GRAND ALLIANCE members Hapag-Lloyd, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) have announced this year's winter programme between the Far East and Europe in which capacity will be cut to meet shrinking seasonal demand. Loop D will offer bi-weekly sailings to ensure continuation of the service, a temporary adjustment was implem...
The container ship operator Sea Connect will start operating a new line, Rotterdam-Tallinn-St. Petersburg-Rotterdam, from Wednesday. Currently Tschudi Lines runs a once-a-week connection between Estonia and Rotterdam, which is not sufficient to meet the local market's needs for transit operations, the company said. The transit time from Rotterdam to Tallin...
Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines , the world's fifth-largest container shipping firm, said on Monday it carried six percent more containers in the four weeks to Sept 17 compared to a year ago. NOL said in a statement it shipped the equivalent of 217,500 40-foot containers on its vessels in the period, up from 205,700 a year earlier, mainly due to higher s...
A Mongolian-flagged vessel with a 12-person crew on Monday sunk between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry said. The crew consists of 10 Russians and 2 Ukrainians, and as of 12:10 p.m. local time, 9 of the 12 sailors had been rescued, following an SOS signal. Nearby vessels were dispatched and have reported th...
A Greek tanker with jet fuel and a Cypriot container ship collided some 30 km off the Dutch coast at Scheveningen. Peter van Oorschot, a spokesman for the Dutch Coast Guard, told Reuters the tanker Mindoro had been leaking highly inflammable jet fuel from a hole above the water line. "The leakage has now stopped, they have pumped the fuel from a lea...
Seoul: South Korea's YS Heavy Industries is being reborn as 'Yeosu Offshore'., according to shipbuilding newswire, Asiasis. The Yeosu-based shipbuilding and shiprepair company was deemed non-viable by the country's Financial Supervisory Service in the credit-risk review of shipyards early last year. YS Heavy failed to make it into the creditors-...
Dubai: The GAC Group reports that it has renewed its worldwide agency deal with longstanding client Chevron Shipping Company (CSC), Chevron Corporation’s fleet subsidiary, with whom its business relationship dates back to the early 1970s, when GAC was a growing force in ship agency services in the Middle East. The new contract, which sees GAC cont...
Nairobi: Somali pirates hijacked a Japanese-operated cargo ship off the coast of Kenya, the only successful seizure in a weekend of a dozen attempts, a maritime official said on Monday. The Izumi, operated by NYK-Hinode Line Ltd, was carrying a 20-strong crew from the Philippines, the Japanese transport ministry said in Tokyo. The 14,000 tonne Panama-fl...
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.
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