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New S'pore terminal chalks up record vessel rate
Pasir Panjang Terminal achieves rate of 203 containers per hour on Evergreen vessel
Shippers warned of new trend in stowaway trade
Japan to seek joint patrols of Malacca Strait
Ship sales
Arguments over ships' age continue

Air and Land Transport

Asian air show opens with high-power talks
Air force chiefs from 60 nations will discuss military strategies, aviation security and safety
Qantas sees need to boost investor confidence as share price stays low
Flights at Jakarta airport delayed by protesters
Boeing loses option on US$1.3b contract
Boeing introduces wing extensions as option for 737-800 aircraft

Logistics

Sparkling news for wine logistics providers

Columns

Hapag-Lloyd hints strongly it wants to remain independent

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Shipping News

New S'pore terminal chalks up record vessel rate
Pasir Panjang Terminal achieves rate of 203 containers per hour on Evergreen vessel
Shippers warned of new trend in stowaway trade
Japan to seek joint patrols of Malacca Strait
Ship sales
Arguments over ships' age continue

Air and Land Transport

Asian air show opens with high-power talks
Air force chiefs from 60 nations will discuss military strategies, aviation security and safety
Qantas sees need to boost investor confidence as share price stays low
Flights at Jakarta airport delayed by protesters
Boeing loses option on US$1.3b contract
Boeing introduces wing extensions as option for 737-800 aircraft

Logistics

Sparkling news for wine logistics providers

Columns

Hapag-Lloyd hints strongly it wants to remain independent

web site

Shipping News

New S'pore terminal chalks up record vessel rate
Pasir Panjang Terminal achieves rate of 203 containers per hour on Evergreen vessel
Shippers warned of new trend in stowaway trade
Japan to seek joint patrols of Malacca Strait
Ship sales
Arguments over ships' age continue

Air and Land Transport

Asian air show opens with high-power talks
Air force chiefs from 60 nations will discuss military strategies, aviation security and safety
Qantas sees need to boost investor confidence as share price stays low
Flights at Jakarta airport delayed by protesters
Boeing loses option on US$1.3b contract
Boeing introduces wing extensions as option for 737-800 aircraft

Logistics

Sparkling news for wine logistics providers

Columns

Hapag-Lloyd hints strongly it wants to remain independent

web site

Shipping News

New S'pore terminal chalks up record vessel rate
Pasir Panjang Terminal achieves rate of 203 containers per hour on Evergreen vessel
Shippers warned of new trend in stowaway trade
Japan to seek joint patrols of Malacca Strait
Ship sales
Arguments over ships' age continue

Air and Land Transport

Asian air show opens with high-power talks
Air force chiefs from 60 nations will discuss military strategies, aviation security and safety
Qantas sees need to boost investor confidence as share price stays low
Flights at Jakarta airport delayed by protesters
Boeing loses option on US$1.3b contract
Boeing introduces wing extensions as option for 737-800 aircraft

Logistics

Sparkling news for wine logistics providers

Columns

Hapag-Lloyd hints strongly it wants to remain independent

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000
FedEx in trading place with acquisition of Tower Group SAS to purchase 12 Airbus A321 TPG in test with e-fulfillment system LSXS.com launch in Spain, Portugal OOCL with Intra-Asia Network linkage with Japan Neopost Online spin-off for online mailing and shipping

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FEBRUARY 19, 2000
Leif Hoegh Posts $36 Million Net Loss for 1999 Truckers Strike in Florida Enters Second Week New Box Terminal to Be Built in Mindanao PSA Corp.'s China Venture Scores Record Box Volume FedEx Announces Acquisition of Tower Group

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CII calls for fresh look at Railways BOLT norms SCI commences coastal service from Pipavav First ISO-tank container cleared at ICD-Dashrath Leather fair at Chennai, a success story Global Network trade team clinches good orders from Bangladesh CLP, Tata Electric come together for Mangalore power project Swissair enters pact for bonded trucking India signs taxation protocol with Switzerland Major Ports' projects attract higher RoR TAS begins service from Chennai TPT celebrates Productivity Week Imported sugar brought under levy obligation US urges India to lift soda ash embargo Ficci survey upbeat on growth prospects Handicrafts fair generates Rs 700 crore business Keel laid for bollard tug for Chennai ECU-Line offers direct services to Turkey CLRI knowhow kindles US interest India, China JBC meet tomorrow

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000
Saudi Oil minister sees crude at USD 25 "soon" Shell not ruling out Big M&A activity Philadelphia, Baltimore and Norfolk barge tariffs up 1st March USWC market snapshot 60 ships waiting at Houston Latin America market commentary

