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February 11, 2009
The Business Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Singapore firms in box seat in OSV market
    SINGAPORE companies in the offshore supply vessel (OSV) market will be hit by the economic downturn but are in the box seat as far as market action is concerned.
  • Address root cause of piracy: WSC chief
    WORLD Shipping Council (WSC) president and CEO Christopher Koch has told a US Congress committee that pirate attacks on commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden are a serious threat that can only be answered by a coordinated and sustained effort by various international bodies and the maritime industry.
  • DryShips gets respite with fresh refinancing deal
    DryShips Inc, a transporter of raw commodities such as iron ore and coal, negotiated a covenant waiver on an US$800 million loan with Nordea Bank AB, its second refinancing in a week to restructure payment of debt.
  • SPUR helps shipping industry step up training
  • Freight rate surge has bearish underpinnings
  • Modest growth seen for handysize fleet
  • Rotterdam port, environment group agree pollution target
Strait Talk
  • Going electronic has a price
    LAST November, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) took the decisive step towards making the use of electronic charts mandatory on commercial vessels.
Motoring
  • China beats US in vehicle sales for first time
    China vehicle sales topped the US's for the first time last month, as economic growth, price cuts and government support tempered declines in demand caused by rising job losses.
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.
Shipping Times
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.

The Business Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Singapore firms in box seat in OSV market
    SINGAPORE companies in the offshore supply vessel (OSV) market will be hit by the economic downturn but are in the box seat as far as market action is concerned.
  • Address root cause of piracy: WSC chief
    WORLD Shipping Council (WSC) president and CEO Christopher Koch has told a US Congress committee that pirate attacks on commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden are a serious threat that can only be answered by a coordinated and sustained effort by various international bodies and the maritime industry.
  • DryShips gets respite with fresh refinancing deal
    DryShips Inc, a transporter of raw commodities such as iron ore and coal, negotiated a covenant waiver on an US$800 million loan with Nordea Bank AB, its second refinancing in a week to restructure payment of debt.
  • SPUR helps shipping industry step up training
  • Freight rate surge has bearish underpinnings
  • Modest growth seen for handysize fleet
  • Rotterdam port, environment group agree pollution target
Strait Talk
  • Going electronic has a price
    LAST November, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) took the decisive step towards making the use of electronic charts mandatory on commercial vessels.
Motoring
  • China beats US in vehicle sales for first time
    China vehicle sales topped the US's for the first time last month, as economic growth, price cuts and government support tempered declines in demand caused by rising job losses.
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.
Shipping Times
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.

The Business Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Singapore firms in box seat in OSV market
    SINGAPORE companies in the offshore supply vessel (OSV) market will be hit by the economic downturn but are in the box seat as far as market action is concerned.
  • Address root cause of piracy: WSC chief
    WORLD Shipping Council (WSC) president and CEO Christopher Koch has told a US Congress committee that pirate attacks on commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden are a serious threat that can only be answered by a coordinated and sustained effort by various international bodies and the maritime industry.
  • DryShips gets respite with fresh refinancing deal
    DryShips Inc, a transporter of raw commodities such as iron ore and coal, negotiated a covenant waiver on an US$800 million loan with Nordea Bank AB, its second refinancing in a week to restructure payment of debt.
  • SPUR helps shipping industry step up training
  • Freight rate surge has bearish underpinnings
  • Modest growth seen for handysize fleet
  • Rotterdam port, environment group agree pollution target
Strait Talk
  • Going electronic has a price
    LAST November, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) took the decisive step towards making the use of electronic charts mandatory on commercial vessels.
Motoring
  • China beats US in vehicle sales for first time
    China vehicle sales topped the US's for the first time last month, as economic growth, price cuts and government support tempered declines in demand caused by rising job losses.
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.
Shipping Times
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.

