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BRIEFS
August 31, 1999
Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Trans-Pacific capacity enough to meet demand
    New operators will ensure peak season demand can be met: Hongkong Liner Shipping Association
  • Rolls-Royce wins US$1b order for its super fast marine engines
  • Smit Int'l lifts wreckage of sunken ship near Calcutta
  • Australia-India liner groups up rates
Air and Land Transport
  • BAA gets nod to operate up to six Chinese airports
    British operator's duty free arm wins retail contract for Shanghai's Pudong airport
  • China airline to invest 3.56b yuan in airport facilities
  • Cathay's passenger load down in June
  • Merged Canadian airlines won't come under AMR control: Onex
  • Airbus to go ahead with A3XX as planned in 2005
Features
  • Low-cost carriers flying high
    Budget operators that woo customers with cheap tickets is the fastest growing segment of Europe's airline industry

Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Trans-Pacific capacity enough to meet demand
    New operators will ensure peak season demand can be met: Hongkong Liner Shipping Association
  • Rolls-Royce wins US$1b order for its super fast marine engines
  • Smit Int'l lifts wreckage of sunken ship near Calcutta
  • Australia-India liner groups up rates
Air and Land Transport
  • BAA gets nod to operate up to six Chinese airports
    British operator's duty free arm wins retail contract for Shanghai's Pudong airport
  • China airline to invest 3.56b yuan in airport facilities
  • Cathay's passenger load down in June
  • Merged Canadian airlines won't come under AMR control: Onex
  • Airbus to go ahead with A3XX as planned in 2005
Features
  • Low-cost carriers flying high
    Budget operators that woo customers with cheap tickets is the fastest growing segment of Europe's airline industry

Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Trans-Pacific capacity enough to meet demand
    New operators will ensure peak season demand can be met: Hongkong Liner Shipping Association
  • Rolls-Royce wins US$1b order for its super fast marine engines
  • Smit Int'l lifts wreckage of sunken ship near Calcutta
  • Australia-India liner groups up rates
Air and Land Transport
  • BAA gets nod to operate up to six Chinese airports
    British operator's duty free arm wins retail contract for Shanghai's Pudong airport
  • China airline to invest 3.56b yuan in airport facilities
  • Cathay's passenger load down in June
  • Merged Canadian airlines won't come under AMR control: Onex
  • Airbus to go ahead with A3XX as planned in 2005
Features
  • Low-cost carriers flying high
    Budget operators that woo customers with cheap tickets is the fastest growing segment of Europe's airline industry

Sched Netweb site
  • Uniglory set to upgrade fleet
  • Strike over at Port of Vancouver
  • Japan-Red Sea fee increases
  • Rate hikes due on Euro routes
  • ISCA members face bankruptcy
  • Philippine shipping funded
  • Two bidding for Chile ports
  • Maersk partners SAECS
  • Colombo makes global grants
  • TNT hails e-commerce to build customer relations
  • Spanish to increase Iberia share capital
  • TWA appoints Vilmain

Cargowebweb site
AUGUST 30, 1999
  • Four airlines make offers for British Midland
  • Bad first half year result for DFDS
  • Mixed port results Hutchison
  • American Freightways with 'AFTracker' online
  • Roadway express expanded on the web

Cyber Shipping Guide - Ocean Commerceweb site
  • Europe/Asia Container Volume Continues Growing
  • Kawasaki to Introduce Measure to Attract More Ships
  • Antwerp Reports Second Best Half-Year Figures
  • Savannah Announces Record Box Tonnage for FY1999

Exim Indiaweb site
AUGUST 30, 1999
  • Cutting export transaction costs: Panel may insist on legal steps
  • Infrastructure logs 5.7 pc growth in April-July
  • Clarification: - Service Tax on Clearing & Forwarding Agents
  • Kandla Port sets new record in cargo handling
  • Concor to rail link Coimbatore, Tirupur to Tuticorin Port
  • MP export units get answers at Fieo open house meet
  • Exim Bank allowed to extend export credit
  • India largest buyer of palm oil from Kuala Lumpur
  • Truck, bus tyre output up by 10.44 pc in July
  • Bangla panel to study impact of transhipment facility
  • 97,000 tonnes of pulses being imported
  • India may make 'clean sweep' of $ 39 bn FDI by 2010, says study
  • Notification on uniform royalty rates for granite on cards
  • Codissia to hold INTEC 2000 exhibition
  • Positive export trend since October '98, says DGFT
  • 5-year tax holiday for NRIs' 100 pc R&D projects mooted
  • HC allows probe into HR coils floor price

