Nordana will deploy the fourth vessel, MV Vegaland, in the Mediterranean to Americas service, which will bring improvements to the service frequency and increase the overall capacity. The Vegaland will commence service in the Mediterranean about December 20, with frequency every 19 days. Main vessel details: Fl...
HONG KONG's OOCL has offered the mobile rates of exchange service for its customers starting November 1 as one of the highlighted features of the carrier's online interactive My OOCL Centre platform. The new mobile rates of exchange solution enables customers to search for a particular vessel with the relative inbound and outbound rates of exchange for ...
EXAMWORKS GROUP INC and SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd have failed to raise the maximum sought in their initial public offerings, while First Wind Holdings Inc. scrapped its sale after lowering its price 31 per cent. ExamWorks, an Atlanta-based provider of medical legal services, raised US$165 million selling shares at the low end of its range, Bloomberg r...
Wan Hai Lines container vessel Wan Hai 233 rescued four crew members of a bulk carrier last week after receiving a distress call from the vessel, the Taiwanese carrier revealed yesterday. The vessel received an SOS from Panama bulk vessel Jian Fu Star at 7:00am on October 27 while it was on its way from Keelung port in Taiwan to Manila, Philippines. The W...
A steering fault caused a container ship to run aground in Moreton Bay off Brisbane, the Queensland government said. The 217m MSC Basel was leaving Brisbane bound for Singapore when it struck a sand bank 5km southwest of Comboyuro Point on Moreton Island about 9.30am yesterday, reported Sunshine Coast Daily. The Liberian-registered ship, with a pilot on ...
Wartsila and United Shipbuilding Corporation (Sudoexport), Russia's leading shipbuilder, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Both parties have expressed the mutual interest to establish joint set-ups in the areas of developing modern ship designs and manufacturing of propulsion systems. The long-term strategic partnership between United Shipbuildi...
HONG KONG-listed China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) has reported a third quarter net profit of CNY2.15 million (US$318 million) against a year-on-year net quarterly loss of CNY1.94 billion ($283 million) in 2009, according to the Shipping Gazette. Profit was drawn on revenues of CNY4.21 billion, which increased 211 per cent the first nine months of thi...
BIMCO has unveiled, in cooperation with the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA), the BIMCO and IBIA Bunkering Guide at the 16th Singapore International Bunkering Conference (SIBCON), the Shipping Gazette reports. "In today's market the bunkering of ships is an intensive, highly regulated and quality based operation, which demands ship's cre...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi