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POOR judgment aboard the 25,525-gross ton bulk carrier Khalijia 3 was the main cause of last month's collision with the 2,314-TEU MSC Chitra (33,113 gross tons) in the Mumbai ship channel that closed India's biggest port for a week, according to India's Directorate of General Shipping. The directorate, according to local reports, said the Khalijia 3 ...
Maersk Line named Thomas Knudsen as the regional head of its Asia Pacific business based in Singapore, where he will be responsible for the execution of the Danish carrier’s day-to-day operations in Southeast Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. Knudsen replaces Jesper Praestensgaard, who is leaving Maersk Line to become chief commercial off...
People living in Kwai Chung could enjoy much cleaner air if an initiative by a Danish shipping company to use low-sulphur fuel is adopted by other shipping lines using the container port, reported the South China Morning Post. Maersk Line has become the first shipping line to voluntarily use low-sulphur fuel instead of heavy fuel oil while at anchor and...
Import cargo volume at major retail container ports in the US is expected to be up 16 percent in September over the same month last year, but 2010 has already hit its peak and numbers will decline through the remainder of the year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. ...
Thai exporters have been urged to group together to increase their bargaining power with logistics providers and reduce shipping costs to each market by between five and 10 percent per cent, reported The Nation. Initially, the model for grouping exporters will be applied in Latin American countries, starting with Brazil. Logistics costs from Thailand to...
Singapore: FleetWeather Ocean services has opened up in Singapore to help manage its growth in the Asian region. FleetWeather, which provides weather forecasting, routing and vessel performance monitoring and optimisation services, said it was particularly seeing growth in India, Singapore and Hong Kong. “The Singapore office will allow us to expand o...
Mumbai: The bulker Khalijia has been found largely responsible for the collision with the MSC Chitra in Mumbai harbour that resulted in an 800 tonnes oil spill and hundreds of containers being lost overboard. According to local reports India’s Director General of Shipping found the Khalijia had entered the channel at the wrong time at the wrong angle....
CONTAINER shipping lines and their depot agents have been accused by local shippers of forcing them to pay increasing surcharges for alleged damage to containers. According to a survey by the Hong Kong Shippers' Council (HKSC), shippers were being charged for damage they were not liable for and the poll found that the size and frequency of fees charged...
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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