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December 7, 2004
The Business Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • New ILO move on seafarers worries Asia shipowners
    REGIONAL governments have been urged to take a 'deep interest' in the draft International Labour Organisation Consolidated Labour Convention because of the significant impact it could have on the Asian industry, Asian shipowners have warned.
  • Portfolio of PSA's Grace Fu widens to cover Japan, SEA
    PSA International has continued its restructuring with Singapore Terminals CEO Grace Fu taking over a bigger portfolio as head of South-East Asia and Japan in addition to her Singapore duties.
  • Baltic Exchange introduces scrap price assessments
  • THE Baltic Exchange, London's 260-year-old shipping association, yesterday introduced assessments based on the price of selling ships for demolition in China and India.
  • NOL's monthly cargo volumes jump 20%
  • Dynacom tanker fetches triple the price in a year
  • Aramco to replace 70% of oil tankers

Sched Netweb site
  • China Shipping to purchase new ships through bond offering
  • Dalian primed to become northeastern shipping hub
  • Cepa's effectiveness to be determined by HK government
  • Partnerships becoming more popular with lines providing global service, says former Zim president
  • Cash-strapped American Airlines to layoff more staff
  • Hactl animal centre opens
  • Eva Air orders A330

Exim Indiaweb site
  • India's LNG market attracts global shipping majors
  • India signs partnership agreement with Asean
  • Exports to all major destinations rise by over 20 per cent
  • Exim Bank to provide $ 27 m line of credit to Vietnam
  • TPT seeks private investment to develop second box terminal
  • Shell seeks nod to bring LNG to Hazira on foreign-flag tankers
  • Roshan Freight Carriers (Agra) enters shipping & logistics fields
  • Forex reserves crossed the $ 125-billion mark
  • Corporate tax may be brought on par with I-T at 30 pc
  • Panel formed to review working of AEZs
  • India opposes EU proposal: quality certification norms for basmati
  • PM constitutes board for revival of sick PSUs
  • ABS approves new LNG containment design
  • Petronet's LNG terminal at Kochi to follow new DGS norms
  • Govt asks CII, Ficci to 'prepare' teams for business summit in S. Africa
  • Govt may give Rs 100-cr. subsidy for cotton exporters
  • Freight exchange is imperative
  • Ratan Tata heads 3-man investment body
  • Foreign Trade Analysis: Current Policy & Procedures

The Bunker Bulletinweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • Royal Caribbean reappoints Inflot as port and bunker agent
    Inflot cements relationship with Royal Caribbean Cruises with extension of port agency and bunkering services agreement for 2005 cruise season.
  • Baltic suppliers rue sulphur legislation
    The implementation of a Sulphur Emissions Control Area (SECA) in the Baltic Sea is likely to cast a shadow over what should otherwise be an optimistic outlook for Baltic suppliers.
  • Russian supplier expands operations
    Russian supplier expands operations with new fuel oil service, distillate deliveries to commence in the New Year.
  • Crude plunge halted, markets rebound
    Crude oil prices have rebounded from a three-month low in after hours trading today amid renewed supply concerns, OPEC talk and security concerns in Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil producer.
  • Adverse weather damages bunker berth, halts supplies
  • Rotterdam fuel oil rebounds
  • US Defence bunker procurement arm extends contracts
    The US Defence Energy Support Center (DESC), the fuel procurement arm of the US military, has extended several contracts to purchase bunker fuel in Bahrain, India and Fujairah.

International Transport Journalweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • Maptuit enables fencing-in of roaming trucks
  • Oman government to assume management of two airports again
  • Rhenus new DaimlerChrysler automotive service provider in Berlin
  • Baltika-Transit well utilised
  • A kerosene tax - "untimely, unhelpful and ineffective"
  • Japanese consortium signs LNG carrier charter agreement
  • Finnair's Suila appointed to AEA president's committee

Maritime Global Netweb site
  • Round Table updates Flag State Table
  • ISU calls for IMO Casualty Management Guidelines
  • Graig joins Marcas
  • US wises up to box home potential

Marine Logweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • New ILO seafarer ID system ready for implementation
  • Athos I clean up continues

World Wide Shipperweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • Port of Coos Bay taps new general manager
  • Marcon brokers sale of pair of vessels
  • Washington State Ferries plans final Keystone meeting
  • New customer onboard at Port of Vancouver, USA
  • Princess offers Internet service on every vessel in fleet

