Scrapping in full steam ahead of new hull rule SHIPOWNERS are scrapping oil tankers at a faster pace than last year to comply with a United Nations ban on older vessels with single hulls, supplying steel plate for Asia's construction boom.
S'pore ports record strong growth in volumes THE Port of Singapore enjoyed strong first quarter growth in cargo throughput and bunker sales, the latest statistics released by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore reveal.
Pirates attack tanker at Indon anchorage FOUR armed pirates attacked a tanker at an Indonesian anchorage last month, the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre said.
US Navy threatens to fire on vessels breaching Iraqi terminal buffer zone THE US Navy said it may start firing on vessels that enter a buffer zone around Iraq's oil terminals without identifying themselves, after suicide attacks last month slightly damaged one site and killed three sailors.
Mitsui, NOL win rate increases MITSUI OSK Lines and Neptune Orient Lines, two of Asia's largest shipping companies, said they have negotiated increased freight rates for carrying cargo on transpacific routes, which will help them to fulfil profit targets this year.
Expected bad weather dims hopes of saving ship off South Africa SALVORS are scrambling to remove 1,900 tons of fuel from a stricken bulk carrier off South Africa's west coast as approaching foul weather dims hopes of saving the 270 metre ship.
Air and Land Transport
Alitalia totters on the brink of collapse FOUNDERING Italian state airline Alitalia is now locked in a life-or-death struggle to stay aloft, its bid to escape bankruptcy dependent on a labour-management accord on a restructuring plan.
EasyJet results and high oil price depress airline stocks
Budget airlines sue EU over compensation law
Boeing lobbying Chinese airlines for Dreamliner purchases
Call to review oversight of US regional airlines
US test programme screens rail passengers for explosives
Newbuilds
Container ship owners cranking up capacity YET again, owners have been opening their wallets in a big way over the past couple of weeks.
Scrapping in full steam ahead of new hull rule SHIPOWNERS are scrapping oil tankers at a faster pace than last year to comply with a United Nations ban on older vessels with single hulls, supplying steel plate for Asia's construction boom.
S'pore ports record strong growth in volumes THE Port of Singapore enjoyed strong first quarter growth in cargo throughput and bunker sales, the latest statistics released by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore reveal.
Pirates attack tanker at Indon anchorage FOUR armed pirates attacked a tanker at an Indonesian anchorage last month, the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre said.
US Navy threatens to fire on vessels breaching Iraqi terminal buffer zone THE US Navy said it may start firing on vessels that enter a buffer zone around Iraq's oil terminals without identifying themselves, after suicide attacks last month slightly damaged one site and killed three sailors.
Mitsui, NOL win rate increases MITSUI OSK Lines and Neptune Orient Lines, two of Asia's largest shipping companies, said they have negotiated increased freight rates for carrying cargo on transpacific routes, which will help them to fulfil profit targets this year.
Expected bad weather dims hopes of saving ship off South Africa SALVORS are scrambling to remove 1,900 tons of fuel from a stricken bulk carrier off South Africa's west coast as approaching foul weather dims hopes of saving the 270 metre ship.
Air and Land Transport
Alitalia totters on the brink of collapse FOUNDERING Italian state airline Alitalia is now locked in a life-or-death struggle to stay aloft, its bid to escape bankruptcy dependent on a labour-management accord on a restructuring plan.
EasyJet results and high oil price depress airline stocks
Budget airlines sue EU over compensation law
Boeing lobbying Chinese airlines for Dreamliner purchases
Call to review oversight of US regional airlines
US test programme screens rail passengers for explosives
Newbuilds
Container ship owners cranking up capacity YET again, owners have been opening their wallets in a big way over the past couple of weeks.
Scrapping in full steam ahead of new hull rule SHIPOWNERS are scrapping oil tankers at a faster pace than last year to comply with a United Nations ban on older vessels with single hulls, supplying steel plate for Asia's construction boom.
S'pore ports record strong growth in volumes THE Port of Singapore enjoyed strong first quarter growth in cargo throughput and bunker sales, the latest statistics released by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore reveal.
Pirates attack tanker at Indon anchorage FOUR armed pirates attacked a tanker at an Indonesian anchorage last month, the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre said.
US Navy threatens to fire on vessels breaching Iraqi terminal buffer zone THE US Navy said it may start firing on vessels that enter a buffer zone around Iraq's oil terminals without identifying themselves, after suicide attacks last month slightly damaged one site and killed three sailors.
Mitsui, NOL win rate increases MITSUI OSK Lines and Neptune Orient Lines, two of Asia's largest shipping companies, said they have negotiated increased freight rates for carrying cargo on transpacific routes, which will help them to fulfil profit targets this year.
