen sets up China venture
  • Port shots
Air and Land Transport
  • Thai Airways dives further into red in second quarter
    Net loss balloons to 4.3 billion baht due to accounting changes and foreign exchange losses
  • Rolls-Royce wins US$390m jet engine order
  • British Airways to issue yellow card to tipsy trouble-makers
  • Korean Air, Asiana drop unprofitable domestic routes
  • Boeing, Raytheon to upgrade Australia's fighter jets
  • China-Tibet railway planned
Features
  • Supertrain ride into the future
    Transrapid's makers are hoping to finally get the superspeed train off thetest track and on to the profit fast track

Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Expansion by Korean, Japan yards may backfire
    Slowdown in newbuilding orders expected by turn of the century
  • Orient Overseas turns in US$14.6m loss in first half
  • Hitachi Zosen sets up China venture
  • Port shots
Air and Land Transport
  • Thai Airways dives further into red in second quarter
    Net loss balloons to 4.3 billion baht due to accounting changes and foreign exchange losses
  • Rolls-Royce wins US$390m jet engine order
  • British Airways to issue yellow card to tipsy trouble-makers
  • Korean Air, Asiana drop unprofitable domestic routes
  • Boeing, Raytheon to upgrade Australia's fighter jets
  • China-Tibet railway planned
Features
  • Supertrain ride into the future
    Transrapid's makers are hoping to finally get the superspeed train off thetest track and on to the profit fast track

Sched Netweb site
  • Shipping Committee to promote shipping industry
  • Alianca plans for new ships and services
  • COSCO, K Line, Yang Ming increasing fleet
  • Maersk takes Caribbean without Sea-Land
  • HACTL resumes all services
  • DHL handles circus heavy-weight
  • Airlines should have more maneuvering space

Cargowebweb site
AUGUST 17, 1998
  • Effect Asia crisis on empty container export in Rotterdam
  • Painful imbalance in traffic with Asia
  • Promotion of short-sea to be extended

The Journal of Commerceweb site
Home
  • Russia devalues ruble in effort to halt turmoil
  • Brazil's trade community wants to see Cardoso win
  • Conference will raise Europe-Asia rates Oct. 1
  • In October, Customs will accept some 'IOUs'
  • Gregory D. Storey returns to JOC as editorial director
  • Teamsters fund-raiser pleads guilty on election coverup
  • Iraq steps up drive against sanctions
  • JAL suspected of illegally paying off racketeers
  • Industrial production declines, worst drop since 90-91 recession
  • Report: North Korea building underground nuclear plant capable of making weapons
  • IRS to allow accelerated deductions for Y2K bug work
  • Woman weathering storms, heat to row across Atlantic
Transportation
  • Grain group, rails reach pact
  • Group unveils $1.76 billion plan to upgrade Buenos Aires airport
  • STB sets schedule for CN merger plan
  • UPS saw net rise 35% in 2nd quarter
  • McMullen is sold
  • Stocks ride bad week for markets
  • Minnesota governor asks for Northwest strike plan
  • Tribasa makes first rail payment to Mexico
  • Indonesia's hard-hit Garuda returns leased Boeings
  • Court says Teamsters leader Sever violated union election rules
Maritime
  • FMC box probe of China to give lift to forwarders
  • West Coast ports adding capacity in era of mega-terminals
  • China, Korea yards grapple with prices in market downturns

The Journal of Commerceweb site
Home
  • Russia devalues ruble in effort to halt turmoil
  • Brazil's trade community wants to see Cardoso win
  • Conference will raise Europe-Asia rates Oct. 1
  • In October, Customs will accept some 'IOUs'
  • Gregory D. Storey returns to JOC as editorial director
  • Teamsters fund-raiser pleads guilty on election coverup
  • Iraq steps up drive against sanctions
  • JAL suspected of illegally paying off racketeers
  • Industrial production declines, worst drop since 90-91 recession
  • Report: North Korea building underground nuclear plant capable of making weapons
  • IRS to allow accelerated deductions for Y2K bug work
  • Woman weathering storms, heat to row across Atlantic
Transportation
  • Grain group, rails reach pact
  • Group unveils $1.76 billion plan to upgrade Buenos Aires airport
  • STB sets schedule for CN merger plan
  • UPS saw net rise 35% in 2nd quarter
  • McMullen is sold
  • Stocks ride bad week for markets
  • Minnesota governor asks for Northwest strike plan
  • Tribasa makes first rail payment to Mexico
  • Indonesia's hard-hit Garuda returns leased Boeings
  • Court says Teamsters leader Sever violated union election rules
Maritime
  • FMC box probe of China to give lift to forwarders
  • West Coast ports adding capacity in era of mega-terminals
  • China, Korea yards grapple with prices in market downturns

