Misc moves nearer to being top energy transporter EVEN a few short years ago, many would have scoffed at the notion that a home-grown Malaysian shipping company could one day become the world's leading energy-based transportation company.
PSA's S'pore throughput down 5.3% in April THE combination of Sars and robust March volumes saw PSA Corporation register a 5.3 per cent drop in its Singapore throughput last month compared to March, while still registering year-on-year increases at both its local and overseas operations.
P&O ports handle 30% more containers in Q1 PENINSULAR & Oriental Steam Navigation Co , the UK's No 1 shipping company, said the number of containers handled at its ports in the first quarter rose 30 per cent, boosted by growth in Asia.
Air and Land Transport
easyJet sinks to half-year loss as price war escalates BRITISH no-frills airline easyJet said on Wednesday it had slipped into the red over the past six months, hit by bitter price wars with its low-cost rivals as well as seasonal factors.
US carriers' woes hit airport operators
Garuda plans to lay off workers
KLM posts record full-year net loss
S Korean truckers step up labour action
LOG Book
Port Shots
PORT Shots BRAEMAR Seascope Group plc, which brokers ships to transport oil, chemicals and grain, had a fiscal-year profit of 1.8 million , after the acquisition of Braemar Tankers Ltd increased sales.
Misc moves nearer to being top energy transporter EVEN a few short years ago, many would have scoffed at the notion that a home-grown Malaysian shipping company could one day become the world's leading energy-based transportation company.
PSA's S'pore throughput down 5.3% in April THE combination of Sars and robust March volumes saw PSA Corporation register a 5.3 per cent drop in its Singapore throughput last month compared to March, while still registering year-on-year increases at both its local and overseas operations.
P&O ports handle 30% more containers in Q1 PENINSULAR & Oriental Steam Navigation Co , the UK's No 1 shipping company, said the number of containers handled at its ports in the first quarter rose 30 per cent, boosted by growth in Asia.
Air and Land Transport
easyJet sinks to half-year loss as price war escalates BRITISH no-frills airline easyJet said on Wednesday it had slipped into the red over the past six months, hit by bitter price wars with its low-cost rivals as well as seasonal factors.
US carriers' woes hit airport operators
Garuda plans to lay off workers
KLM posts record full-year net loss
S Korean truckers step up labour action
LOG Book
Port Shots
PORT Shots BRAEMAR Seascope Group plc, which brokers ships to transport oil, chemicals and grain, had a fiscal-year profit of 1.8 million , after the acquisition of Braemar Tankers Ltd increased sales.
Misc moves nearer to being top energy transporter EVEN a few short years ago, many would have scoffed at the notion that a home-grown Malaysian shipping company could one day become the world's leading energy-based transportation company.
PSA's S'pore throughput down 5.3% in April THE combination of Sars and robust March volumes saw PSA Corporation register a 5.3 per cent drop in its Singapore throughput last month compared to March, while still registering year-on-year increases at both its local and overseas operations.
P&O ports handle 30% more containers in Q1 PENINSULAR & Oriental Steam Navigation Co , the UK's No 1 shipping company, said the number of containers handled at its ports in the first quarter rose 30 per cent, boosted by growth in Asia.
Air and Land Transport
easyJet sinks to half-year loss as price war escalates BRITISH no-frills airline easyJet said on Wednesday it had slipped into the red over the past six months, hit by bitter price wars with its low-cost rivals as well as seasonal factors.
US carriers' woes hit airport operators
Garuda plans to lay off workers
KLM posts record full-year net loss
S Korean truckers step up labour action
LOG Book
Port Shots
PORT Shots BRAEMAR Seascope Group plc, which brokers ships to transport oil, chemicals and grain, had a fiscal-year profit of 1.8 million , after the acquisition of Braemar Tankers Ltd increased sales.
Hornbeck Offshore reports increased revenue Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. reported that revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2003 increased 20.3 percent to $27.3 million compared to $22.7 million for the same quarter in 2002
EC makes sweeping maritime security proposals The European Commission is proposing regulations on maritime and port security that, it says, go beyond IMO requirements.
Brussels in blitz on ship and port security THE European Commission is to draw up sweeping new shipping and port security guidelines based on, but going well beyond, proposals in the International Maritime Organisation pipeline.
MOL orders six VLCCs in single hull phase-out drive AS PART of its continuing tanker renewal programme Mitsui OSK Lines president Kunio Suzuki announced yesterday a half-dozen double-hulled very large crude carrier orders to be built in Japan.
Oil pollution fund agrees to start Prestige claim payments THE International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund will make initial payments covering 15% of approved claims filed by those affected by the Prestige spill.
Festival files anti-Carnival complaint FESTIVAL Cruises is not giving up its opposition to the merger clinched last month between Carnival Corp and P&O Princess Cruises.
Non-union planning jobs will go Labor strengthens its grip on West Coast ports after National Labor Relations Board declines to protect non-union planning positions for terminal operator Stevedoring Services of America.
Terminal operators petition Feds for port security discussion group Operators, carriers want to talk about pending Coast Guard port-security regulations.
Bleak medium term outlook for PONL as losses mount Investment banker Dan Clague of Societe Generale has called into question P&O Nedlloyd's (PONL) ability to make adequate returns over the medium term following the line's continued losses.
Rio Grande opts for emergency dredge Dredging of the access canal to Brazil's second largest container port, Rio Grande, is scheduled to start this weekend, according to port technical director, Airton Rocha.
Armed guards protect Exel cargo in Asia
Recession behind Puerto Cabello volume collapse
Under-funding to hit competitiveness of Germany's waterways
The Suez Canal Authority has announced that it will introduce surcharges on transit tariffs through the Egyptian canal for most major cargo vessels, effective July 15.
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