Chile ports sell-off faces new delays COURT cases which have bogged down Chile's attempts to privatise its ports could last all year, delaying the process by at least 18 months, according to the general manager of the national association of shipping lines .
Ocean Marine ready to pull out of legal action OCEAN Marine Mutual (Europe) is taking steps to withdraw from the bitter legal dispute between Ocean Marine Mutual and Australian reinsurer FAI.
Fred Olsen Energy profit ahead by 7% Norway's Fred Olsen Energy reported pre-tax profit of NKr384.4m ($49m) for 1998, a 7% improvement on the NKr359m of a year ago. The 1997 figure was not strictly comparable, since the company was floated during the second half of that year.
Edinburgh Castle replacement hunt Direct Holidays, now owned by Airtours, has started the search for a cruiseship to replace Edinburgh Castle next year.
FMC poised for enforcement on transpacific malpractices UNSPECIFIED "enforcement proceedings and actions" are to be initiated by the US Federal Maritime Commission against unspecified shipping firms in the transpacific trades as a result of findings by the FMC in its three-month investigation of alleged malpractices.
ISF hopeful on cut in tort cases by Filipinos AN International Shipping Federation (ISF) mission, which was recently in the Philippines, is hopeful that discussions with local labour officials would result in measures to contain the growing number and size of tort claims being filed by Filipino seafarers both here and in overseas courts.
'It's not the men, it's the ships they're in!' Joseph Conrad's line, "It's not the ships, it's the men what's in them!" is well known, and, in recent years, the P&I clubs have devoted much effort to proving the truth of this observation by analysing casualties and attributing almost everything to various forms of human error.
Package for off-the-shelf spill response A shipping industry initiative is being developed in California to offer owners of dry cargo vessels an off-the-shelf oil spill response service which backers of the scheme are confident will be available when stringent new state requirements come into force on September 1.
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