The Journal of Commerceweb site
Home
  • Russia devalues ruble in effort to halt turmoil
  • Brazil's trade community wants to see Cardoso win
  • Conference will raise Europe-Asia rates Oct. 1
  • In October, Customs will accept some 'IOUs'
  • Gregory D. Storey returns to JOC as editorial director
  • Teamsters fund-raiser pleads guilty on election coverup
  • Iraq steps up drive against sanctions
  • JAL suspected of illegally paying off racketeers
  • Industrial production declines, worst drop since 90-91 recession
  • Report: North Korea building underground nuclear plant capable of making weapons
  • IRS to allow accelerated deductions for Y2K bug work
  • Woman weathering storms, heat to row across Atlantic
Transportation
  • Grain group, rails reach pact
  • Group unveils $1.76 billion plan to upgrade Buenos Aires airport
  • STB sets schedule for CN merger plan
  • UPS saw net rise 35% in 2nd quarter
  • McMullen is sold
  • Stocks ride bad week for markets
  • Minnesota governor asks for Northwest strike plan
  • Tribasa makes first rail payment to Mexico
  • Indonesia's hard-hit Garuda returns leased Boeings
  • Court says Teamsters leader Sever violated union election rules
Maritime
  • FMC box probe of China to give lift to forwarders
  • West Coast ports adding capacity in era of mega-terminals
  • China, Korea yards grapple with prices in market downturns

Cyber Shipping Guide - Ocean Commerceweb site
  • US Officials to Visit China, Japan to Discuss Port Issues
  • OOIL Reports $14.8-Million Half-Year Loss
  • Uniglory Starts Calling J. Nehru
  • CFS Charge for Korea-Bound Cargo to Be Raised
  • MISC Starts Bangladesh Service
  • Mid-Year Box Traffic at Pusan Rises 15.4%

urgente online pressweb site
  • Baleares subvenciona el transporte
  • Conflicto de intereses entre el ferrocarril y las vías fluviales
  • Seis aerolíneas estadounidenses logran récord financiero
  • Daewoo y LDV fabricarán furgones en el Reino Unido
  • Sabena y South African Airways abandonan Zaire

Exim Indiaweb site
AUGUST 17, 1998
  • Eastbound shipping lines plan rate hike from Oct. 1
  • New deal for EOUs on cards
  • 'Handling charges are too high', admits MbPT Chief
  • Maharashtra to host Auto '98 fair with Tamil Nadu
  • K'taka augments funds for software units
  • Govt sets $ 14 bn textile export target
  • New agency mooted to track money laundering
  • PSUs: Concor first to be diverted

Cargonews Asiaweb site
AUGUST 10, 1998
  • Sea-land admin relocates to Manila
  • PAX calls at Manzanillo
  • VSA2 phase one launched
  • OT Africa orders Hanjin vessels
  • High hopes for inland port
  • Busy half for Long Beach
  • A million at Melbourne
  • Transpacific face-lift for OOCL
  • TSA sets peak rates
  • New call on Eagle Service