The Business Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Singapore firms in box seat in OSV market
    SINGAPORE companies in the offshore supply vessel (OSV) market will be hit by the economic downturn but are in the box seat as far as market action is concerned.
  • Address root cause of piracy: WSC chief
    WORLD Shipping Council (WSC) president and CEO Christopher Koch has told a US Congress committee that pirate attacks on commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden are a serious threat that can only be answered by a coordinated and sustained effort by various international bodies and the maritime industry.
  • DryShips gets respite with fresh refinancing deal
    DryShips Inc, a transporter of raw commodities such as iron ore and coal, negotiated a covenant waiver on an US$800 million loan with Nordea Bank AB, its second refinancing in a week to restructure payment of debt.
  • SPUR helps shipping industry step up training
  • Freight rate surge has bearish underpinnings
  • Modest growth seen for handysize fleet
  • Rotterdam port, environment group agree pollution target
Strait Talk
  • Going electronic has a price
    LAST November, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) took the decisive step towards making the use of electronic charts mandatory on commercial vessels.
Motoring
  • China beats US in vehicle sales for first time
    China vehicle sales topped the US's for the first time last month, as economic growth, price cuts and government support tempered declines in demand caused by rising job losses.
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.
Shipping Times
  • Global car industry in catastrophe, says Peugeot chief
    The car industry is caught up in a catastrophe that has spread across the globe as even the key emerging markets that manufacturers had banked on for growth have now ground to a halt, a top executive said yesterday.
  • Lutz, who overhauled GM lineup, to retire at year-end
    Bob Lutz, America's ultimate car guy and the Swiss-born man credited with leading wild success at Chrysler in the 1990s and a near-complete overhaul of General Motors Corp's vehicle lineup, has decided to retire from the business at the end of the year.

Sched Netweb site
  • Using idle ships to store empties cheaper than paying depots ashore
  • US box traffic expected to fall 11.8pc in first half
  • Bahrain port receives 14,000-TEU MSC Daniella
  • Taiwan's Kaohsiung port volume slides 5.7pc
  • Downturn forces Zim to back out of bumper box ship orders
  • President's Dar es Salaam congestion clean-up underway
  • Duisport's 2008 volume rises 12pc to 1 million TEU
  • While pirates free ship for US$3.2 million ransom, US called to act
  • AAT suffers 29pc decline in Hong Kong air cargo in January
  • New Asia-Pac FedEx hub opens in Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou
  • BA World Cargo suffers November drop in air freight

Exim Indiaweb site
  • Chinese appetite for iron ore, wheat bolsters Baltic index
  • Alang shipyard crests the waves in times of depression
  • Gati Coast to Coast fleet gets youthful look with m.v. Gati Pride
  • MOL's Pegasus Ace sails off with 160 heavy vehicles
  • Allcargo Global deftly executes challenging ODC task
  • New equipment gives GTI capacity a mighty heave
  • Nepal weighs possibilities of using JNP & Vizag Port as ex-im trade gateways
  • Baalu commissions semi-mechanised closed coal conveyor system at Chennai Port
  • Time ripe to develop Port infrastructure & strive for horizontal growth-Dr Chanda
  • Cheaper European model 2-tier rail wagons may be made indigenously
  • Slump in export-bound commodities erodes Railways' revenues
  • Basmati export curbs to be reviewed
  • EAC chief hints at more fiscal sops in interim Budget
  • Ministry for 15 pc import duty on steel items

Maritime Global Netweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • NOL loses US$149m in Q4 as market collapses
  • Oil record book warning
  • Court cap on Hebei Spirit damages
  • Containerships' new service

Marine Logweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • Somali pirate suspects to face Rotterdam court
  • LHD 8 completes builders' trials
  • Red ink at NOL

Lloyd's Listweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • Box lines hope for breakthrough on consortia rules
    CONTAINER lines are hoping the European Commission will be able to deliver some good news, amidst almost unrelenting gloom across the industry.
  • Economic downturn will 'jeopardise ship safety' as owners slash costs
    THE economic downturn will lead to an increase in ship incidents and pollution, the new chairman of the European Maritime Safety Agency has predicted.

Fairplayweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • Tanker, box ship collide off Dubai
    A BOX SHIP and a chemical tanker today collided off Dubai's Jebel Ali port causing a fire to break out, port operator DP World told Fairplay
  • NOL posts dismal 4Q results
    CONTAINER operator Neptune Orient Lines has flashed a red alert on losses ahead after squeezing a net profit of $83M for the year 2008
  • Global trade in reverse
    THE "WORST global recession in six decades" will spur to the first drop in world trade since 1982, according to IHS Global Insight economist Sara Johnson
  • Idle ships 'used to store boxes'
    BOX COMPANIES are using idle vessels to store empty containers, a report from internet-based resource AXS Alphaliner has revealed
  • GSL in debt covenant talks
    LONDON-based ship owner Global Ship Lease is renegotiating the covenants of its $800M debt facility and has agreed to increase the margins payable for it
  • Pressure mounts on Subic safety
    THE PHILIPPINES government is being pressured to come up with a solution to the serious safety issues at Hanjin shipbuilding facility or risk a shut down
  • Six missing in Cebu collision
    SIX PEOPLE are missing following a collision between a fishing vessel and a cargo ship off the Filipino island of Bantayan in Cebu province

