High-tech ID for seafarers moves closer to reality HIGH-tech identity cards for the world's 1.2 million seafarers incorporating bio-metric data like DNA information moved one step closer to reality with the opening of the International Labour Organisation's diplomatic conference last week.
Kwai Chung's volumes up 9.6% HONG Kong's main container terminals at Kwai Chung handled 9.6 per cent more containers in the first five months of 2003.
Evergreen's US East Coast ops seen back to normal soon EVERGREEN Marine Corp expects its US east coast operations to quickly return to normal after withdrawing illegal strike charges against the International Longshoremen's Association .
Hanjin expects profit to rise 14% HANJIN Heavy Industries & Construction Co, South Korea's fifth-largest shipbuilder, said it expects this year's operating profit to rise 14 per cent as the company reduces debt and wins more orders for ships and construction contracts.
Ship sinking in Bay of Bengal, crew rescued A cargo ship carrying timber from the Malaysian port city of Penang was sinking off India's eastern coast, officials said yesterday.
Life returns to normal at Shenzhen port LIFE has returned to normal at Shenzhen, China's busiest port, since World Health Organization lifted on May 23 an advisory against travel to Guangdong province and Hong Kong to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome .
Air and Land Transport
jetBlue places US$3b order for 100 Embraer planes JETBLUE Airways Corp said on Tuesday that it was ordering 100 regional jets for US$3 billion from Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft maker, in order to give its fleet more flexibility in adding routes.
Firm claiming to be airline ordered to stop selling tickets to Hawaii
Canadian air controllers reach tentative contract
Newbuilds
Boxship building boom continues but tanker market unclear THE big container lines appear to be in no doubt about the need for substantial extra tonnage and several seem to think German finance is the best means to acquire new vessels.
Bulletin Board
Bulletin Board K-Line Singapore has announced that managing director Juro Shiga will be returning to Tokyo to assume a new position after being based in Singapore for the last six years.
High-tech ID for seafarers moves closer to reality HIGH-tech identity cards for the world's 1.2 million seafarers incorporating bio-metric data like DNA information moved one step closer to reality with the opening of the International Labour Organisation's diplomatic conference last week.
Kwai Chung's volumes up 9.6% HONG Kong's main container terminals at Kwai Chung handled 9.6 per cent more containers in the first five months of 2003.
Evergreen's US East Coast ops seen back to normal soon EVERGREEN Marine Corp expects its US east coast operations to quickly return to normal after withdrawing illegal strike charges against the International Longshoremen's Association .
Hanjin expects profit to rise 14% HANJIN Heavy Industries & Construction Co, South Korea's fifth-largest shipbuilder, said it expects this year's operating profit to rise 14 per cent as the company reduces debt and wins more orders for ships and construction contracts.
Ship sinking in Bay of Bengal, crew rescued A cargo ship carrying timber from the Malaysian port city of Penang was sinking off India's eastern coast, officials said yesterday.
Life returns to normal at Shenzhen port LIFE has returned to normal at Shenzhen, China's busiest port, since World Health Organization lifted on May 23 an advisory against travel to Guangdong province and Hong Kong to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome .
Air and Land Transport
jetBlue places US$3b order for 100 Embraer planes JETBLUE Airways Corp said on Tuesday that it was ordering 100 regional jets for US$3 billion from Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft maker, in order to give its fleet more flexibility in adding routes.
Firm claiming to be airline ordered to stop selling tickets to Hawaii
Canadian air controllers reach tentative contract
Newbuilds
Boxship building boom continues but tanker market unclear THE big container lines appear to be in no doubt about the need for substantial extra tonnage and several seem to think German finance is the best means to acquire new vessels.
Bulletin Board
Bulletin Board K-Line Singapore has announced that managing director Juro Shiga will be returning to Tokyo to assume a new position after being based in Singapore for the last six years.
High-tech ID for seafarers moves closer to reality HIGH-tech identity cards for the world's 1.2 million seafarers incorporating bio-metric data like DNA information moved one step closer to reality with the opening of the International Labour Organisation's diplomatic conference last week.
Kwai Chung's volumes up 9.6% HONG Kong's main container terminals at Kwai Chung handled 9.6 per cent more containers in the first five months of 2003.
Evergreen's US East Coast ops seen back to normal soon EVERGREEN Marine Corp expects its US east coast operations to quickly return to normal after withdrawing illegal strike charges against the International Longshoremen's Association .
Hanjin expects profit to rise 14% HANJIN Heavy Industries & Construction Co, South Korea's fifth-largest shipbuilder, said it expects this year's operating profit to rise 14 per cent as the company reduces debt and wins more orders for ships and construction contracts.
Ship sinking in Bay of Bengal, crew rescued A cargo ship carrying timber from the Malaysian port city of Penang was sinking off India's eastern coast, officials said yesterday.
Life returns to normal at Shenzhen port LIFE has returned to normal at Shenzhen, China's busiest port, since World Health Organization lifted on May 23 an advisory against travel to Guangdong province and Hong Kong to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome .
Air and Land Transport
jetBlue places US$3b order for 100 Embraer planes JETBLUE Airways Corp said on Tuesday that it was ordering 100 regional jets for US$3 billion from Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft maker, in order to give its fleet more flexibility in adding routes.
