PSA among 7 shortlisted for Cochin port project PSA Corporation is among 7 terminal operators shortlisted from 14 bidding to run a container transhipment facility at India's Cochin Port.
Ice slows barge traffic on Illinois River BARGE traffic on the Illinois River, a major grain artery to export terminals at the US Gulf, has slowed considerably due to ice and tow restrictions that have been put in place.
Multraship recovers 3 containers of toxic cargo NETHERLANDS-based Multraship Salvage says it has successfully recovered three containers loaded with toxic cargo lost overboard in the North Sea from the Ethiopian vessel Andinet.
Wijsmuller refloats capesize bulker A Wijsmuller Salvage team, working with Chilean-based CPT, has refloated the capesize bulk carrier Yiosonas.
ExxonMobil hit with US$4.5b damages ruling PICTURE shows tug boats towing the oil tanker Exxon Valdez off Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound to a harbour near Naked Island for repair and salvage efforts, two weeks after the tanker ran aground on 24 March, 1989, and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil.
Air and Land Transport
No-frills air industry awaits key EU ruling on Ryanair THE European Commission is to deliver a ruling on Ryanair tomorrow tipped to go against the low-cost carrier, amid conflicting views over whether the decision could harm the whole of Europe's booming no-frills air industry.
Ryanair may face class action suit for airport wheelchair fee
American Air sets up first Vietnam office
Delta to invest in Kennedy Airport
Cork Airport seizes Swiss jet after Irish bankruptcy
Chugging into Aussie history
Ship Sales
SHIP SALES EVEN with the Chinese New Year break, there has been no let up in the ferocious activity in the dry bulk market.
Liner Scene
Fragile rate recovery continues EARLY last year there was cautious optimism on the part of the liner companies tempered by concern over the effect of Sars.
PSA among 7 shortlisted for Cochin port project PSA Corporation is among 7 terminal operators shortlisted from 14 bidding to run a container transhipment facility at India's Cochin Port.
Ice slows barge traffic on Illinois River BARGE traffic on the Illinois River, a major grain artery to export terminals at the US Gulf, has slowed considerably due to ice and tow restrictions that have been put in place.
Multraship recovers 3 containers of toxic cargo NETHERLANDS-based Multraship Salvage says it has successfully recovered three containers loaded with toxic cargo lost overboard in the North Sea from the Ethiopian vessel Andinet.
Wijsmuller refloats capesize bulker A Wijsmuller Salvage team, working with Chilean-based CPT, has refloated the capesize bulk carrier Yiosonas.
ExxonMobil hit with US$4.5b damages ruling PICTURE shows tug boats towing the oil tanker Exxon Valdez off Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound to a harbour near Naked Island for repair and salvage efforts, two weeks after the tanker ran aground on 24 March, 1989, and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil.
Air and Land Transport
No-frills air industry awaits key EU ruling on Ryanair THE European Commission is to deliver a ruling on Ryanair tomorrow tipped to go against the low-cost carrier, amid conflicting views over whether the decision could harm the whole of Europe's booming no-frills air industry.
Ryanair may face class action suit for airport wheelchair fee
American Air sets up first Vietnam office
Delta to invest in Kennedy Airport
Cork Airport seizes Swiss jet after Irish bankruptcy
Chugging into Aussie history
Ship Sales
SHIP SALES EVEN with the Chinese New Year break, there has been no let up in the ferocious activity in the dry bulk market.
Liner Scene
Fragile rate recovery continues EARLY last year there was cautious optimism on the part of the liner companies tempered by concern over the effect of Sars.
PSA among 7 shortlisted for Cochin port project PSA Corporation is among 7 terminal operators shortlisted from 14 bidding to run a container transhipment facility at India's Cochin Port.
Ice slows barge traffic on Illinois River BARGE traffic on the Illinois River, a major grain artery to export terminals at the US Gulf, has slowed considerably due to ice and tow restrictions that have been put in place.
Multraship recovers 3 containers of toxic cargo NETHERLANDS-based Multraship Salvage says it has successfully recovered three containers loaded with toxic cargo lost overboard in the North Sea from the Ethiopian vessel Andinet.
Wijsmuller refloats capesize bulker A Wijsmuller Salvage team, working with Chilean-based CPT, has refloated the capesize bulk carrier Yiosonas.
ExxonMobil hit with US$4.5b damages ruling PICTURE shows tug boats towing the oil tanker Exxon Valdez off Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound to a harbour near Naked Island for repair and salvage efforts, two weeks after the tanker ran aground on 24 March, 1989, and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil.
Air and Land Transport
No-frills air industry awaits key EU ruling on Ryanair THE European Commission is to deliver a ruling on Ryanair tomorrow tipped to go against the low-cost carrier, amid conflicting views over whether the decision could harm the whole of Europe's booming no-frills air industry.
Ryanair may face class action suit for airport wheelchair fee
American Air sets up first Vietnam office
Delta to invest in Kennedy Airport
Cork Airport seizes Swiss jet after Irish bankruptcy
Chugging into Aussie history
Ship Sales
SHIP SALES EVEN with the Chinese New Year break, there has been no let up in the ferocious activity in the dry bulk market.
Liner Scene
Fragile rate recovery continues EARLY last year there was cautious optimism on the part of the liner companies tempered by concern over the effect of Sars.
PSA among 7 shortlisted for Cochin port project PSA Corporation is among 7 terminal operators shortlisted from 14 bidding to run a container transhipment facility at India's Cochin Port.
Ice slows barge traffic on Illinois River BARGE traffic on the Illinois River, a major grain artery to export terminals at the US Gulf, has slowed considerably due to ice and tow restrictions that have been put in place.