Lloyd's Listweb site
  • Buchanan quits James Fisher as P&O's Henry steps into top job
    Angus Buchanan has resigned suddenly as group chief executive of James Fisher, the acquisitive UK tanker and marine services group, after three years in the job.
  • Paris court to decide on new Erika probe
    THE Paris appeal court will next month be asked to decide whether a new investigation is needed before the case against those charged with responsibility for the Erika disaster can come to court, writes Andrew Spurrier in Paris.
  • Petrobras $1.9bn new tanker building plan attracts interest from more than 20 firms
    MORE than 20 companies have registered their interest in the first phase of Petrobras' plans to build 42 tankers in Brazil over the next 10 years.
  • Dockers reject Brussels ports plan and predict disruption
    EUROPEAN dockworker unions have raised the spectre of "social unrest" after formally rejecting the second attempt by the European Commission to legislate in the field of port services.
  • Alstom gets to bottom of QMII chair problem
    WE'VE all heard of double-bottomed tankers. But it seems like a French maritime furniture specialist is having to pick up a hefty bill for double-bottomed cruise passengers, writes David Osler.

Fairplayweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • Deutschland shows its frustration
    GERMAN cruise ship Deutschland became a symbol of the potential cost to US commerce resulting from the USCG's strict enforcement of security rules last month when it bypassed the port of New Orleans
  • French firm to invest in Busan
    KOREA'S biggest port of Busan port has begun to attract investors for its container expansion projects under the Busan New Port scheme
  • Bodies of two crew members found
    BODIES of two of the three seafarers trapped in a fire aboard a LPG tanker in South Korea have been found
  • PSA restructures management
    SINGAPORE terminal operator PSA International has restructured its senior management in a move seen as a further attempt to raise its global profile
  • CP trading inquiry continues
    CANADIAN regulators appear to be investigating whether CP Ships chairman Ray Miles and others traded shares based on insider knowledge of an accounting restatement
  • Cristoforo Colombo spill
    THE amount of oil spilled in the Cristoforo Colombo grounding near Kholmsk in the Russian Far East has now been officially stated as 28, not 200, tonnes
  • Peru looks for Bolivian cargo
  • Busy H&W brings in Polish workers
  • Kone buys MacGregor for $242M
  • Shell takes on India over LNG
  • MSC and Port Everglades
  • Smit assists tanker, tug and reefer
  • Los Angeles port 'lacks vision'
  • Tuticorin to develop box berth
  • Irish Ferries strike begins
  • Frontline approves bulker spin-off

The Journal of Commerceweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • LA-Long Beach volume overwhelms inland traffic
    Ship and labor problems long over, Southern California struggling with inland container movements.
  • NOL volume soars
    Volume rose 20 percent in the four weeks to Nov. 12 due on strong demand, additional services.
  • P&O Nedlloyd adds security charge
  • Arrests in killing of Teamster
  • Intermodal rail volume strong
  • Record month for Ga. ports
  • 'Minor' improvement for Union Pacific: Analyst
  • Retailers oppose China trouser curbs
  • Air Cargo Inc. confirms Ch. 11 plan
  • U.S. slates hearings on UAE, Oman
  • U.S., EU aim for trade agenda
  • Feds fund Washington rail reefer fleet

Containerisation Internationalweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • AP Moller engages Antwerp in preliminary terminal deal
    At least one major terminal operator has signed up to operate space at Antwerp's Saefthingedok even though the development has yet to receive approval, port authority chairman Baron Leo Delwaide told ci-online.
  • Dockers display unease over US transport ID cards
    US West Coast longshoremen are dubious about the introduction of ID cards, and at least one Local has refused to participate in the government pilot-project, citing concerns about data-usage.
  • Cautious carriers eye dollar depreciation with concern
  • India backs WTO accession for Russia
  • HMM works on cost savings to achieve 2.1m TEU target
  • Auckland resolves labour problem
  • Security charges added to PONL tariffs
  • Samsung delivers fourth CSCL super post-panamax
  • ANZ-N America shippers face big rate-rises
  • PSA management reorganisation takes another step

TradeWindsweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • Philly mystery hazard found
    Investigators have located submerged object they believe holed Athos I on Delaware River.
  • Genmar climb over?
    Analyst Ferris Baker Watts' downgrade says stock's surge has run its course.
  • Six dollars for security
    P&O Nedlloyd joins the flotilla of container lines to pass on cost of post 9/11 measures.
  • Scrap ships get a future
    London shipping exchange launches demolition value benchmark in bid to promote new derivative market.
  • Single-skin cull for Vela
    Saudi owner working out how to replace 15 older VLCCs over next decade.
  • Tanker stocks mixed as oil rebounds
    Stelmar still trading well above failed Fortress bid with new offers expected.
  • Aziz points the finger
    New Pakistani prime minister bemoans lack of ships joining country's register.
  • James Fisher chief quits
    Work ' life balance pressure leads to Angus Buchanan quitting to spend more time with wife and children.
  • HMM sees slow-down
    Korean owner expects container shipping demand to cool next year after a record 2004.
  • Elderly bulker loses steering
    Mechanical trouble hits iron ore laden Cypriot vessel on the Mississippi River.
  • Suez sets revenue record
    Tropic Brilliance grounding fails to stop canal achieving highest monthly revenue since inauguration.
  • VLCCs in rude health
    Early January Gulf loadings keep rates hovering around World Scale 300 ' and $200,000 per day.
  • RICO suit hits Kvaerner Philly
    Former yard bosses accused of rigging bids and cooking books in favour of Kjell Inge Rokke-controlled subcontractors.
  • Spill closes nuclear plant
    Big claims on Tsakos tanker in prospect from shutdown of Delaware River power reactors
  • Tsakos foots Philly spill bill
    We'll pay now and then 'let the insurance companies fight it out', says manager of Athos I.
  • Irish Ferries scraps sailings
    Walk-out by ship officers begins over job cuts, leaving three ferries idle.
  • Strong winds lash Japan
    One ship grounded and another set adrift as gusts of up to 172 km an hour strike east of country.

American Shipperweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • Asia/Europe carriers face cost, port capacity pressures
  • CP Ships officers' improper stock trades confirmed
  • Sunken propeller suspected in holing of tanker
  • Hamburg Sud, Polynesia Line switch ports on U.S./South Pacific link
  • DOT official wants greater worldwide air liberalization
  • Detter retires from Con-Way
  • Periodic payment increases among importers in ACE
  • Outgoing U.S. health secretary: Food imports vulnerable to terrorism
  • EU, China to sign customs cooperation agreement
  • Lamolinara heads business development at TNT Logistics North America

The Scandinavian Shipping Gazetteweb site
DECEMBER 6, 2004
  • Nuclear ice-breaker "re-charged"
    Murmansk Shipping Company has decided to "re-charge" the Arctic nuclear powered ice-breaker "Sibir", built by Baltiyskiy Zavod in ...
  • Color Line may use option for second vessel
    Color Line ' Norway's largest ferry company ' may exercise an option with Aker Finnyards to build another cruise ferry like "Color ...
  • Sparks fly on net wages
    Bergen-based ferry owner/operator Fjord Line accuses politicians, who are opposed to net wages beyond 1 January 2006, for ...

