Carnival exercises option for second 84,000-gt ship from Kv'rner Masa-Yards Carnival Cruise Lines,has exercised an option with Kværner Masa-Yards for construction of an 84,000-ton, 2,2112 sister ship to the Carnival Spirit, to be named the Carnival Pride. It will cost approximately $375 million.
Aker Finnyards wins hovercraft order The Finnish Navy has awarded a contract for a 27.4 m hovercraft to a joint venture of Aker Finnyards and composites specialist FY-Industries.
Kværner may appeal EC Warnow ruling The European Commission yesterday announced its decision requiring the Kværner Group to repay State Aid of EUR 41.5 million (approx $42.3 million)K
Prodi ushers in reform era European Commission president-designate Romano Prodi yesterday said he had picked a top quality team of commissioners to restore the battered image of the European Union's executive and launch an era of reform.
Skaugen rejects Montanari bid Norway's I M Skaugen has formally rejected Navigazione Montanari's NKr390m ($49.36m) all-cash takeover bid, but said it would actively seek "appropriate forms" of co-operation.
Italians confident over strength of offer for Norwegian firm Italy's Navigazione Montanari remains confident of the strength of its hostile takeover bid for rival I M Skaugen, despite its formal rejection by the Norwegian firm's board of directors whose members claim to hold 54% of the company's share capital.
BUE returns to the North Sea BUE Marine is "coming home." The Edinburgh-based company has returned to the North Sea with the acquisition of 28 safety standy vessels from Tidewater, the US giant.
Clifford Chance expansion drive International law firm Clifford Chance's expansion plans were stepped up this weekend as the company voted on mergers with leading New York law practice Rogers & Wells and Germany's Punder Volhard Weber & Axster.
J.M. Fritzen: "Quality comes before price". Volkswagen Transport keeps a sharp eye on the price/quality ratio of its services, according to managing director Johannes M. Fritzen.
Maritime
Hamburg Sud buys South Pacific Container Line. Having only very recently acquired Transroll through its subsidiary, Alianca, Hamburg Sud has now acquired another shipping line.
Zim replaces tonnage in the Continent-Israel trade.
Ellerman and Zim offer weekly service to the East Mediterranean.
Grimaldi serves Castellon.
Lys Line launches a service between Northwest Europe and Norway.
Esco offers a new Baltic service.
OOCL and Wan Hai offer a joint China-Middle East service.
Jindo produces a novel type of maritime container.
Alianca's takeover of Transroll's Europe-South America liner services is likely to have far-reaching effects.
A strategic alliance has been formed between US nvoccs and a group of German forwarders.
Ports and Terminals
ICTSI is bidding for Chilean ports.
HHLA in Hamburg was still Germany's leading port operator in 1998.
Calendar of events: Measuring Port Productivity; 88th AAPA Annual Convention and Exhibition.
Forwarding and Logistics
There is still potential for improving logistics quality, according to a recent study by A.T. Kearney and ELA.
The EU has approved the takeover of ETD by Deutsche Post/Danzas.
Pakhoed acquires Roland SA.
Aviation
Aeroflot offers new customs destinations. Direct services with customs clearance are offered by Aeroflot to 14 new destinations in Russia.
SAA cooperates with Varig and Aerolineas Argentinas.
ABSA, a new Brazilian carrier, starts an all-cargo service.
SIA will not after all take a stake in Ansett, but it has made an interesting deal with Boeing on aircraft.
WM Sea Air has joined the German Airfreight Partners group (GAP).
The JAL group held up well in 1998, despite adverse conditions.
The 27 AEA carriers recorded good results in 1998.
J.M. Fritzen: "Quality comes before price". Volkswagen Transport keeps a sharp eye on the price/quality ratio of its services, according to managing director Johannes M. Fritzen.
Maritime
Hamburg Sud buys South Pacific Container Line. Having only very recently acquired Transroll through its subsidiary, Alianca, Hamburg Sud has now acquired another shipping line.
Zim replaces tonnage in the Continent-Israel trade.
Ellerman and Zim offer weekly service to the East Mediterranean.
Grimaldi serves Castellon.
Lys Line launches a service between Northwest Europe and Norway.
Esco offers a new Baltic service.
OOCL and Wan Hai offer a joint China-Middle East service.
Jindo produces a novel type of maritime container.
Alianca's takeover of Transroll's Europe-South America liner services is likely to have far-reaching effects.
A strategic alliance has been formed between US nvoccs and a group of German forwarders.
Ports and Terminals
ICTSI is bidding for Chilean ports.
HHLA in Hamburg was still Germany's leading port operator in 1998.
Calendar of events: Measuring Port Productivity; 88th AAPA Annual Convention and Exhibition.
Forwarding and Logistics
There is still potential for improving logistics quality, according to a recent study by A.T. Kearney and ELA.
The EU has approved the takeover of ETD by Deutsche Post/Danzas.
Pakhoed acquires Roland SA.
