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December 4, 2000
Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Govts urged to facilitate landing of stowaways
    [SINGAPORE] The Asian Ship Owners' Forum (ASF) has called on governments to adopt international conventions that would facilitate the landing of stowaways at the first port of call. It urged states to agree and adopt international conventions to "facilitate the landing of stowaways at the first, even intermediary, port of call."
  • Colombo port considers box terminal project
  • Ship collision in SW China kills nine
  • Ship sales
Air and Land Transport
  • Airbus ready to launch A3XX before year-end
    [PARIS] Airbus Industrie's ambitious project to build the world's largest passenger plane is ready to be officially launched before the end of the year, the company's chief executive said in an interview.
  • Boeing rules out development of rival to Airbus superjumbo
  • Cathay to add 11 new planes by end '01
  • Pilots rope in financiers for Air India stake
  • UK, US planes in near mid-air collision
  • Northwest Air's court order against mechanics extended
Features
  • On the world's top 10 list
    CHINA's southern Port of Shenzhen near Hongkong expects to handle the equivalent of 4 million 20-foot containers (TEUs) this year, which would put it among the world's 10 busiest box gateways.

Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Govts urged to facilitate landing of stowaways
    [SINGAPORE] The Asian Ship Owners' Forum (ASF) has called on governments to adopt international conventions that would facilitate the landing of stowaways at the first port of call. It urged states to agree and adopt international conventions to "facilitate the landing of stowaways at the first, even intermediary, port of call."
  • Colombo port considers box terminal project
  • Ship collision in SW China kills nine
  • Ship sales
Air and Land Transport
  • Airbus ready to launch A3XX before year-end
    [PARIS] Airbus Industrie's ambitious project to build the world's largest passenger plane is ready to be officially launched before the end of the year, the company's chief executive said in an interview.
  • Boeing rules out development of rival to Airbus superjumbo
  • Cathay to add 11 new planes by end '01
  • Pilots rope in financiers for Air India stake
  • UK, US planes in near mid-air collision
  • Northwest Air's court order against mechanics extended
Features
  • On the world's top 10 list
    CHINA's southern Port of Shenzhen near Hongkong expects to handle the equivalent of 4 million 20-foot containers (TEUs) this year, which would put it among the world's 10 busiest box gateways.

Shipping Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Govts urged to facilitate landing of stowaways
    [SINGAPORE] The Asian Ship Owners' Forum (ASF) has called on governments to adopt international conventions that would facilitate the landing of stowaways at the first port of call. It urged states to agree and adopt international conventions to "facilitate the landing of stowaways at the first, even intermediary, port of call."
  • Colombo port considers box terminal project
  • Ship collision in SW China kills nine
  • Ship sales
Air and Land Transport
  • Airbus ready to launch A3XX before year-end
    [PARIS] Airbus Industrie's ambitious project to build the world's largest passenger plane is ready to be officially launched before the end of the year, the company's chief executive said in an interview.
  • Boeing rules out development of rival to Airbus superjumbo
  • Cathay to add 11 new planes by end '01
  • Pilots rope in financiers for Air India stake
  • UK, US planes in near mid-air collision
  • Northwest Air's court order against mechanics extended
Features
  • On the world's top 10 list
    CHINA's southern Port of Shenzhen near Hongkong expects to handle the equivalent of 4 million 20-foot containers (TEUs) this year, which would put it among the world's 10 busiest box gateways.

The Journal of Commerceweb site
  • Customs says agreement needed by spring for ACE release
    Customs officials said the agency and trade community will have to agree soon on the fundamentals of automated entry processing if the industry is to get the earliest full benefit from the new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).
  • Terminal at Malaysia's Port Kelang tops 1 million TEUs
    Kelang Container Terminal has become the country's first terminal to reach that milestone. The port, which serves the capital, Kuala Lumpur, ranks 14th in the world and is aiming for top 10 status.
  • The $360 billion question
    A commission's review of the U.S. trade deficit is sowing the seeds for a new trade policy debate.
  • CargoReservations.com books first transaction
  • Menzies acquires Ogden ground unit
  • FedEx Logistics president McCarty to retire May 31
  • TNT to use IMI supply-chain software
  • FMC denies Houston bid to collect legal fees
  • Bush? Gore? Ryder TRS clear winner in ballot fight
  • Lloyd Triestino names Adriamar Shipping sub-agent
  • ABN AMRO, UPS Capital in trade services deal
  • Malaysia, Indonesia link customs electronically
  • CP Ships aims to become fourth largest shipping company

