DBS Bank sees room for growth in offshore market Main local ship financier still looking for deals despite industry downturn, economic crisis
Knowing pollution rules: MPA steps up drive
China detains suspected killers of cargo ship crew
Japan ship orders down 17.8% in '98
Air and Land Transport
Airlines win bid to limit US personal injury suits Recourse to local law will undermine uniform regulation of international air carrier liability: Supreme Court
BA, JAL announce marketing tie-up
Co-pilots use hints to correct pilots: study
Near-collision at Bangkok airport: pilot's poor English to blame
United to cut flights to Japan
Delta levies US$2 ticket fee on domestic flights
Volvo wants to sell AutoNov stake
Features
Making the best of bad times Collapse in volumes follows a huge rise in slotting capacity by carriers to SE Asia over the past three years
DBS Bank sees room for growth in offshore market Main local ship financier still looking for deals despite industry downturn, economic crisis
Knowing pollution rules: MPA steps up drive
China detains suspected killers of cargo ship crew
Japan ship orders down 17.8% in '98
Air and Land Transport
Airlines win bid to limit US personal injury suits Recourse to local law will undermine uniform regulation of international air carrier liability: Supreme Court
BA, JAL announce marketing tie-up
Co-pilots use hints to correct pilots: study
Near-collision at Bangkok airport: pilot's poor English to blame
United to cut flights to Japan
Delta levies US$2 ticket fee on domestic flights
Volvo wants to sell AutoNov stake
Features
Making the best of bad times Collapse in volumes follows a huge rise in slotting capacity by carriers to SE Asia over the past three years
DBS Bank sees room for growth in offshore market Main local ship financier still looking for deals despite industry downturn, economic crisis
Knowing pollution rules: MPA steps up drive
China detains suspected killers of cargo ship crew
Japan ship orders down 17.8% in '98
Air and Land Transport
Airlines win bid to limit US personal injury suits Recourse to local law will undermine uniform regulation of international air carrier liability: Supreme Court
BA, JAL announce marketing tie-up
Co-pilots use hints to correct pilots: study
Near-collision at Bangkok airport: pilot's poor English to blame
United to cut flights to Japan
Delta levies US$2 ticket fee on domestic flights
Volvo wants to sell AutoNov stake
Features
Making the best of bad times Collapse in volumes follows a huge rise in slotting capacity by carriers to SE Asia over the past three years
DBS Bank sees room for growth in offshore market Main local ship financier still looking for deals despite industry downturn, economic crisis
Knowing pollution rules: MPA steps up drive
China detains suspected killers of cargo ship crew
Japan ship orders down 17.8% in '98
Air and Land Transport
Airlines win bid to limit US personal injury suits Recourse to local law will undermine uniform regulation of international air carrier liability: Supreme Court
BA, JAL announce marketing tie-up
Co-pilots use hints to correct pilots: study
Near-collision at Bangkok airport: pilot's poor English to blame
United to cut flights to Japan
Delta levies US$2 ticket fee on domestic flights
Volvo wants to sell AutoNov stake
Features
Making the best of bad times Collapse in volumes follows a huge rise in slotting capacity by carriers to SE Asia over the past three years
Vardinoyannis fights ruling LEADING tanker operator and oil trader Vardis Vardin-oyannis is preparing to fight a temporary order obtained in the UK High Court that prevents him from disposing of assets.
Cunard's new vessel may break price record THE new Cunarder, currently being tendered for by European shipyards, is likely to be the most expensive cruiseship ever built, coming in at between $550m and $600m.
ECT geared to maintain momentum Europe Combined Terminals president Wouter den Dulk reviewed 1998 at a press conference yesterday, and gave reporters a glimpse of how the company will perform while the ink is drying on its new ownership structure.
UK North Sea oil gloom Britain's North Sea oil industry faces a bleak year, with the low crude prices which led to massive mergers and lay-offs in 1998 battering exploration and production plans, spelling doom for thousands of workers.
China holds gang after mass murder of bulk carrier crew IN what is developing into a horrific tale of mass-murder at sea, the Chinese mainland's Public Security Bureau is reported to have arrested members of a suspected piracy gang involved in the killing of the 23-strong Chinese crew of the bulk carrier Cheung Son.
Pleas over missing cargoship PLEAS for action made to the Philippines president Joseph Estrada by relatives of crew on the missing 5,141 dwt cargoship Pixy Marzo appear to be in vain.