Aviation
Aeroflot offers new customs destinations. Direct services with customs clearance are offered by Aeroflot to 14 new destinations in Russia.
SAA cooperates with Varig and Aerolineas Argentinas.
ABSA, a new Brazilian carrier, starts an all-cargo service.
SIA will not after all take a stake in Ansett, but it has made an interesting deal with Boeing on aircraft.
WM Sea Air has joined the German Airfreight Partners group (GAP).
The JAL group held up well in 1998, despite adverse conditions.
The 27 AEA carriers recorded good results in 1998.
J.M. Fritzen: "Quality comes before price". Volkswagen Transport keeps a sharp eye on the price/quality ratio of its services, according to managing director Johannes M. Fritzen.
Maritime
Hamburg Sud buys South Pacific Container Line. Having only very recently acquired Transroll through its subsidiary, Alianca, Hamburg Sud has now acquired another shipping line.
Zim replaces tonnage in the Continent-Israel trade.
Ellerman and Zim offer weekly service to the East Mediterranean.
Grimaldi serves Castellon.
Lys Line launches a service between Northwest Europe and Norway.
Esco offers a new Baltic service.
OOCL and Wan Hai offer a joint China-Middle East service.
Jindo produces a novel type of maritime container.
Alianca's takeover of Transroll's Europe-South America liner services is likely to have far-reaching effects.
A strategic alliance has been formed between US nvoccs and a group of German forwarders.
Ports and Terminals
ICTSI is bidding for Chilean ports.
HHLA in Hamburg was still Germany's leading port operator in 1998.
Calendar of events: Measuring Port Productivity; 88th AAPA Annual Convention and Exhibition.
Forwarding and Logistics
There is still potential for improving logistics quality, according to a recent study by A.T. Kearney and ELA.
The EU has approved the takeover of ETD by Deutsche Post/Danzas.
Pakhoed acquires Roland SA.
Aviation
Aeroflot offers new customs destinations. Direct services with customs clearance are offered by Aeroflot to 14 new destinations in Russia.
SAA cooperates with Varig and Aerolineas Argentinas.
ABSA, a new Brazilian carrier, starts an all-cargo service.
SIA will not after all take a stake in Ansett, but it has made an interesting deal with Boeing on aircraft.
WM Sea Air has joined the German Airfreight Partners group (GAP).
The JAL group held up well in 1998, despite adverse conditions.
The 27 AEA carriers recorded good results in 1998.
J.M. Fritzen: "Quality comes before price". Volkswagen Transport keeps a sharp eye on the price/quality ratio of its services, according to managing director Johannes M. Fritzen.
Maritime
Hamburg Sud buys South Pacific Container Line. Having only very recently acquired Transroll through its subsidiary, Alianca, Hamburg Sud has now acquired another shipping line.
Zim replaces tonnage in the Continent-Israel trade.
Ellerman and Zim offer weekly service to the East Mediterranean.
Grimaldi serves Castellon.
Lys Line launches a service between Northwest Europe and Norway.
Esco offers a new Baltic service.
OOCL and Wan Hai offer a joint China-Middle East service.
Jindo produces a novel type of maritime container.
Alianca's takeover of Transroll's Europe-South America liner services is likely to have far-reaching effects.
A strategic alliance has been formed between US nvoccs and a group of German forwarders.
Ports and Terminals
ICTSI is bidding for Chilean ports.
HHLA in Hamburg was still Germany's leading port operator in 1998.
Calendar of events: Measuring Port Productivity; 88th AAPA Annual Convention and Exhibition.
Forwarding and Logistics
There is still potential for improving logistics quality, according to a recent study by A.T. Kearney and ELA.
The EU has approved the takeover of ETD by Deutsche Post/Danzas.
Pakhoed acquires Roland SA.
Aviation
Aeroflot offers new customs destinations. Direct services with customs clearance are offered by Aeroflot to 14 new destinations in Russia.
SAA cooperates with Varig and Aerolineas Argentinas.
ABSA, a new Brazilian carrier, starts an all-cargo service.
SIA will not after all take a stake in Ansett, but it has made an interesting deal with Boeing on aircraft.
WM Sea Air has joined the German Airfreight Partners group (GAP).
The JAL group held up well in 1998, despite adverse conditions.
The 27 AEA carriers recorded good results in 1998.
J.M. Fritzen: "Quality comes before price". Volkswagen Transport keeps a sharp eye on the price/quality ratio of its services, according to managing director Johannes M. Fritzen.
Maritime
Hamburg Sud buys South Pacific Container Line. Having only very recently acquired Transroll through its subsidiary, Alianca, Hamburg Sud has now acquired another shipping line.
Zim replaces tonnage in the Continent-Israel trade.
Ellerman and Zim offer weekly service to the East Mediterranean.
Grimaldi serves Castellon.
Lys Line launches a service between Northwest Europe and Norway.
Esco offers a new Baltic service.
OOCL and Wan Hai offer a joint China-Middle East service.
Jindo produces a novel type of maritime container.
Alianca's takeover of Transroll's Europe-South America liner services is likely to have far-reaching effects.
