MPA unveils $100m maritime tech R&D fund THE Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore unveiled its roadmap for maritime technology R&D yesterday, underpinned by a $100 million catalyst fund to be spread over 10 years.
IMO opens first Asian office THE International Maritime Organisation opened its first Asian office with the inauguration of the IMO Regional Presence Office in Manila yesterday.
Evergreen planning US$3b expansion EVERGREEN Group, the world's fourth-largest shipping company by container capacity, plans to spend almost US$3 billion in the next 10 years to expand and upgrade its fleet to take advantage of a recovering global economy.
North Sea oil slick shrinks MOST of a North Sea oil slick from the sunken cargo ship Tricolor has disappeared, reducing the threat of pollution to the Belgian and Dutch coastline for now, maritime officials said on Tuesday.
Air and Land Transport
Airline recovery still some way off: BA's Eddington BRITISH Airways Plc chief executive officer Rod Eddington said a recovery in the airline industry is 'some way off' as European economies struggle to pull out of recession and concerns over terrorism deter people from flying.
Air India planning China flights
Taipei proposes cargo flights to China
New runway at Frankfurt to open in early 2007: Fraport
Lufthansa passenger numbers stable
KLM-Air France pact possible soon
Features
Training seafarers for China's expanding fleet THERE are 464,500 Chinese seafarers including ocean-going, near sea-going and river-trade seafarers.
Port Shots
Port Shots BRITAIN's biggest port operator Associated British Ports Holdings reported a better-than-expected one per cent drop in H1 pre-tax profit before goodwill, amortisation and exceptional items to 66.6 million .
MPA unveils $100m maritime tech R&D fund THE Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore unveiled its roadmap for maritime technology R&D yesterday, underpinned by a $100 million catalyst fund to be spread over 10 years.
IMO opens first Asian office THE International Maritime Organisation opened its first Asian office with the inauguration of the IMO Regional Presence Office in Manila yesterday.
Evergreen planning US$3b expansion EVERGREEN Group, the world's fourth-largest shipping company by container capacity, plans to spend almost US$3 billion in the next 10 years to expand and upgrade its fleet to take advantage of a recovering global economy.
North Sea oil slick shrinks MOST of a North Sea oil slick from the sunken cargo ship Tricolor has disappeared, reducing the threat of pollution to the Belgian and Dutch coastline for now, maritime officials said on Tuesday.
Air and Land Transport
Airline recovery still some way off: BA's Eddington BRITISH Airways Plc chief executive officer Rod Eddington said a recovery in the airline industry is 'some way off' as European economies struggle to pull out of recession and concerns over terrorism deter people from flying.
Air India planning China flights
Taipei proposes cargo flights to China
New runway at Frankfurt to open in early 2007: Fraport
Lufthansa passenger numbers stable
KLM-Air France pact possible soon
Features
Training seafarers for China's expanding fleet THERE are 464,500 Chinese seafarers including ocean-going, near sea-going and river-trade seafarers.
Port Shots
Port Shots BRITAIN's biggest port operator Associated British Ports Holdings reported a better-than-expected one per cent drop in H1 pre-tax profit before goodwill, amortisation and exceptional items to 66.6 million .
MPA unveils $100m maritime tech R&D fund THE Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore unveiled its roadmap for maritime technology R&D yesterday, underpinned by a $100 million catalyst fund to be spread over 10 years.
IMO opens first Asian office THE International Maritime Organisation opened its first Asian office with the inauguration of the IMO Regional Presence Office in Manila yesterday.
Evergreen planning US$3b expansion EVERGREEN Group, the world's fourth-largest shipping company by container capacity, plans to spend almost US$3 billion in the next 10 years to expand and upgrade its fleet to take advantage of a recovering global economy.
North Sea oil slick shrinks MOST of a North Sea oil slick from the sunken cargo ship Tricolor has disappeared, reducing the threat of pollution to the Belgian and Dutch coastline for now, maritime officials said on Tuesday.
Air and Land Transport
Airline recovery still some way off: BA's Eddington BRITISH Airways Plc chief executive officer Rod Eddington said a recovery in the airline industry is 'some way off' as European economies struggle to pull out of recession and concerns over terrorism deter people from flying.
Air India planning China flights
Taipei proposes cargo flights to China
New runway at Frankfurt to open in early 2007: Fraport
Lufthansa passenger numbers stable
KLM-Air France pact possible soon
Features
Training seafarers for China's expanding fleet THERE are 464,500 Chinese seafarers including ocean-going, near sea-going and river-trade seafarers.
Port Shots
Port Shots BRITAIN's biggest port operator Associated British Ports Holdings reported a better-than-expected one per cent drop in H1 pre-tax profit before goodwill, amortisation and exceptional items to 66.6 million .
