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August 11, 2009
The Business Timesweb site
Shipping News
  • Sharp rise of 10m barrels in oil storage offshore
    The amount of crude oil being stored at sea has risen sharply over the last two weeks, particularly in the US Gulf, due to a price incentive for oil companies to hold stocks on board vessels, traders and analysts said last Friday.
  • Swire Shipping to pay Australia A$25m for spill
    UK-based Swire Shipping said on Saturday that it had reached a deal with the Australian government on compensation for an oil spill this year which hit pristine tourist beaches in north-eastern Australia.
  • Weak US$ helping luxury boat-builder stay afloat
    Recession has shaken nearly every corner of the US economy but Trinity Yachts is still turning out custom-built luxury boats, thanks in part to a sagging US dollar.
  • Between the devil and the deep blue sea
  • Gradual recovery seen for LNG shipping
  • LNG tanker detained over disposal probe

Sched Netweb site
  • Ransomed box ship puts into Mombasa as agents stave off media
  • Zim offers charterers equity for easier payment terms
  • Seaspan profit up 32pc, but snubs CSAV, Hapag calls to ease charter rates
  • Jiangxi's province's Jian to Shenzhen sea-rail service launched
  • ICTSI quarterly profit falls 33pc, but Asian volumes rise
  • Toll Group and ANL join in Melbourne-Tasmania shipping venture
  • Ontario teachers join California state pension fund in Virginia CT bid
  • DHL fined US$9.4 million for shipping contraband to Muslim states
  • Hactl's Hong Kong air cargo down 8.4pc in July
  • AAT down 20pc year on year, but up 11pc month to month
  • Shanghai Pudong Airport Bonded Area plan awaits Beijing's approval
  • TSA approves use of new security technologies by Lufthansa Cargo
  • US domestic air cargo dip eases in June, sees rise in December
  • National Air Cargo 'fastest US-Afghanistan', offers Bagram, Kandahar weekly
  • Atlas Air Worldwide quarterly profit up six fold plus to US$11.3 million

Exim Indiaweb site
  • Sebi may give Bharati, ABG parallel dates to bid for Great Offshore
  • DB Schenker offers sensor tech solution in ocean freight
  • Sealand Container Lines inducts Allan Sylvester D'Mello as Director
  • AAP Investment buys 0.6 pc stake in Great Offshore
  • MSC to hike Pacific & Atlantic US rates from September
  • WTSA to hike US-Asia rates next month
  • Hapag-Lloyd ups Asia-Europe & intra-America rates
  • Evergreen Line hikes rates on US commodities
  • CMA CGM to effect Atlantic rate hikes
  • Safmarine to exit transpacific trade in 2010
  • CMA CGM, Maersk Line & MSC to rationalise transpacific services to US WC from Sept. 16
  • Maersk Line appoints 32-year-old head of group strategy
  • Box traffic at Malaysia ports up by 10 pc in Q2
  • Tanzania drops box transfer fees for shippers
  • CTSA to cut currency adjustment factor to 1 pc from Sept. 1
  • Rickmers Maritime optimistic of higher Q2 income
  • New mega berth at Shenzhen's YICT commences trial operations
  • MELL to commence HK-Malaysia-Cebu run
  • Oregon & Washington ports levy wide-ranging tariff hikes
  • Global sugar price soars to 28-year high on Brazil's poor harvest & India's sweet tooth
  • Mundra Port-led combine bags Mormugao Port coal terminal development concession
  • Dhamra port project gets DRDO clearance
  • Kolkata Dock System sets container handling record in July
  • Ennore Port to treble coal handling capacity in five years
  • Impasse over new manning scales at NM Port continues
  • Steel giants importing less coal via Paradip Port now
  • Air cargoes sinking to sea level!
  • NHAI may roll back tolls to lure transporters back on highways
  • Exports down by 31 pc this year
  • IIFCL puts highways & power projects on priority list for funding
  • Korea industrial park in S. Gujarat may attract Rs 7 K-cr. investments
  • CII & Copenhagen Capacity may ink MoU to promote trade relations
  • Commission paid to foreign companies not taxable in India, rules AAR

Maritime Global Netweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Kerch storm kills eight
  • Italian tug freed
  • Stronger dollar boost Bourbon
  • "Magic pipe" monitor