A strategic alliance has been formed between US nvoccs and a group of German forwarders.
Ports and Terminals
ICTSI is bidding for Chilean ports.
HHLA in Hamburg was still Germany's leading port operator in 1998.
Calendar of events: Measuring Port Productivity; 88th AAPA Annual Convention and Exhibition.
Forwarding and Logistics
There is still potential for improving logistics quality, according to a recent study by A.T. Kearney and ELA.
The EU has approved the takeover of ETD by Deutsche Post/Danzas.
Pakhoed acquires Roland SA.
Aviation
Aeroflot offers new customs destinations. Direct services with customs clearance are offered by Aeroflot to 14 new destinations in Russia.
SAA cooperates with Varig and Aerolineas Argentinas.
ABSA, a new Brazilian carrier, starts an all-cargo service.
SIA will not after all take a stake in Ansett, but it has made an interesting deal with Boeing on aircraft.
WM Sea Air has joined the German Airfreight Partners group (GAP).
The JAL group held up well in 1998, despite adverse conditions.
The 27 AEA carriers recorded good results in 1998.
In 1997, United Parcel Service teamed up with companies like Microsoft and Hewlett Packard on a project known as e-Christmas, the first European-wide demonstration of e-commerce. The 140 merchants that went on line didn't get big sales, but they sure got experience. The sponsors wanted European data and they got it. One of the key findings was that European consumers are not adopting this new retail channel in anything like the numbers in the U.S. One company, 3 Suisses, the leading mail order catalog company in France, recorded about 500 transactions during the three-month trial. "That was very low," said Martin Habiague, e-commerce manager for UPS Europe. "But that was not the objective. It was to learn and generate awareness about selling online."
Whenever attorney Bill Jackson attempts to connect the dots between what railroads pledge and what railroads do, his pencil runs off the page. Jackson says that despite railroad rhetoric extolling the virtues of competition, they most often stomp upon even the slightest hint of competition as if it were fire in dry leaves. Two years ago, Union Pacific agreed to sell to shortline Missouri Central track between Kansas City and St. Louis. Now Union Pacific refuses to close the deal and affected shippers think UP is trying to block competition. So Missouri Central is seeking $100 million in damages as leverage to force UP to sell as promised.
Schenker International plans to open several multimodal logistics hubs around the world in a bid to grab a larger share of the global logistics market. The first hub opened last year in Singapore and the second is nearing completion in Rotterdam, where the company forecasts that about 60 to 70 percent of the freight will come from the U.S. With governments investing billions of dollars in new rail and intermodal facilities, Schenker is looking to take advantage of a container transport market that is growing by 30 percent per year.
The Teamsters took their bitter feud with Overnite Transportation Co. to the pavement last week, striking the company at six terminals over alleged unfair labor practices. Picket lines went up July 5 at Overnite facilities in Memphis, Indianapolis, Kansas City and three Atlanta-area terminals. Overnite said the terminals remained open and service was unaffected. "On Tuesday we actually picked up more freight than the comparable day last year," said company spokesman Ira Rosenfeld.
Air freight rates to Europe are near all-time lows this summer with airlines scrambling to fill new capacity that is flooding the market. The low rates mean great things for shippers because they can move product quickly and cheaply across the Atlantic but the big question is how long airlines can sustain the bargain basement prices. One airline exec called the low rates a "tragedy" while others bemoan the fact that yields are slipping but accept the situation as part of the business. Asian air freight rates, meanwhile, are moving up thanks to a healthy perishable season on the West Coast and hungry consumers in Japan.
Is developing a scheduled carload rail service the key to alleviating rail service problems? A group of ex-railroaders says no. In fact, they believe not only that scheduled service is not feasible, but that even if it could be pulled off, it wouldn't necessarily provide shippers with better service or save the railroads money. Instead, say these consultants, railroads should spend their time and effort more directly in improving cycle times to provide better service. And the key to this, they say, is to give cost and revenue responsibility to each person in control of a customer's shipment, and provide incentives when service is improved.
The maritime deal that Brazilian and U.S. shipping officials painstakingly stitched together during the first three months of this year is in danger of unraveling. The Brazilian congress rejected some of the deal's details and have asked U.S. officials to make changes, according to Brazilian ambassador Rubens Antonio Barbosa. He declined to discuss those changes, as did the Maritime Administration. Meanwhile, officials at the Federal Maritime Commission were surprised at the rejection. "We thought this had been settled."
The U.S. Postal Service is continuing its drive toward automation with the rollout of onboard computers in some of its short-haul trucks. USPS will begin using Xata Corp.'s onboard computing systems July 22 in St. Paul, Minn., according to Jeff Super, head of the Xata project in St. Paul. The computer systems will be for intracity runs. The Kansas City area also soon will begin to roll out the Xata system. USPS decided to buy onboard computing systems for its fleet, said Super, "to kind of bring us into the 20th century as we enter the 21st century. We are using 19th century technology with pencil and paper."
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