Lloyd's Listweb site
  • P&O to axe British containership crews
    ALL 300 British and 30 New Zealand ratings serving on the 19 P&O-owned containerships operating with the P&O Nedlloyd fleet are to be sacked and replaced by low-cost Filipino seafarers.
  • Hong Kong agrees CT9 building date
    HONG Kong financial secretary Donald Tsang said yesterday that a consortium of terminal operators have agreed on details of the territory's planned Container Terminal 9 (CT9) and construction would begin soon, Reuters reports.
  • Shell Deepwater to pull out early from rig deals
    SHELL Deepwater Dev-elopment in the US is to withdraw early from commitments to two high-end Transocean semi-submersibles and a third Diamond Offshore rig, all in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Tensions begin to grow in Hyundai standoff
    Standoff: striking South Korean unionists, wearing headbands reading 'Save Our Jobs' and riding motorcycles were prevented from disrupting a pro-Hyundai Motors company rally by some 5,000 riot police in Ulsan yesterday. Tensions are rising in the seven-week long standoff between sacked unionists and Hyundai management, with fears of an imminent police raid on the factory to arrest and disperse some 4,000-6,000 trade unionists and their families who have been occupying the Hyundai factory grounds for more than four weeks.
  • End of the line for UK ratings
    SOON there will be not a single British rating on the entire British-registered boxship fleet. P&O - the company which operates all 19 vessels in this category as part of the P&O Nedlloyd joint venture - yesterday gave the RMT transport union the devastating news that 300 Britons and 30 New Zealanders are to be replaced with cheaper Filipino crew.
  • Standard club curtails growth
    The Standard protection and indemnity club has rejected most applications to join over the past year in order to protect the interests of existing members.
  • Cory opts for Caterpillar technology
    US-developed Caterpillar machinery has been selected for a new class of tractor tug ordered by UK-based Cory Towage to serve a management contract in the Middle East.
  • 'Toisa Perseus' sails to Norway
    Bermuda-based Toisa Ltd's newbuilding, the '50m ($83.3m) Toisa Perseus, has left Rotterdam's Van der Giessen shipyard for trials in Norway. The subsea construction vessel will be chartered to Rockwater to lay pipelines in the North Sea.

Fairplayweb site
AUGUST 17, 1998
  • Torm slashes ship values
    TORM, the Danish liner and bulk shipping group, has substantially written down the value of its ships.
  • Pertamina to honour Suharto contracts
    OSPREY Maritime has welcomed the news that Pertamina is to honour all shipping contracts made by the Suharto administration.
  • Keppel Marine's turnover soars
    SINGAPORE'S Keppel Marine Industries recorded a leap in turnover of almost 50 per cent for the first six months of the year.
  • CMA and Norasia share vessels on Asia route
    CMA and Norasia Line have agreed a vessel sharing agreement to co-operate a two-string service between Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Asia.
  • Terminal operators in accord on CT9
    THREE terminal operating companies in Hong Kong have reached agreement on the detailed development arrangements for Container Terminal 9.
  • Venezuela petrochemical output nears 7m tonne
    PEQUIVEN, the petrochemical company of Venezuela's state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, says its three coastal complexes are currently producing 6.8m tonne annually.
  • Tamil Tigers 'ready to release' bombed ship's crew
    TAMIL Tiger rebels say they are ready to release the crew members of the merchant ship bombed by Sri Lankan air force jets on August 14.
  • Indians fail to agree oil import freight rates
    INDIAN Oil Corp and Shipping Corp of India have failed to agree on a market-related freight rate for crude oil imports despite four months of talks.
  • OOIL reports first loss since 1993
    FALLING cargo prices and volumes have been blamed for the first loss suffered by Orient Overseas (International) in five years.
  • Seattle's handling package wins Korean contract
    THE Port of Seattle has managed to retain a significant steel-handling contract by virtue of a new handling package put together by Stevedoring Services of America (SSA).
  • Dutch report questions benefit of inland shipping
    A DUTCH research institute has issued a report that questions the benefits of transferring cargo from road to rail and inland waterway.
  • CGM smarts over lost Italia purchase
    CGM's failure to take over Italia di Navigazione from Finmare is seen as a setback for the French group.
  • Awilco presents stronger first half figures
    AWILCO, the Norwegian tanker company which sold its floating production systems earlier this year, has converted last year's half year loss to a pre-tax profit of Nkr40m in 1998.
  • Finland dashes tax reform hopes
    FINLAND'S ministry of finance has dashed hopes of tax reform for the country's shipping companies.
  • Compromise sought for waterfront impasse
    AUSTRALIA'S Council of Trades Unions (ACTU) has suggested a compromise to break a deadlock threatening a waterfront peace accord.