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000
Merger will create world's largest chemical tanker fleet Odfjell ASA and Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises Ltd., the owner of Seachem, today said they have agreed to unite their respective chemical logistics assets to create the world's largest owner and operator of chemical tanker tonnage. Destiny incident underscores cruise ship evacuation concerns The problems experienced by the Carnival Destiny earlier this week are likely to add to demands that the sheer number of passengers and crews carried by today's largest cruise ships mean that SOLAS should be reexamined. Carnival in massive flag switch Carnival, , is in process of changing the registry of all fifteen of its "fun ships." Warnow yard wins two newbuilding contracts worth $62 million Kvaerner's Warnow shipyard in Germany has received ordersfor the construction of two container vessels of the WARNOW CV 2500 design. Navy awards LPD 19 Litton Avondale Industries, a division of Litton Industries has announced that the U.S. Navy has exercised an option for the construction of LPD 19, valued at $491.9 million.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000
Grimaldi, 1.200 mld verso le rotte del Sud America Dieci nuove navi per la flotta del 2001 La costruzione della struttura favorirebbe il futuro diportistico dello scalo Civitavecchia, bacino di carenaggio Il federalismo approda in banchina

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Eurogate set to run Jade-Port Major container handling company Eurogate will operate Jade-Port, Germany's new giant deepwater container terminal at Wilhelmshaven. Aurora P&O's newest cruise vessel, the 76,000gt Aurora glides along a small canal towards the River Ems after floating out from the Mayer Werft yard in Papenburg. The 270m cruiseship is destined for Eemshaven in the Netherlands and will be delivered to her owner in April. (Monday February 21 2000) Det Norkse Veritas battles static profits DET Norske Veritas shrugged off a tough third quarter and unveiled an annual 1999 net profit of NKr208m ($26m), the same level as a year ago. CGU to merge with Norwich Union LONDON'S insurance market is poised for further consolidation when leading marine insurer CGU today announces a plan to merge with Norwich Union. Trieste and Koper plan integration move A proposal to integrate neighbouring ports in Italy and Slovenia is set to test European and international law. Coeclerici venture to aid Indian coal market ITALY'S Coeclerici Logistics and India's South India Corporation Agencies are to today unveil Sical Coeclerici Logistics, a 50-50 joint venture aiming to offer wholly integrated logistics solutions for coal and raw materials in India, writes Giovanni Paci, Milan. Odfjell purchase echoes energy mega-mergers SHIPPING'S consolidation bandwagon rolls on. Seized tankers sold in Emirates TWO ships seized by the US Navy in the Gulf last month for smuggling Iraqi oil were auctioned yesterday in the United Arab Emirates.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000
Odfjell and Seachem merge chemical tankers Cenargo to throw lifeline to AESA yard Far Eastern Silo ready to quit shipping Mercosul Line tension mounts Collision in eastern Med Erika pumping operations to start in April LR appoints director as chief executive walks out Tug crews threaten to disrupt Gioia Tauro Exmar has plans for LNG spot pool Fears grow over Venezuelan port privatisation ITF inspectors to meet in Manila Japanese gas shake-up could boost LNG Hong Kong sets up arbitration group Trieste and Koper sign letter of co-operation Korean shipyard workforce shrinks Pay talks for Japanese shipyard workers Kanchenjunga to be converted to FSU Chilean key in Mercosur expansion New marine engine oil additive launched

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FEBRUARY 19, 2000

Home

Panalpina quits IATA's Cargo 2000 initiative
Average pay for dockers tops $100,000
Teamsters rally at U.S. ports
Gerling Global Reinsurance adds ocean marine underwriting division
Marex.com gets $30 million private placement
Massport sets forum on Maersk/Sea-Land linkup
Northeast trade conference slated for April
UN conference crafts trade plan for poor nations

Transportation

Firms vie to book air cargo
IANA examines responsibility for equipment
Information systems to be discussed
Teamsters win: UPS must create 2,000 full-time jobs in 90 days

Maritime

Requirements relaxed for West Coast docker jobs
Approval of harbor maintenance tax unlikely this year
Carrier to launch service to Manzanillo

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FEBRUARY 19, 2000

Home

Panalpina quits IATA's Cargo 2000 initiative
Average pay for dockers tops $100,000
Teamsters rally at U.S. ports
Gerling Global Reinsurance adds ocean marine underwriting division
Marex.com gets $30 million private placement
Massport sets forum on Maersk/Sea-Land linkup
Northeast trade conference slated for April
UN conference crafts trade plan for poor nations

Transportation

Firms vie to book air cargo
IANA examines responsibility for equipment
Information systems to be discussed
Teamsters win: UPS must create 2,000 full-time jobs in 90 days