Lloyd's Listweb site
  • All-clear for Ever Decent
    Evergreen boxship the Ever Decent is finally expected to arrive in Zeebrugge this afternoon - one week after she burst into flames after a collision with the cruiseship the Norwegian Dream 18 miles off Margate.
  • EU's new Energy and Transport Commissioner . . .
    THE European Union's new Energy and Transport Commissioner said yesterday she would resign if ever implicated in fraud, but denied any past wrongdoing which could undermine her appointment to the EU's executive.
  • Grincor slips into red and warns of more to come
    The downturn in the world shipping charter market and the recessionary conditions in South Africa have pushed the Grincor Unicorn group into the red.
  • First-half net earnings at Attica increase 14%
    GREEK ferry operator Attica Enterprises said yesterday its first-half group net earnings rose 14.8% to Dr2.66bn ($8.6m) on turnover growth of 22.6% to Dr12.2bn.
  • New facilities set to further lift Amsterdam
    THE boss of the port of Amsterdam has forecast new freight volume growth for the second biggest Dutch port as its efforts to develop two new facilities - the Afrikahaven and a new container terminal for US group Ceres - come to fruition.
  • re-flagged for new homeport painting
    During a stay at Bremerhaven, the Wallenius managed car carrier Pacific Breeze was re-flagged from Liberia to Singapore and painting of the new homeport was completed on her side.
  • ECT looks to expand in eastern Europe as Duisburg arm opens
    ROTTERDAM stevedore Europe Combined Terminals (ECT) is seeking further expansion in its European activities.
  • Stena stays optimistic despite new pressures
    THE chief executive of Swedish ferry operator Stena Line shrugged off fears of losing sea travellers as fares rise and more bridges and tunnels are built, saying he was still optimistic about the future.

The Journal of Commerceweb site
Home
  • Truckers still staging protests in Northwest
  • Automakers lead way in just-in-time delivery
  • Customs finds nearly 1.5 tons of cocaine in fish at Miami Airport
  • Angry French farmers to take to Paris streets, protesting tariffs
  • TRW wins contract with supermarket cooperative
  • Cairns Group: Agriculture to top WTO talks in November
  • US home sales rise to near-record in July
  • American Freightways introduces e-mail tracking
  • Association offers management course in warehousing and logistics
Transportation
  • Roadway E-Z Export is on net
  • Brazil truck strike causes 'isolated' disruption
  • Clarke Inc. of Canada expands operations in US and Mexico
  • Air express sector gains, but index declines 0.3%
  • Ryder finds logistics' 'fourth dimension'
  • Measurement is crucial to success
  • In search of single supply-chain system
  • Internet technology a boon for logistics
  • Even savvy executives have hard time picking warehouse software
  • 3PLs, forwarders clash as both evolve
  • Survey: Supply chain oversight helps everyone
  • Logistics management moves into mainstream
Maritime
  • More freight rate increases announced in North Atlantic
  • New rail service to carry containers to Tuticorin port
  • Leng promoted, will handle trans-Pacific trade lanes
  • Parent company names chairman
  • Britain fears politics will hamper ship collision investigation

The Journal of Commerceweb site
Home
  • Truckers still staging protests in Northwest
  • Automakers lead way in just-in-time delivery
  • Customs finds nearly 1.5 tons of cocaine in fish at Miami Airport
  • Angry French farmers to take to Paris streets, protesting tariffs
  • TRW wins contract with supermarket cooperative
  • Cairns Group: Agriculture to top WTO talks in November
  • US home sales rise to near-record in July
  • American Freightways introduces e-mail tracking
  • Association offers management course in warehousing and logistics
Transportation
  • Roadway E-Z Export is on net
  • Brazil truck strike causes 'isolated' disruption
  • Clarke Inc. of Canada expands operations in US and Mexico
  • Air express sector gains, but index declines 0.3%
  • Ryder finds logistics' 'fourth dimension'
  • Measurement is crucial to success
  • In search of single supply-chain system
  • Internet technology a boon for logistics
  • Even savvy executives have hard time picking warehouse software
  • 3PLs, forwarders clash as both evolve
  • Survey: Supply chain oversight helps everyone
  • Logistics management moves into mainstream
Maritime
  • More freight rate increases announced in North Atlantic
  • New rail service to carry containers to Tuticorin port
  • Leng promoted, will handle trans-Pacific trade lanes
  • Parent company names chairman
  • Britain fears politics will hamper ship collision investigation

