EC and Korea sign shipbuilding agreement The European Commission and the Korean government yesterday initialed "Agreed Minutes relating to the World Shipbuilding Market." Korea seems to have made considerable concessions to avoid its shipbuildfing dispute with Europe being taken to the WTO (World Trade Organization).
New ownership for Davie Canada's largest shipyard, Davie Industries, Inc., Lévis, Québec, has now been acquired by a U.S. consortium composed of Syntek Technologies and Transational Capital Ventures.
Another HAL newbuilding order Carnival Corporation's Holland America Line has signed an agreement with Italy's Fincantieri Cantieri Navali S.p.A. for the construction of a fifth 84,000-ton vessel
Top carriers in Atlantic coup NEW World Alliance partners APL, Mitsui OSK Lines and Hyundai Merchant Marine are to co-operate with Maersk Sealand on the Atlantic in a landmark agreement that will have repercussions for the whole trade.
Samho lands suezmax quartet for Tsakos GREECE'S Tsakos group has signed a newbuilding deal for up to four suezmax tankers with South Korea's Samho Heavy Industries, continuing the owner's recent plunge into newbuildings.
Hamburg ship bank grows HAMBURGISCHE Landesbank, Germany's largest ship finance institution, said yesterday it had largely escaped being hit by the shipping crisis of the last two years.
Boskalis buys Portuguese rival DUTCH dredging group Royal Boskalis Westminster has bought a small dredging operation from the Portuguese government.
Ro-ro deal in Germany 'gibberish' SENIOR British shipbuilders have reacted with disbelief to a report that a German shipyard has undercut UK rivals by 50% in the chase for a Ministry of Defence ro-ro contract.
Kaedi in Le Havre The 1,743 teu boxship Kaedi is pictured in the port of Le Havre during her first call. The 26,288 dwt vessel is deployed in the Europe-West Africa container service of Otal. She was built in 1990 by Bremer Vulkan in Bremen as Arabian Senator.
Philippines plans oil spill clean-up levy PHILIPPINES lawmakers, angry over the release of the Neptune Orient Lines-owned NOL Schedar, are planning to pass a law requiring all oil tankers passing through Philippine waters to pay a fee which will go to the creation of an "environmental guarantee fund".
Neptune Orient head urges stand against TBT paint ban A SENIOR official from a top Asian shipping line has called for shipowners to take a united stand against proposed international certification for the ban on anti-fouling paints containing the toxic chemical tributyltin, writes Marcus Hand, Singapore.
Katoen Natie projette un centre logistique le long du "Zeekanaal" Dans le cadre du réseau fluvio-maritime que le groupe Katoen Natie entend développer, le groupe anversois projette de réaliser un terminal multifonctionnel le long du canal maritime en coopération avec un partenaire. Les négociations se trouveraient dans une phase décisive et devraient aboutir dans quelques semaines. Ni la nv Zeekanaal ni Katoen Natie n'ont désiré confirmer ou infirmer l'information.
Les résultats des armateurs rhénans et manutentionnaires bâlois sont meilleurs que ceux de leurs collègues de l'UE "La navigation rhénane suisse et les port de Bâle se portent relativement bien en ce début d'année. Mais pourraient se porter mieux encore." Tel est, pour l'essentiel, le message que délivre la Schweizerische Vereinigung für Schiffahrt und Hafenwirtschaft S.V.S. (Association suisse de Navigation et d'Economie portuaire) à Bâle. L'année écoulée (caractérisée notamment par un mois d'interruption du trafic en mai, suite aux hautes eaux), a été moyenne. Sans plus. Une conjoncture en nette reprise permet en revanche de réels espoirs pour 2000.
Marfret aborde le short sea ro-ro entre Boulogne et Folkestone L'armement familial marseillais Marfret, vient de faire son intrusion dans le secteur du short sea transmanche en prenant le contrôle de l'armement Falcon Sea Freight, qui assure depuis quelques années un service régulier ro/ro pur fret entre Boulogne et Folkestone. Sa prise de participation a porté sur 74% des parts, les 26% restants étant toujours détenus par le groupe Falcon Distribution. L'exploitation de la ligne est poursuivie, mais sous le nom de Falcon Marfreight.
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