Maritime

Requirements relaxed for West Coast docker jobs
Approval of harbor maintenance tax unlikely this year
Carrier to launch service to Manzanillo

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FEBRUARY 19, 2000

Home

Panalpina quits IATA's Cargo 2000 initiative
Average pay for dockers tops $100,000
Teamsters rally at U.S. ports
Gerling Global Reinsurance adds ocean marine underwriting division
Marex.com gets $30 million private placement
Massport sets forum on Maersk/Sea-Land linkup
Northeast trade conference slated for April
UN conference crafts trade plan for poor nations

Transportation

Firms vie to book air cargo
IANA examines responsibility for equipment
Information systems to be discussed
Teamsters win: UPS must create 2,000 full-time jobs in 90 days

Maritime

Requirements relaxed for West Coast docker jobs
Approval of harbor maintenance tax unlikely this year
Carrier to launch service to Manzanillo

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000

Tabletalk

SwissGlobalCargo integrates "hard" freight. Herbert H. Grissemann talks to ITJ about the new "integrated airfreight" product being launched by SwissGlobalCargo in April.

Maritime

Internet conquers the seas. With the increasing use of the Internet, a shipping's ability co compete depends more and more on its competence in this field.
Freight is becoming more and more important for TT-Line of Hamburg.
Calendar of events: Global 2000, London; Marilog, Hamburg; IICL reefer course, Valparaiso (Chile).
Contship and SCI announce the first departure in their Indamex service, with CMA CGM as slotcharterer.
The Grand Alliance returns to ECT.
Westwood orders new vessels.

Ports and Terminals

Italian ports are mostly following the global trend with lower total cargo but higher box throughput.
Calendar of events: The Future of the Baltic Ports, Tallinn.
Will ICTSI abandon Rosario?

Aviation

The USA's seven biggest carriers. Megacarriers in the USA mostly had one-off items to thank for increased profits.
Mexicana offers three flights a week between Orlando FL and Cancun.
Austrian Airlines will boost flights to Delhi in May.
More trans-Atlantic flights by Lufthansa this summer.
LanChile Cargo flies Santiago, Buenos Aires, Houston.
United Airlines nonstop to Frankfurt, every day.
UPS chalks up new record profits and revenues for 1999.
Kintetsu World Express restructures its organisation in the Americas.
Open skies for the US and Namibia.
World Airways is still in the red.

Forwarding and Logistics

With the coming into force of Incoterms 2000 this year, particular care has to be taken with cargo insurance for CIF and CIP shipments.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000

Tabletalk

SwissGlobalCargo integrates "hard" freight. Herbert H. Grissemann talks to ITJ about the new "integrated airfreight" product being launched by SwissGlobalCargo in April.

Maritime

Internet conquers the seas. With the increasing use of the Internet, a shipping's ability co compete depends more and more on its competence in this field.
Freight is becoming more and more important for TT-Line of Hamburg.
Calendar of events: Global 2000, London; Marilog, Hamburg; IICL reefer course, Valparaiso (Chile).
Contship and SCI announce the first departure in their Indamex service, with CMA CGM as slotcharterer.
The Grand Alliance returns to ECT.
Westwood orders new vessels.

Ports and Terminals

Italian ports are mostly following the global trend with lower total cargo but higher box throughput.
Calendar of events: The Future of the Baltic Ports, Tallinn.
Will ICTSI abandon Rosario?

Aviation

The USA's seven biggest carriers. Megacarriers in the USA mostly had one-off items to thank for increased profits.
Mexicana offers three flights a week between Orlando FL and Cancun.
Austrian Airlines will boost flights to Delhi in May.
More trans-Atlantic flights by Lufthansa this summer.
LanChile Cargo flies Santiago, Buenos Aires, Houston.
United Airlines nonstop to Frankfurt, every day.
UPS chalks up new record profits and revenues for 1999.
Kintetsu World Express restructures its organisation in the Americas.
Open skies for the US and Namibia.
World Airways is still in the red.

Forwarding and Logistics

With the coming into force of Incoterms 2000 this year, particular care has to be taken with cargo insurance for CIF and CIP shipments.

web site

FEBRUARY 18, 2000

Tabletalk

SwissGlobalCargo integrates "hard" freight. Herbert H. Grissemann talks to ITJ about the new "integrated airfreight" product being launched by SwissGlobalCargo in April.

Maritime

Internet conquers the seas. With the increasing use of the Internet, a shipping's ability co compete depends more and more on its competence in this field.
Freight is becoming more and more important for TT-Line of Hamburg.
Calendar of events: Global 2000, London; Marilog, Hamburg; IICL reefer course, Valparaiso (Chile).
Contship and SCI announce the first departure in their Indamex service, with CMA CGM as slotcharterer.
The Grand Alliance returns to ECT.
Westwood orders new vessels.

