APL, a shipping arm of Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), has announced it will burn eco-fuel in the ports of New York and New Jersey, said the company's release. The agreement is part of a New York Port Authority programme designed to control emissions in New York Harbour. Under the plan, APL vessels will use low-sulphur fuel in auxiliary genera...
Qingdao: The Containership Company (TCC) has decided to expand current services to Qingdao. The Great Dragon service will now call Qingdao in addition to Ningbo and Taicang, and then cross the Pacific Ocean to Los Angeles. Chief Operating Officer Franck Kayser stated: “Our customers have repeatedly encouraged us to expand our service portfolio, as...
Marseille: CMA CGM has announced the introduction of a new direct call to Vietnam on the FAL3 service: Asia - Northern Europe as of November 9th, 2010. The FAL 3 service, which includes 10 x 8500-9500 TEU-vessels and serves all of China (North, South and Central), will call Westbound at the new deepwater port of Cai Mep, offering the trade the lar...
Singapore: The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) received a report that a Singapore-registered Liquefied Petroleum Gas vessel, YORK, was boarded by suspected pirates at approximately 90 nautical miles from Mombasa, Kenya. A distress alert was received at about 2025hrs (Singapore time) on 23 October 2010 while at position Lat 4º 11'S Long ...
Before the end of 2010, TransContainer is going to buy 50 per cent of Kedentransservice, a large container operator in Kazakhstan, according to the Russian Transport Daily Report. The deal will be closed in two stages, said the report. At first, TransContainer will buy 67 per cent of the stock from private investors, and then 17 per cent of this shareho...
SAFMARINE is promoting four weekly services to the east coast of South America prompted by rising demand to serve trade in foodstuffs and building materials between there, the Middle East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The routes will link main ports of the River Plate (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) to Brazil and Europe and on-carriage to Africa an...
PAYING attention to energy efficiency management, Coscon says it has always taken an active part in environmental protection and complies with requirements dedicated to world environmental protection. With great effort over the past few years, Coscon has made outstanding achievements in energy conservation, and has now unveiled its latest product offeri...
HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) recently organised a seminar to brief 100 customers detailing the requirements of the new European advanced security manifesting regulation, EU 24. OOCL inter-enterprise process integrator Peter Steehouwer explained the ins and outs of EU ICS Advance Security Manifesting System, that will come into forc...
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