The Journal of Commerceweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • TSA drops capacity request with FMC
    Carriers will not pursue amendment allowing member lines to discuss capacity options in Asia-U.S. trade
  • Deloitte in Canal audit pact
  • APL Q4 profits dive
  • FMC to meet Feb. 11
  • "K" Line, GT Nexus renew
  • Rare sight: Boxship in Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Huge loss for ProLogis
  • U.S. air cargo off 17%
  • LB port opens security HQ
  • D. Bahn in Polish buy
  • CMA CGM in Syria port pact

Containerisation Internationalweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • NOL's net profit plummets by 84% in 2008
  • New Djibouti DP World box terminal unwrapped
  • OPEC 'shelves' drilling projects as oil price languishes
  • UK retail sales 'up' in January
  • Lattakia box terminal deal for CMA CGM

TradeWindsweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • US stocks dive
    All but a handful of shipping and offshore stocks slide as US bank aid plan sends broader markets downward.
  • Limericks flood in
    Thank you to readers who sent in rhymes, Telling of difficult shipping times, Some are bold and some are blue, Turning red a vessel's crew! Though a bit of sauce is not a crime.
  • Front-haul fire
    China sets capesize market alight as Cosco books MOL unit for Brazil pick-up at $59,000 a day.
  • Schulte success
    Row over pay off after twenty year deal to crew BP ships is axed ends in victory for shipmanager.
  • Trico earns $84m
    Houston offshore vessel owner tallies series of subsea contracts from DeepOcean and CTC Marine subsidiaries.
  • Blood delivered
    A cargo of blood from a seized Lebanese general cargoship reaches its destination in Gaza.
  • Pdvsa pays up
    Venezuelan oil company pays $26m in unpaid drillship hire to Singapore's Neptune Marine.
  • GSL refinances
    Boxship player Global Ship Lease re-jigs $800m loan to avoid default on covenants over ship valuations.
  • NOL crunched
    Unprecedented collapse in world trade sends shipowner to $149m fourth quarter loss, says CEO Ron Widdows.
  • Dutch collapse
    Eimskip's Netherlands cold storage operation Daalimpex goes into administration after sale falls through.
  • Hercules in loss
    But John Rynd-led rig and lifeboat owner's results beat analyst expectations, sending its shares upward.
  • Dockwise lighter
    Heavy lift player offloads two 1979-built veterans to focus on premium cargoes with remaining fleet.
  • Fuel rethink
    Oceania and Regent Seven Seas become latest cruise companies to cough up refunds for retrospective surcharges.
  • DHT still paying
    New York-listed tanker owner keeps dividend in place as fourth quarter bottom line doubles.
  • Tanker blaze
    Italian vessel loaded with condensates bursts into flames after collision with boxship off Dubai.
  • Door open
    Creditors clear the way for foreign investors to bid for struggling C&Heavy Industries, reports say.
  • New fund for DVB
    DVB Bank kicks off new $250m counter-cyclical shipping and offshore fund.
  • Baltic cull
    Ferry operator Scandlines making 45 staff redundant in Sweden due to freight volume dip.
  • Ro-ro chaos
    UK report condemns complacency of senior officers as Seatruck's Moondance grounded off Northern Ireland due to power failure.
  • Orskov better
    Danish shiprepair yard pushes up profit and revenues in 2008 as business stays brisk.
  • JES faces red ink
    Singapore-listed shipbuilder warns of fourth quarter loss following rising costs and unfavourable currency shift.
  • Frontline defeat
    European court clears way for Italian insurers to pursue $20m case over suezmax dock damage.
  • FOP flop
    Fred Olsen's fleet of floating storage/production vessels clobbered by impairment charge from falling vessel steel values in 2008.
  • Safe cuts payout
    Polys Hajioannou-led outfit joins growing rank of listed companies reducing shareholder dividends.
  • Hitachi hit
    Japanese shipyard group's nine-month losses grow, but it expects profitable fourth quarter.
  • Fish fingered
    IMB uncovers fishy racket involving fraudulent shipments of frozen seafood to China.
  • Green light
    Malaysia's Star Cruises finally wins Taiwanese approval for direct cruises to China after months of wrangling.
  • SNCM on the rise
    Former French state-owned ferry group returned to profit in 2008 and plans big earnings boost in years to come.
  • Giant JV
    Mitsubishi of Japan and Brazil's Petrobras team up in $830m drillship venture.
  • Faulty four
    Hong Kong holds three boxships and a bulker during January, including an NYK vessel.
  • STX in bond bid
    South Korean giant targets $108m in unconvertible bonds for security from uncertain market.
  • Inui falls back
    Japanese bulker owner sees results deteriorate from a year ago and forecasts that worse is to come.

American Shipperweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • TSA lines withdraw capacity discussion amendment
  • NOL reports 4Q loss, expects same in 2009
  • Idled ships used for empty box storage
  • L.L. Bean switches to UPS
  • Virgin to handle V Australia cargo operations
  • Lufthansa adds U.S.-Italy flights
  • FedEx Freight drops 900 workers
  • Great Lakes traffic sees sharp drop
  • Averitt adds Texas terminals
  • Kaohsiung bumped from top 10 ports
  • CMA CGM will operate Syrian port
  • Mumbai volume up 7.5%, Chennai up 14.2%

The Scandinavian Shipping Gazetteweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • ESL Shipping doing well
    The shipping company ESL Shipping in the Finnish Aspo Group did well in 2008 despite decreased capacity and the weakened market situation. Even if the profit for 2008 did not
  • Norden reward employees with shares
    D/S Norden, Copenhagen, has decided to give shares to a certain number of employees in the company. The board of directors has decided to give away 22,750 shares with
  • STX Europe will be delisted from the Oslo Børs
    In letter on 29 January 2009, STX Europe ASA applied for delisting of the company's shares from the Oslo Stock Exchange. The administration of the Oslo Stock Exchange made the
  • Samsun in deep crisis
    Samsun Logix, one of South Korea's largest bulk operators, has filed for court receivership at Seoul's central district court following difficulties in getting charter fees, Asian media reports. Samsun has

The Bunker Bulletinweb site
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
  • European ports see double-digit price gains
    Rotterdam bunker prices moving less amid low demand.
  • Rotterdam's annual bunker sales slip
    Fewer container ships bunkering in the port last year.
  • Container line posts fourth quarter loss
    NOL says the severity of the collapse in global trade is without precedent.
  • Hong Kong bunkers overtake Tokyo Bay
    Price differentials in key Asian ports narrow.
  • Marine diesel oil leaked near grounded missile cruiser
    The captain of the vessel has been relieved of his duties.
  • Panama ratifies Bunkers Convention
    Shipowners face more pollution rules.
  • Japan Energy takes new trader
  • MRPL offers 380 cst cargo
    80,000 mt parcel is scheduled for March loading.