The Journal of Commerceweb site
Home
  • Truckers still staging protests in Northwest
  • Automakers lead way in just-in-time delivery
  • Customs finds nearly 1.5 tons of cocaine in fish at Miami Airport
  • Angry French farmers to take to Paris streets, protesting tariffs
  • TRW wins contract with supermarket cooperative
  • Cairns Group: Agriculture to top WTO talks in November
  • US home sales rise to near-record in July
  • American Freightways introduces e-mail tracking
  • Association offers management course in warehousing and logistics
Transportation
  • Roadway E-Z Export is on net
  • Brazil truck strike causes 'isolated' disruption
  • Clarke Inc. of Canada expands operations in US and Mexico
  • Air express sector gains, but index declines 0.3%
  • Ryder finds logistics' 'fourth dimension'
  • Measurement is crucial to success
  • In search of single supply-chain system
  • Internet technology a boon for logistics
  • Even savvy executives have hard time picking warehouse software
  • 3PLs, forwarders clash as both evolve
  • Survey: Supply chain oversight helps everyone
  • Logistics management moves into mainstream
Maritime
  • More freight rate increases announced in North Atlantic
  • New rail service to carry containers to Tuticorin port
  • Leng promoted, will handle trans-Pacific trade lanes
  • Parent company names chairman
  • Britain fears politics will hamper ship collision investigation

Antwerpse Lloyd n.v.web site
  • La route du Canada mise à l'heure d'une"augmentation" tarifaire pour déséquilibre WB
    Il fallait s'y attendre, puisque le trafic entre l'Europe du Nord et le Canada/Montréal est généralement à la traîne de ce qui se passe sur l'Atlantique Nord, et cela n'a guère tardé: les Continental Canadian westbound freight conference et Canadian North Atlantic westbound freight conference, annoncent à leur tour une augmentation de 200 dollars par 20' et 250 dollars par 40', ceci pour couvrir les surcoûts qu'entraînent le déséquilibre en matière d'équipements, suite à la forte progression des volumes à destination du Canada. Ladite augmentation interviendra le 1er octobre prochain. En fait, le problème est exactement le même que celui qui se pose aux armements opérant sur l'AN. Le déséquilibre sur Halifax et Montréal est tout aussi important.
  • Cast entend maintenir son service fluvio-maritime entre Zeebrugge et le Rhin
    La décision du groupe CP Ships de rediriger en direct sur Anvers sa filiale Cast avec son service sur Montréal, va-t-elle poser au port de Zeebrugge un problème sur le plan de la logistique de desserte de l'hinterland européen? Rappelons ici que Cast exploite depuis quelques années un service fluvio-maritime avec 2 petits caboteurs à faible tirant d'air d'une capacité unitaire de 208 TEU et qui, outre une escale à Rotterdam, desservent des ports rhénans.
  • Icelandair va relier Liège à New York (via Keflavik)
    Nouveau succès pour Liège Airport: dès la mi septembre, une ligne régulière supplémentaire va mettre l'Eurorégion liégeoise à portée du Nouveau Monde et vice versa. En effet, Icelandair va relier - quasi tous les jours de la semaine - Liège Airport à New York, via Keflavik (près de Reikjavik). La compagnie utilisera un 757-200 fret pour cette liaison.
  • Degussa-Hüls investit 5,7 mia. de BEF dans l'extension de sa capacité à Anvers
    Le géant chimique allemand Degussa-Hülls va investir 500 mio. de USD dans l'augmentation la capacité des silanes organiques dans diverses filiales. Dans une première phase, qui doit être achevée début 2000, le site de la zone portuaire anversoise sera étendu pour accueillir une nouvelle installation dans une deuxième phase, qui doit être opérationnelle en 2002. Le groupe chimique répond de la sorte à la hausse de la demande.

Marine Linkweb site
AUGUST 30, 1999
Maritime Contract News
  • FirstWave/Newpark Lands Diamond Offshore Job
Breaking News
  • P&O Buys Stake In Indian Container Terminal
  • Thai Prime Minister Denies Canal Reports
  • Hyundai Heavy Commissioned To Run Halla
  • Arctic Ice Build-Up Likely To Cause Shipping Disruptions
  • United States Marine Repair Promotes Dickinson

Marine Linkweb site
AUGUST 30, 1999
Maritime Contract News
  • FirstWave/Newpark Lands Diamond Offshore Job
Breaking News
  • P&O Buys Stake In Indian Container Terminal
  • Thai Prime Minister Denies Canal Reports
  • Hyundai Heavy Commissioned To Run Halla
  • Arctic Ice Build-Up Likely To Cause Shipping Disruptions
  • United States Marine Repair Promotes Dickinson