Sched Netweb site
  • Full steam ahead for P&ON
  • Barwil expansion in Middle East
  • New Zim office in Vancouver
  • Airborne picks Bell & Howell
  • BA partners with iXL
  • NWA and KLM play medicine men in Nigeria

Cargowebweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
  • P&O Nedlloyd invests in ports
  • Wisconsin Central to leave UK market
  • Medium sized German forwarders join forces
  • Air France to buy freighters
  • Airline employees arrested in Canada

Exim Indiaweb site
  • Shipowners seek tax incentives to compete globally
  • Bengal bid to boost services sector exports
  • Exports to US up by over 21 pc in April-July
  • Minister lists steps to promote steel export
  • Top apparel exporters, service providers felicitated - DHL-CIAe host glittering awards ceremony
  • Exports up by 20.5 pc in April-October
  • Indo Gulf gets clearance for ally in Dahej port
  • NMPT to invite global bids for box terminal
  • Ports' corporatisation requires Act amendments: Law Ministry
  • 30 pc subsidy scheme on shipbuilding orders evolved
  • Power Bill proposes sweeping changes
  • Biotechnology sector 'holds vast promise'
  • Accelerated power scheme for States approved
  • Lok Sabha okays statutory status to Central Road Fund
  • Chennai Container Terminal's FDI plan among 106 cleared
  • L&T, GAIL join hands for several projects
  • IMC to announce Bajaj Awards, Juran Medal on Dec. 6
  • Qantas ordering super-jumbos
  • JAL places $ 1.6-bn Boeing order
  • Management changes at Lufthansa Cargo
  • BA World Cargo launches new website
  • New HQ for FedEx
  • Brussels plans to ban air fare cartel

The Bunker Bulletinweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
  • Brazil bunker prices
  • Crude oil rises as Iraqi oil stoppage is confirmed
  • US will cover any shortfall in supplies
  • Prices seen at lower levels in the US Gulf
  • Avails improved in New York
  • Halifax: IFO resupply expected mid December
  • Sluggish demand in Vancouver
  • Avails good in Los Angeles and San Francisco
  • Slow demand in Portland
  • Some tight avails in Cristobal
  • Short term congestion in Ecuador

International Transport Journalweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
  • Leo Transport rewarded ISO 9002 in its 10th year of operation
  • IAS appoints Jim Poon as advisory
  • Ecu-Line to Namibia
  • Lykes Lines opens office in Taiwan
  • Transpetrol successful
  • Cargo by tram
  • ACI between Spain and Great Britain
  • Double rotation, double capacity
  • KLM's CSC to be sold
  • Singapore still recovering from shock
  • Five 3200-TEU ships for CP Ships
  • Maersk Sealand partners with Merit Gemicilik
  • Korean orders two B747-400Fs

Marine Logweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
  • Ocean Rig and FGH in Bingo cooperation pact
    Ocean Rig ASA and Friede Goldman Halter, Inc. have executed a cooperation agreement on the completion and delivery of Ocean Rig's Bingo 9000-1 and Bingo 9000-2 offshore drilling rigs.
  • Peter Swift new INTERTANKO Managing Director
    INTERTANKO, the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, announced yesterday that Dr. Peter Swift (55) has been appointed its new managing director.
  • Rolls-Royce wins $143 million marine contracts
    Rolls-Royce has won ship design and equipment supply contracts for offshore service and cable-laying vessels, worth approximately 100 million pounds sterling (around $143 million) over the last three months.

World Wide Shipperweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
  • James Harmon is keynote speaker at World Trade Center Tacoma event
  • Port Seattle plans to hire group for land environmental evaluations
  • Port Tacoma seeks contractor for Washington United Terminal project
  • Sea-Tac spends $15 million for apron pavement replacement
  • Port Vancouver, USA budgets $19 million for capital investments in fiscal year 2001

Traffic Worldweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
  • McCarty to Leave FedEx
  • AA, United Join Same-Day Race
  • NY&NJ gets help from Europe
  • STB denies IP&L request
  • FMCSA: More CDL oversight needed
  • Sailing Into Cyberspace

