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BRIEFS
September 23, 2008
The Business Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Chinese tie-up gives Yantai added boost
    With the completion earlier this month of China International Marine Containers' (CIMC) deal to buy a 29.9 per cent stake in Yantai Raffles Shipyard for US$327 million, the company is now more tightly integrated into the Chinese economy, chairman Brian Chang told BT.
  • Criminalisation: seafarers' bane and sea career deterrent
    THE increasing trend to 'criminalise' seafarers around the world has gone to the top of the list of shipping industry concerns in recent months.
  • Gulf tanker rates may rise with demand
    The cost of shipping Middle East crude to Asia, the world's busiest route for supertankers, may rise for a second day as refineries accelerate vessel demand, strengthening owners' negotiating hands.
  • Mitsui leads rivals in surge
  • Shipshape

Sched Netweb site
  • Port Tracker sees 6pc drop at US main ports in 2008
  • Nanjing to hold China International Logistics Festival
  • Two 8,400-TEU Maersk ships named in Korea to fly Dutch flag
  • World containership orders fall 49pc, says Clarksons
  • Qatar gives nod to new 20-metre terminal at Vizhinjam
  • Viconship Saigon lists on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange
  • Fujitsu Siemens opts for rail China-Germany Eurasian Landbridge
  • Dar es Salaam Port charges increase, but congestion falls
  • Mobile [Alabama] Container Terminal to open this month
  • BA World Cargo cuts fuel surcharge to US$1.05
  • Alaska to retire old DC-6s - last of large pre-jet propeller aircraft
  • National Air Cargo throws party for US Navy at Thai liberty port

Exim Indiaweb site
  • Vijayan C. D'Souza to steer MANSA's course in 2008-10
  • Rising piracy may divert ships to Cape of Good Hope route
  • Shipbreakers fortunes sink with steel prices, global credit crunch
  • Seacon to have own office from next year
  • MSC augmenting capacity on Europe-S. Africa service
  • Zim puts 4,000-TEU ship into Tampa
  • INTTRA's volumes in Asia-Pacific region shoot up by 50 pc
  • APL monthly revenue 7 pc up, boxes rise by 10 pc
  • Rotterdam's Euromax Terminal opens
  • UAE's Gulftainer handles 9,700-TEU CMA CGM Orfeo
  • Panama Canal gets A2 rating from Moody's
  • Shenzhen's Yantian CT to build 4 mega container berths
  • UAE ports hike container handling fees
  • AADA to lower China, Hong Kong-Australia bunker surcharge
  • NYK's new German shipping hq opened
  • Kamal Nath seeks Spanish investments
  • Major Port at Andamans on Shipping Ministry's sonar
  • Omprakash Agrawal now at helm of BCHAA affairs
  • FFFAI invites candidates to apply for Young Entrepreneur award
  • Cement output down by 10.2 pc in August 2008
  • ECB norms to be eased soon
  • R. K. Sonthalia elected EPCES Chairman

Maritime Global Netweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Bahamas-flag vessel becomes unlucky 13
  • Estonian wage deal
  • ITF acts against 3 companies
  • CanShip Ugland fined

Marine Logweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Admiral to shipowners: Hire security teams!
  • Lindenau-Werft declares insolvency
  • Ulstein launches largest X-bow ship yet
  • Wärtsilä buys Singapore ship designer

World Wide Shipperweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Corps informs Port of Seattle that dredging violations resolved
  • Pierce County works with WSDOT to continue current ferry service
  • Customs returns artifacts to Mexican Consulate General
  • Schnitzer Steel buying Puerto Rican scrap firm
  • DOT plans projects to ease border congestion

Lloyd's Listweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Credit crisis claims Lindenau Werft
    KIEL-based shipbuilder with E225m orderbook files for insolvency after failing to secure refund guarantee.
  • Scrapping rates plunge in 'perfect storm'
    FALLING steel prices, currency weakness and difficulty accessing credit are squeezing breakers.

Fairplayweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Ten feeders for Arcade Acquisition
    NEW YORK-based Arcade Acquisition Corporation revealed today that it will spend $262M in a complex deal to acquire ten feeder box ships
  • Lanka to train engineer cadets
    SRI Lanka Ports Authority and national shipping line Ceylon Shipping Corp are to start a three-year programme to train engineering cadets to take advantage of the global crew shortage
  • Seafarer on oil dump charge
    ALLEGED fraudulent oil record keeping has landed a Spanish seafarer in trouble with US authorities, who say the crewman from the tanker Nautilus dumped oil at sea and failed to record it
  • Hagupit sinks cargo ship, strands many
    TYPHOON Hagupit has left thousands of ferry passengers in the Philippines stranded after authorities suspended the operations of passenger-cargo ships yesterday
  • Euro owners call for action on piracy
    THE EUROPEAN Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) has urged EU governments to do more to tackle piracy off the coast of Somalia
  • Ferries collide in Cebu port
    SULPICIO Lines-operated ro-pax Princess of the South was damaged this morning when it was struck by a departing ferry
  • Indonesians prepare ro-ros
    INDONESIAN authorities have prepared 29 ro-ro vessels for forthcoming celebrations