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FROM THE HOME PAGE
Signed the act for the rebalancing of the concession in chief of Venice Terminal Passengers
Venice
Spain : The aim is to "create a new normal", which is aimed strongly at an upper-middle customer segment, with the aim of creating a pole for luxury cruises in Venice, " he said.
In October, freight traffic in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Ligure
Genoa
Recorded increases of 2.5% and 21.9%, respectively. It continues the downturn of cruises in both scallops
Fincantieri has delivered the new cruise ship Viking Vela to Viking
Trieste / Los Angeles
Can accommodate 998 passengers
The government of Montenegro wants to bring the port of Adria back under state control
The government of Montenegro wants to bring the port of Adria back under state control
Podgorica
Will evaluate the possible acquisition of the majority stake in the Turkish Global Ports Holding
China's seaports handled record cargo traffic for October
China's seaports handled record cargo traffic for October
Beijing
Containers amounted to over 24.4 million TEU (+6.2%)
Stable the traffic of goods in the port of La Spezia in the period of July-September
Stable the traffic of goods in the port of La Spezia in the period of July-September
The Spezia
Marina di Carrara has been recorded a decrease of -15.6%
At Spezia they don't want a president of the AdSP "parachuted"
The Spezia
They ask for a president "plug & play" able to deal with the problems right away
Defined the location in the port of Gioia Tauro of the construction site for the bridge over the Strait of Messina
Joy Tauro
The OYAK and OIA funds will invest in the Turkish port of Iskenderun
The OYAK and OIA funds will invest in the Turkish port of Iskenderun
Ankara
Expected the realization of a terminal container
T&E calls for EU measures to limit ship speed and greater use of wind propulsion
Brussels
Summary complaint of the organization on the progress made by the shipping industry for decarbonisation
To extend the customs corridor to goods in export and on transhipment in the port of Spezia
The Spezia
He was speaking at a meeting between the AdSP and the Customs Agency.
After Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd also initiates an agreement with Chinese Goldwind for supplies of green methanol
Messina (Assshipowners) : yes to the environmentalist push, but the timing and the ways are wrong
Rome
Local, often untimely, local norms have the only effect of moving traffics out of the Old Continent.
Port of Ravenna, final visit of the EU representative to the project "Ravenna Port Hub : Infrastructural Works"
Ravenna
The European contribution has been more than 30 million euros.
In 2023, the performance of road and rail transport services fell in Switzerland.
Neuchâtel
Modal shares remained unchanged
New intermodal service Melzo-Marcianise of Hannibal
Melzo
Two weekly rotations that from the first quarter will rise to three
PSA and Evergreen to jointly operate container terminal in Singapore
PSA and Evergreen to jointly operate container terminal in Singapore
Singapore
The new company will become operational by the end of 2024
In the third quarter economic growth of trade in goods and services of G20
In the third quarter economic growth of trade in goods and services of G20
Paris
Down the value of goods to and from China
Omanita group Asyad will manage the port of al-Suwayq for 40 years
Muscat
The expansion of the stairway and the construction of a quay
The Companies inform
Accelleron initiates partnership with Geislinger to expand service business in the Mediterranean region
Memorandum of Understanding for the creation of an intermodal terminal in Budapest
Astana
A delegation of the Kazakh KTZ Express to the port of Rijeka
The BIMCO has adopted the FuelEU Maritime Clause
Copenhagen
The European regulation will enter into force next January.
Kenon Holdings (Idan Ofer) announces the next exit from the capital of ZIM
Singapore
Currently owns 19.8 million shares
NIM and EH Group will develop hydrogen fuel cell technologies for shipping
In the third quarter of 2024 the traffic of goods in the port of Tanger Med increased by 11%
Anjra
In the first nine months of the year, growth was 12% percent.
Project of the ovadese Vezzani to set up a terminal for the automotive in Porto Marghera
Venice
Filed for the release of a demanial concession for the quay ex Sirma
In the third quarter the port of Koper has handled 287,410 containers (+ 11.8%)
Koper
In the first nine months of 2024, it was 835,506 (+ 2.9%)
The Zephyr Group snaps up Singaporean Twinco and Germany's Carl Baguhn
The Spezia
The two companies operate in the area of spare parts and components for diesel and gas engines
Rixi, without the ETS review, European maritime fleets will continue to suffer a competitive disadvantage
Rome
According to the deputy minister, it is necessary to intervene at the root of the problem
PSA Italy continues in purchase of equipment for Marghera terminal
Genoa
Committed total value of 8.5 million euros for three rubber-tyred gantry crane electric
Corsica Sardinia Ferries in search of navigating personnel
Go Ligure
The wanted profiles are different, for machine areas, room and kitchen