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FROM THE HOME PAGE
PORTS
Signed the act for the rebalancing of the concession in chief of Venice Terminal Passengers
Venice
Spain : The aim is to "create a new normal", which is aimed strongly at an upper-middle customer segment, with the aim of creating a pole for luxury cruises in Venice, " he said.
PORTS
In October, freight traffic in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Ligure
Genoa
Recorded increases of 2.5% and 21.9%, respectively. It continues the downturn of cruises in both scallops
CRUISES
Fincantieri has delivered the new cruise ship Viking Vela to Viking
Trieste / Los Angeles
Can accommodate 998 passengers
The government of Montenegro wants to bring the port of Adria back under state control
PORTS
The government of Montenegro wants to bring the port of Adria back under state control
Podgorica
Will evaluate the possible acquisition of the majority stake in the Turkish Global Ports Holding
PORTS
China's seaports handled record cargo traffic for October
China's seaports handled record cargo traffic for October
Beijing
Containers amounted to over 24.4 million TEU (+6.2%)
Stable the traffic of goods in the port of La Spezia in the period of July-September
PORTS
Stable the traffic of goods in the port of La Spezia in the period of July-September
The Spezia
Marina di Carrara has been recorded a decrease of -15.6%
PORTS
At Spezia they don't want a president of the AdSP "parachuted"
The Spezia
They ask for a president "plug & play" able to deal with the problems right away
PORTS
Defined the location in the port of Gioia Tauro of the construction site for the bridge over the Strait of Messina
Joy Tauro
The OYAK and OIA funds will invest in the Turkish port of Iskenderun
PORTS
The OYAK and OIA funds will invest in the Turkish port of Iskenderun
Ankara
Expected the realization of a terminal container
SHIPPING
T&E calls for EU measures to limit ship speed and greater use of wind propulsion
Brussels
Summary complaint of the organization on the progress made by the shipping industry for decarbonisation
CUSTOMS
To extend the customs corridor to goods in export and on transhipment in the port of Spezia
The Spezia
He was speaking at a meeting between the AdSP and the Customs Agency.
SHIPPING
After Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd also initiates an agreement with Chinese Goldwind for supplies of green methanol
ENVIRONMENT
Messina (Assshipowners) : yes to the environmentalist push, but the timing and the ways are wrong
Rome
Local, often untimely, local norms have the only effect of moving traffics out of the Old Continent.
PORTS
Port of Ravenna, final visit of the EU representative to the project "Ravenna Port Hub : Infrastructural Works"
Ravenna
The European contribution has been more than 30 million euros.
TRANSPORTATION
In 2023, the performance of road and rail transport services fell in Switzerland.
Neuchâtel
Modal shares remained unchanged
INTERMODAL TRANSPORT
New intermodal service Melzo-Marcianise of Hannibal
Melzo
Two weekly rotations that from the first quarter will rise to three
PSA and Evergreen to jointly operate container terminal in Singapore
PORTS
PSA and Evergreen to jointly operate container terminal in Singapore
Singapore
The new company will become operational by the end of 2024
In the third quarter economic growth of trade in goods and services of G20
TRADE
In the third quarter economic growth of trade in goods and services of G20
Paris
Down the value of goods to and from China
PORTS
Omanita group Asyad will manage the port of al-Suwayq for 40 years
Muscat
The expansion of the stairway and the construction of a quay
The Companies inform
Accelleron initiates partnership with Geislinger to expand service business in the Mediterranean region
INTERMODAL TRANSPORT
Memorandum of Understanding for the creation of an intermodal terminal in Budapest
Astana
A delegation of the Kazakh KTZ Express to the port of Rijeka
SHIPPING
The BIMCO has adopted the FuelEU Maritime Clause
Copenhagen
The European regulation will enter into force next January.
SHIPPING
Kenon Holdings (Idan Ofer) announces the next exit from the capital of ZIM
Singapore
Currently owns 19.8 million shares
PROGRESS AND TECHNOLOGY
NIM and EH Group will develop hydrogen fuel cell technologies for shipping
PORTS
In the third quarter of 2024 the traffic of goods in the port of Tanger Med increased by 11%
Anjra
In the first nine months of the year, growth was 12% percent.
PORTS
Project of the ovadese Vezzani to set up a terminal for the automotive in Porto Marghera
Venice
Filed for the release of a demanial concession for the quay ex Sirma
PORTS
In the third quarter the port of Koper has handled 287,410 containers (+ 11.8%)
Koper
In the first nine months of 2024, it was 835,506 (+ 2.9%)
COMPANIES
The Zephyr Group snaps up Singaporean Twinco and Germany's Carl Baguhn
The Spezia
The two companies operate in the area of spare parts and components for diesel and gas engines
SHIPPING
Rixi, without the ETS review, European maritime fleets will continue to suffer a competitive disadvantage
Rome
According to the deputy minister, it is necessary to intervene at the root of the problem
PORTS
PSA Italy continues in purchase of equipment for Marghera terminal
Genoa
Committed total value of 8.5 million euros for three rubber-tyred gantry crane electric
JOBS
Corsica Sardinia Ferries in search of navigating personnel
Go Ligure
The wanted profiles are different, for machine areas, room and kitchen
PROGRESS AND TECHNOLOGY
Agreement for the digital integration of the FS and AdSP Polo Logistics systems of the Western Liguria
