Tankers prime terrorist target in Strait: seminar THE vulnerability of marine traffic - particularly tankers - to terrorist or pirate attacks in the busy and economically vital Malacca Strait was highlighted at a seminar on sea security in Tokyo last week.
S Korea's Q1 ship exports down 24%
Khoo Teng Chye quits PSA; Grace Fu promoted
Air and Land Transport
New security duties make pilots' balancing act tougher THE MD-88 passenger jetliner was cruising above 25,000 feet but there was no one at the controls.
Hainan Airlines aims to acquire US carrier
China airlines expect record numbers
Air NZ CEO expects govt to sell its 82% stake: report
Prosecutor rules out suicide in Milan crash
DHL starts delivery service in Barbados
Features
More than 450 airport workers arrested HUNDREDS of employees with access to high-security areas of airports have been arrested on charges such as using phony social security numbers, lying about past criminal convictions or being in the United States illegally, government records show.
Tankers prime terrorist target in Strait: seminar THE vulnerability of marine traffic - particularly tankers - to terrorist or pirate attacks in the busy and economically vital Malacca Strait was highlighted at a seminar on sea security in Tokyo last week.
S Korea's Q1 ship exports down 24%
Khoo Teng Chye quits PSA; Grace Fu promoted
Air and Land Transport
New security duties make pilots' balancing act tougher THE MD-88 passenger jetliner was cruising above 25,000 feet but there was no one at the controls.
Hainan Airlines aims to acquire US carrier
China airlines expect record numbers
Air NZ CEO expects govt to sell its 82% stake: report
Prosecutor rules out suicide in Milan crash
DHL starts delivery service in Barbados
Features
More than 450 airport workers arrested HUNDREDS of employees with access to high-security areas of airports have been arrested on charges such as using phony social security numbers, lying about past criminal convictions or being in the United States illegally, government records show.
Tankers prime terrorist target in Strait: seminar THE vulnerability of marine traffic - particularly tankers - to terrorist or pirate attacks in the busy and economically vital Malacca Strait was highlighted at a seminar on sea security in Tokyo last week.
S Korea's Q1 ship exports down 24%
Khoo Teng Chye quits PSA; Grace Fu promoted
Air and Land Transport
New security duties make pilots' balancing act tougher THE MD-88 passenger jetliner was cruising above 25,000 feet but there was no one at the controls.
Hainan Airlines aims to acquire US carrier
China airlines expect record numbers
Air NZ CEO expects govt to sell its 82% stake: report
Prosecutor rules out suicide in Milan crash
DHL starts delivery service in Barbados
Features
More than 450 airport workers arrested HUNDREDS of employees with access to high-security areas of airports have been arrested on charges such as using phony social security numbers, lying about past criminal convictions or being in the United States illegally, government records show.
Another 350 jobs scrapped at ECT ECT, Europe's biggest container terminal operator, and part of Hutchison Whampoa, is to scrap another 350 jobs in 2002.
Swiss Cargo chief to leave By mutual consent and with immediate effect, Swiss is separating itself from Heinz Kupferschmid, until now Head of the Cargo Division.
Again UK-US airline talks UK ministers will come under pressure this week to seek fresh talks with the US aimed at liberalizing air services across the Atlantic.
UAL in tentative pay deal United Airlines removed the last hurdle to talks with all its major unions over concessions when the ailing airline reached a tentative pay deal with its largest union.
22.5 per cent net raise Kühne & Nagel Kühne & Nagel, the Swiss-based logistics company, notched up a 22.5 per cent rise in first-quarter net profits, to SFr 38.1 million ($23.5 million).
China Post extends deadline for DHL, TPG China Post extended its deadline for express delivery companies like FedEx, UPS, DHL and TPG to comply with new restrictions on their businesses.
PSA-boss allowed to go PSA Corporation said its Group President, Khoo Teng Chye, will be leaving PSA on 1 May 2002. More of the management of the troubled Singapore port operator is reshuffled too.
