Disease, currency changes set off shift in reefer trade DISEASE outbreaks, currency woes and prohibitive freight rates have prompted a noticeable shift in the transport of reefer freight inbound to Asia.
Cosco adds route linking China and S-E Asia
EU fails to agree on post-Erika measures
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Ansett Australia confident it can avert shutdown AIR New Zealand-owned Ansett was confident yesterday it could prevent Australia's air safety authority starting a two-week clock on Friday on a threat to shut down the airline.
Asiana cargo sees net loss in 1st quarter
PIA pay row nearing resolution: pilots
Austrian Air earnings soar to 84m euros
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Daewoo Shipbuilding gains from weaker won DAEWOO Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co Ltd is expected to post strong earnings this year as a weaker won boosts export income, which in turn could see the company emerge from its bank-led debt workout programme earlier than expected, analysts said.
Disease, currency changes set off shift in reefer trade DISEASE outbreaks, currency woes and prohibitive freight rates have prompted a noticeable shift in the transport of reefer freight inbound to Asia.
Cosco adds route linking China and S-E Asia
EU fails to agree on post-Erika measures
Air and Land Transport
Ansett Australia confident it can avert shutdown AIR New Zealand-owned Ansett was confident yesterday it could prevent Australia's air safety authority starting a two-week clock on Friday on a threat to shut down the airline.
Asiana cargo sees net loss in 1st quarter
PIA pay row nearing resolution: pilots
Austrian Air earnings soar to 84m euros
Hot wings
Log Book
Features
Daewoo Shipbuilding gains from weaker won DAEWOO Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co Ltd is expected to post strong earnings this year as a weaker won boosts export income, which in turn could see the company emerge from its bank-led debt workout programme earlier than expected, analysts said.
Disease, currency changes set off shift in reefer trade DISEASE outbreaks, currency woes and prohibitive freight rates have prompted a noticeable shift in the transport of reefer freight inbound to Asia.
Cosco adds route linking China and S-E Asia
EU fails to agree on post-Erika measures
Air and Land Transport
Ansett Australia confident it can avert shutdown AIR New Zealand-owned Ansett was confident yesterday it could prevent Australia's air safety authority starting a two-week clock on Friday on a threat to shut down the airline.
Asiana cargo sees net loss in 1st quarter
PIA pay row nearing resolution: pilots
Austrian Air earnings soar to 84m euros
Hot wings
Log Book
Features
Daewoo Shipbuilding gains from weaker won DAEWOO Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co Ltd is expected to post strong earnings this year as a weaker won boosts export income, which in turn could see the company emerge from its bank-led debt workout programme earlier than expected, analysts said.
CMA CGM rumored for two Med hubs The French carrier is being courted by container ports in Malta and Sardinia.
CNF earnings plunge The company's Emery Worldwide airfreight and trucking units both posted losses.
Volume rebounds at West Coast ports Containerized imports were up in March, an indication that retailers expect U.S. consumers to return to the stores.
Evergreen weighs Xiamen stake The Taiwan-based company may invest in a terminal project in the port in China's southeastern Fujian province designated for cross-strait trade.
Pegasus goes cold on FGH loan Friede Goldman Halter, Inc. says it has been advised that Pegasus Partners II, L.P. no longer intends to pursue a definitive agreement for a proposed $100 million loan
Santa Fe orders deepwater semis from Singapore yard Santa Fe International Corporation has executed a Letter of Award with SembCorp Marine's PPL Shipyard PTE, Ltd. for construction of two Friede & Goldman ExD design deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs plus options for two additional drilling units
Ocean Rig and PanCanadian partnership to offer drilling services Pancanadian Petroleum Limited' and Ocean Rig ASA plan to partner to offer drilling services using the second of the Bingo rigs being completed for Ocean Rig at FGH, Pascagoula.
New product tanker pool A.P. Møller, Primorsk Shipping Company, Reederei "Nord" Klaus E. Oldendorff and A/S Dampskibsselskabet Torm have agreed to establish a new product tanker pool to commercially manage their fleets of 100,000 dwt product tankers
AP Møller spearheads products tanker pool Germany's Reederei Nord Klaus E Oldendorff, Russia's Primorsk Shipping Co, and the Danish company Torm, will join AP Møller's Maersk Tankers in the initiative which begins operati...
Receivers axe 300 Cammell Laird jobs RECEIVERS yesterday axed more than 300 Cammell Laird shipyard jobs in the UK and announced the closure next week of the collapsed shiprepair and conversion group's Teesside yard in the northe...
United containers of Benetton STRADE Blu, a newcomer in the shipping industry which is linked to an impressive list of names in the industrial, financial and insurance worlds in Italy, has stepped into the Mediterranean shortse...
Saga Shipping set to spend $250m on newbuilding OVER-50s cruise firm Saga Shipping is prepared to spend at least $250m on a new ship to expand its fleet. Managing director Jim Clench told Lloyd's List: 'I have visited a numbe...
P&O Stena reprend le service à passagers Zeebrugge-Douvres Après une suspension de près de six ans et demi, le service à passagers de P&O Stena Line entre Zeebrugge et Douvres reprendra en date du 1er mai. L’armement assurera ce service avec les trois navires actuellement en service sur cette liaison, mais utilisés uniquement comme des navires fret. Ceux-ci sont cependant certifiés pour 200 passagers.
Le shortsea est un secteur de croissance pour les ports et voies navigables flamands Plus de trois quarts de la croissance du trafic dans les ports flamands ont été générés l’an dernier par le short sea shipping (SSS). Cela signifie que ce mode de transport est le principal moteur de croissance du trafic maritime. C’est ce qui ressort des chiffres rassemblés par le Bureau pour la Promotion du Short Sea Shipping. Il s’agirait de la première publication de chiffres relatifs au cabotage en Belgique.
Libner acquiert le carrossier Fréjat La concentration dans le secteur de la semi-remorque et la carrosserie industrielle se poursuit, lentement mais sûrement. Cette semaine, c’est au tour du constructeur français Libner (Saint-Maixent, Deux Sèvres) de racheter la société de carrosserie industrielle Fréjat, qui avait été mise en liquidation après avoir déposé son bilan en août dernier. Cette opération permet à Libner de se renforcer dans le créneau du matériel pour transport combiné, Fréjat étant un des grands spécialistes français dans ce domaine.
Hong-Kong traiterait un trafic de plus de 40 mio. de TEU en 2020 Lorsque la Chine continentale sera membre de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC), les ports chinois verront leur trafic croître considérablement, pour atteindre un volume global de 40 mio. de TEU en 2005. C’est ce qu’a déclaré tout récemment Tung-Chee-chen, président de la Chambre de Commerce de Hong-Kong et président de la compagnie maritime Orient Overseas International. Il faisait ainsi allusion à une étude effectuée par la banque d’investissement américaine sur les perspectives de développement du commerce extérieur de la Chine, ses exportations devant augmenter de 700 mio. de tonnes au cours de cette période, jusqu’en 2005.
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