Shippers, not lines, reaping benefits of global shipping GLOBALISATION has a 'dark side' for container shipping, contributing to the weakening of conference agreements, over-tonnage and security problems, according to Mitsui OSK Lines senior managing director Hiroyuki Sato.
Major revamp in next 2 years
Jurong Port to up capacity to 660,000 TEUs
Melbourne port not ready for 3rd box terminal: Victoria govt
Air and Land Transport
AMR chief wants labour law overhaul to avoid strikes THE head of the world's largest air carrier, American Airlines, said on Monday he wants a radical change in a decades-old labour law so that mandatory arbitration would take place when contract negotiations reach a standstill.
Shippers, not lines, reaping benefits of global shipping GLOBALISATION has a 'dark side' for container shipping, contributing to the weakening of conference agreements, over-tonnage and security problems, according to Mitsui OSK Lines senior managing director Hiroyuki Sato.
Major revamp in next 2 years
Jurong Port to up capacity to 660,000 TEUs
Melbourne port not ready for 3rd box terminal: Victoria govt
Air and Land Transport
AMR chief wants labour law overhaul to avoid strikes THE head of the world's largest air carrier, American Airlines, said on Monday he wants a radical change in a decades-old labour law so that mandatory arbitration would take place when contract negotiations reach a standstill.
Loss BA: 200 million pound British Airways today posted a pre-tax loss of 200 million (2001: 150 million profit) for the full year to March 31, 2002, ahead of market expectations. There was a pre-tax loss for the fourth quarter of 85 million (2001:65 million loss).
Australian member of Inttra Inttra, provider of business-to-business (B2B) ocean freight services, announced that Modiano Australia Pty. Ltd. named Inttra its worldwide ocean freight services portal of choice.
K-Line with US logistics unit K-Line America formed a new company, K-Line Total Logistics, LLC (KLTL) to promote K-Line group companies' logistics capabilities and enhance quality services of the K-Line Group.
Teamsters to strike at UPS The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that members who work at United Parcel Service (UPS) voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike should a job action become necessary to obtain a fair and decent contract.
New World Alliance to stay in Rotterdam The New World Alliance (NWA) decided that three of its services will continue their sailings to Rotterdam: Japan Express Service (JEX), Asia Europe Express (AEX) and Atlantic Pacific Express (APX).
Helen Bentley makes comeback attempt One of the U.S.maritime industry's most fervent defenders on Capitol Hill, Helen Delich Bentley, is making a comeback attempt.
Keppel wins orders for swamp barge, tugs Keppel Corporation says the integration of its offshore and marine businesses has helped it win two significant recent orders
Gulf of Mexico SCORE picks up GlobalSantaFe's Gulf of Mexico SCORE hit its inflection point in April, reversing a 10-month downturn
Wärtsilä wins production platform power contract Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract from BP to deliver an integrated package of auxiliary diesel generators totalling 15.3 MW for the Thunder Horse offshore project
Greenpeace brings ExxonMobil plant to a halt GREENPEACE activists blocked land and river access to ExxonMobil Corp's largest refinery in France yesterday, dubbing the world's biggest oil company 'Climate Enemy No. 1'.
Cheng back in tanker big time FRED Cheng is officially back in the VLCC game, locking in a charter with Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical for a 1991-built VLCC he bought from Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was delivered to Mr Cheng on Friday and the charter deal was sealed the very next day.
Liner man Woods takes charge of P&O Ports P&O has appointed Robert Woods, group managing director of containership operator P&O Nedlloyd, to the position of executive chairman at P&O Ports.
Hamburg in deepsea port U-turn the city-state of Hamburg has decided to bow out of the E 800m ($737m) deepsea container terminal project at the port of Wilhelmshaven, which is set to get underway at the end of this month and go onstream in 2008.
Coast Guard moves LA-Long Beach Captain after security remarks The captain who spearheaded development of the nation's first port security plan was reassigned after he discussed the contents of a security report with JoC Online. Weblog: More details emerge about CG report
Dramatic rally for supertanker rates Rates for the largest crude carriers have tripled in the past two weeks as the resumption of Iraqi exports creates a temporary shortage of ships to haul crude to the United States, Asia and Europe. Weblog: Shippers brace for port contract talks
Woods to lead P&O Ports Robert Woods, the group managing director of P&O Nedlloyd, has been named to the additional job of executive chairman of P&O Ports.
Superfast: Zeebrugge entrerait en ligne de compte pour la desserte de Great Yarmouth “Nous sommes à Zeebrugge pour y rester. Nous allons voir comment va évoluer notre nouveau service direct sur l’Ecosse, sur le port de Rosyth. Il nous faut stabiliser cette opération avant d’explorer d’autres options, mais nous venons également de remporter la soumission internationale pour l’exploitation d’un nouveau service ferry passagers-fret entre East Port Great Yarmouth au UK, et le port néerlandais Ijmuiden, mais rien ne permet de conclure que ce sera effectivement ce port continental qui sera touché. Nous pourrions toucher deux ports sur le continent, et Zeebrugge peut entrer en ligne de compte”. C’est ce que nous a déclaré Alexander P. Panagopulos, président & managing director de l’armement Superfast Ferries, filiale du groupe grec Attica Enterprises s.a., lors de l’inauguration du service ferry passagers-fret entre Zeebrugge et le port écossais de Rosyth (Edimbourg).
L’ECG apporte son soutien au Livre Blanc sur la politique des transports Le lobby européen des transporteurs de véhicules (European Car-transport Group of interest, ECG) soutient dans une très large mesure les propositions du Livre Blanc de Loyola de Palacio, et plus particulièrement sa volonté qu’on fasse un plus grand usage du transport intermodal. Il soutient également la proposition de la Commission d’harmoniser les clauses minimum dans les contrats de transport routier. Mais l’ECG fait également remarquer à la Commission que la fiscalité n’est pas un moyen de promouvoir le transfert modal. Et elle rappelle qu’il est urgent qu’on harmonise les dimensions des porte-véhicules chargés.
UPS met en service l’A300F pour certaines opérations régionales en Europe United Parcel Service a officiellement présenté un de ses deux nouveaux Airbus A300F4-622R sur son hub européen de Cologne hier. Les Airbus sont alignés sur les routes européennes depuis avril dernier et remplacent les B757. Leur capacité - 50 tonnes - est à peu près comparable à celle des Boeing (40 tonnes). L’un des appareils assure la route Cologne-Madrid et retrour les jours de semaine. Le second relie Cologne, Malmö et Oslo et intègre de la sorte trois anciens vols scandinaves en un seul.
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