New World Alliance to leave Rotterdam The New World Alliance (NWA) decided to leave the port of Rotterdam in Mai 2002 with one of its Asia-Europe services.
Greenpeace vows to halt nuclear cargo shipments ENVIRONMENTAL activists yesterday vowed to stop "the most controversial nuclear shipment in history" as two armed British-flagged vessels set sail from Barrow-in-Furness to Japan to pick up a cargo containing enough plutonium to build 50 nuclear bombs.
Hamburg Süd to order six more containerships GERMAN north-south liner shipping specialist Hamburg Süd said yesterday that it expects to order a further six 3,800 teu vessels later this year, despite ongoing uncertainty in the container trades.
PSA Corp president Khoo bows out in wake of Evergreen loss PSA Corp group president Khoo Teng Chye has resigned just a month after the container terminal giant lost Evergreen Marine to its bitter rival the Port of Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia.
Hamburg Süd sees ongoing rate pressures from new vessels The carrier says newly-added capacity will squeeze rates despite improved forecasts.
Hapag-Lloyd sales, profit gain Results improved for the container carrier despite weaker demand and a significant decline in rates.
Talks to end shipyard subsidies The European Union, Japan, South Korea and Norway have agreed to begin negotiations on a treaty aimed at outlawing government aid to shipbuilders.
TNWA concentre le loop CEX sur Anvers Depuis plusieurs mois, il est question que le groupe The New World Alliance (TNWA) transfère ses services de Rotterdam sur Anvers, ce qui a évidemment provoqué de sérieux remous de l’autre côté du Moerdijk, plus particulièrement chez ECT, qui risquait de perdre un paquet annuel de quelque 450.000 TEU. Inutile de dire que du côté d’ECT on a multiplié les maneuvres et contre-offres afin d’éviter ce transfert. D’après les informations dont nous disposons, une première décision est finalement tombée, qui se traduira par un moindre mal pour Rotterdam. TNWA va concentrer un de ses trois loops nord-européens, le service CEX (China Europe-Express), sur Anvers, au détriment de Rotterdam.
Duisbourg poursuit son vaste programme d’investissement Le port intérieur de Duisbourg, le plus grand d’Europe, vient de clôturer une excellente année et poursuit sans relâche sa réorientation stratégique, passant d’un port vraquier traditionnel à un important hub logistique européen. La croissance du chiffre d’affaires de l’an dernier est toutefois entièrement à mettre à l’actif de la gestion terrestre et pas des activités portuaires, qui sont en recul suite à la faible conjoncture économique et à des modifications structurelles. Les investissements ont atteint l’an dernier un record absolu.
Le port d’Anvers met en service un scanner à containers mobile L’administration des douanes du district Anvers vient de recevoir son premier scanner à containers mobile pour renforcer les contrôles de containers dans le port. Il s’agit du HCV-Mobile de l’entreprise spécialisée en systèmes de sécurité Heimann Systems. L’achat a coûté à l’autorité belge 4.375.000 EUR. Selon le ministre des Finances Didier Reynders, les fonds nécessaires pour l’achat d’un deuxième scanner ont déjà été libérés.
La navigation de ligne à l’aube d’oligopoles en raison de la concurrence? Les grands oligopoles maritimes sont-ils inévitables dans un monde où le libre-échange et la globalisation sont la norme? Chris Bourne, managing director de MOL (Europe), pense que la chute des frets et la forte pression concurrentielle pourraient entraîner à terme des fusions et acquisitions forcées dans la navigation de ligne et annoncer la création de méga groupes. Le transport maritime de containers a été très rentable en 2000 grâce à une faible augmentation de la capacité par rapport à la demande, a-t-il dit à la conférence londonienne. Un an plus tard, la navigation de ligne ne l’était plus du tout en raison de la faible demande et de l’écroulement des frets.
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