Shanghai's port reforms aim to boost efficiency CHINA'S largest port is being reorganised in a bid to develop Shanghai into an international centre of maritime commerce.
Growth at China's top 10 ports up 35% CHINA's top 10 container ports averaged unprecedented growth of 35 per cent in 2002 - collectively handling 7.832 million more TEUs than in 2001, and show no signs of slowing.
New US cargo rules slightly slow HK container traffic CONTAINER shipping traffic slowed on Sunday at the sprawling Hong Kong, but maritime officials reported no serious disruptions as the US Customs Service began enforcing new anti-terrorism rules on cargo bound for American ports.
Daewoo, Hanjin win contracts worth US$410m DAEWOO Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co and Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co received ship orders worth a combined US$410 million, benefiting from a rebound in global trade and demand for safer oil tankers.
Russia's biggest oil port reopens RUSSIA, the world's No 2 oil supplier, reopened its largest oil port, at Novorossiisk on the Black Sea coast, after it was closed for most of last week because of storms, the Energy Ministry said.
Air and Land Transport
Boeing team may have to speed up shuttle replacement BOEING Co and Northrop Grumman Corp may be asked to speed development of a replacement for Nasa's ageing fleet of manned spacecraft after the destruction of the 22-year-old Columbia shuttle on Saturday, analysts said.
Dutch group decides not to buy Air Lib
Qantas averts strike by baggage handlers
JAS may ask for more time to pay 116b yen debt
Ryanair in talks with Boeing to increase jet order
Shanghai's port reforms aim to boost efficiency CHINA'S largest port is being reorganised in a bid to develop Shanghai into an international centre of maritime commerce.
Growth at China's top 10 ports up 35% CHINA's top 10 container ports averaged unprecedented growth of 35 per cent in 2002 - collectively handling 7.832 million more TEUs than in 2001, and show no signs of slowing.
New US cargo rules slightly slow HK container traffic CONTAINER shipping traffic slowed on Sunday at the sprawling Hong Kong, but maritime officials reported no serious disruptions as the US Customs Service began enforcing new anti-terrorism rules on cargo bound for American ports.
Daewoo, Hanjin win contracts worth US$410m DAEWOO Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co and Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co received ship orders worth a combined US$410 million, benefiting from a rebound in global trade and demand for safer oil tankers.
Russia's biggest oil port reopens RUSSIA, the world's No 2 oil supplier, reopened its largest oil port, at Novorossiisk on the Black Sea coast, after it was closed for most of last week because of storms, the Energy Ministry said.
Air and Land Transport
Boeing team may have to speed up shuttle replacement BOEING Co and Northrop Grumman Corp may be asked to speed development of a replacement for Nasa's ageing fleet of manned spacecraft after the destruction of the 22-year-old Columbia shuttle on Saturday, analysts said.
Dutch group decides not to buy Air Lib
Qantas averts strike by baggage handlers
JAS may ask for more time to pay 116b yen debt
Ryanair in talks with Boeing to increase jet order
BAA profits growth slower Profits growth at BAA, the UK airports group, was slowed to 1.1 per cent by higher interests and the cost of rising capital expenditure at London Heathrow.
Competition authorities approve Loomis takeover The Canadian competition authorities have approved the takeover of the Mayne Group Canada by DHL Worldwide Express on 31.01.2003.
UAL Q4 loss of $1.4 billion United Airlines parent UAL Corp, the world's second largest airline company, said its fourth quarter loss widened to $1.47 billion, reflecting growing costs that pushed it to seek bankruptcy protection in December.
KLM: more freighter capacity to Asia KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will adjust capacity to many destinations during the summer of 2003 due to market circumstances.
Deputy chief PSA to retire The man who led PSA Corporation's international expansion, Goon Kok Loon, will retire on March 1 after 37 years at the terminal operator.
Shuttle to hit marine insurers for $17m MARINE cargo insurers in London face a hit of around $17m from a slice of cover associated with the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle.
LevelSeas voyage ends with Clarksons buy AFTER months of intense speculation, major e-broking platform LevelSeas was finally acquired by shipbroking investor Clarksons yesterday for an undisclosed sum following a LevelSeas board meeting last week, writes Mark Warner.
Ice vessel row causes rift in Baltic A POLITICAL storm yesterday gathered force in the northern Baltic as Finland called on Russia to halt a tanker sailing the frozen Gulf of Finland and threatening an environmental disaster greater than the Prestigeoil spill, writes Jerry Frank.
24-hour rule: All quiet so far Neither carriers nor the World Shipping Council said they had received reports of Customs ordering containers held for non-compliance. The Chinese New Year could help explain that.
CSI kicks in at Bremerhaven Five U.S. Customs officials have been stationed at the North Sea port to support checks carried out by German agents on containers heading across the Atlantic.
Customers re-evaluating technology needs, executives say Technology providers say fallout from the dot-com dust-up emptied corporate budgets in 2000, and the dot-com era that inspired indiscriminate technology spending is gone.
BAA profit rises on strong cargo volume
Russian ship sinks in Black Sea
Fourth-quarter earnings jump at Airborne
KLM to boost cargo capacity in March
Hanjin Heavy Industries wins German ship order
Developer offers new online service for air cargo
Most flights operating normally despite strike, Air France says
Schneider Logistics names director of business development
US Customs' says 24hr rule gets 100% compliance Despite industry fears that containers would be stacked at ports around the world, full implementation of the US Customs Services' 24-hour rule appears to have gone smoothly.
Antwerp PA consults West Bank customers on Phase 3 West Antwerp Port Authority has said it will consult with existing customers on the Deurganckdok on the next stage of its development.
Wine exports drive US direct service call at Adelaide
Soaring South-China volumes to create terminal capacity shortfall by 2010
Nervy NZ shippers meet advance manifest deadline
Service 'rationalisation' creates new look Vietnam loop
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