PSA goes into next round of Puerto Rico bid PSA Corporation has advanced to the next stage in the competition for the concession to design, build and operate Puerto Rico's US$700 million Port of the Americas container terminal.
March deadline now for bids from Iraqi port investors IRAQ has extended until March a deadline for foreign investors to tender bids for 10-year concessions in its once-booming southern ports as the war-weary country seeks to refloat its maritime fortunes and create a major international shipping hub.
More bodies recovered off S Korea RESCUERS recovered yesterday the bodies of eight more Vietnamese sailors whose cargo ship sank off southwestern South Korea, and were searching for the remaining eight who are feared dead, police said.
Air and Land Transport
Belgian town caught in EU-Ryanair crossfire THE town of Charleroi in Belgium is an example of how low-cost carriers can contribute to building the economy of a small town away from the big cities with the hub airports.
Key execs to speak at budget carrier forum
Korean Air's loss more than doubles
JAL Group surprises with Q3 profit
Air NZ has cash to survive stiffer competition: CEO
Log Book
Dockyard
Busy year for ASRY despite Iraq war FOR a time, early last year, the Iraq war and its build-up deterred owners from allowing their ships to be in the Middle East Gulf region for any longer than absolutely necessary.
PSA goes into next round of Puerto Rico bid PSA Corporation has advanced to the next stage in the competition for the concession to design, build and operate Puerto Rico's US$700 million Port of the Americas container terminal.
March deadline now for bids from Iraqi port investors IRAQ has extended until March a deadline for foreign investors to tender bids for 10-year concessions in its once-booming southern ports as the war-weary country seeks to refloat its maritime fortunes and create a major international shipping hub.
More bodies recovered off S Korea RESCUERS recovered yesterday the bodies of eight more Vietnamese sailors whose cargo ship sank off southwestern South Korea, and were searching for the remaining eight who are feared dead, police said.
Air and Land Transport
Belgian town caught in EU-Ryanair crossfire THE town of Charleroi in Belgium is an example of how low-cost carriers can contribute to building the economy of a small town away from the big cities with the hub airports.
Key execs to speak at budget carrier forum
Korean Air's loss more than doubles
JAL Group surprises with Q3 profit
Air NZ has cash to survive stiffer competition: CEO
Log Book
Dockyard
Busy year for ASRY despite Iraq war FOR a time, early last year, the Iraq war and its build-up deterred owners from allowing their ships to be in the Middle East Gulf region for any longer than absolutely necessary.
PSA goes into next round of Puerto Rico bid PSA Corporation has advanced to the next stage in the competition for the concession to design, build and operate Puerto Rico's US$700 million Port of the Americas container terminal.
March deadline now for bids from Iraqi port investors IRAQ has extended until March a deadline for foreign investors to tender bids for 10-year concessions in its once-booming southern ports as the war-weary country seeks to refloat its maritime fortunes and create a major international shipping hub.
More bodies recovered off S Korea RESCUERS recovered yesterday the bodies of eight more Vietnamese sailors whose cargo ship sank off southwestern South Korea, and were searching for the remaining eight who are feared dead, police said.
Air and Land Transport
Belgian town caught in EU-Ryanair crossfire THE town of Charleroi in Belgium is an example of how low-cost carriers can contribute to building the economy of a small town away from the big cities with the hub airports.
Key execs to speak at budget carrier forum
Korean Air's loss more than doubles
JAL Group surprises with Q3 profit
Air NZ has cash to survive stiffer competition: CEO
Log Book
Dockyard
Busy year for ASRY despite Iraq war FOR a time, early last year, the Iraq war and its build-up deterred owners from allowing their ships to be in the Middle East Gulf region for any longer than absolutely necessary.
Is 'seaworthiness' not an issue of Class? Delegates at the Tanker Operator Conference held in London this week were baffled when a speaker from the classification society Bureau Veritas claimed that a Class certificate was not a document stating anything at all with regards to a vessel's seaworthiness.