Firm claiming to be airline ordered to stop selling tickets to Hawaii
Canadian air controllers reach tentative contract
Newbuilds
Boxship building boom continues but tanker market unclear THE big container lines appear to be in no doubt about the need for substantial extra tonnage and several seem to think German finance is the best means to acquire new vessels.
Bulletin Board
Bulletin Board K-Line Singapore has announced that managing director Juro Shiga will be returning to Tokyo to assume a new position after being based in Singapore for the last six years.
High-tech ID for seafarers moves closer to reality HIGH-tech identity cards for the world's 1.2 million seafarers incorporating bio-metric data like DNA information moved one step closer to reality with the opening of the International Labour Organisation's diplomatic conference last week.
Kwai Chung's volumes up 9.6% HONG Kong's main container terminals at Kwai Chung handled 9.6 per cent more containers in the first five months of 2003.
Evergreen's US East Coast ops seen back to normal soon EVERGREEN Marine Corp expects its US east coast operations to quickly return to normal after withdrawing illegal strike charges against the International Longshoremen's Association .
Hanjin expects profit to rise 14% HANJIN Heavy Industries & Construction Co, South Korea's fifth-largest shipbuilder, said it expects this year's operating profit to rise 14 per cent as the company reduces debt and wins more orders for ships and construction contracts.
Ship sinking in Bay of Bengal, crew rescued A cargo ship carrying timber from the Malaysian port city of Penang was sinking off India's eastern coast, officials said yesterday.
Life returns to normal at Shenzhen port LIFE has returned to normal at Shenzhen, China's busiest port, since World Health Organization lifted on May 23 an advisory against travel to Guangdong province and Hong Kong to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome .
Air and Land Transport
jetBlue places US$3b order for 100 Embraer planes JETBLUE Airways Corp said on Tuesday that it was ordering 100 regional jets for US$3 billion from Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft maker, in order to give its fleet more flexibility in adding routes.
Firm claiming to be airline ordered to stop selling tickets to Hawaii
Canadian air controllers reach tentative contract
Newbuilds
Boxship building boom continues but tanker market unclear THE big container lines appear to be in no doubt about the need for substantial extra tonnage and several seem to think German finance is the best means to acquire new vessels.
Bulletin Board
Bulletin Board K-Line Singapore has announced that managing director Juro Shiga will be returning to Tokyo to assume a new position after being based in Singapore for the last six years.
US crude stocks shrink as imports fall, products gain US crude stocks are down after imports eased last week, widening the year-on-year deficit. Total US stocks of crude and petroleum products are about 10% down on this time last year despite a rise in gasoline and distillate inventories.
Istanbul: High competition and low pricing fail to stir demand
Ray of hope for more competitively priced product in Piraeus
High Korean numbers continue to deflect business
New Saudi posted prices
OPEC decides to keep quotas, meet again at end of July OPEC officials have hinted at a possible OPEC cut in September, which might correspond with an increase in Iraqi oil production.
World Bank unit backs Brazil PSV venture The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, is to provide up to $70 million to UP Offshore, a start-up shipping group with subsidiaries incorporated in Brazil and Panama.
Asbestos slows NTSB Norway probe The NTSB has released more details of its investigation into the S.S. Norway boiler room accident
EC takes another step in shipbuilding row Formally requests WTO panel on Korean shipbuilding practices
Orders for Aker German yards Three 2,478 TEU containerships for $115 million
MSC agrees best practice on shipbreaking MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Co has agreed voluntarily to follow best practice in shipbreaking after a meeting with Greenpeace activists and Bangladeshi breaking yard workers in Geneva earlier this week.
Brussels opens new front against Korean yard cash BRUSSELS has ramped up its three-year battle to outlaw South Korean shipyard subsidies that are crippling European rivals.
Oil quotas remain static as Opec watches Iraq THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries left output quotas unchanged at its meeting in Doha, but hinted at the possibility of crude cuts after its next meeting in July.
Evergreen moves to end port captain strike EVERGREEN has sought to end the disruption to its US operations caused by a port captain strike with a conciliatory move.
Evergreen, ILA to hold contract talks International Longshoremen's Association returns to work one day after carrier withdraws complaint with federal labor board and agrees to bargain with port captains who voted for union representation.
EU escalates Korea shipyard fight The European Union calls for the World Trade Organization to set up a panel to investigate its charges of unfair trading practices by South Korea.
British ports back up to speed after computer crash
U.S.-Canada group pushes new border crossing
Frankfurt extends air-freight rally
Norasia, MOL to launch India-Europe service
Malaysia's Penang readies tracking upgrade
Maine ports get $2M for security
Gillen new sales VP for Pilot Air Freight
Antonov begins flights into Basra
Tideworks technology offers global tracking tool
Waste not, want not: Portland buys closed port terminal for sewer project
Evergreen: USEC dispute settled, as Rotterdam visit sparks speculation on European hub Evergreen America has reached a deal with the International Logshoremen's Association (ILA) in their long running dispute over union recognition for port captains.
Busan intensifies regional battle for transhipment cargo Busan Regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Office announced today that it will cut port entrance fees for transhipment cargo by 50% from July 1 to December 31, 2004.
Overhaul of Pacific services leaves CSCL with surplus tonnage
US Coast Guard to assess foreign port security and block vessels from failing ports
Brisbane on expansion trail again
Warehousing deal moves Eurogate further into Russia
Sleepy charter market slips prematurely into summer torpor
CSXWT introduces largest container barges to ply Rhine
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