Piracy attacks on global shipping up 40% in first half [SINGAPORE] World-wide pirate attacks on international shipping are up 40 per cent for the first half of the year over the same period last year with Indonesia once again topping the list.
Guangdong port gets 200m yuan investment
UK studying impact of wash waves
Air and Land Transport
Officials certain of events before crash but unable to link them [PARIS] Accident investigators discussed last week's crash of an Air France Concorde for the second day on Tuesday, after establishing four virtual certainties about the disaster but without establishing any definitive link between the events that doomed the supersonic aircraft.
Demand for Concorde services holding up: BA
Continental's top executives sign 5-year contracts
Delta creates executive personnel post
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Firms vie for European stake EUROPE has become the make-or-break market for the world's leading air express companies. As the industry's consolidation gains speed, a half-dozen top operators are trying to stake out positions. Europe's express, courier and parcel business is undergoing the same process of change that reshaped the US industry in the last decade.
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Asia transport sector backs landmark Sino-US trade pact TRANSPORT firms in Asia are weighing in behind the definitive US Senate vote on bestowing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) on China. The US Senate voted last week to proceed to debating the landmark Sino-US trade pact, putting the accord on track for expected approval in September.
Piracy attacks on global shipping up 40% in first half [SINGAPORE] World-wide pirate attacks on international shipping are up 40 per cent for the first half of the year over the same period last year with Indonesia once again topping the list.
Guangdong port gets 200m yuan investment
UK studying impact of wash waves
Air and Land Transport
Officials certain of events before crash but unable to link them [PARIS] Accident investigators discussed last week's crash of an Air France Concorde for the second day on Tuesday, after establishing four virtual certainties about the disaster but without establishing any definitive link between the events that doomed the supersonic aircraft.
Demand for Concorde services holding up: BA
Continental's top executives sign 5-year contracts
Delta creates executive personnel post
Log Book
Features
Firms vie for European stake EUROPE has become the make-or-break market for the world's leading air express companies. As the industry's consolidation gains speed, a half-dozen top operators are trying to stake out positions. Europe's express, courier and parcel business is undergoing the same process of change that reshaped the US industry in the last decade.
Logistics
Asia transport sector backs landmark Sino-US trade pact TRANSPORT firms in Asia are weighing in behind the definitive US Senate vote on bestowing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) on China. The US Senate voted last week to proceed to debating the landmark Sino-US trade pact, putting the accord on track for expected approval in September.
Piracy attacks on global shipping up 40% in first half [SINGAPORE] World-wide pirate attacks on international shipping are up 40 per cent for the first half of the year over the same period last year with Indonesia once again topping the list.
Guangdong port gets 200m yuan investment
UK studying impact of wash waves
Air and Land Transport
Officials certain of events before crash but unable to link them [PARIS] Accident investigators discussed last week's crash of an Air France Concorde for the second day on Tuesday, after establishing four virtual certainties about the disaster but without establishing any definitive link between the events that doomed the supersonic aircraft.
Demand for Concorde services holding up: BA
Continental's top executives sign 5-year contracts
Delta creates executive personnel post
Log Book
Features
Firms vie for European stake EUROPE has become the make-or-break market for the world's leading air express companies. As the industry's consolidation gains speed, a half-dozen top operators are trying to stake out positions. Europe's express, courier and parcel business is undergoing the same process of change that reshaped the US industry in the last decade.
Logistics
Asia transport sector backs landmark Sino-US trade pact TRANSPORT firms in Asia are weighing in behind the definitive US Senate vote on bestowing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) on China. The US Senate voted last week to proceed to debating the landmark Sino-US trade pact, putting the accord on track for expected approval in September.
Piracy attacks on global shipping up 40% in first half [SINGAPORE] World-wide pirate attacks on international shipping are up 40 per cent for the first half of the year over the same period last year with Indonesia once again topping the list.
Guangdong port gets 200m yuan investment
UK studying impact of wash waves
Air and Land Transport
Officials certain of events before crash but unable to link them [PARIS] Accident investigators discussed last week's crash of an Air France Concorde for the second day on Tuesday, after establishing four virtual certainties about the disaster but without establishing any definitive link between the events that doomed the supersonic aircraft.
Demand for Concorde services holding up: BA
Continental's top executives sign 5-year contracts
Delta creates executive personnel post
Log Book
Features
Firms vie for European stake EUROPE has become the make-or-break market for the world's leading air express companies. As the industry's consolidation gains speed, a half-dozen top operators are trying to stake out positions. Europe's express, courier and parcel business is undergoing the same process of change that reshaped the US industry in the last decade.