Lloyd's Listweb site
  • Iraq oil exports halt to test tanker rates
    IRAQ'S decision to block oil exports unless buyers pay a surcharge will put the tanker market to the test this week as owners and charterers digest the implications of the suspension.
  • Rina drops tenth of its classed fleet in post-Erika clear-out
    NEARLY 200 ships, or about 10% of the Rina-classed fleet, have been judged to be substandard by the Italian classification society in the wake of the Erika disaster.
  • Ocean Rig agrees to waive $12m yard debt
    OSLO-listed Ocean Rig has agreed to forego penalties worth nearly $12m due from US shipbuilder Friede Goldman Halter. The gesture designed to immunise itself from change claims from the shipyard as well as speed up the deliveries of the two Bingo deepwater rigs being outfitted at Friede Goldman Halter's Mississippi shipyard.
  • Costa row forces Cammell credit review
    CAMMELL Laird, Europe's largest shiprepair and conversion group, is in danger of having its credit rating downgraded following the eruption of an E80m contract dispute with Italian cruise company Costa Crociere.
  • Red Funnel sold to JP Morgan
    ASSOCIATED British Ports, the UK's largest port operator, has sold the Red Funnel Group, its Southampton-based ferry and towage business, to merchant bank JP Morgan International Capital Corporation for £71m ($101.5m).
  • Dutch and US firms set to win Kursk contract
    A CONTRACT to raise the stricken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk looks set to be awarded to a venture featuring Dutch companies Smit-Tak and Heerema and US engineering group Halliburton.
  • Workers ban asbestos imports
    WATERSIDE workers have announced a ban on imports of raw asbestos into Australia, which has lagged behind Western Europe in imposing official curbs.
  • Slow progress ahead for an industry in chaos
    MANY readers in Europe already know that the British rail industry is not holding up very well under the stress of events.

Fairplayweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
  • Aid delay inevitable, says EC
  • RCL lifts performance
  • France applauds EU safety measures
  • Red Funnel goes to JP Morgan
  • Chile offers new port concessions
  • Mississippi restrictions remain
  • Maasvlakte rail centre opens
  • Thai Petrochemicals strike ends
  • Philippine stevedore boss jailed
  • Hanjin signs up at Oakland
  • Ferry alert off UK coast
  • Cammell slumps on S&P warning
  • Fremantle tows Bunbury line
  • Calcutta appeals to keep Haldia
  • Chinese ports plan share offers
  • Vopak sells Indian terminals
  • Reef safety review ready mid-2001
  • Canadian plans Brazil sanctions

Marine Linkweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
Maritime Contract News
  • FGH And Ocean Rig Sign Cooperation Agreement
Breaking News
  • Tanker Grounding Renews Safety Calls
  • Latvian Shipping Given OK To Sell Refrigeration Fleet

Marine Linkweb site
DECEMBER 1, 2000
Maritime Contract News
  • FGH And Ocean Rig Sign Cooperation Agreement
Breaking News
  • Tanker Grounding Renews Safety Calls
  • Latvian Shipping Given OK To Sell Refrigeration Fleet

TradeWindsweb site
  • Fredriksen makes formal Osprey offer
    Fredriksen has made his formal offer for outstanding Osprey shares. But investors looking to make a packet will be disappointed.
  • Aframax rates to rise after Westchester spill
    Carribean aframax rates are set rise in the wake of the worst oil spill to hit the Mississippi in a decade.
  • Irish Sea hit by ferry breakdowns
    Traffic between the UK and Ireland was disrupted over the weekend after two Irish Sea ferries ran into trouble.
  • Readers comment on Osprey swoop
    Fredriksen is due to make his formal offer for Osprey next week, but what do TradeWinds readers think.
  • LISCO sale in jeopardy
    Dutch shipping group BB Bredo is set to pull out of its deal to buy Lithuanian Shipping Company.
  • JP Morgan pays $102m for Red Funnel
    UK ferry operator finds a new owner in US financial group but current management team to stay in place.
  • Piraeus mourns Flying Dolphins chief
    The Greek port city came to a standstill as the coffin of Pantelis Sfinias was taken to Athens for the funeral.
  • Canadians investigate Transpetrol tanker
    Owners of a tanker snared by anti-pollution forces in Canada say it was just a fire hydrant test.

›››File
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%)
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%
The Analysis of the Fedespea Studies Centre on economic and operational performance of Italian container terminals
Milan
GNV strengthens its business department with two nominees
Genoa
New business manager and new general manager of the company in Spain
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