Indonesia still top hotspot for piracy INDONESIA once again has the dubious honour of topping the ranks in global piracy with 27 per cent of world-wide attacks - including the most violent - occurring within its waters, according to the ICC International Maritime Bureau.
PSA's Belgian unit wins legal tussle in expansion project PSA's Belgian port operations subsidiary Hesse Noord Natie faces one less challenge to its expansion ambitions after a Flemish court threw out an anti-development appeal by neighbouring Belgian villagers.
Greenpeace USA indicted by federal grand jury GREENPEACE USA has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami following an incident in April 2002 in which two of its activists boarded a container ship belonging to Neptune Orient Lines .
HK's new terminal faces mainland competition HONG Kong's Container Terminal 9, which opened on Tuesday, may struggle to attract ships as lower rates at rival terminals in southern China threaten the city's status as the world's busiest seaport, analysts and investors said.
Air and Land Transport
UPS Q2 profit up 13% on boost from int'l business UNITED Parcel Service Inc , the world's largest package-delivery company, said profit in the second quarter rose 13 per cent as currency gains boosted earnings from outside the US.
BA faces strikes after union talks fail to resolve dispute
Star hopes Air China will join alliance soon
KLM gets employees' nod to start job cuts
Asiana Air fined for violating disclosure rules
LOG Book
Newbuilds
Stena revolution continues, although rather slowly WHEN, a few years ago, the president of Concordia Maritime, a tanker company within Sweden's Stena Group, announced the V-Max VLCC he did so with the fervour of a revolutionary.
Indonesia still top hotspot for piracy INDONESIA once again has the dubious honour of topping the ranks in global piracy with 27 per cent of world-wide attacks - including the most violent - occurring within its waters, according to the ICC International Maritime Bureau.
PSA's Belgian unit wins legal tussle in expansion project PSA's Belgian port operations subsidiary Hesse Noord Natie faces one less challenge to its expansion ambitions after a Flemish court threw out an anti-development appeal by neighbouring Belgian villagers.
Greenpeace USA indicted by federal grand jury GREENPEACE USA has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami following an incident in April 2002 in which two of its activists boarded a container ship belonging to Neptune Orient Lines .
HK's new terminal faces mainland competition HONG Kong's Container Terminal 9, which opened on Tuesday, may struggle to attract ships as lower rates at rival terminals in southern China threaten the city's status as the world's busiest seaport, analysts and investors said.
Air and Land Transport
UPS Q2 profit up 13% on boost from int'l business UNITED Parcel Service Inc , the world's largest package-delivery company, said profit in the second quarter rose 13 per cent as currency gains boosted earnings from outside the US.
BA faces strikes after union talks fail to resolve dispute
Star hopes Air China will join alliance soon
KLM gets employees' nod to start job cuts
Asiana Air fined for violating disclosure rules
LOG Book
Newbuilds
Stena revolution continues, although rather slowly WHEN, a few years ago, the president of Concordia Maritime, a tanker company within Sweden's Stena Group, announced the V-Max VLCC he did so with the fervour of a revolutionary.
Indonesia still top hotspot for piracy INDONESIA once again has the dubious honour of topping the ranks in global piracy with 27 per cent of world-wide attacks - including the most violent - occurring within its waters, according to the ICC International Maritime Bureau.
PSA's Belgian unit wins legal tussle in expansion project PSA's Belgian port operations subsidiary Hesse Noord Natie faces one less challenge to its expansion ambitions after a Flemish court threw out an anti-development appeal by neighbouring Belgian villagers.
Greenpeace USA indicted by federal grand jury GREENPEACE USA has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami following an incident in April 2002 in which two of its activists boarded a container ship belonging to Neptune Orient Lines .
HK's new terminal faces mainland competition HONG Kong's Container Terminal 9, which opened on Tuesday, may struggle to attract ships as lower rates at rival terminals in southern China threaten the city's status as the world's busiest seaport, analysts and investors said.
Air and Land Transport
UPS Q2 profit up 13% on boost from int'l business UNITED Parcel Service Inc , the world's largest package-delivery company, said profit in the second quarter rose 13 per cent as currency gains boosted earnings from outside the US.
