S'pore repair yards to face keen competition from region Overcapacity, new facilities with lower costs will lead to downward price pressure: report
Ship master fined for bogus certificate
Cosco suffering from threat of US sanctions
Port shots
Air and Land Transport
Swissair moves closer to joining oneworld as Delta ties loosen Cooperation deal with American Airlines strengthens carrier's link with alliance: analysts
BA cuts back further on capacity growth
False crash alarm may be caused by power fault
Cathay probes Roll-Royce engine incidents
Air Canada flight attendants reject management offer
Japan's sales of imported vehicles up 2.4% in first half
No leader among Japanese hybrid cars
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Staying at top of the league MPA works to ensure premier ranking for the port and central role for maritime industry
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IMO struggles to find solutions to environmental threats
S'pore repair yards to face keen competition from region Overcapacity, new facilities with lower costs will lead to downward price pressure: report
Ship master fined for bogus certificate
Cosco suffering from threat of US sanctions
Port shots
Air and Land Transport
Swissair moves closer to joining oneworld as Delta ties loosen Cooperation deal with American Airlines strengthens carrier's link with alliance: analysts
BA cuts back further on capacity growth
False crash alarm may be caused by power fault
Cathay probes Roll-Royce engine incidents
Air Canada flight attendants reject management offer
Japan's sales of imported vehicles up 2.4% in first half
No leader among Japanese hybrid cars
Features
Staying at top of the league MPA works to ensure premier ranking for the port and central role for maritime industry
Columns
IMO struggles to find solutions to environmental threats
S'pore repair yards to face keen competition from region Overcapacity, new facilities with lower costs will lead to downward price pressure: report
Ship master fined for bogus certificate
Cosco suffering from threat of US sanctions
Port shots
Air and Land Transport
Swissair moves closer to joining oneworld as Delta ties loosen Cooperation deal with American Airlines strengthens carrier's link with alliance: analysts
BA cuts back further on capacity growth
False crash alarm may be caused by power fault
Cathay probes Roll-Royce engine incidents
Air Canada flight attendants reject management offer
Japan's sales of imported vehicles up 2.4% in first half
No leader among Japanese hybrid cars
Features
Staying at top of the league MPA works to ensure premier ranking for the port and central role for maritime industry
Columns
IMO struggles to find solutions to environmental threats
S'pore repair yards to face keen competition from region Overcapacity, new facilities with lower costs will lead to downward price pressure: report
Ship master fined for bogus certificate
Cosco suffering from threat of US sanctions
Port shots
Air and Land Transport
Swissair moves closer to joining oneworld as Delta ties loosen Cooperation deal with American Airlines strengthens carrier's link with alliance: analysts
BA cuts back further on capacity growth
False crash alarm may be caused by power fault
Cathay probes Roll-Royce engine incidents
Air Canada flight attendants reject management offer
Japan's sales of imported vehicles up 2.4% in first half
No leader among Japanese hybrid cars
Features
Staying at top of the league MPA works to ensure premier ranking for the port and central role for maritime industry
Columns
IMO struggles to find solutions to environmental threats
Kværner rejects an offer for Govan Updating our story posted earlier today, Kværner has reportedly turned down the offer for its Govan, Scotland, yard made by Britain's GEC.
Kværner gets an offer for Govan, faces tough EU penalties and snags an order at Floro The Kværner Group's shipbuilding fortunes continue to be very mixed.
Cascade General gets a power barge order Portland, Oregon, ship repair specialist Cascade General is now in the newbuilding business
OSG CEO buys shares
Liberia appoints advisors Continuing its quest for credibility, the Republic of Liberia has announced the make up of the maritime advisory board that will assist in the running of its maritime policy.
Ceres doubles tankers order PETER Livanos' Ceres group has doubled its chemical tanker building programme to eight ships by ordering a further four IMO II-class tankers from Polish shipbuilder Stocznia Szczecinska.
GEC offers 'close to '1m' for Govan GEC last night finally tabled a bid for the Kvaerner Govan after months of nail-biting discussions, writes Tony Gray.
Names warned over short-term schemes SHORT-term proportional reinsurance schemes could be used to strip names of their capacity.
Gold Protest A Thames barge floats past the House of Commons yesterday. Organise by the World Gold Council, the barge formed part of the protest against the Bank of England's sale of 25 tonnes of gold yesterday, the first steps towards reducing UK gold reserves from 715 tonnes to 300 tonnes over the next couple of years.
TotalFina on a quest for global recognition FRENCH oil major TotalFina seems hell-bent on reshaping Europe's energy landscape. Recognised as an ambitious and aggressive company even before last year's acquisition of Petrofina, the '27bn ($43bn) hostile bid for Elf underlines TotalFina's quest for global recognition.
German Bight With its striking red livery and a fully loaded speed of 42 knots, Cat No 1, Austal Ships' newly commissioned 52 m high speed passenger catamaran, is set to make an impressive debut in the German Bight for AG Reederei Norden-Frisia.
Operators told to curb work on top of boxes SHIP and terminal operators should make every effort to minimise the need for any work to be carried out on the top of containers, a new report is recommending.
L'AWZ rejette l'alternative proposée pour la darse à containers sur la rive gauche "Il est en théorie possible de réaliser une darse à containers dans le Waaslandhaven sans que Doel ne disparaisse... Mais l'expansion future du port rend Doel invivable. Plutôt que de laisser cette zone d'habitation s'éteindre à petit feu, le gouvernement flamand a décidé, sur base de nombreuses études et après avis, que Doel doit disparaître. Cela se fera de manière sociale et en concertation avec toutes les parties concernées, les habitants inclus." C'est en ces mots que Jan Strubbe, le directeur général de l'AWZ (l'administration des voies d'eau de la Région flamande), défend la décision de réaliser une darse à marée pour le traitement de containers sur la rive gauche de l'Escaut à Anvers. Strubbe réagit de la sorte aux récentes déclarations concernant une alternative réaliste pour le maintien de Doel.
Westerlund adopte une structure de holding Pour mieux gérer et soutenir la croissance des activités, Westerlund a adopté une nouvelle structure. Les diverses divisions du groupe de manutention anversois opèrent désormais sous la tutelle d'une société de holding nouvellement créée. Westerlund Group N.V. chapeaute 18 filiales belges et étrangères. La nouvelle structure est entrée en vigueur le premier juillet dernier.
La Commission va étudier l'origine des fonds de Deutsche Post Ainsi qu'annoncé, la Commission européenne a donné son feu vert à l'acquisition par Deutsche Post des activités de transport terrestre de Nedlloyd. Mais elle a précisé que "d'autres questions relatives à la concurrence demeurent en suspens". La Commission va étudier l'origine des moyens mis en oeuvre par les postes allemandes pour réaliser toutes ces acquisitions.
La SNCF doit améliorer d'urgence la desserte des ports français Un nouveau rapport sur l'amélioration des dessertes portuaires vient d'être remis au ministre des Transport par le Conseil National des Transports (CNT). Il dresse une liste d'actions urgentes à mener dans quatre domaines: la route, le cabotage maritime, les liaisons fluviales et le ferroviaire; ce dernier se voyant décerné la palme de "la grande priorité", tant les dysfonctionnements sont nombreux.
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