Ports and Terminals

Italian ports are mostly following the global trend with lower total cargo but higher box throughput.
Calendar of events: The Future of the Baltic Ports, Tallinn.
Will ICTSI abandon Rosario?

Aviation

The USA's seven biggest carriers. Megacarriers in the USA mostly had one-off items to thank for increased profits.
Mexicana offers three flights a week between Orlando FL and Cancun.
Austrian Airlines will boost flights to Delhi in May.
More trans-Atlantic flights by Lufthansa this summer.
LanChile Cargo flies Santiago, Buenos Aires, Houston.
United Airlines nonstop to Frankfurt, every day.
UPS chalks up new record profits and revenues for 1999.
Kintetsu World Express restructures its organisation in the Americas.
Open skies for the US and Namibia.
World Airways is still in the red.

Forwarding and Logistics

With the coming into force of Incoterms 2000 this year, particular care has to be taken with cargo insurance for CIF and CIP shipments.

web site

FEBRUARY 18, 2000

Tabletalk

SwissGlobalCargo integrates "hard" freight. Herbert H. Grissemann talks to ITJ about the new "integrated airfreight" product being launched by SwissGlobalCargo in April.

Maritime

Internet conquers the seas. With the increasing use of the Internet, a shipping's ability co compete depends more and more on its competence in this field.
Freight is becoming more and more important for TT-Line of Hamburg.
Calendar of events: Global 2000, London; Marilog, Hamburg; IICL reefer course, Valparaiso (Chile).
Contship and SCI announce the first departure in their Indamex service, with CMA CGM as slotcharterer.
The Grand Alliance returns to ECT.
Westwood orders new vessels.

Ports and Terminals

Italian ports are mostly following the global trend with lower total cargo but higher box throughput.
Calendar of events: The Future of the Baltic Ports, Tallinn.
Will ICTSI abandon Rosario?

Aviation

The USA's seven biggest carriers. Megacarriers in the USA mostly had one-off items to thank for increased profits.
Mexicana offers three flights a week between Orlando FL and Cancun.
Austrian Airlines will boost flights to Delhi in May.
More trans-Atlantic flights by Lufthansa this summer.
LanChile Cargo flies Santiago, Buenos Aires, Houston.
United Airlines nonstop to Frankfurt, every day.
UPS chalks up new record profits and revenues for 1999.
Kintetsu World Express restructures its organisation in the Americas.
Open skies for the US and Namibia.
World Airways is still in the red.

Forwarding and Logistics

With the coming into force of Incoterms 2000 this year, particular care has to be taken with cargo insurance for CIF and CIP shipments.

web site

FEBRUARY 18, 2000

Tabletalk

SwissGlobalCargo integrates "hard" freight. Herbert H. Grissemann talks to ITJ about the new "integrated airfreight" product being launched by SwissGlobalCargo in April.

Maritime

Internet conquers the seas. With the increasing use of the Internet, a shipping's ability co compete depends more and more on its competence in this field.
Freight is becoming more and more important for TT-Line of Hamburg.
Calendar of events: Global 2000, London; Marilog, Hamburg; IICL reefer course, Valparaiso (Chile).
Contship and SCI announce the first departure in their Indamex service, with CMA CGM as slotcharterer.
The Grand Alliance returns to ECT.
Westwood orders new vessels.

Ports and Terminals

Italian ports are mostly following the global trend with lower total cargo but higher box throughput.
Calendar of events: The Future of the Baltic Ports, Tallinn.
Will ICTSI abandon Rosario?

Aviation

The USA's seven biggest carriers. Megacarriers in the USA mostly had one-off items to thank for increased profits.
Mexicana offers three flights a week between Orlando FL and Cancun.
Austrian Airlines will boost flights to Delhi in May.
More trans-Atlantic flights by Lufthansa this summer.
LanChile Cargo flies Santiago, Buenos Aires, Houston.
United Airlines nonstop to Frankfurt, every day.
UPS chalks up new record profits and revenues for 1999.
Kintetsu World Express restructures its organisation in the Americas.
Open skies for the US and Namibia.
World Airways is still in the red.

Forwarding and Logistics

With the coming into force of Incoterms 2000 this year, particular care has to be taken with cargo insurance for CIF and CIP shipments.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2000
Madras held accountable THE TRAGIC sinking of the Capesize bulker Mineral Dampier five years ago, which cost the lives of all 27 crew members on board, has been blamed largely on the ship that struck it and the poor judgment of one of its officers. Greeks drop Marsh at P&I renewal Malaysians tighten grip Far Eastern box brawn Top broker forced out Vela testing yard prices Bondholder takes aim Casualties Detentions