Marine Logweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Bourbon reports strong results from offshore
  • Promotions at Pride International
  • GL appoints Kevin Coyne to key maritime position
  • Maersk to stop building ships at Lindø

World Wide Shipperweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • WSF calling for bids to build new 64-car ferries
  • Dead whale discovered in Tacoma's Blair Waterway
  • Electric boat nets contract to repair damaged submarine
  • Stork Craft moving offices to Port of Bellingham location
  • Horizon Lines recognized for perfect schedule reliability

Lloyd's Listweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Odense calls time on shipbuilding
    AP Moller Maersk's yard to cease all shipbuilding when current orderbook is completed.
  • Demise of yard "sad but understandable"
  • Swire pays over liability limit to settle spill claim
    SWIRE Shipping will pay $8.3m over and above its maximum legal liability for the Pacific Adventurer incident.
  • DryShips secures West LB loan waiver
    DRYSHIPS has won another waiver from a lender bank, with West LB agreeing terms on $71m in debt.
  • Global Ship Lease still in talks on $800m loan
    COMPANY says still in talks with banks about waiver, as it posts net income of $22.8m on revenue of $36.2m

Fairplayweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Odense to end shipbuilding
    ODENSE Steel Shipyard is to end all shipbuilding activities after it delivers its last vessel in 2011, the company said today
  • Chiquita avoids Eastwind slip-up
    CHIQUITA has kept its banana cargoes flowing despite Eastwind's Chapter 7 liquidation, according to a new financial filing
  • Pirates free Italian tug
    SOMALI pirates have freed Italian tug Buccaneer, the country's foreign ministry confirmed today
  • Was death ferry seaworthy?
    THE CAPTAIN in last week's ferry sinking accused Tongan authorities today of being swayed by financial pressures to allow an unseaworthy vessel to sail

The Journal of Commerceweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Diesel Jumps 7.5 Cents to $2.625 per Gallon
  • CMA CGM Joins Trans-Atlantic MSC Loop
  • Retailers Oppose Tariffs on Chinese Tires
  • Rickmers Establishes UK Liner Agency
  • Brightpoint Expands Reverse Logistics Capabilities
  • CMA CGM Hikes U.S. Rates
  • FedEx Expands International Economy Services
  • Bolloré to Operate African Terminal
  • Panalpina, Yusen Loosen Ties
  • Maersk to Stop Making Ships, Sell Shipyards
  • Calderón Presses Obama on Cross-border Trucking

Containerisation Internationalweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Morakot slams into Asia
  • Swire caves in on clean-up costs
  • BDI: worst week since October crash
  • MSC Aurelie grounds off Karachi
  • Valencia still on a roll

TradeWindsweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Chiquita sailing
    Charterer of 12 ships from bankrupt Eastwind says four containership contracts continue unchanged but eight reefers are converted to bareboat charters.
  • Creditors resist
    Unsecured creditors of US Shipping Partners say more information should be given before they left with "token $100,000".
  • A week aground
    Norwegian-flagged open hatch carrier Austanger has been grounded off Argentina for more than a week.
  • UP selling cape?
    Felipe Menendez-led Ultrapetrol's only capesize bulker, the 1984-built Princess Marisol, is again reported to be up for sale.
  • Changing hands
    Brazilian engineering outfit Odebrecht and Dubai Ports World re in final negotiations to buy a terminal at port of Santos.
  • Ransom denied
    Italian owner denies reports of $4.5m ransom for release of tug claiming government promised aid instead.
  • Tanker aground
    Master and chief officer injured as German chemical tanker grounds off Taiwan in Typhoon Morakot.
  • China lashes Rio
    State secrets department says Chinese steel mills overpaid by $100bn as 'Spirongate' rumbles on.
  • Freak focus
    US scientists claim breakthrough in mapping occurrence of huge rogue waves.
  • Boxship boost
    New vessels and non-cash items jack up second quarter profit at Global Ship Lease.
  • Arctic Sea 'lost'
    Mystery surrounds reported disappearance of Russian-crewed ship 'hijacked' in Baltic in July.
  • Last orders
    AP Moller-Maersk stops shipbuilding activity at Lindo with the workforce shrinking as it completes its final 14 ships.
  • 17 held
    Escobal bulker among ships detained after failing safety checks during July.
  • Currency boost
    Favourable exchange rates and rising sales lead MODEC to boost first half profit forecast.
  • 22 missing
    Typhoon Morakot claims Chinese panamax bulk carrier leaving 22 crew members missing.
  • PNSC picks two
    Pakistan national owner lines up $60m deal for modern Japanese-built tanker duo.
  • Buccaneer free
    No ransom said to have been paid for release of Italian tug and crew held in Somalia for four months.
  • HSL deaths
    Two workers fall into sea and drown while painting vessel at Indian shipyard.
  • Scrap surge
    China and Bangladesh lead the way in demolition market as prices leap above $300 per ton.
  • Growth spurt
    Arrival of 40 offshore newbuildings fires second quarter revenue at Bourbon as income from bulker unit collapses.
  • P&O peeved
    UK ferry operator slams government's back-dating of port rates as it faces bill of nearly £6m.
  • CSSC fades
    Profit tumbles in first half at China Ship Shipbuilding Co as sales peak but costs soar.
  • ATS stronger
    Aboitiz-owned Philippines ro-ro player boosted by higher passenger utilisation in first half.
  • Swissco stronger
    Alex Yeo-led firm's bottom line shoots up as asset sales and a larger fleet boost returns.
  • Newbuild grounds
    Tide Sjo ferry suffers water ingress off Norway, the company's fourth accident this year.
  • Deeper freeze
    Japan's Toei Reefer Line widens losses in first quarter, but annual forecast looking better.
  • Koncar covets
    Mining tycoon confirms he wants to buy all five state-owned Croatian shipyards in privatisation.
  • Indian chase
    "Suspicious" North Korean cargoship held off Andaman and Nicobar islands after six-hour pursuit.

American Shipperweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Maersk to exit shipbuilding business
  • Zim raises Asia-to-Europe rates
  • Lidinsky joins FMC
  • COAC, DHS tackle redundant air security programs
  • COAC roundup
  • Senate confirms Obama's nominee to STB
  • Morgan Stanley projects freight rail recovery
  • Obama appointments
  • Senate leaders propose Customs reauthorization
  • Rooney resigns from COAC
  • U.S. grant supports West African intermodal development
  • Famous Pacific starts Rotterdam/Cartagena service
  • Bolloré wins concession for port in Benin
  • ICTSI sees lower profit on container volume decline
  • Ontario teachers, CenterPoint team up on Va. Offer

The Scandinavian Shipping Gazetteweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Rig to Esbjerg for refit
    The third jack-up drilling rig this year has arrived in Esbjerg for an extensive refit, coordinated by Semco Maritime. The drilling rig is the American-owned Noble Byron Welliver
  • Dennis Maritime back in business
    The re-established Finnish shipping company Dennis Maritime Ltd has taken over the operations of the 1,280 DWT cargo vessels Josefine and Nathalie after the bankruptcy of their former owner

The Bunker Bulletinweb site
AUGUST 10, 2009
  • Shipyard to close
    Moller - Maersk blames competition from low cost countries in Asia.
  • Consistency in bunker sampling for MARPOL compliance
    Confusion and 'wrong practice' surrounding the taking of official MARPOL samples.
  • Bunker prices slide in Europe
    Meanwhile crude oil prices firming in early trading on NYMEX.
  • Shipbuilder focuses on fuel efficiency
    Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding says it can cut CO2 emissions from VLCCs by 20%.
  • Asian niche operator 'approaching insolvency'
    Tells shipower it will be unable to pay hire or bunkers on chartered ship.
  • Refiner delays upgrade by 'five years'
    Decline in fuel oil output would put more pressure on bunker markets.
  • Bunker prices driving up tanker rates
    'The trend is up,' says broker.
  • OPEC 'relaxed' on quota compliance
    July production up, compliance with cuts drops below 70% says survey.
  • Asian bunker prices mostly weaker
    Region's bunker markets largely quiet Monday.
  • New FTC rule to prohibit oil 'market manipulation'
    FTC will 'police' the oil markets and 'go after' companies that manipulate the markets.
  • IOC unit postpones shutdown
    Shutdown meant to increase capacity, including annual fuel oil output.
  • Shipping disrupted as typhoon reaches Chinese mainland
    Bunker operations in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland ports are being maintained.
  • OOIL in the red
    Revenue 'dramatically' reduced while bunker costs only partially recovered.
  • Swire to pay $21 million for bunker spill
    Offer welcomed by Queensland Premier who said company has 'gone further than they've wanted to'.

