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Maersk Line is to re-activate its seasonal New Zealand relay (NZ 2) service connecting Tanjung Pelepas with Nelson, Napier and Auckland from February deploying two ships of 3,200 TEU. The NZ 2 service adds to the NZ 1, which covers Auckland and Port Chalmers (with a wayport call at Brisbane), using four 4,100-TEU ships jointly contributed by Maer...
The New World Alliance said today it would temporarily reduce capacity on selected transpacific trade services to coincide with Lunar New Year factory shutdowns in Asia. The three container shipping lines in the alliance – APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) – said the winter deployment program is expected to last at leas...
Tokyo: Japanese export ship orders rose for the 13th consecutive month in December 2010, surging 162.1% year on year to 1,236,270 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters’ Association (JSEA) Tuesday. Japanese export ship orders totaled 11,153,401 gross tons in 2010, up 95.3% from the year before. The national received ...
Dalian: Japanese liner Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) announced the company has changed the vessel type that originally ordered at Dalian COSCO Shipbuilding Industry (DACOS) from two 300,000dwt VLOCs to three 200,000dwt capesize bulkers. The date for delivery is still in 2013 with no change. Currently, NYK is operating around 100 ships including 14 VLOC...
A BRITISH defence company, BAE Systems, has developed a non-lethal laser system to blind pirates by creating a green shield at distances up to two kilometres to disorientate and temporarily blind attackers during day and night. The United Nations hopes the system will act as an effective cloak of cover to visually ward-off pirates who thicken up in the ...
CONTAINER carrier start-up The Containership Company (TCC) is discussing the possibility with customers of directly linking freight rates to something like the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index to avoid carrier-shipper friction and contractual defaults. In talks with customers, "there has been a very positive response", said TCC marketing chief Lars ...
NILS ANDERSEN, CEO of shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk, says the environment is the biggest challenge the company faces, he told London's Daily Mail in an extended interview. "We're working intensely on environmental matters, which we expect over time to be more important to the world and, hopefully, also to our customers," he told the newspaper that f...
CHILEAN carrier Compania Sudamericana de Vapores' (CSAV) container volume increase 62 per cent year on year last year to 2.89 million TEU beating its 2008 historic high by 34 per cent. Despite robust volumes and its highest-ever monthly volume in December at 294,500 TEU, the carrier was impacted by rate erosion in the last four months of the year and e...
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