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HONG KONG authorities have arrested a Maltese-flagged Iranian-owned ship that has been blacklisted by the US as part of sanctions to deter Iran from developing nuclear power, reports the South China Morning Post. The 79,000-ton cargo ship Decretive has been lying off Lamma Island with no cargo on the weather deck, but with crew still aboard. Hong Kong a...
Amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) to make mandatory the International Code for the Application of Fire Test Procedures (2010 FTP Code) were adopted when IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) met at the Organization's London Headquarters for its 88th session from 24 November to 3 December 2010, IMO press relea...
Container shipper Maersk Line plans to raise freight rates from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to northern Europe and the Mediterranean twice in the first quarter, it said on its website. The company, which is part of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSKb.CO), announced a $200 per 20-foot container (TEU) and a $400 per 4...
Tokyo: ClassNK has developed and released the world’s first set of standards for the application of corrosion resistant steels to the cargo oil tanks of oil tankers. The new Guidelines on Corrosion Resistant Steel for COT are the first guidelines to lay out clear requirements for the application of the new steels, whose use was approved by the IMO&rsq...
Washington: The U.S. Treasury Department has revealed that it has put new sanctions into place against the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in an effort to increase pressure on Iran for its nuclear programme. The US has stated that it intends for the sanctions to cut off financial network servi...
Sydney: Two shipping lines will increase charges next month following ongoing congestion at DP World’s Port Botany terminal in Sydney. ANL and Maersk Line are the first to put up charges for shipments as rising costs caused by ongoing congestion starts to bite, writes Supply Chain Review. ANL will implement an emergency port congestion surcharge a...
SAFMARINE's Far East to East Africa network has been further upgraded with the introduction of a direct service connecting Tanjung Pelepas and the South Chinese ports of Nansha and Yantian with Mombasa (Kenya) and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). The new service has been introduced to serve the growing market between the Far East and East Africa. Said Dir...
CARGO traffic on the trunk stream of Yangtze River has grown rapidly from 990 million tonnes to 1.3 billion tonnes during the period from 2006 to 2009, at an annual rate of 10.3 per cent, Xinhua reported. According to Song Dexing, director of water transport department, China Ministry of Transportation, river cargo traffic of provinces along the river h...
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