120 bid for first Japanese port privatisation project [SINGAPORE] One of the first attempts to build a Japanese container port with private funds has brought about an overwhelming 120 bids, including several from foreign parties.
P&O Nedlloyd makes sharp turnaround
Batangas port project given to lowest bidder
Air and Land Transport
Sale optimistic of future as it orders more planes [SINGAPORE] Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale) is confident of a rosy future as it continues to add new aircraft to its portfolio.
S'pore aircraft leasing firm is one of IAE's top 5 customers
Sydney acts to improve airport before Olympics
Swissair threatens BA-KLM merger talks
First foreign flight lands at Baghdad airport
Air France to offer counselling to smokers
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Top Scandinavian owners report boost in revenue THREE "blue chip" Scandinavian shipping companies have announced good interim results, reflecting a general improvement in several sectors of the industry.
120 bid for first Japanese port privatisation project [SINGAPORE] One of the first attempts to build a Japanese container port with private funds has brought about an overwhelming 120 bids, including several from foreign parties.
P&O Nedlloyd makes sharp turnaround
Batangas port project given to lowest bidder
Air and Land Transport
Sale optimistic of future as it orders more planes [SINGAPORE] Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale) is confident of a rosy future as it continues to add new aircraft to its portfolio.
S'pore aircraft leasing firm is one of IAE's top 5 customers
Sydney acts to improve airport before Olympics
Swissair threatens BA-KLM merger talks
First foreign flight lands at Baghdad airport
Air France to offer counselling to smokers
Features
Top Scandinavian owners report boost in revenue THREE "blue chip" Scandinavian shipping companies have announced good interim results, reflecting a general improvement in several sectors of the industry.
120 bid for first Japanese port privatisation project [SINGAPORE] One of the first attempts to build a Japanese container port with private funds has brought about an overwhelming 120 bids, including several from foreign parties.
P&O Nedlloyd makes sharp turnaround
Batangas port project given to lowest bidder
Air and Land Transport
Sale optimistic of future as it orders more planes [SINGAPORE] Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale) is confident of a rosy future as it continues to add new aircraft to its portfolio.
S'pore aircraft leasing firm is one of IAE's top 5 customers
Sydney acts to improve airport before Olympics
Swissair threatens BA-KLM merger talks
First foreign flight lands at Baghdad airport
Air France to offer counselling to smokers
Features
Top Scandinavian owners report boost in revenue THREE "blue chip" Scandinavian shipping companies have announced good interim results, reflecting a general improvement in several sectors of the industry.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen sees future in ro-ro ship Versatile vessel is christened in Baltimore amid plans to increase use of port.
...and Crowley adds two ro-ro vessels to service Company says service between U.S. Gulf ports and Central America will increase capacity by 23%.
Peak problems ahead for trans-Pacific shippers? If peak season has started, can a squeeze on containers be far behind? Some say that is already happening and well ahead of schedule.
Hyundai quits reefers The maker of maritime containers will focus on auto parts manufacturing.
China wins aid for rail link Asian Development Bank is financing a $2.8 billion project linking the provinces of Anhui, Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi.
Ports become cool as private cash flows in A sexy business, ports are attracting the attention of Asian billionaires and aggressive equity fund managers
Consolidated Freightways opens Web site
TNT offers new critical bio-med products
Web-based supply chain service offered for rail shippers
Viewlocity files for IPO
Acquisitions to boost Universal Air Cargo
Houston port tackles air quality
Houston issues bonds for dredging project
OOCL expands Malaysia feeders to cut costs, time
Maersk Sealand shifts some service to Malaysia Port
Cathay adds US, Asian cargo runs
Malaysia says airport cargo security improved
Zim adds Piraeus-Russia service
Overnite expanding Canadian deliveries
Mitsubishi Caterpillar and Cat Logistics sign 10-year pact
Thai Airways opens on-line cargo site
GoCargo to use Vastera's landed cost and documentary modules
Berndsen push to list P&O Nedlloyd LEO Berndsen, chairman of Royal Nedlloyd's executive board, is stepping up pressure on P&O for an early listing of jointly-owned P&O Nedlloyd.
Divers struggle to open damaged hatch on Kursk Three Norwegian divers were trying yesterday to open an outer hatch of Kursk, the sunken Russian submarine.
UK Club healthy despite $35m underwriting loss UNDERWRITING losses have grown at the world's largest shipowners' protection and indemnity association, the UK Club, but chairman Nils-Gustaf Palmgren is confident that finances are fundamentally healthy.
Claims range from murder to schedules MURDER at sea was a serious business for the UK P&I Club.
A&P seeks French connection A&P is poised to follow British shiprepairer Cammell Laird in setting up a repair operation in a major French port.