Antwerpse Lloyd n.v.web site
  • Tor Line développe fortement la capacité de son service EuroBridge
    Tor Line va sensiblement augmenter la capacité de son service EuroBridge entre Gand et Göteborg à partir de l'automne afin de pouvoir faire face à la demande croissante. C'est ce qu'a annoncé la direction de l'armement hier à Gand. L'opérateur suédois introduira progressivement quatre navires plus grands et plus rapides sur cette route à partir de fin octobre en remplacement de la flotte existante. Tor Line pourra de la sorte transporter 30% de semi-remorques en plus et 50% de voitures en plus . L'armement disposera en outre de davantage de temps pour le traitement des cargaisons dans les deux ports. La fréquence du service (six départs par semaine) demeure inchangée. La capacité sera également augmentée sur les deux autres routes, à savoir la route AngloBridge entre la Suède et la Grande-Bretagne et la route Shortbridge entre Rotterdam et le RU.
  • Les législations environnementales différentes ne perturbent pas la concurrence entre Rotterdam et Anvers
    La réglementation environnementale et son application ne devraient pas être des facteurs de concurrence entre ports, ni une arme aux mains des utilisateurs des ports. C'est ce que concluent la Commission Portuaire Flamande et le Conseil Portuaire Néerlandais dans leur étude commune sur la "réglementation environnementale en matière de containers et de diverses dans les ports d'Anvers et de Rotterdam".

Daily Commercial Newsweb site
  • P&OP to pursue section 127 claims
    A HEARING in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on Friday is expected to set a date for a Full Bench hearing of P&O's wide-ranging claim against the Maritime Union of Australia.
    The action, under section 127 of the Workplace Relations Act, seeks to prevent the MUA from taking industrial action across all of the company's stevedoring interests in Australia, including P&O Ports.
    It is understood the case will be based on incidents dating to May last year, but will also include more recent disruptions to work which took place at the height of the dispute between Patrick and the MUA.
  • Another veteran of the container revolution retires
    A SHIP which helped pioneer the container revolution in Australia's international trades is en route to the scrappers after over 27 years' service.
    The 21,278 GRT Columbus New Zealand completed her final discharge in Melbourne late last week and is now understood to be on her way to breakers at Pakistan's Gadani Beach, after almost three decades of carrying Australian and New Zealand refrigerated exports to North America.
    Introduced in mid 1971 the German-registered Columbus New Zealand was the first pure containership in the trade, followed in quick succession by sisters Columbus Australia and Columbus America. All three were built in Hamburg by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft and powered by steam turbines, but in 1986 the trio were re-engined with more fuel-efficient B&W diesels.
  • Minister hails setting up of freight body
    EXPORT levels and trade opportunities in Queensland are poised to increase significantly through the establishment of the Air Freight Council of Queensland, state Transport Minister Steve Bredhauer said last week.
    As previously announced, the commonwealth has committed to the provision of $100,000 a year for two years to the establishment of air freight councils in each state in a bid to improve the air freight cargo chain. Most other states have already received cheques for half the amount.
    Mr Bredhauer said the Queensland council would act as a forum for industry to improve the flexibility, accessibility and efficiency of transport and logistics involved in the movement of international air freight in the state.
  • Air freight levels steady
    INTERNATIONAL air freight traffic in and out of Australia continued to remain relatively steady in March, despite falling exports and passenger numbers, latest aviation figures show.
    According to figures from the commonwealth Department of Transport, total air freight traffic dropped by less than two per cent in March 1998 compared to the same period last year. Passenger numbers in and out of Australia plunged 7.7 per cent.
    Outbound air freight fell 4.9 per cent in March, with inbound freight rising slightly.
  • HCE cancels Hobart calls
    BASS Strait operator Holyman Coastal Express has withdrawn its weekly voyage to the port of Hobart in favor of six days-a-week sailing between Melbourne and Devonport.
    The move has been expected for some months but has been delayed by protracted negotiations with Australian Transport Network's Tasrail over acceptable land feeder arrangements for southern Tasmanian shippers. HCE lost cargo volumes underpinning its weekly Hobart visit when zinc manufacturer Pasminco moved substantial tonnage to the new Project Asia Service, which makes direct Hobart calls. Previously HCE feedered zinc to Melbourne to meet mainline container services.

