Dredger ban may mean no more sand for reclamation ONGOING dredger detentions and sand export bans by the Indonesian authorities are taking their toll on reclamation projects in Singapore with SembCorp Industries announcing its intention to call it quits on its $198.3 million Tuas View Extension contract.
Hutchison gets go-ahead for big China project
Spain expected to impose ban on single-hulled tankers
APL launches Asia-C America feeder service via US West Coast
Pertamina may award tender
Air and Land Transport
United to delay repayment of US$920m of debt United Airlines will delay repayment of US$920 million of debt as it waits for a federal loan guarantee that hinges in part on its mechanics accepting a new agreement on concessions reached with union leaders.
Continental Air sells US$200m in debt
EVA Air promotes vice-president to top post
Macquarie Airports warns it may scrap Rome purchase
Dredger ban may mean no more sand for reclamation ONGOING dredger detentions and sand export bans by the Indonesian authorities are taking their toll on reclamation projects in Singapore with SembCorp Industries announcing its intention to call it quits on its $198.3 million Tuas View Extension contract.
Hutchison gets go-ahead for big China project
Spain expected to impose ban on single-hulled tankers
APL launches Asia-C America feeder service via US West Coast
Pertamina may award tender
Air and Land Transport
United to delay repayment of US$920m of debt United Airlines will delay repayment of US$920 million of debt as it waits for a federal loan guarantee that hinges in part on its mechanics accepting a new agreement on concessions reached with union leaders.
Continental Air sells US$200m in debt
EVA Air promotes vice-president to top post
Macquarie Airports warns it may scrap Rome purchase
Trans-Pacific surcharge extended Shipping lines that carry U.S. imports from Asia (eastbound Pacific) have taken the unprecedented step of extending this year's $300 per 40-foot container peak season surcharge through Jan. 31, 2003.
White paper 'European transport policy for 2010' The European Parliament has adopted the white paper 'European transport policy for 2010'.
British airports fees probably up BAA Plc, the world's biggest airport operator, should be allowed to raise airline fees to help fund an 11-year, 8.1 billion pound, without changing the way the charges are calculated, said the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Motorola, FedEx team for PowerPad Motorola and FedEx are working on a device for couriers that give them wireless access to the FedEx network for package tracking.
Salvesen profit down Christian Salvesen, the UK logistics group, saw pre-tax profit for the first half fall 22.8 per cent to £13.2m ($20m) before exceptional items on turnover that was up 4.8 per cent at '431m. Salvesen still expects to achieve analysts' underlying profit expectations for the full year to end-March 2003 of around 27 mln versus 29.2 mln last year.
United Airlines delays debt repayment United Airlines said it would use grace periods to delay several debt payments due today, including one for $375 million on aircraft-backed securities as the air carrier struggles to maintain cash and avoid filing for bankruptcy.
Keel laying at Sturgeon Bay Bay Shipbuilding Company, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, recently laid the keel the all-seasons ferry ARNI J. RICHTER.
ABS issues latest update on Prestige Preliminary comments on initiating damage
EU moves towards rust bucket ban The European Commission today named 66 ships that would already have been banned from European waters had new European marine safety rules been in place.
Rigdon gives more details on those PSV's Former Tidewater executive VP Larry Rigdon is releasing more details about his Rigdon Marine LLC and the boats he's building at Bender with financing from Groupe Bourbon.
Horizon completes SBM service vessel Largest and most sophisticated vessel built in Bayou La Batre
Quick break for fast cat HSV-X1 Joint Venture (Incat hull 050), the first of three vessels currently under lease to branches of the U.S. military, has enjoyed a well-earned, but brief, break at Bollinger's Morgan City yard, Louisiana.
ChevronTexaco plans Gulf offshore LNG port Files application to develop "Port Pelican."
Brussels bid to strip away legal spill immunity OIL tanker charterers, operators and other 'key players' could lose their legal immunity from spillage claims in new proposals from the European Commission.
Leif Höegh to sue US Navy over submarine collision INTERNATIONAL law firm Holland & Knight is pursuing the US Sixth Fleet for compensation on behalf of Norwegian shipping group Leif Höegh after a nuclear attack submarine collided with one of its gas tankers off Gibraltar last month.
Trans-Pacific surcharge extended Shipping lines that carry U.S. imports from Asia have taken the unprecedented step of extending this year's $300 peak season surcharge through Jan. 31, 2003.
Airborne sets rate increase The express carrier follows rivals FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service with rate hikes for 2003.
Vancouver feeling West Coast pinch U.S. congestion is delaying container traffic through the Canadian port.
De Palacio veut bannir 66 “navires à risque” des eaux européennes La Commission européenne a publié les noms de 49 vraquiers, 8 pétroliers, 8 transporteurs de produits chimiques et 1 navire à passagers, qui représentent un risque “très élevé, élevé ou moyen” d’accident en mer. Cette liste noire comprend 66 navires représentant 13 pavillons. Pas moins de 26 navires sous standards sur cette liste noire battent pavillon turque.
Antwerp Shiprepair et Shipdock Amsterdam vont fusionner Les entreprises de réparation navale Antwerp Shiprepair et Shipdock Amsterdam mènent actuellement des discussions sur une fusion de leurs activités. “Il s’agit d’une véritable fusion. Antwerp Shiprepair ne sera pas repris”, dit Frans van der Zalm, directeur-général d’Antwerp Shiprepair, réfutant ce qu’annonce “Lloyd’s List”. Selon Ruud de Vlieger, du groupe néerlandais IMCA, dont fait partie Shipdock Amsterdam, il y aura échange d’actions et l’opération doit être clôturée pour le début de l’an prochain.
La Chine livre le premier transporteur de produits chimiques en acier duplex inoxydable Le “Valerie”, le premier transporteur de produits chimiques disposant de citernes en acier duplex inoxydable, sera remis à son propriétaire à la mi-décembre à Shanghai. Le navire de 19.950 t.b., a été commandé par Wega Shipping Co. Ltd, une compagnie maritime contrôlée par l’armateur anversois Guido Somers, auprès du chantier naval Qinshan à Wuhan.
WW étudie un nouveau concept pour relier Zeebrugge et les ports rhénans L’opérateur ro/ro Wallenius Wilhelmsen veut améliorer l’accessibilité de son hub au Canadakaai à Zeebrugge pour l’hinterland. Ce hub traite sur base annuelle près de 200.000 véhicules, 20.000 tracteurs, 4.000 grandes ou lourdes pièces ro/ro, ainsi qu’un certain volume de cargaisons conventionnelles, transportés moyennant la technique ro/ro. Afin de rendre le trafic de marchandises de et vers l’hinterland plus fluide, la compagnie compte sur un désenclavement à part entière du hub par bateau. Un projet pour un service entre les ports rhénans et Zeebrugge est encore à l’étude, mais pourrait donner une importante impulsion au port côtier belge.
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