MPA unveils $100m maritime tech R&D fund THE Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore unveiled its roadmap for maritime technology R&D yesterday, underpinned by a $100 million catalyst fund to be spread over 10 years.
IMO opens first Asian office THE International Maritime Organisation opened its first Asian office with the inauguration of the IMO Regional Presence Office in Manila yesterday.
Evergreen planning US$3b expansion EVERGREEN Group, the world's fourth-largest shipping company by container capacity, plans to spend almost US$3 billion in the next 10 years to expand and upgrade its fleet to take advantage of a recovering global economy.
North Sea oil slick shrinks MOST of a North Sea oil slick from the sunken cargo ship Tricolor has disappeared, reducing the threat of pollution to the Belgian and Dutch coastline for now, maritime officials said on Tuesday.
Air and Land Transport
Airline recovery still some way off: BA's Eddington BRITISH Airways Plc chief executive officer Rod Eddington said a recovery in the airline industry is 'some way off' as European economies struggle to pull out of recession and concerns over terrorism deter people from flying.
Air India planning China flights
Taipei proposes cargo flights to China
New runway at Frankfurt to open in early 2007: Fraport
Lufthansa passenger numbers stable
KLM-Air France pact possible soon
Features
Training seafarers for China's expanding fleet THERE are 464,500 Chinese seafarers including ocean-going, near sea-going and river-trade seafarers.
Port Shots
Port Shots BRITAIN's biggest port operator Associated British Ports Holdings reported a better-than-expected one per cent drop in H1 pre-tax profit before goodwill, amortisation and exceptional items to 66.6 million .
US crude stocks fall but overall oil stocks on the rise The latest weekly reports form DOE and API went against market expectations of a moderate crude build and draw in gasoline stocks, and showed a bigger-than-expected rise in stock of distillates.
California: Cautious optimism on new Bunker Tax Bill The Californian bunker industry now entertains well-founded hopes that the damaging bunker sales tax could be abolished shortly as it has the support of several state senators. A new bill, Senate Bill 808, is facing the first of 2 hearings today and later a vote at the Californian Assembly and Senate floors. If it goes through, it would be on the state Governor's desk shortly, where last year's decision to veto the bunker tax exemption seems less likely this time around.
Piraeus numbers fall - but not enough to tempt back business
New Saudi posted prices
Singapore: MPA to focus on upgrading existing licence holders We asked the MPA if they could give a reason for rejecting Petco's application, and if indeed it will not issue any new bunkering licences until 1 June 2005.
Tanker crew rights given boost by Pex amendments Tanker owners have welcomed proposed changes to the much-feared draft European directive on ship-source pollution and criminal sanctions that have been put forward by Dutch Euro-MP Peter Pex.
Stolt-Nielsen clients promised lower prices after revamp CLIENTS of Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group, the beleaguered chemical transport group, have been promised lower prices in the coming months as a direct result of a revamp initiated by the company's new managing director of tanker trading.
Iraq talks up oil revival plans IRAQ'S oil ministry plans to raise the country's production to pre-war levels by March next year and could take it past 3m barrels per day.
Pierre Aury to head Clarksons' new subsidiary CLARKSONS, a leading shipbroking and shipping services group, has hired freight derivatives expert Pierre Aury to spearhead new subsidiary Clarkson Capital.
Air-cargo 'passenger' shows security flaws in aviation, say executives The arrest of a New York man who shipped himself in a crate to Dallas demonstrates the vulnerability of air transport to potential terrorists, industry executives say.
Lufthansa slump hurts rally hopes Europe's largest scheduled air-cargo airline quashed hopes of a pre-Christmas rally as shipments in August fell by more than 5 percent from a year ago.
Jump for Hong Kong air cargo
U.S.-Canada bridge to get truck-only lanes
Atlas Air moves to Pink Sheets
China could change VAT refunds: Report
Environmentalists challenge "ghost fleet" transfer
More talks in attempt to diffuse escalating Canadian intermodal dispute Protesting Canadian truckers have said that they want to bring the national intermodal system to a halt in a bid to convince rail companies become more operationally efficient.
Democrat senators lambaste President's security policy for being 'long on rhetoric and short on substance' Leading politicians have slammed the Bush Administration's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which they say is 'creating disasters just waiting to happen'.
Lack of charter activity down to lack of ships says broker
Indian authorities aim port cost benefits at shippers
Swan sets sail early with one ship north Baltic service
NZ to have toughest biosecurity regime
ICF seeking to reposition itself in European market
Hurricane Fabian leaves squalls over cargo in its wake
CSAV's Montemar due to add third West African feeder
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