Hongkong throughput climbs while Singapore's slides SINGAPORE ports have suffered their fourth monthly drop in container volume throughput, in contrast to Hongkong, which achieved 4 per cent first quarter-on-quarter growth, firming its position as the world's busiest.
Sydney to develop land at Port Botany
N America sets up port state control
S'pore tanker owner fined
DNV developing box loss tracking system
Air and Land Transport
Need for Asia-Pacific airports to diversify, privatise AIRPORTS in the Asia-Pacific region must privatise and diversify in order to meet the growing demands of carriers and travellers, but face major regulatory hurdles, industry experts said yesterday.
Hongkong throughput climbs while Singapore's slides SINGAPORE ports have suffered their fourth monthly drop in container volume throughput, in contrast to Hongkong, which achieved 4 per cent first quarter-on-quarter growth, firming its position as the world's busiest.
Sydney to develop land at Port Botany
N America sets up port state control
S'pore tanker owner fined
DNV developing box loss tracking system
Air and Land Transport
Need for Asia-Pacific airports to diversify, privatise AIRPORTS in the Asia-Pacific region must privatise and diversify in order to meet the growing demands of carriers and travellers, but face major regulatory hurdles, industry experts said yesterday.
Gulf Coast recovering from storm The Houston Ship Channel was reopened Monday after being partially closed over the weekend due to heavy flooding in the region caused by Tropical Storm Allison.
STB unveils rail merger rules The new rules follow the abortive 2000 link-up between Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Canadian National.
Korean airlines brace for strike The carrier will cut six of 18 cargo services, and most of its 240 domestic flights.
NWA adds call to Port Kelang The New World Alliance on Tuesday will add the Malaysian port to its Asia-Europe westbound service.
Danzas opens Sweden warehouse
Hellmann relocates in Los Angeles, Chicago
UPS adds expedited services to Latin American markets
OSG shares for sale as Recanatis let go ABOUT 15% of the shares in Overseas Shipholding Group, the US' largest tanker operator, are for sale as the Recanati family loosens its long-time hold on the company. Up to 5.75m share...
US Coast Guard keeps Russian registry at bottom of the class RUSSIAN Maritime Registry of Shipping has been placed on the US Coast Guard list of the world's worst classification societies for the second year running. So-called 'priority on...
Transroll to abandon Brazilian coastal trade in Sao Paulo CONTAINER line Transroll Navegação is pulling out of Brazil's coastal trades and chartering its two coastal carriers to competitor Alianca. Locally owned Trans...
L’ESPO plaide pour une directive portuaire européenne réaliste La future directive européenne sur la libéralisation des services portuaires fera sûrement encore couler beaucoup d’encre, au fur et à mesure que les discussions se poursuivront sur ce texte, que devra approuver le Parlement européen. A la fin de la semaine dernière, Oslo a été le théâtre d’une importante réunion des membres de l’ESPO (European Sea Ports Organisation), qui ont tenté de prendre position vis-à-vis de la proposition de la Commission. La principale conclusion qui se dégage de cette réunion, est que de sérieuses divergences d’optique existent entre ports du Nord et du Sud de l’Europe sur ce dossier, mais que tous sont d’accord pour considérer que le document en question doit faire l’objet d’adaptations.
TLF exige une politique cohérente L’assemblée générale extraordinaire de TLF, la Fédération des entreprises de transport et logistique de France, s’est déroulée à Paris le 7 juin, et a été l’occasion d’un vaste tour d’horizon des enjeux de la profession: déséquilibre rail/route, difficile équation des impératifs économiques et sociaux, handicaps au développement des différents modes de transport.
La SNCB entame la séparation des trafics marchandises/voyageurs Les huit kilomètres de la ligne 147 entre Fleurus et Auvelais peuvent paraître insignifiants par rapport aux centaines de kilomètres de lignes nouvelles pour les TGV en France, en Belgique ou aux Pays-Bas. Mais pour la SNCB, la réouverture de cette ligne (une première depuis plus de vingt ans) est très importante, car elle est le prélude à une séparation du trafic marchandises et voyageurs sur un des plus importants axes de trafic de la SNCB.
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