BA faces strikes after union talks fail to resolve dispute
Star hopes Air China will join alliance soon
KLM gets employees' nod to start job cuts
Asiana Air fined for violating disclosure rules
LOG Book
Newbuilds
Stena revolution continues, although rather slowly WHEN, a few years ago, the president of Concordia Maritime, a tanker company within Sweden's Stena Group, announced the V-Max VLCC he did so with the fervour of a revolutionary.
Gulf Coast softens with yesterday's crude and cargo losses
US oil stock decline seen as neutral in consolidating market Weekly statistics on US stocks of crude and oil products out today look quite bullish at first glance, but were evidently not bullish enough to shake the corrective mood in the oil market straight away.
New Saudi posted prices, markets soft
Its official: EU adopts single-hull legislation ahead of IMO The Council of the European Union yesterday formally adopted new European-wide regulation regarding the phase-out of single-hull tankers, the Condition Assessment Scheme and a ban on the transport of heavy grades of oil in single-hull tankers. IMO's MEPC is due to meet in December to discuss similar proposals.
GAC: Weekly African market report
Istanbul: Buyers sit on fence as market drops
Healthy Greece slips lower
Egyptian prices ease along with tight gasoil avails
Korea stays quiet - for the time being
Crude moves sideways after big sell-off, eyeing US data Crude prices fell sharply yesterday as the sell-off got a further boost on reports that both Saddam Hussein's sons were killed in Iraq yesterday.
Penn to succeed Buckley as Baltic chief THE Baltic Exchange has appointed Jeremy Penn, formerly with Reuters, as its next chief executive, to succeed Jim Buckley in the spring of 2004.
European single hull ban in force within weeks CONTROVERSIAL steps to accelerate the phasing out of single hull tankers and ban them from entering European ports will be in force by the end of next month after the European Union's Council of Ministers this week gave its definitive approval to the new regulation.
Poten behind new $250m LNG import plant in US Poten & Partners, the New York-based shipbroking and consultancy group, is behind a new $250m LNG import terminal project in the US.
Bahamas and Greece agree to collaborate with class on safety standards for new ships A NEW accord between the Bahamas and Greece and the International Association of Classification Societies appears to have defused the row which broke out last year at the International Maritime Organisation.
Pellicari quits Costa and may go to MSC COSTA Crociere senior vice-president Franco Pellicari has resigned after 48 years with the Italian cruise company.
Customs issues cargo-reporting rules Long-awaited rules require advance electronic reporting of cargo data for all transportation modes.
Maher: Increased cargo not a 'given' The next contract between the International Longshoremen's Association and waterfront management in Atlantic and Gulf ports will influence the port industry's health for decades to come, terminal executive says.
Hong Kong forecasts 20M TEUs in '03 Hong Kong expects the opening of a new terminal to cement its position as the world's busiest container port.
Raymond supports SEA-21 program
Hollings wants extra $300M for port security
Norfolk Southern earnings gain
Canadian Pacific Railway profits plunge
TSA issues new transport ID card
Hanjin adds new trans-Pac ship
Pakistani airline offers express
Growth for Marshall Islands register
Exel acquires Brazil healthcare logistics business
Maersk, Concor launch India's largest ICD this month Maersk India and Container Corporation of India (Concor) are to open a 1m TEU inland container depot (ICD), one of Asia's largest, at Dadri near New Delhi by the end of July.
Second typhoon halts Hong Kong container opeations Hong Kong's Kwai Chung port came to a standstill at 17:00hrs today as workers battened down hatches and lashed containers and loose equipment ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Imbudo.
New Teamsters leader to push organisation of port drivers
Charter rate gains accelerate again
US, Canada launch harmonised manifest rules for all modes
May deadline for first box berths at S.Korea's Kunsan port
Strict security surrounds re-opening of Iraqi port
Hanjin deploys China/America newbuild, awaits five more
Star Evviva fuel spill to cost US$2m
Wan Hai orders newbuilds for 2005
Zim collision vessel to be refloated tomorrow
Senator Murray seeks broader brush for OSC funding
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