Ecstasy fire sparks US safety fears THE US National Transportation Safety Board has expressed its concern over "potential injury and death" on the large bluewater passenger vessels operating from US ports.
Laskaridis takes over Cronus Airlines Greece's largest reefer operator, the Laskaridis family group, has confirmed it has taken over locally based Cronus Airlines as the country's mari-time community continues to show a marked interest in the aviation sector.
Barge terminal for Venlo ROTTERDAM-based ECT (Europe Combined Terminals) is to add an inland barge terminal to its existing rail terminal at Venlo in the south east of Holland near the German border.
IMB concerned at new trend in piracy THE International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has warned of an alarming new trend in piracy, following the disappearance of yet another vessel and its crew
Anti-hijack tracking system is ready A SATELLITE ship tracking device intended to help locate hijacked ships is ready for implementation.
ROCL is now listed in Euros ROYAL Olympic Cruise Lines (ROCL) has changed its listing on the Brussels-based EASDAQ stock exchange into Euros.
ITF targets Singapore flag over crew abandonment THE International Transport Workers' Federation has tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the Singaporean register to take responsibility for 24 crewmembers stranded in Vietnam.
Sri Lankan navy rescues tanker crew THE crew of a small oil tanker that had been waiting for repairs off Colombo since last August, were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy when the vessel developed a leak and almost sank.
Kulpi port gets the green light INDIA's Ministry of Surface Transport has given the go-ahead for the Rs8,000m ($188m) Kulpi port project on a build, operate and transfer basis, reversing its earlier decision.
SCI divestment plan accepted THE Indian Ministry of Surface Transport has accepted the Disinvestment Commission's recommendation to reduce the government's stake in the Shipping Corporation of India.
Thailand joins MARPOL convention AT a cabinet meeting today the Thai government agreed to sign up to the MARPOL convention.
Thai port workers to win 'tea concession' THAI maritime officials look set to concede defeat after efforts to stamp out the payment of kickbacks to local port workers have led to a series of productivity-hampering slowdowns.
Patrick boss says 'Sydney will deliver' EQUIPMENT upgrading by Patrick stevedoring at its Sydney facilities will deliver "world best practice" productivity by the end of 1999, according to Patrick chairman Chris Corrigan.
Australia carves out new markets AUSTRALIAN agricultural exporters have carved out new markets in North and South America for 1999.
Reliance arrests Emerald Sky RELIANCE Industries has arrested the Emerald Sky, the vessel alleged to have rammed and sunk the single buoy mooring at Hazira in Gujarat in October 1998.
Wijsmuller concludes Pallas operations WIJSMULLER has ended salvage operations on the cargoship Pallas, which ran aground off the North German coast in October 1998, and the wreck has been left to sink into the sands.
Arbitration due over Panama pilotage plans ARBITRATION is due to start on February 8 between the Panama Canal Commission and its pilots over working methods after the canal is handed over at the end of this year.
Melbourne, Brisbane rank and file approves P&O strategy WATERFRONT workers, members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), in Melbourne and Brisbane have voted to endorse the union's negotiating strategy with P&O Ports. The Melbourne vote was said to be close and, therefore, there will be a great deal of interest in the Sydney meeting which will take place today. Last year the Sydney rank and file members rejected the recommendations of the MUA's federal council mainly as a result of opposition to the in-principle agreement which the union's federal office has reached with P&O Ports. Industry sources claimed yesterday they detected some "apprehension" on the Sydney waterfront ahead of today's meeting.
Smooth sailing for P&O Cruises Division 1998 was a particularly good year for P&O's Cruises Division with the outlook remaining extremely positive. Releasing cruise statistics for the October to December 1998 period, P&O said that on anticipated increased capacity for the division of 16 per cent in 1999, bookings remain ahead of those at this time last year. Revenue yields are good while unit costs are reducing, the company added.
Maersk Line expands again DENMARK'S Maersk Line, already one of the world's premier shipping lines, has announced further expansion of its global services. With immediate effect the line said it will start a direct service between Europe and the French Antilles: Martinique, Guadeloupe and Trinidad & Tobago. The service will be fixed day weekly and offer direct sailings from ports on the following rotation: Antwerp, Felixstowe, Dunkerque, Rouen, Le Havre, Brest, Montoir, Algeciras, Pointe-A-Pitre, Fort de France, Port of Spain, Basse Terre, Fort de France, Le Havre, Antwerp. The first sailing left the Antilles on 9 January from Fort de France and the first departure from Europe will be from Antwerp on Monday.
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