Traffic Worldweb site
  • Success at its neutral dispatching center in Houston has UP contemplating decentralizing the operations side of its railroad on a larger scale. As its partner at the Spring, Texas, joint dispatching center, BNSF has played a critical role in the improvement that both railroads and shippers have seen in the Houston area since the agreement between the two railroads was put into operation last February. There are those who say decentralized operations are not necessary to effectively run a railroad, but both UP and BNSF are considering Los Angeles as a possible next step.
  • The American Trucking Associations' Executive Committee approved a controversial plan to reorganize the association by absorbing its affiliates, changing its dues structure and lowering membership fees, and adding thousands of truckers to its declining membership rolls. ATA wants to increase membership over the next four years from 3,125 trucking companies to 12,000 motor carriers, logistics providers and suppliers. The association also is looking to consolidate its affiliates' separate political action committees into a single PAC with more formidable political influence on Capitol Hill.
  • Toronto-based Vitran Corp. has acquired Winsted, Minn.-based Quast Transfer, making good on its intention of expanding its regional LTL presence in the United States. The deal, expected to close on Sept. 30, could reap large synergies from the combined operations. Both companies will pick up new markets with very few overlapping customers, company officials said. The acquisition comes at an opportune time from an industry standpoint, as regional trucking is growing by double-digit rates with the $19 billion long-haul market growing at 1 percent to 2 percent annually.
  • Federal Express and its pilots are back at the negotiating table, trying once again to hammer out the company's first union contract. The FedEx Pilots Association has a new negotiating team, a new president and a lot more money coming into its coffers thanks to double dues for the next six months to cover negotiation expenses. Money also will be set aside in case talks take a turn for the worse and the pilots opt for strong-arm tactics. Meanwhile, FedEx management is back at the table with the same team as last year, hoping to put the possibility of labor strife well behind them.
  • The Liberian Bureau of Maritime Affairs will refrain from any punitive action against Cosco Shipping Co., the operator of the freighter Bright Field that crashed into the Riverwalk shopping mall in New Orleans during the 1996 Christmas holidays. No fatalities resulted from the crash that damaged the mall, a Hilton Hotel, a condominium, injured more than 100 people and tallied losses exceeding $17 million. The Liberian agency will schedule a hearing on negligence charges being considered against the two engineers who served on the freighter at the time of the crash.
  • Unlike other recent Class 1 mergers, the challenge for Canadian National Railway and Illinois Central Railroad may not be how to quell shipper concerns while still keeping as much control of the franchise as possible, but how to best take advantage of marketing opportunities that will result from the merger. Before the marriage, CN had very little sales representation in the United States. Now the combined company will have a major presence. CN is figuring out a strategy as to take advantage of that fact, as well as how it will manage and develop its new alliance with Kansas City Southern.
  • Non-Stop Logistics Corp. has a new name and a new focus. The San Francisco-based logistics company is now Non-Stop Solutions and is targeting the pharmaceutical industry to pioneer its brand of inventory optimization. The company made a splash four years ago when it introduced the Non-Stop concept to the grocery market. That didn't work so Non-Stop retooled itself. It has been working with a major drug store chain for more than a year in a pilot program. It's also attracted a major new investor, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a venture capital company that is well-known to firms in California's high-tech gulch, Silicon Valley.
  • In an about-face from two weeks ago, the Federal Aviation Administration has acknowledged before Congress that it still has problems to sort through before it will be year 2000 compliant and before its computer systems are secure. Dennis DeGaetano, deputy associate administrator for Research and Acquisitions at the FAA, tacitly agreed with complaints issued by Joel C. Willemssen of the General Accounting Office, that the FAA still had serious issues. This stance from the FAA and the Department of Transportation reflects a more subdued and less optimistic viewpoint than the agency and department expressed a short while ago, when it told Traffic World that "we are right on track" for Y2K compliance.
  • Cargo has begun moving again through Salvador, Brazil, and at a considerably lower cost to port operators, thanks to a labor strike victory by management over salaries, work force size and working hours. With the rest of Brazil's shipping community looking toward Salvador for answers to their own labor problems, the country is also grappling with efforts to privatize public ports, airports, roads, rails and telecommunication systems. And government reform is starting to attract other foreign investors, including auto manufacturers and airlines.