Brazilian market update
Hin Leong's bunkering arm exits Fujairah market Singapore-based cargo trader and supplier Hin Leong has pulled its Middle East bunkering subsidiary out of the Fujairah bunker market, blaming proposed regulatory changes to single hulled vessels for its exit.
Demand muted in bearish Baltic markets
Tide turns as Bunkerworld adds familiar face to team Bunkerworld is delighted to announce that Alisdair Pettigrew, formerly Associate Publisher and Editor for BunkerNews, has today officially joined its team.
IMO to lay down ballast water rules THE International Maritime Organization gets to grips with harmful aquatic organisms in ships' ballast water this week as a diplomatic conference starting today prepares a new international convention to stamp out what has become a serious threat to the marine environment.
Container lines tipped to collect Brazil bird flu bonus BRAZIL-linked container ship-ping lines are gearing up to cash in on the reefer bonanza they expect to result from the east Asian bird flu crisis, but much will depend on slot availability.
China lifts scrap stakes yet again THE demolition market was on fire at the weekend amid reports that Chinese breakers had snapped up the first very large crude car- rier of the year for $358 per ldt.
Sterckx gives backing to Mangouras A SEVEN-man delegation of European parliamentarians watched dramatic video footage of the Prestige salvage operation last week during the course of a two-and-a-half hour meeting in a Barcelona hotel with Apostolos Mangouras, the tanker's master, writes Brian Reyes in Gibraltar .
Turkey comes bottom of the UK port state control table TURKISH vessels had the worst port state control record of any flag state calling at UK ports last year, according to 2003 figures from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
LR-Fairplay buys two magazines LLOYD'S Register - Fairplay has acquired two specialist maritime magazines, Safety at Sea and Dredging and Port Construction, from dmg World Media (UK)
Madrid approves new Galician port THE Spanish government has approved a '630M ($800M) plan to build a port outside La Coru'a in Galicia ahead of the 14 March general election
FEFC suffers rate slippage SOME member lines of the Far Eastern Freight Conference have reported that westbound rates from Asia have slipped as utilisation levels dip to 70% in some cases
FastShip finance coming together THIS week's announcement of $40M in new funding for FastShip's Philadelphia terminal is just one part of a larger financing package
African stowaways found in Hull THE bodies of two suspected stowaways were discovered yesterday afternoon in the hold of a dry cargo vessel docked at the UK port of Hull
Ferry collision probe launched AN investigation has been ordered into yesterday's collision between two river ferries in southern Bangladesh, in which 13 have been confirmed dead
DHS gets key security programs Agency takes over development of container seal standards, secure systems initiative from TSA.
Deal to open Long Beach box terminal could start 'greening' of U.S. facilities Port's settlement over environmental legal challenge could be harbinger for other terminal development plans.
The Hague's demands frustrate Maasvlakte-2 negotiations The Dutch government's participation in the newly-corporatised Rotterdam Port Authority (RPA) is proving a harder-than-expected nut to crack in the negotiations over the second Maasvlakte.
Aussie steak-holders gain from Japanese beef demand surge High demand for Australian beef, in the wake of the discovery of mad cow disease in North America, has caught carriers short of reefers.
Kolkata Port slashes charges to boost box traffic
Local opposition scuppers Basel rail bypass
Cosco to slot-charter on Japan/China service
Kalmar RTGs to handle growing Red Sea container volumes
Oakland records 12% increase in container traffic
Tacoma investments come of age in 2003 box-throughput record
Maritime EU this week: Greece warned, the role of EMSA and standards for loading units The EU Commission has sent a letter of formal notice to Greece for failing to follow the cabotage rules. Greece ...
Turbulent AGM for Viking Line A EUR 2 per share dividend (in total EUR 21.6 million) proposed by the Viking Line board was voted through ...
Violent strikers met by tear gas and rubber bullets Shipyard strikes in Spain are no pain-free exercises. Yesterday (Thursday) the riots from Tuesday were re-runned. Shipyard workers ...
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