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Leghorn
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Venice
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Genoa
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The call for funding for the purchase of electric vehicles in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado has been published
Genoa
Yang Ming Buys Three New 8,000 TEU Containerships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Construction of a cruise ship for Regent Seven Seas Cruises begins in Marghera
Trieste
Fincantieri will deliver the unit in 2026
Federlogistica establishes operational offices in Spain and Brazil
Genoa
The aim is to go beyond theoretical cooperative relationships
Over a Ton of Cocaine Seized in the Port of Gioia Tauro
Reggio Calabria
If placed on the market it would have generated over 187 million euros
In 2024, the economic results of Interporto Padova reached record values
Padua
Revenues up +17%
Three ceremonies at the Saint-Nazaire shipyard for three new MSC Cruises ships
Geneva
New flagship "MSC World America" delivered
German railway company DB Cargo reduced losses in 2024
Berlin
Revenues down again. -9.0% drop in freight volumes
NovaAlgoma orders second 38,000 dwt cement carrier in China
Lugano
It will be taken over in 2027
Customs agreement between Italy and Brazil to facilitate trade
Brasilia
Mission of the Customs and Monopolies Agency in the South American nation
A team from La Spezia Container Terminal in Rotterdam to test advanced technologies
The Spice
ECT Hutchinson Ports Training Center Visited
The assembly of Genoese freight forwarders on Monday
Genoa
It will be held at the Palazzo della Borsa in Genoa
Assarmatori, in Italy the ferry segment cannot bear the burden of the EU ETS in a very fragile market situation
Brussels
Messina: Protecting shipping from the ideological excesses of the Green Deal
The website of the Port Authority Corps - Coast Guard has been renewed
Rome
It has become a single digital access point to documents and services
In 2024, inland waterway freight transport in Germany increased by +1.2%
Wiesbaden
The volume, at 173.8 million tonnes, is the second lowest since 1990.
APM Terminals Granted Port of New York - New Jersey Concession Renewal
New York
Contract for a period of 33 years. Investments of 500 million dollars are expected
Experimentation of crane automation has begun at the Interporto Padova terminal
Padua
The interport company awarded the "Industria Felix 2025 Award"
Container traffic in the port of Algeciras fell by -17.0% in February
Algeciras
Both import-export volumes and transhipment are decreasing
New cruise company Crescent Seas has been founded in Miami
Miami
The fleet, initially consisting of one ship from Regent Seven Seas Cruises, will grow to five units within the next five years
In 2024, the volume of vehicles transported by Wallenius Wilhelmsen's fleet decreased by -9.7%
Oslo
Traffic down on almost all global routes
Agreement between Assoporti and Assologistica and the Florida trade, transport and port authorities
Rome
It was signed today
In April a mission in Albania of The International Propeller Clubs - Italy
Genoa
It will take place on the 9th and 10th in Tirana and Durres
COSCO Shipping Ports revenues rose to a record $1.5 billion in 2024 (+3.3%)
Hong Kong
In the fourth quarter alone, a decrease of -3.0%
SO.RI.MA. (FHP group) granted a concession of an area of 125 thousand square meters in the port of Chioggia
Venice
Investments of 11.5 million euros expected over 25 years
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
The public meeting of the Italian Port Terminal Operators Association will be held in Rome on June 19th
Genoa
The annual conference "Programming, Operation and Management of Transport Networks" in Genoa
Genoa
It is dedicated to the transport and mobility sector
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Damen Mangalia Unionists Protest Friday Against Possible Closure
(The Romania Journal)
Govt. to woo top ten shipping liners in world for Colombo port expansion
(Daily Mirror)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
Contship Italia’s intermodal network has been extended to the Gulf Terminal in La Spezia
Melzo
Connections with the inland terminals of Milan, Modena and Padua
Container traffic in the port of Valencia grew by +15.2% last month
Valencia
The overall volume of goods handled increased by +6.8%
The Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority obtains gender equality certification
Leghorn
It is the first Italian port authority to obtain this recognition
Container traffic growth weakens at ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
Los Angeles/Long Beach
Last month, increases of +2.6% and +13.4% respectively were recorded
Assarmatori, the Italian government's position on the impact of the EU ETS on shipping and ports is good
Rome
Messina: fully understood the risks and distortions of European climate regulation
PSA Italy's Genoa port terminals awarded anti-corruption certification
Genoa
The UNI EN ISO 37001 standard defines the requirements for an effective anti-corruption management system
Assiterminal presents three projects for the sustainable transition of the Italian port sector
Rome
Work completed on docks 33 and 34 of the port of Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia
50,000 square meters of yards prepared
The completion and doubling of the Pontremolese is the dream-nightmare of the La Spezia port community
The Spice
Fontana: Money is not found when enormous resources are channeled into railway lines of dubious utility
Hanwha acquires 9.9% stake in shipbuilding company Austal
Sydney
Investment worth approximately 116 million US dollars
The European fleet is growing but competing fleets are growing at a faster rate
Brussels
Raptis (European Shipowners): investing ETS revenues in clean shipping technologies and fuels
Trasportounito has confirmed the national halt to the transport of goods
Rome
Proclaimed for the duration of five days from March 31st to April 4th
Container traffic in Hong Kong port increased by +9.1% in February
Hong Kong
However, for the second time in the last 25 years, cargo volume was below one million TEU.
Cargo traffic in Greek ports stable in Q3 2024
Piraeus
The increase in volumes transported on domestic routes has offset the decline in traffic with foreign countries
At the Vado Ligure container terminal a 21,000 teu container ship fully loaded
I go to Liguria
The 400-meter-long Cosco Shipping Nebula has landed
UIR proposes a permanent table for the development of intermodality
Verona
The main task is to build a project financing program.
Restructuring plan approved for Spanish company Armas Trasmediterránea
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Creditors' appeal rejected
The decline in cargo traffic at the port of Singapore worsened in February
Singapore
Containerized cargoes amounted to 27.4 million tons (-3.6%)
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