Logistics
Asia transport sector backs landmark Sino-US trade pact TRANSPORT firms in Asia are weighing in behind the definitive US Senate vote on bestowing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) on China. The US Senate voted last week to proceed to debating the landmark Sino-US trade pact, putting the accord on track for expected approval in September.
End of the line as Global Mariner sinks FORMER International Transport Workers Federation exhibition ship the Global Mariner has sunk in Venezuela's Matanzas harbour following a collision with ice strengthened multipurpose cargoship Atlantic Crusader.
Costa Crociere back in frame for Festival COSTA Crociere appears to be on the verge of entering new takeover talks with Festival Cruises following last month's failure of the proposed merger between P&O Cruise and Festival.
Gard earns surplus in tough year GARD has become the latest protection and indemnity provider to feel the heat of tough underwriting conditions - but has edged into surplus on the huge account that covers 89.8m gt of owned and chartered ships.
Defensive Storebrand doubles Kvaerner stake to 3.4% THE Aker Maritime-Kvaerner news machine yesterday kept rolling in Norway with a revelation that leading insurer Storebrand had nearly doubled its Kvaerner stake to 3.4%, while the public pension fund had increased its percentage marginally to 7.35%.
Cyprus 'sorry' for rustbucket CYPRUS' maritime administration has taken the unusual step of apologising for the state of a tanker under its flag after the vessel was described as "a floating nightmare" by officials in Cape Town where she is under detention.
Hellenic yard privatisation plan for 2001 GREECE is to press ahead with the privatisation of Hellenic Shipyards, the country's last state-controlled shipyard, with the stated intention of completing a sale by the first quarter of 2001, writes Nigel Lowry, Athens.
China yards revamp brings in flood of orders CHINESE shipbuilders saw their haul of newbuilding orders more than double in deadweight terms during the first half of 2000 compared to the corresponding period in 1999, according to London shipbroker Braemar.
Dibden Bay in fresh setback DIBDEN Bay, site of ABP's controversial planned container terminal near Southampton, has been included by the UK Countryside Agency within the draft boundary for the proposed New Forest national park.
Le secteur pétrolier veut lancer une bourse électronique d'affrètement fluvial Aux Pays-Bas, des sociétés actives dans le secteur pétrolier ont l'intention de créer une bourse électronique d'affrètement fluvial. A terme, le site serait développé en tant que système intégré pour l'activité fluviale, avec des liens vers d'autres sites Internet. Les promoteurs du projet estiment que "la bourse online révolutionnera la navigation rhénane traditionnelle".
P&O Trans European se développe en Espagne et au Royaume-Uni Ces dernières semaines, P&O Trans European a repris l'entreprise espagnole Transportes Internationales Marqueset et l'opérateur citernier britannique Forrestes. Le contrat avec la société de distribution italienne Rasimelli & Coletti a en outre été prolongé, de sorte qu'on peut parler d'une véritable percée en Europe du Sud. Pour couronner le tout, la filiale Ferrymasters a enlevé un contrat de transport de Thorn Lighting.
Spliethoff aligne sa nouvelle génération de multipurpose sur Anvers Escale remarquée ces jours-ci à Anvers à l'un des terminaux de Nova & Hessenatie Stevedoring du cargo-miltipurpose tweendecker "Schippersgracht" de 21.402 t.dw. (ou 1.025 TEU), que l'armement néerlandais Spliethoff aligne dans son service régulier conventionnel/breakbulk sur les Caraïbes et le nord de l'Amérique du Sud. Il s'agit de la première unité d'une série de 10, livrée en janvier 2000. Six sont déjà en service. Les quatre dernières devant être réceptionnées d'ici la fin de l'année. Normalement ce type de navire qui se distingue par deux grands sabords de charge à tribord, est aligné dans le cadre de transports inhérents à des contrats à long terme portant sur l'acheminement de papier de Finlande vers la côte Est des USA, le retour se faisant avec des cargaisons de pâte à papier. La venue à Anvers du "Schippersgracht", s'explique du fait que cette unité était libre et que le volume à destination des Caraïbes va croissant.
Anvers: l'installation portuaire de réception de déchets Marpobel est opérationnelle Depuis mardi, Marpobel, l'installation portuaire anversoise de réception de déchets d'exploitation des navires et des résidus de cargaison, est quasiment entièrement opérationnelle à l'extrême pointe de la quatrième darse portuaire, à hauteur du port 261. Seules les possibilités de dégazage et de rendre inerte font encore défaut, mais ces activités seraient assurées à partir de la mi-2001. Outres les flux de déchets liés aux navires, des déchets liquides provenant de l'industrie seront également traités dans l'installation. L'entreprise dispose en outre d'une installation de nettoyage pour poids-lourds et wagons-citernes.
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