Agreement for the digital integration of the FS and AdSP Polo Logistics systems of the Western Liguria
Genoa
New Oriental Mediterranean Service-Adriatic via Malta of CMA CGM
Marseille
Will have a weekly frequency
Brussels to give state aid for 1.9 billion euros to German railway company DB Cargo
Brussels
Renewed the Governing Council of Wista Italy
Milan
Constancy Musso confirmed president
Maersk completes orders to three shipyards for 20 new container ships
Copenhagen
In Yangzijiang Shipbuilding committed for six 17,000 teu ships and two from 9,000 teu. At Hanwha Ocean and New Times Shipbuilding ordered six units from 15,000 teu each
Biagio Mazzotta assumes the post of Vice-President of the Federation of the Sea
Rome
President of Assonave will be running for vice president of ENMC
ESPO calls on the new EU Commission to maintain and strengthen the CEF programme
Brussels
The exhortation is also to better adapt it to the needs of ports and their stakeholders
The agreement on training between the AdSP of the Tirreno Centre Northern, the ITS Academy, " G. Caboto " and the European Escola
Cyvitavecchia
Consultation on the extension of the UK ETS to the maritime sector
London
Shipping would be included since 2026
MSC completes acquisition of a minority stake in HHLA
Hamburg
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
ONE acquires a stake in Jakarta's NPCT1 terminal container
Singapore
It has a traffic capacity of 1.5 million teu per year
Transped orders a mobile crane Konecranes Gottwald for its Porto Marghera terminal
Helsinki
It will be taken in delivery in the second quarter of next year
Dutch Raben Group and Swiss elvetica Sieber Transport make up a joint venture
Oss / Berneck
It will detect the Swiss company's groupage transport activity
Dachser & Fercam Italia has opened a new branch in Arezzo
Bolzano
Three thousand square meters of operational surface area and 400 of offices
Fincantieri initiates agreement with SIMEST for the growth of watermark businesses
Milan / Trieste
Conference for the 30 th birthday of WISTA Italy
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow at Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa
Approved the Plan of the Organic Ports of Sardinia
Cagliari
There are 938 workers in the 36 enterprises operating in the scallots
Saipem has awarded an EPCI offshore contract from BP in Indonesia
Milan
Container ship charterer MPCC's revenues fell by -28% in the third quarter
Oslo
Fermerci reports delays and cuts to incentives for rail freight transport
Rome
Paper: Real risk of losing 115 million euros
In the third quarter, traffic in shipping containers of Moroccan Marsa Maroc increased by 5% percent.
Casablanca
Exhaustion of the growth of transshipment volumes
At Samsung Heavy Industries orders for the construction of four 16,000-teu container carriers
Busan
Commits the value of about 781 million
Eni-MSC agreement in the field of sustainability and energy transition
San Donato Milanese
It was subscribed by Claudio Descalzi and Diego Aponte
The Grimaldi terminal in the port of Barcelona has been equipped with Onshore Power Supply
Barcelona
It will become operational in January
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
Conference for the 30 th birthday of WISTA Italy
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow at Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa
Conference of the CNEL on the Sustainability of Maritime Transport
Rome
It will be held on November 27 in Rome
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
North Korean tankers transport over one million barrels of oil from Russia
(NK News)
Sudan govt scraps $6bn Red Sea port deal with UAE
(The North Africa Post)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
South Korea's HJSC adjusts a salesperson for four new 7,900-teu container ships
Busan
Rolf Westfal-Larsen Jr. has been elected president of Intertanko
London
Undergoes to Paolo d' Amico
COSCO and SIPG will acquire 10% each of the capital of SAIC Anji Logistics
Shanghai
They will participate in the capital increase of the logistics company of SAIC Motor
AD Ports continues in its investment campaign in Egypt
Cairo / Abu Dhabi
Agreement to realize an industrial area of 20 square kilometers in East Port Said
Dimitri Serafimoff has been elected as the new president of CLECAT
Dimitri Serafimoff has been elected as the new president of CLECAT
Brussels
He will also retain the presidency of the CLECAT Customs Institute
Ok of the Rovigo Tribunal to the Restructuring Plan of Shipbuilding Victory plan
Adria
On the completion of the sale of the company to CNV Srl
Port of Ancona, in 2023, underlines the AdSP-container traffic grew by 5%
Ancona
The Port Authority disputes the data released by the Fedespedi Studies Center
Mr vard will build five support ships in the offshore industry.
Trieste
Designed to accommodate up to 190 people, they will be carried out in Vietnam
Alpe Adria activates new rail service between the port of Trieste and the Malpensa Intermodal terminal in Sacconago
Trieste
Euroseas order in China the construction of two 4,300-teu feeder container
Athens
Quarterly revenue from rentals inj growth of 5.8%
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