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Bulls
Strong demand for offshore and container handling equipment
The annual conference "Programming, Operation and Management of Transport Networks" in Genoa
Genoa
It is dedicated to the transport and mobility sector
Last year, 656 ships underwent repair work in Greece
Piraeus
Increase of five units compared to 2023
Port of La Spezia, cruise ship docking simulations completed at Garibaldi West pier
The Spice
Assagenti conference on the future of the profession of maritime agent and broker
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow in Genoa
Francesco Beltrano is the new general secretary of Uniport
Rome
He takes over from Paolo Ferrandino, who will continue to collaborate as a consultant
Stena Line presents a project for a ro-ro vessel capable of reducing energy consumption by at least 20%
Gothenburg
Introduced most of the innovative technologies currently available
Saipem awarded new contracts in Middle East and Guyana
Milan
The total value of the orders is approximately 720 million dollars.
Conference in Genoa for the centenary of Ente Bacini
Genoa
The company was established on 19 February 1925
Interporto Bologna Board of Directors Renewed
Bentivoglio
Stefano Caliandro Appointed President. Loss of 1.7 million euros in 2024
NYK invests 76 billion yen in NYK Energy Ocean Corporation
Tokyo
The newco has taken over the activities of ENEOS Ocean
Decarbonisation of maritime transport will be faster in the EU and the US
DHL Acquires CRYOPDP
Bonn/Nashville
The company provides courier services for clinics and healthcare
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Over a million to the port companies of Livorno and Piombino to acquire green vehicles
Leghorn
The ranking for admission to the PNRR-Next Gen Eu contributions has been published
COSCO Shipping Development Co.'s container sales increased by +204.1% in 2024
Shanghai
The related turnover increased by +124.0%
The call for funding for the purchase of electric vehicles in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado has been published
Genoa
Yang Ming Buys Three New 8,000 TEU Containerships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Construction of a cruise ship for Regent Seven Seas Cruises begins in Marghera
Trieste
Fincantieri will deliver the unit in 2026
Federlogistica establishes operational offices in Spain and Brazil
Genoa
The aim is to go beyond theoretical cooperative relationships
Over a Ton of Cocaine Seized in the Port of Gioia Tauro
Reggio Calabria
If placed on the market it would have generated over 187 million euros
In 2024, the economic results of Interporto Padova reached record values
Padua
Revenues up +17%
Three ceremonies at the Saint-Nazaire shipyard for three new MSC Cruises ships
Geneva
New flagship "MSC World America" delivered
German railway company DB Cargo reduced losses in 2024
Berlin
Revenues down again. -9.0% drop in freight volumes
NovaAlgoma orders second 38,000 dwt cement carrier in China
Lugano
It will be taken over in 2027
Customs agreement between Italy and Brazil to facilitate trade
Brasilia
Mission of the Customs and Monopolies Agency in the South American nation
A team from La Spezia Container Terminal in Rotterdam to test advanced technologies
The Spice
ECT Hutchinson Ports Training Center Visited
The assembly of Genoese freight forwarders on Monday
Genoa
It will be held at the Palazzo della Borsa in Genoa
Assarmatori, in Italy the ferry segment cannot bear the burden of the EU ETS in a very fragile market situation
Brussels
Messina: Protecting shipping from the ideological excesses of the Green Deal
The website of the Port Authority Corps - Coast Guard has been renewed
Rome
It has become a single digital access point to documents and services
In 2024, inland waterway freight transport in Germany increased by +1.2%
Wiesbaden
The volume, at 173.8 million tonnes, is the second lowest since 1990.
APM Terminals Granted Port of New York - New Jersey Concession Renewal
New York
Contract for a period of 33 years. Investments of 500 million dollars are expected
Experimentation of crane automation has begun at the Interporto Padova terminal
Padua
The interport company awarded the "Industria Felix 2025 Award"
Container traffic in the port of Algeciras fell by -17.0% in February
Algeciras
Both import-export volumes and transhipment are decreasing