Genoa
SHIPPING
New Oriental Mediterranean Service-Adriatic via Malta of CMA CGM
Marseille
Will have a weekly frequency
COMPETITION
Brussels to give state aid for 1.9 billion euros to German railway company DB Cargo
Brussels
ASSOCIATIONS
Renewed the Governing Council of Wista Italy
Milan
Constancy Musso confirmed president
SHIPPING
Maersk completes orders to three shipyards for 20 new container ships
Copenhagen
In Yangzijiang Shipbuilding committed for six 17,000 teu ships and two from 9,000 teu. At Hanwha Ocean and New Times Shipbuilding ordered six units from 15,000 teu each
ASSOCIATIONS
Biagio Mazzotta assumes the post of Vice-President of the Federation of the Sea
Rome
President of Assonave will be running for vice president of ENMC
PORTS
ESPO calls on the new EU Commission to maintain and strengthen the CEF programme
Brussels
The exhortation is also to better adapt it to the needs of ports and their stakeholders
EDUCATION
The agreement on training between the AdSP of the Tirreno Centre Northern, the ITS Academy, " G. Caboto " and the European Escola
Cyvitavecchia
SHIPPING
Consultation on the extension of the UK ETS to the maritime sector
London
Shipping would be included since 2026
COMPANIES
MSC completes acquisition of a minority stake in HHLA
Hamburg
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
PORTS
ONE acquires a stake in Jakarta's NPCT1 terminal container
Singapore
It has a traffic capacity of 1.5 million teu per year
PORTS
Transped orders a mobile crane Konecranes Gottwald for its Porto Marghera terminal
Helsinki
It will be taken in delivery in the second quarter of next year
LOGISTICS
Dutch Raben Group and Swiss elvetica Sieber Transport make up a joint venture
Oss / Berneck
It will detect the Swiss company's groupage transport activity
LOGISTICS
Dachser & Fercam Italia has opened a new branch in Arezzo
Bolzano
Three thousand square meters of operational surface area and 400 of offices
SHIPYARDS
Fincantieri initiates agreement with SIMEST for the growth of watermark businesses
Milan / Trieste
MEETINGS
Conference for the 30 th birthday of WISTA Italy
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow at Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa
PORTS
Approved the Plan of the Organic Ports of Sardinia
Cagliari
There are 938 workers in the 36 enterprises operating in the scallots
OFFSHORE
Saipem has awarded an EPCI offshore contract from BP in Indonesia
Milan
SHIPPING
Container ship charterer MPCC's revenues fell by -28% in the third quarter
Oslo
RAILWAY TRANSPORT
Fermerci reports delays and cuts to incentives for rail freight transport
Rome
Paper: Real risk of losing 115 million euros
PORTS
In the third quarter, traffic in shipping containers of Moroccan Marsa Maroc increased by 5% percent.
Casablanca
Exhaustion of the growth of transshipment volumes
SHIPYARDS
At Samsung Heavy Industries orders for the construction of four 16,000-teu container carriers
Busan
Commits the value of about 781 million
ENVIRONMENT
Eni-MSC agreement in the field of sustainability and energy transition
San Donato Milanese
It was subscribed by Claudio Descalzi and Diego Aponte
PORTS
The Grimaldi terminal in the port of Barcelona has been equipped with Onshore Power Supply
Barcelona
It will become operational in January
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
MEETINGS
Conference for the 30 th birthday of WISTA Italy
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow at Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa
MEETINGS
Conference of the CNEL on the Sustainability of Maritime Transport
Rome
It will be held on November 27 in Rome
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
North Korean tankers transport over one million barrels of oil from Russia
(NK News)
Sudan govt scraps $6bn Red Sea port deal with UAE
(The North Africa Post)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Autorità di Regolazione dei Trasporti
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
SHIPYARDS
South Korea's HJSC adjusts a salesperson for four new 7,900-teu container ships
Busan
ASSOCIATIONS
Rolf Westfal-Larsen Jr. has been elected president of Intertanko
London
Undergoes to Paolo d' Amico
LOGISTICS
COSCO and SIPG will acquire 10% each of the capital of SAIC Anji Logistics
Shanghai
They will participate in the capital increase of the logistics company of SAIC Motor
INDUSTRY
AD Ports continues in its investment campaign in Egypt
Cairo / Abu Dhabi
Agreement to realize an industrial area of 20 square kilometers in East Port Said
Dimitri Serafimoff has been elected as the new president of CLECAT
ASSOCIATIONS
Dimitri Serafimoff has been elected as the new president of CLECAT
Brussels
He will also retain the presidency of the CLECAT Customs Institute
SHIPYARDS
Ok of the Rovigo Tribunal to the Restructuring Plan of Shipbuilding Victory plan
Adria
On the completion of the sale of the company to CNV Srl
PORTS
Port of Ancona, in 2023, underlines the AdSP-container traffic grew by 5%
Ancona
The Port Authority disputes the data released by the Fedespedi Studies Center
SHIPYARDS
Mr vard will build five support ships in the offshore industry.
Trieste
Designed to accommodate up to 190 people, they will be carried out in Vietnam
INTERMODAL TRANSPORT
Alpe Adria activates new rail service between the port of Trieste and the Malpensa Intermodal terminal in Sacconago
Trieste
SHIPPING
Euroseas order in China the construction of two 4,300-teu feeder container
Athens
Quarterly revenue from rentals inj growth of 5.8%
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