The new 1,730 teu boxship Alianca Hamburgo The new 1,730 teu boxship Alianca Hamburgo is pictured in the port of Le Havre during her first call. The 22,900 dwt vessel is deployed in the North Europe-East Coast South America joint service of Hamburg-Süd, Aliança and CMA-CGM. She was delivered in May this year by Stocznia Szczecinska Shipyard in
Compagnie Viking calls in the receivers FRENCH shipping to fishing operator Compagnie Viking has been forced into receivership under the double impact of high fuel prices and industrial action in the French Caribbean port sector.
'Fingerprints' clue to find spill culprits EUROPEAN scientists have identified 56 unique biomarkers for "fingerprints" that can be used to identify the source of an oil spill.
Emery Worldwide and the U.S. Postal Service are trying a new avenue for partnership - the driveway. Emery, after spending much of the last decade focused solely on business-to-business traffic, is going to give residential service a try with the help of USPS. Emery, like Airborne Express, Paxis and other consolidators, is taking advantage of USPS's Parcel Select rates. Emery is responsible for getting the shipment from the shipper to a regional postal facility and USPS will break the shipment down and make the final delivery. United Parcel Service and FedEx, both very aggressive in the high-value home-delivery market, question how computer customers will respond to the service.
Minnesota's Jim Oberstar, the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, combines scholarly intellect, wit, compassion, compromise, conscience and drive to advance in a Republican-controlled Congress a legislative agenda defending workplace safety and combating concentrations of market power. Oberstar would become chairman of the T&I committee were Democrats to regain control of the House in the November elections.
The concept of the "value chain" in logistics has not been embraced by top management of American companies even though some leading-edge companies clearly have demonstrated the benefits of tightly integrating their systems and processes with those of their customers and suppliers, a new survey shows. Although 37 percent of the survey respondents had a formal strategy for managing their value chain, the survey by Industry Week and Ernst & Young found that "it's clear that the concept of 'value chain' has not been fully embraced." That was evident by the fact that nearly half (49 percent) of survey respondents do not have such a strategy. Lack of direction at the top was cited for that shortcoming.
Outsourcing - it's a sign of the times. The most recent incarnation of this trend is contract electronics manufacturer Solectron signing a 10-year $1.8 billion services agreement with IBM. Mike Plymack, vice president and Solectron program executive at IBM, said IBM will be helping the Milpitas, Calif.-based Solectron manage its "tens of thousands of suppliers" and recent acquisitions and better respond to its customers. Although the agreement between the two companies is new, IBM has been a Solectron customer for 22 years.
There has been no meaningful change in the hours-of-service rules for truck drivers in 65 years. There will be none before either George W. Bush or Al Gore becomes president on Jan. 20. In an admission that it tried to go too far too fast, the government pushed back the deadline for its controversial proposal affecting as many as 7 million commercial truck and bus operators. Comments are now due Dec. 15. In effect, the government is saying to the next administration and 107th Congress: "Welcome to Washington. Please take this mess off our hands." The Department of Transportation offered to discuss the proposed rules with affected parties at three two-day "roundtables" in the next six weeks.
A proposal by the City of Chicago to limit container-stacking height would be devastating to the industry, say intermodal interests. The proposal, which is part of the city's ongoing focus on beautification, calls for requiring container yards to limit stacking height to three containers; most yards in Chicago currently stack five high. The ordinance also would require a 32-foot setback from property lines. Intermodal sources say such a proposal would put many local companies out of business and, because of Chicago's importance as a rail hub, also could affect intermodal shipping nationwide.
United Airlines is having a really bad summer. Everyone knows passengers are upset with the erratic and unreliable state of the nation's largest airline, but United Cargo's customers aren't too pleased with service either. Three things are behind the operational mess that has caused the cancellation of thousands of flights across the country. First, United pilots are refusing to work overtime while their union and airline management continue to lock horns in a contract dispute. Second, maintenance workers, also in the midst of contract negotiations, are holding back flights for allegedly minor paperwork infractions. And third, this summer's heavier-than-normal thunderstorm season. Despite the myriad problems that plague United, forwarders don't want excuses, they want answers.
Steven Holic has a 37,000-FEU headache that never goes away. As senior manager of international logistics and supply for Phillips Co., Holic is responsible for moving 30,000 forty-foot containers of cargo across the North Atlantic, as well as 7,000 FEUs from Asia to North America. Holic is one of the scores of shippers turning to electronic tracking and tracing systems to monitor that freight and avoid intermodal bottlenecks. Phillips has saved time by cutting down on rail interchanges and reduced cargo transfer costs. "The main thing is that we're getting more cargo on time," said Holic. "And that's increasing customer satisfaction."
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