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FROM THE HOME PAGE
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.
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
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
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
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
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%
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
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
The OYAK and OIA funds will invest in the Turkish port of Iskenderun
Ankara
Expected the realization of a terminal container
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
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.
After Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd also initiates an agreement with Chinese Goldwind for supplies of green methanol
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.
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.
In 2023, the performance of road and rail transport services fell in Switzerland.
Neuchâtel
Modal shares remained unchanged
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
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
In the third quarter economic growth of trade in goods and services of G20
Paris
Down the value of goods to and from China
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
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
The BIMCO has adopted the FuelEU Maritime Clause
Copenhagen
The European regulation will enter into force next January.
Kenon Holdings (Idan Ofer) announces the next exit from the capital of ZIM
Singapore
Currently owns 19.8 million shares
NIM and EH Group will develop hydrogen fuel cell technologies for shipping
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.
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
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%)
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
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
Corsica Sardinia Ferries in search of navigating personnel
Go Ligure
The wanted profiles are different, for machine areas, room and kitchen
Agreement for the digital integration of the FS and AdSP Polo Logistics systems of the Western Liguria
Genoa
New Oriental Mediterranean Service-Adriatic via Malta of CMA CGM
Marseille
Will have a weekly frequency
Brussels to give state aid for 1.9 billion euros to German railway company DB Cargo
Brussels
Renewed the Governing Council of Wista Italy
Milan
Constancy Musso confirmed president
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
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
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
The agreement on training between the AdSP of the Tirreno Centre Northern, the ITS Academy, " G. Caboto " and the European Escola
Cyvitavecchia
Consultation on the extension of the UK ETS to the maritime sector
London
Shipping would be included since 2026
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
ONE acquires a stake in Jakarta's NPCT1 terminal container
Singapore
It has a traffic capacity of 1.5 million teu per year
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
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
Dachser & Fercam Italia has opened a new branch in Arezzo
Bolzano
Three thousand square meters of operational surface area and 400 of offices
Fincantieri initiates agreement with SIMEST for the growth of watermark businesses
Milan / Trieste
Conference for the 30 th birthday of WISTA Italy
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow at Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa
Approved the Plan of the Organic Ports of Sardinia
Cagliari
There are 938 workers in the 36 enterprises operating in the scallots
Saipem has awarded an EPCI offshore contract from BP in Indonesia
Milan
Container ship charterer MPCC's revenues fell by -28% in the third quarter
Oslo
Fermerci reports delays and cuts to incentives for rail freight transport
Rome
Paper: Real risk of losing 115 million euros
In the third quarter, traffic in shipping containers of Moroccan Marsa Maroc increased by 5% percent.
Casablanca
Exhaustion of the growth of transshipment volumes
At Samsung Heavy Industries orders for the construction of four 16,000-teu container carriers
Busan
Commits the value of about 781 million
Eni-MSC agreement in the field of sustainability and energy transition
San Donato Milanese
It was subscribed by Claudio Descalzi and Diego Aponte
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
Conference for the 30 th birthday of WISTA Italy
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow at Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa
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
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
South Korea's HJSC adjusts a salesperson for four new 7,900-teu container ships
Busan
Rolf Westfal-Larsen Jr. has been elected president of Intertanko
London
Undergoes to Paolo d' Amico
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
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
Dimitri Serafimoff has been elected as the new president of CLECAT
Brussels
He will also retain the presidency of the CLECAT Customs Institute
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
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
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
Alpe Adria activates new rail service between the port of Trieste and the Malpensa Intermodal terminal in Sacconago
Trieste
Euroseas order in China the construction of two 4,300-teu feeder container
Athens
Quarterly revenue from rentals inj growth of 5.8%
The Analysis of the Fedespea Studies Centre on economic and operational performance of Italian container terminals
Milan
GNV strengthens its business department with two nominees
Genoa
New business manager and new general manager of the company in Spain
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