S'pore needs to draw, hold onto major shipping lines COMPETITION from regional ports remains the most pressing challenge for the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore , Singapore's port regulator and developer.
US acts against Star Cruises ship for pollution
Manila towage firm wins legal battle to settle oil spill clean-up bill
Class rapped over response to ISM criticism
Euro seaport body attacks EU port measures
United Alliance drops Cho Yang
Air and Land Transport
Virgin Blue in alliance talks with Ansett VIRGIN Blue said yesterday it was in talks with Australia's second biggest airline Ansett Australia on a possible alliance in a bid to fend off the threat posed by Qantas Airways Ltd's play for Impulse Airlines.
'Economy-class syndrome' hits 10-year-old girl
UK airline plans all-business London-NY flights
Delta's Comair pilots reject offer, prolonging strike
Emirates denies paying India for new flight rights
S'pore needs to draw, hold onto major shipping lines COMPETITION from regional ports remains the most pressing challenge for the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore , Singapore's port regulator and developer.
US acts against Star Cruises ship for pollution
Manila towage firm wins legal battle to settle oil spill clean-up bill
Class rapped over response to ISM criticism
Euro seaport body attacks EU port measures
United Alliance drops Cho Yang
Air and Land Transport
Virgin Blue in alliance talks with Ansett VIRGIN Blue said yesterday it was in talks with Australia's second biggest airline Ansett Australia on a possible alliance in a bid to fend off the threat posed by Qantas Airways Ltd's play for Impulse Airlines.
'Economy-class syndrome' hits 10-year-old girl
UK airline plans all-business London-NY flights
Delta's Comair pilots reject offer, prolonging strike
Emirates denies paying India for new flight rights
UPS will meet estimates CEO Jim Kelly said Friday that business conditions have shown signs of stabilizing and the company should be able to meet lowered earnings targets for the second quarter.
DeMariano out at Port Everglades Paul DeMariano has resigned as port director at Port Everglades after a dispute with the county commission that oversees the port.
Lufthansa, pilots to resume talks Lufthansa canceled an additional 90 flights on Friday in the aftermath of the first full-day pilots' strike at Germany's largest airline.
New World Alliance debuts Europe service The alliance of APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine and MOL unveiled a new service between Asia and Europe.
FedEx Supply Chain Services honored by GM
Work resumes on Pasha auto carrier
Weather chills American Commercial Lines 1Q
EU opens fire in open-skies battle
Taiwan shifts port control
Cosco adds second Halifax service
Treasury asks delay in Customs report
FMC takes no action on SED fees inquiry
Port of Houston opens vessel simulator
Burlington Northern Santa Fe to sell coal transport futures
Germans demand action on Korea EUROPEAN Union industry ministers, divided over whether to support a defence mechanism in the form of selective aid for European yards against competition from South Korean yards, are under German...
Norwegian Sky accused over Alaska sewage One of the first cruiseships to visit southeast Alaskan ports this season has been cited for illegally dumping concentrated sewage into the scenic Inside Passage, the US Coast Guard has reveale...
Grave undertaking for Nippon Yusen Kaisha Japan's largest shipping company, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, plans to offer a new funeral ash-scattering service in a bid to capitalise on demand fuelled by the high cost of cemeteries in Japan, ...
MSC va adopter le concept du service pendulaire en 2002 Dès le mois daoût prochain, larmement Mediterranean Shipping Cy (MSC) commencera à réceptionner la série de 10 PC de type post-panamax de 6.700 TEU qui, à lorigine, étaient appelés à remplacer le tonnage actuellement alignés sur la route Europe-Asie. Cest quentre-temps, larmement a reconsidéré sa stratégie.
La proposition de directive sur laccès aux services portuaires est superflue La Green Port Conference 2001 sest clôturée sur une résolution demandant à la Commission européenne de procéder à une étude transparante sur lorganisation et le financement des ports dans Union européenne. La conférence demande en outre à la Commission de formuler des propositions pour une directive portuaire visant entre autres une libéralisation totale et une séparation de la gestion et des opérations portuaires proprement dites, à linstar de la directive européenne sur les chemins de fer. La Green Port Conference plaide en outre pour un contrôle sur lapplication uniforme des aides et des conditions de concurrence pour les ports de lUE. Le président de la conférence, leuroparlementaire Theo Bouwman (Ecologistes), qui a exposé ces conclusions finales, a en outre souligné quune distinction entre public et commercial et entre infrastructure et superstructure portuaire est souhaitable dans le cas dun financement public, la superstructure devant être exclue dun financement par les autorités.
Marpobel monte en puissance Environ une année après le lancement effectif des premières activités, a eu lieu hier linauguration officielle de Marpobel, linstallation portuaire de réception de déchets dexploitation des navires et des résidus construit à la quatrième darse portuaire à hauteur du quai 261 sur lancien site de 9 ha de lentreprise de réparation navale Mercantile. Cette installation - lunique installation portuaire de réception de déchets full-service en Belgique - a impliqué un investissement de plus de 17 millions dEUR (environ 700 mio. de BEF). Marpobel peut entreposer, épurer et traiter quasiment tous les déchets de la navigation maritime, fluviale et de lindustrie. Lentreprise est également en mesure de nettoyer des cales, des wagons-citernes, des containers-citernes et des wagons ferroviaires. Marpobel mise sur un break-even en 2002.
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