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SINGAPORE's Competition Commission is advising the Minister for Trade and Industry to extend a block exemption for liner shipping antitrust immunity by five years until the end of 2015. This comes as the current block exemption is due to expire at the end of this year. The recommendation by the Competition Commission would continue to allow ocean liner...
Beluga Shipping, the German heavy lift and project cargo shipping line, plans to take over rival U.S. carrier Intermarine, according to media reports. Negotiations to acquire New Orleans-based Intermarine are "well advanced," said Bremen newspaper Weser-Kurier. Beluga, which is headquartered in Bremen, so far has not commented on the report. Interma...
Independent truckers on the island of Grand Bahama are protesting a change in the trucking policy that Mediterranean Shipping Co. plans to put into effect on Sept. 20, which they say will adversely affect their business. The truckers said MSC, which transships many of its U.S.-bound containers at Freeport on the island, has issued a notice that it plans...
Shippers have until Nov. 15 to decide whether to accept a share of $52.25 million or a two-year rate freeze ocean carriers are offering to settle class-action lawsuits over six years of price-fixing in U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico shipping. U.S. District Judge Daniel R. Dominguez of San Juan issued an order allowing customers to receive settlement offers o...
Maersk Line, the container shipping arm of the AP Moller-Maersk Group is to merge two Black Sea feeder services by closing its F39 from October 9 and merge its F17 service run on two vessels. The service will deploy three vessels on a port rotation of Gioia Tauro, Thessaloniki, Varna, (Bulgaria) Constantza (Romania), Ilyichevsk (Ukraine), Thessaloniki a...
DEPLOYING a single 672-TEU ship, Sakhalin Shipping Company (SASCO) is commencing a Shanghai-Vladivostok service from mid-September. Initially, under a 12-day schedule, the company intends to add another containership to boost the frequency to a weekly service, reports Alphaliner. Transit time between Shanghai and Vladivostok is expected to take four...
CHILEAN carrier CSAV Norasia says it will increase capacity on its Asia/Mediterranean service by 19 per cent. The service between China and the west Mediterranean, named Mare Nostrum Service (MNS) will replace seven of the existing 10 vessels, averaging 5,000-TEU with 6,550-TEU ships. The service rotation will remain the same: Xingang, Qingdao, Shan...
The Hong Kong Liner Shipping Association (HKLSA), with agreement from its 21 carrier members, are forwarding a proposal to voluntarily use costly low-sulphur fuel while ships are at berth in Hong Kong harbour. "After we have made progress, we want to go after the barges and the ferries to do the same," HKLSA secretary Roberto Giannetta told the Hong Kon...
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