The Journal of Commerceweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • West Coast box traffic weaker in August
    Another decline in containerized imports shows that the peak-shipping season in the trans-Pacific will be not much of a peak at all
  • ACE funding shortfall
  • NOL to bid for Hapag-LLoyd
  • TPM Asia: China still out front
  • LA-Long Beach to use stickers to ID clean trucks
  • South Carolina ports complete air emissions inventory
  • Tacoma volume declines
  • Arcade buys 10 ships
  • United States preparing to join Pacific trade group
  • Jebel Ali expands capacity
  • 4,000-TEU ship calls Tampa

Containerisation Internationalweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • ESC 'excited' by ending of Europe's liner shipping exemption
  • Horizon cuts its debt
  • Panama Canal upgrades quayside infrastructure
  • SDV opens up in Argentina
  • ATA appeals against rebuff for LA and Long Beach injunction

TradeWindsweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Lindenau files
    German yard declares insolvency after running out of cash, despite having orders worth EUR 225m.
  • Fiery start
    SMM 2008 gets underway with a flourish, but are shipbuilders about to get burned?
  • Greeks US bound
    Arcade Acquisition Corp splashes $262m on 10 ships from Tsakos and Conbulk for new NYSE feedership company.
  • Serbia tries again
    Deadline extended for river shipper JRB's new privatisation, after Turkey's Palmali pulled out of previous sale.
  • Mistaken ship
    Vessel detained by USCG over oily water separator was not part of the Aeolos Management fleet.
  • Skuld scores
    Underwriting profit provides a lifebelt as P&I club's investment result sinks.
  • Andaman action
    Indian government considering scheme to found transhipment hub in Indian ocean island chain.
  • CanShip fined
    Ugland and Knutsen joint venture to pay up for fatal fire on Kometik tanker in Canada in 2006.
  • UECC expands
    NYK and Wallenius-owned car carrier player launches new transhipment link from Italy to Spain and France.
  • Cash call
    Canada's Davie Yards looking for partner to inject money as funds dry up due to rising costs.
  • Port to double
    Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin's St Petersburg port to get $730m makeover by 2011.
  • Dof deal back on
    Private equity funds set stalled takeover of Dof Subsea by Helge Mogster's Dof back on track following tight credit concerns.
  • Joola justice?
    Six years on from African ferry sinking, huge row erupts between Senegal and France over prosecutions.
  • Equinox inks deal
    Company converting ferries into offshore accommodation vessels secures first charter.
  • Strike averted
    Unions and bosses at UK's Northwestern Shiprepairers clinch "above-inflation" pay deal to stop walk-out.
  • UAE stands firm
    Gulf nation to stick to IMO's first single-hulled tanker phase-out deadline of 2010.
  • Sulpicio smashed
    Philippines owner's ferry involved in incident with Aboitiz passenger vessel at Cebu City.
  • KSA urges action
    Korea Shipowners' Association backs calls for military action against Somali pirates.
  • Short-term fix
    Varouxakis-led bulker player ties up 26-year-old handysize for 40 days at above breakeven.

American Shipperweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Hapag-Lloyd bids expected this week, Widdows says chance of sale at 50%
  • Malta complications if France joins U.S. sanctions of IRISL
  • MacGREGOR to provide cranes for SE Shipping heavy-lift vessels
  • Ex-Im Bank to guarantee loans on Air India-Boeing deal
  • Fujitsu Siemens first block train customer for trans-Asia rail line
  • CN asks court to prod STB on Chicagoland rail deal
  • Kansas City Southern will challenge Mexican court decision
  • Back to basics for ACE
  • EPA to revise transborder hazardous waste rules to accommodate OECD
  • Global Insight to be acquired by IHS
  • USDA chief leads trade mission to CAFTA countries
  • USTDA to host customs workshop in Vietnam
  • DP World adds tandem-lift gantry cranes at Jebel Ali terminal 2
  • Singapore port authority gives $2.4 million for research

The Scandinavian Shipping Gazetteweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Growing demand for short cruises to St Ptersburg
    Royal Caribbean International will resume to use Stockholm as a turnaround port for short cruises in next summer. Next year's itinerary for the cruise vessel Vision of the Seas includes 15 sailings from Stockholm to Tallinn and St Petersburg. Royal ...
  • Dutch captain detained by Danish police
    The captain of the Dutch coaster Little Jane had to spend one night in detention at the police station in Helsingør during the weekend. He was arrested at sea by the Danish police, who had been alerted by a Swedish ...
  • Fjord Line drops Kristiansand service
    Fjord Line has decided to stop sailing from Hirtshals to Kristiansand and leave this trade to Color Line alone as from next weekend, when the sailing from Hanstholm will be terminated. The fast ferry service will be terminated for good ...

The Bunker Bulletinweb site
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
  • Hess adds to Ike relief
    Company donating to fund, following on from other oil corporation contributions.
  • Global bunker market report
  • European bunker prices leap higher
    Energy markets expect dollar price of oil products to firm.
  • High fuel costs 'benefit shipping'
    Soaring fuel costs underline the energy efficiency of maritime transport.
  • Regional markets competing for fuel oil cargoes
    Singapore traders say arbitrage volumes being diverted to Fujairah
  • Bunkers soar in volatile Asia markets
    Singapore sees price climb more than $40 in a single day.
  • Bunker testing agencies should help end 'confusion'
    Marine fuel consultant sees 'wrong practice' in taking MARPOL samples.
  • Losses mount for John Keells
    Sri Lanka-listed firm in financial troubles due to a bunker firm acquisition deal in 2002.
  • Dan-Bunkering takes new bunker trader
  • Goldman Sachs forecasts oil at $110
    Oil price forecast slashed for 2009 on slowing demand.

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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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