Asia-Pacific container volume forecast to more than double ASIA-Pacific ports can expect container throughput volumes to more than double over the next decade, according to a study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific .
ICTSI mulling joint venture with Hutchison
South Korea's ship orders down in first half
Troubled Cammell Lairdcuts further 187 jobs in UK
Air and Land Transport
Will passengers pay more for faster Sonic Cruiser? WHAT price air passengers will pay for speed is the key issue that Boeing Co needs to answer as it develops plans for the Sonic Cruiser fast airliner, a senior project executive said.
KL airport in drive to attract carriers' return
Swissair Group selling more assets, cutting costs
KLM may cut flights in Europe, seeks S American partner
Asia-Pacific container volume forecast to more than double ASIA-Pacific ports can expect container throughput volumes to more than double over the next decade, according to a study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific .
ICTSI mulling joint venture with Hutchison
South Korea's ship orders down in first half
Troubled Cammell Lairdcuts further 187 jobs in UK
Air and Land Transport
Will passengers pay more for faster Sonic Cruiser? WHAT price air passengers will pay for speed is the key issue that Boeing Co needs to answer as it develops plans for the Sonic Cruiser fast airliner, a senior project executive said.
KL airport in drive to attract carriers' return
Swissair Group selling more assets, cutting costs
KLM may cut flights in Europe, seeks S American partner
McCain: Kill Title XI The Arizona Senator has urged the Bush administration to eliminate funding for the Marad program, which guarantees loans for vessel construction in U.S. shipyards.
Atlas, Polar to be separate after deal Atlas will operate Polar Air Cargo as a separate company once its acquisition is completed.
ACL profit slips Atlantic Container Line said net profit in the second quarter totaled $5.16 million, down 9.7% from the same period in 2000.
Labor costs sting US port efficiency Near-capacity utilization and 24-hour gates aren't the answer to improving U.S. port efficiency, one executive says.
Senate votes for Lease Sale 181 to go ahead The U.S. Senate today took a bipartisan vote today against blocking offshore Lease Sale 181 in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Incat offers 112 m wave-piercer The latest addition to the Incat Australia line of wave-piercing catamarans is the Evolution One 12.
Big order for compact pods Santa Fe International Corporation has awarded a $42 million contract to ABB in Norway for the supply of electric propulsion systems and power plants for two semi-submersible drilling rigs.
Gloom Time "THE best thing that could happen now is the closure of the Suez Canal," one liner shipping executive was honest enough to admit, only half jokingly, as he surveyed the state of the Eur...
Bulker rates in freefall The dry bulk carrier's fingernail hold on firm freight rates has snapped as the market moves into summer. While the latter part of 2001 has consistently been forecast as a difficult p...
End of 20 years of cruise growth After 20 years of uninterrupted growth the global cruise industry has run into problems in the past 18 months. These centre on fears that, with too many new ships and fierce price discounting, yiel...
Insurance fighting a rearguard action IT never rains but it pours... Just when insurance premiums were hardening and shipowners' protection and indemnity clubs had wiped out the competition for large tonnage. . . ...
Tanker boom turns sour for owners JUST six months after the long-awaited tanker boom sent freight rates sky-high and owners on newbuilding spending sprees, market sentiment has officially soured. Figures from Clarkson Resea...
Present share weakness seen as opportunity to buy The deeper-than-expected summer doldrums in the freight market have badly damaged tanker share prices. But their decline has been less severe thanks to the continuing confidence of many experts tha...
Fruit firm picked off as the rot.com sets in THE MEDIA is again picking over the bones of a high-profile dot.com corpse with the demise of Webvan.com which failed to deliver plans to offer an online grocery service in 26 US cities within thre...
Economists lay the blame at dollar's door IF SHIPPING is the lifeblood of world trade, the news from the world's biggest economies is that the pulse is weakening by the month, writes Rob McKay. Japan, long the troubled valve...
“Le Livre Blanc vise à découpler - progressivement - le transport de la croissance économique” “Le Livre Blanc soulignera surtout la nécessité d’un virage vers un rééquilibrage entre modes, et donc un découplage entre la croissance économique et la croissance de la demande en transport. Mais cela ne pourra se faire de manière décrétée. Cela se fera progressivemennt et sur le long terme. Si nous arrivons à ramener d’ici 2010 les part des marché modales à ce qu’elles étaient en 1998, le chemin parcouru aura été énorme”. C’est ce qu’a déclaré la Commissaire européenne aux Transports Loyola de Palacio jeudi à Bruxelles à l’occasion d’un séminaire organisé par la présidence belge de l’UE sur le rôle du transport durable dans l’économie européenne.
La Flandre lance un programme de dragage des voies d’eau “La Flandre a libéré les moyens financiers nécessaires pour procéder au dragage de ses voies d’eau.” C’est ce qu’a déclaré le ministre flamand de la Mobilité Steve Stevaert à l’occasion de la présentation du rapport annuel de Promotie Binnenvaart Vlaanderen (PBV) à Bruxelles. A cette occasion, le président Filip Martens de PBV a une fois de plus insisté sur une réalisation rapide de ce programme de dragage. “La limitation du tirant d’eau a une influence néfaste sur la croissance du trafic car elle se traduit indirectement par une hausse des frets, ce qui rend le transport par la voie d’eau moins attayant.”
La Belgique a une infrastructure de transport dense mais inefficace Pour se faire une idée du positionnement socio-économique de la Flandre dans un contexte international, le conseil socio-économique de la Flandre (SERV) a rédigé un rapport éclairant douze domaines socio-économiques, dont l’infrastructure de transport. Il en ressort que la Belgique dispose d’une infrastructure de transport dense mais inefficace en comparaison avec les pays test repris dans l’étude.
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