Multraship recovers 3 containers of toxic cargo NETHERLANDS-based Multraship Salvage says it has successfully recovered three containers loaded with toxic cargo lost overboard in the North Sea from the Ethiopian vessel Andinet.
Wijsmuller refloats capesize bulker A Wijsmuller Salvage team, working with Chilean-based CPT, has refloated the capesize bulk carrier Yiosonas.
ExxonMobil hit with US$4.5b damages ruling PICTURE shows tug boats towing the oil tanker Exxon Valdez off Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound to a harbour near Naked Island for repair and salvage efforts, two weeks after the tanker ran aground on 24 March, 1989, and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil.
Air and Land Transport
No-frills air industry awaits key EU ruling on Ryanair THE European Commission is to deliver a ruling on Ryanair tomorrow tipped to go against the low-cost carrier, amid conflicting views over whether the decision could harm the whole of Europe's booming no-frills air industry.
Ryanair may face class action suit for airport wheelchair fee
American Air sets up first Vietnam office
Delta to invest in Kennedy Airport
Cork Airport seizes Swiss jet after Irish bankruptcy
Chugging into Aussie history
Ship Sales
SHIP SALES EVEN with the Chinese New Year break, there has been no let up in the ferocious activity in the dry bulk market.
Liner Scene
Fragile rate recovery continues EARLY last year there was cautious optimism on the part of the liner companies tempered by concern over the effect of Sars.
California: Can bunker tax exemption bring redemption? By the time the bunker tax exemption is reinstated, Californian ports will have been suffering due to the tax for approximately 16 months. Can the state's bunker industry recover? Will sales volumes ever reach pre-tax levels? Or is the damage caused irreparable?
We surveyed California's bunker suppliers to see what they thought...
New large barge christened in Rotterdam today The Vancouver is a large vessel, but at 4,200 MT capacity it is not considered a "mega-barge" like the Vlissingen.
Baltic softens into the weekend Bears in the Baltic have really stuck in their claws in the latter half of this week, with most players over the region seeing some large price falls today on the back of sentiment brewing since Tuesday/ Wednesday.
Singapore fuel oil market unimpressed by falling crude So why are fuel oil fundamentals so strong? There are two current dominant theories in the Singapore bunker market, one to do with off-spec fuel oil cargoes, the other to do with expectations of a pick-up in Chinese demand.
Port Kembla bunkering operations slightly affected by fire
Rotterdam softens with crude, cutterstock still tight
"Rocknes" stability 100 per cent OK SSG-G'TEBORG: During the conversion of Rocknes, the classificiation society carried out extensive tests and calculations and stability met all exisiting international ...
30.01.04 Danish International Register still a quality register SSG-RINGK'BING: The Danish International Ship Register (DIS) has avoided being declared a Flag of Convenience (FoC) by the International Transport Federation ...
30.01.04 Tarbit orders high safety, ice classed 25,000 tonner SSG-G'TEBORG: Tarbit Shipping in Sk'rhamn, Sweden has ordered a chem/product tanker of 25,000 tons deadweigth from Shanghai Edward in China ...
Vietnam coup as Graig places $322m order for 15 bulkers GRAIG Investments has taken the plunge, as it did in China, and placed the largest ship export contracts in Vietnam to date, totalling $322.5m.
IMO confronts ballast water poser THE unlikely arena of ballast water looks set to offer the International Maritime Organisation further guidance on the reach of its authority, writes Hugh O'Mahony.
Legal challenge to Hutchison over Felixstowe surcharge BRITISH freight forwarders have warned Hutchison Ports that its container security surcharge at Felixstowe, due to start yesterday, may be unlawful under the 1964 Harbours Act.
Tokyo bulker blitz finds room for improvement THE Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding has acknow- ledged that there is room for improvement at all levels in Asia-Pacific bulker operations.
Lloyd Werft to pull through: Lüken LLOYD Werft head Werner L'ken remains optimistic that the company's financial problems can be overcome, even though NCL has still to say when it will pay the next instalment on the Pride of America
Pakistan to build liquids terminal PAKISTAN is to set up a dedicated liquid cargo terminal at Muhammad bin Qasim Port to handle 4M tonnes of edible oil, molasses and other palm oil derivatives
Curnow directors in court THE case against five directors of UK-based Curnow Shipping over the alleged defrauding of the St Helena Line service commenced at Bristol Crown Court yesterday
ISPS compliance could be problem AN Australian port association leader says that while shipping companies and ports are on track for the ISPS Code, ship and port interfaces after 1 July could cause problems
Non-compliant ships worry Oz ports AUSTRALIA'S port association head warns that there could be problems with ship and port interfaces for months after the ISPS Code comes into effect on 1 July
RCCL shares up despite $20M loss ROYAL Caribbean Cruises Ltd shares staged a strong rise in Oslo today, one day after it reported a $20M net loss for last year's fourth quarter
Weather delays intermodal rail moves Severe winter weather is snarling the nation's intermodal rail network from the Pacific Northwest to the East Coast.
Late surge for international air freight Traffic grew 4.9% in 2003, led by increase of 15.9% in Middle East.
Two carrier groups end peak season surcharges Peak season surcharges (PSS) in two major Asia/Australia trades are to be removed from February 1, while rate rises have been announced in two others.
German rail sector warns against not increasing capacity
Atlantsskip pipped by Eimskip for US military transport contract
Booming Hamburg brings forward expansion plans
Dadri ICD opens with string of JV deals
Stinnes Intermodal increases volumes, aiming for breakeven by 2005
Sinotrans gains dominant share in leading southeast China forwarder
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