Expected bad weather dims hopes of saving ship off South Africa SALVORS are scrambling to remove 1,900 tons of fuel from a stricken bulk carrier off South Africa's west coast as approaching foul weather dims hopes of saving the 270 metre ship.
Air and Land Transport
Alitalia totters on the brink of collapse FOUNDERING Italian state airline Alitalia is now locked in a life-or-death struggle to stay aloft, its bid to escape bankruptcy dependent on a labour-management accord on a restructuring plan.
EasyJet results and high oil price depress airline stocks
Budget airlines sue EU over compensation law
Boeing lobbying Chinese airlines for Dreamliner purchases
Call to review oversight of US regional airlines
US test programme screens rail passengers for explosives
Newbuilds
Container ship owners cranking up capacity YET again, owners have been opening their wallets in a big way over the past couple of weeks.
Salvage operation stepped up with extra vessel as fears grow New vessel enlisted by salvage team as bad weather causes delays.
Crude stays near 13-year highs despite solid US gasoline build Crude prices dipped briefly today after the latest DOE report showed a solid gain in gasoline inventories, but soon rebounded as other US oil data and continued security fears propped up the market.
Security tightened at Iraqi oil export terminals Commercial vessels face duel 'buffer' zones around terminals following suicide attacks.
Weekly US oil statistics from DOE and API
New Mauritius terminal ready to start bunker supply IndianOil Mauritius aims for share of the island's bunker industry to match new state-of-the art terminal capacity.
Sharp cargo gains and corresponding bunker price rise saw enquiry levels all but evaporate.
Saudi prices remain competitive
Black Sea oil port mined, minister says New disruptions at Batumi as standoff between Adzhara region and central government continues.
EMMF launches new supply operation Oil major to offer tank-delivered marine gasoil in second new supply operation in Guatemala in five weeks.
Rotterdam prices rise further
Singapore bunker sales leap on traffic increase Rise in the island state's bunker sales figures attributed to China's unquenchable demand for raw materials.
Atlantic routes in jeopardy, Taca warns TRANSATLANTIC carriers are warning that container services between Europe and North America are being put in jeopardy by soaring charter rates and the tight supply of equipment.
Halliwell takes chief executive post at CP Ships FRANK Halliwell (pictured) has formally succeeded Ray Miles as chief executive of CP Ships, writes Janet Porter.
NYK head denies Pacific rate flop NYK LINE president Koji Miyahara played down suggestions that this season's transpacific rate negotiations had flopped and predicted a bullish three-year period for container shipping during a lightning visit to London this week, writes Janet Porter.
Gibraltar cruiseship bar 'a random policy of old' THE recent denial of entry into the port of Barcelona of a cruiseship after it had visited Gibraltar arose from a "random and discriminatory" policy used by the previous Spanish government to apply political pressure to the Rock, Lloyd's List has been told.
Security tighter after Athens bombs THIS morning's bombing of a police station in Athens, coming 100 days before the start of the Olympic Games, has prompted a reassessment of related security measures
Oakland strike breakthrough A BREAKTHROUGH may have been reached in the continuing hauliers' strike at the California port of Oakland, where labour unrest flared into violence yesterday
Heavy security for Lakes fast ferry CANADIAN American Transportation Systems' new $42.5M fast- ferry Spirit of Ontario is attracting the level of security protections normally reserved for cruise ships
Odfjell sees chemical tanker growth ODFJELL, the world's largest chemical carrier operator, has forecast that the recovery in freight rates that began late last year is gathering momentum
Norfolkline on the right track NORFOLKLINE has strengthened its position as an intermodal operator in the UK-Italy market with the launch of the three times weekly dedicated block train service
Qingdao seeks market listing QINGDAO, China's third largest container port, is planning a stock market listing to help fund massive expansion plans
More port trucker protests on the way? The protests by harbor truckers in California that slowed container terminal operations to a crawl could be spreading to other ports in the U.S.
Rail embargo continues as Oakland truckers maintain protest Union Pacific Railroad continued its embargo on container cargo through the Port of Oakland on May 5, as independent truckers protested against high diesel costs in California.
Renewed intermodal problems at Vancouver Signs are growing of renewed rail car shortages grounding thousands of containers from Asia at Vancouver, Canada's largest port, with Deltaport, the largest box terminal, hardest hit.
Seasonal lull but charter index jumps through 1500 point mark
Malaysian shippers demand laws to regulate charges
Odfjell sacks 190 as rigs move to UK waters Around 190 rig workers are sacked by Odfjell Drilling as their rigs moved to UK waters to employ British workers ...
European shortsea shipping operators slam Swedish fairway dues Sweden's fairway and pilotage dues prevents short sea shipping from offering an environmentally friendlier alternative to road traffic. The European ...
"Rocknes" to be repaired The bulk carrier "Rocknes", which capsized with the loss of 18 lives south of Bergen in January this year, is ...
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