Castor battles storm with no refuge in sight The outcast chemical tanker MT Castor, denied refuge for over one month after developing a 26 metre-long crack in its main deck, has been battling gale force winds and 8-metre swells off the coast of Malta, according to the ship's managers Athenian Sea Carriers.
Rina to link up with Bureau Veritas
Panama's container traffic up
Galapagos oil spill: US helps with cleanup
Acomarit buyover creates world's largest shipmanager
ILO agrees to hike in minimum wage rates
Ship sales
Air and Land Transport
BAA's 3rd-qtr profit up 6.8% as travellers take to skies BAA plc, the world's biggest airport operator, said fiscal third-quarter profit rose 6.8 per cent as traffic increased at London airports and travellers abandoned the UK's troubled railroads and used the airlines.
UK air traffic controllers support industrial action
US should speed up approval of runways
Vietnam Air plans US$2b fleet expansion
EgyptAir will not contest liability in 1999 aircrash lawsuits
Castor battles storm with no refuge in sight The outcast chemical tanker MT Castor, denied refuge for over one month after developing a 26 metre-long crack in its main deck, has been battling gale force winds and 8-metre swells off the coast of Malta, according to the ship's managers Athenian Sea Carriers.
Rina to link up with Bureau Veritas
Panama's container traffic up
Galapagos oil spill: US helps with cleanup
Acomarit buyover creates world's largest shipmanager
ILO agrees to hike in minimum wage rates
Ship sales
Air and Land Transport
BAA's 3rd-qtr profit up 6.8% as travellers take to skies BAA plc, the world's biggest airport operator, said fiscal third-quarter profit rose 6.8 per cent as traffic increased at London airports and travellers abandoned the UK's troubled railroads and used the airlines.
UK air traffic controllers support industrial action
US should speed up approval of runways
Vietnam Air plans US$2b fleet expansion
EgyptAir will not contest liability in 1999 aircrash lawsuits
British Midland seeks EU probe of US-British air pact Britain's second-largest airline is pressing European Union antitrust authorities to investigate the British-U.S. bilateral air agreement that prevents it from launching trans-Atlantic services from London Heathrow Airport.
TACA plans general freight increase April 1 The ocean carrier conference said that traffic from and via United States ports on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts will be increased $80 for 20-foot containers and $100 for 40- and 45- foot boxes.
India's Port of Kandla to begin loading trials Despite extensive damage and a shortage of manpower, the port will try to move some cargo on Saturday after suspending operations following the Jan. 26 earthquake.
Cho Yang cuts liner capacity; makes management changes The reductions in the trans-Pacific and Europe-Asia trades will not be as severe as in the trans-Atlantic where the company has cut capacity by about 50 percent.
Tanker specialist Stolt-Nielsen posts 4Q loss
Senate's new aviation subcommittee chairman to focus on safety, technology
CSX creates materials logistics unit
AFX resumes freighter service
Wisconsin Central reports decline in 4Q profit
Florida East Coast Railway to provide real-time shipment tracking
New rail link to connect Italy with Northern Europe
Senate's new aviation subcommittee chairman to focus on safey, technology
Hyundai mise sur lalliance avec DaimlerChrysler pour grandir A loccasion de linauguration officielle du nouveau quartier général européen de Hyundai Motor Europe (HME) à Francfort, nous avons pu nous entretenir exclusivement avec le management européen ainsi que celui de la maison mère coréenne Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) et aborder lévolution de lalliance avec DaimlerChrysler. Steve Morgan, executive vice-president D Project Team Strategic Alliance, a plus ou moins défini la situation comme suit: Il faut dabord pondre loeuf avant de pouvoir parler de poussin.
UPS et FedEx déplacent vers les Etats-Unis leur guerre contre Deutsche Post et DHL La hache de guerre a été déterrée ces derniers jours entre les sociétés de transports express UPS et FedEx dune part, et DHL Worldwide Express (et par là, Deutsche Post) de lautre. Très rapidement, la bataille a pris une mauvaise tournure, puisque les deux géants américains nont pas hésité à appeler à leur secours lassociation des transporteurs routiers américains ATA, la centrale syndicale AFL-CIO et le syndicat de camionneurs, les Teamsters. A eux deux, UPS et FedEx dominent 80% du marché américain de lexpress et du colis, et comptent conserver cette position. Au point quun porte-parole de DHL Worldwide Express les a accusés dans le Journal of Commerce de protectionisme.
Stef-TFE a vu son chiffre daffaires augmenter de 8% en 2000 Le groupe de transport sous température contrôlée Stef-TFE a réalisé lan dernier un chiffre daffaires de 1,15 milliard dEUR, en progression de 8% par rapport à lexercice précédent. Cest le pôle logistique qui a été le moteur de la croissance. Le transporteur sattend également à une légère hausse du bénéfice dexploitation, qui passerait à 12,3 millions dEUR (contre 12,1 mio. dEUR en 1999), alors que la plupart des transporteurs enregistrent un recul très net de leur rentabilité, même dans des niches comme le transport frigorifique.
Le VEV veut aider les chargeurs à mieux choisir leur mode de transport Le VEV, lorganisation patronale flamande, veut mettre au point, en collaboration avec la SAV, B-Cargo et lorganisme flamand de promotie du transport fluvial (Promotie Binnenvaart Vlaanderen), un site internet permettant aux chargeurs de trouver rapidement la solution de transport qui correspond le mieux à leurs flux de marchandises et aux caractéristiques de leur entreprise. Non seulement ce système tiendra compte des propres critères de qualité avancés par lentreprise, mais en plus, il leur fournira la possibilité de se faire une idée des choix faits en matière de transport par des entreprises comparables dans des conditions comparables. Le VEV veut ainsi contribuer à réconcilier les chargeurs avec le rail et le fluvial, dont limage auprès des entreprises nest pas très bonne. Lapplication devrait être opérationnelle en date du 1er mai prochain.
Profits halved at Singapore's KHZ Weak markets and a lack of new contracts have hit the Singapore repair group.
Ship sinks off Indonesia Heavy weather swamps refugee boat.
RINA and Bureau Veritas hitched at last Months of speculation over the future of RINA ended Friday with the news of an alliance with the French class society.
Merger boosts class ambitions Alliance is only the first step towards a European class society says BV's Bernard Anne.
LASCO to appeal reefer ruling The Latvian shipowner has lost a court battle over cancelled contracts at Gdansk Shipyard, but will fight on.
Scrap sales plummet through January A dearth of tanker tonnage has resulted in a dramatic drop in demolition levels.
Singapore handles record tonnage The Port of Singapore looks set to retain its title as the world's busiest port.
Royal Olympic to raise $20m Cruise line to issue loan note to help pay for Olympic Explorer.
Samsung Heavy deflects Hankook debt effects The shipbuilder has secured collateral from a Korean real estate firm which went bankrupt owing it money.
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