Salvage of capsized Indon vessel's cargo a risky job SINGAPORE-based salvors of the capsized Indonesia-flagged tanker Enda Lestari face a dangerous task removing the vessel's remaining cargo of highly corrosive industrial chemical phenol.
Search continues for missing Heng San crew
Northport chalks up 12% rise in throughput
Fangcheng port ties up with P&O to expand services
Air and Land Transport
Changi Airport named world's best airport in Iata survey CHANGI Airport has scored again as one of the best airports in the world.
EU approves Lufthansa, SAS, BMI alliance
Korean Air settles dispute with pilots, strike off
Salvage of capsized Indon vessel's cargo a risky job SINGAPORE-based salvors of the capsized Indonesia-flagged tanker Enda Lestari face a dangerous task removing the vessel's remaining cargo of highly corrosive industrial chemical phenol.
Search continues for missing Heng San crew
Northport chalks up 12% rise in throughput
Fangcheng port ties up with P&O to expand services
Air and Land Transport
Changi Airport named world's best airport in Iata survey CHANGI Airport has scored again as one of the best airports in the world.
EU approves Lufthansa, SAS, BMI alliance
Korean Air settles dispute with pilots, strike off
Emery cuts 900 jobs The carrier will also eliminate 16 jets from its fleet as it restructures its domestic heavyweight network.
CMA CGM eyes Med hub The carrier is in discussions with Britain's P&O Ports about taking a controlling stake in the Cagliari terminal on the Italian island of Sardinia.
APL launches India-Singapore service The new route will offer a direct call from the eastern port of Kakinada.
Eurogate boxes surge The container network handled nearly 7.7 million TEUs in 2000, tops among Europe's terminal operators.
GF-X appoints Godart vice chairman
Canadian Pacific offers spin-off details
Card to address Merchant Marine commencement
Vanguard Logistics sets Hong Kong services
LISCR counters International Registries suit
American Airlines breaks ground on drive-thru package terminal
Auditors rap IMO on £350,000 overspend FREE-SPENDING International Maritime Organisation bureaucrats ran up unauthorised expenditure of more than £350,000 ($483,000) last year, an external auditor's report reveals. Lavish o...
LISCR unleashes Liberia backlash THE Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registry yesterday filed a countersuit against International Registries Inc, charging its predecessor as manager of the Liberian Registry with acc- oun...
H&W has Barclays in sights over $30m row Harland and Wolff is threatening to liquidate a subsidiary of Barclays Bank unless it pays over $30m to cover the delivery instalment on a drillship, writes Tony Gray. The Belfast shipyard i...
ClassNK's Mano pours scorn on dissident trio The 10-point safety programme announced earlier this year by American Bureau of Shipping, Det Norske Veritas and Lloyd's Register and due to be implemented next month has been heavily critici...
Les chemins de fer autrichiens reprennent Schier, Otten & Co Speditions Holding, la filiale logistique d’ÖBB, a repris toutes les actions du transporteur routier autrichien Schier, Otten & Co. L’entreprise ferroviaire porte de la sorte sa part de marché dans le transport routier en Autriche à 13%, ce qui en fait le numéro un du secteur. Speditions Holding entend encore procéder à trois nouvelles reprises dans un avenir proche. Schier Otten a longtemps été un des partenaires de l’alliance de messagerie Team et est resté un des partenaires d’ABX Logistics après la disparition de l’alliance.
Giraud va s’allier à EB Trans dans les vracs liquides Le groupe Giraud s’apprête à céder ses activités dans le transport de produits chimiques et d’hydrocarbures à EB Trans, le groupe de Bernard Tardy, qui se compose de 17 sociétés de transport régionales. Contrairement à ce qu’affirme l’Officiel des Transporteurs, il ne s’agit pas d’une liquidation, mais bien d’une alliance, puisque Giraud prendra une participation importante dans EB Trans. Une porte-parole de Giraud n’a pu préciser s’il s’agira d’une participation de 26% comme l’écrit notre confrère, dans la mesure où les négociations sont encore en cours. Elles devraient être finalisées en juillet.
Strasbourg veut renforcer les règles pour les chauffeurs de poids lourds Dans le dossier des temps de travail des chauffeurs de poids lourds, le Parlement européen est partisan d’une réglementation plus sévère que celle adoptée par les ministres européens du Transport. Le dossier a pris deux ans de retard suite à des différends au sein du conseil européen des ministres du Transport.
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