New cruise company Crescent Seas has been founded in Miami
Miami
The fleet, initially consisting of one ship from Regent Seven Seas Cruises, will grow to five units within the next five years
In 2024, the volume of vehicles transported by Wallenius Wilhelmsen's fleet decreased by -9.7%
Oslo
Traffic down on almost all global routes
Agreement between Assoporti and Assologistica and the Florida trade, transport and port authorities
Rome
It was signed today
In April a mission in Albania of The International Propeller Clubs - Italy
Genoa
It will take place on the 9th and 10th in Tirana and Durres
COSCO Shipping Ports revenues rose to a record $1.5 billion in 2024 (+3.3%)
Hong Kong
In the fourth quarter alone, a decrease of -3.0%
SO.RI.MA. (FHP group) granted a concession of an area of 125 thousand square meters in the port of Chioggia
Venice
Investments of 11.5 million euros expected over 25 years
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
The public meeting of the Italian Port Terminal Operators Association will be held in Rome on June 19th
Genoa
The annual conference "Programming, Operation and Management of Transport Networks" in Genoa
Genoa
It is dedicated to the transport and mobility sector
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Damen Mangalia Unionists Protest Friday Against Possible Closure
(The Romania Journal)
Govt. to woo top ten shipping liners in world for Colombo port expansion
(Daily Mirror)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
Contship Italia’s intermodal network has been extended to the Gulf Terminal in La Spezia
Melzo
Connections with the inland terminals of Milan, Modena and Padua
Container traffic in the port of Valencia grew by +15.2% last month
Valencia
The overall volume of goods handled increased by +6.8%
The Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority obtains gender equality certification
Leghorn
It is the first Italian port authority to obtain this recognition
Container traffic growth weakens at ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
Los Angeles/Long Beach
Last month, increases of +2.6% and +13.4% respectively were recorded
Assarmatori, the Italian government's position on the impact of the EU ETS on shipping and ports is good
Rome
Messina: fully understood the risks and distortions of European climate regulation
PSA Italy's Genoa port terminals awarded anti-corruption certification
Genoa
The UNI EN ISO 37001 standard defines the requirements for an effective anti-corruption management system
Assiterminal presents three projects for the sustainable transition of the Italian port sector
Rome
Work completed on docks 33 and 34 of the port of Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia
50,000 square meters of yards prepared
The completion and doubling of the Pontremolese is the dream-nightmare of the La Spezia port community
The Spice
Fontana: Money is not found when enormous resources are channeled into railway lines of dubious utility
Hanwha acquires 9.9% stake in shipbuilding company Austal
Sydney
Investment worth approximately 116 million US dollars
The European fleet is growing but competing fleets are growing at a faster rate
Brussels
Raptis (European Shipowners): investing ETS revenues in clean shipping technologies and fuels
Trasportounito has confirmed the national halt to the transport of goods
Rome
Proclaimed for the duration of five days from March 31st to April 4th
Container traffic in Hong Kong port increased by +9.1% in February
Hong Kong
However, for the second time in the last 25 years, cargo volume was below one million TEU.
Cargo traffic in Greek ports stable in Q3 2024
Piraeus
The increase in volumes transported on domestic routes has offset the decline in traffic with foreign countries
At the Vado Ligure container terminal a 21,000 teu container ship fully loaded
I go to Liguria
The 400-meter-long Cosco Shipping Nebula has landed
UIR proposes a permanent table for the development of intermodality
Verona
The main task is to build a project financing program.
Restructuring plan approved for Spanish company Armas Trasmediterránea
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Creditors' appeal rejected
The decline in cargo traffic at the port of Singapore worsened in February
Singapore
Containerized cargoes amounted to 27.4 million tons (-3.6%)
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