MARSEILLES' CMA CGM, in partnership with Chilean shipping company CSAV, will upgrade its Victory Bridge service from October, linking North Europe, South Atlantic, Mexico and the US Gulf by five 3,000-TEU vessels - three from CMA CGM and two from CSAV. The port of Savannah and Felixstowe will be dropped from the rotation to be serviced instead by the F...
JAPAN'S Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) president Koichi Muto announced the creation of a new consortium with Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Line) and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) to upgrade their Asia-Mexico and west coast South America service from July 22 and July 29. MOL has been offering Asia-Mexico and west coast South America Service with "K" Line and will laun...
MAERSK subsidiary Safmarine will charter more slots on the Asia-East Coast South America (ASAS) service operated by Maersk and Hamburg Sud, said a Safmarine statement. The ASAS service will run a second string from July to December to cater for peak season demand and to offer fast transits between key port pairs on the Asia-South America east coast trad...
TAIWAN's Evergreen had placed a KRW2.04 trillion (US$1.7 billion) order for ten 8,000-TEU ships from Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries with the first delivered in 2012. "The 10 ships are the beginning of a programme of a new generation of container vessels that will be ordered by Evergreen from several yards in Asia," said the Evergreen statement. ...
Member lines of the Asia Australia Discussion Agreement have announced a bunker surcharge increase of US$400 per TEU and US$800 per FEU on China and Hong Kong to Australia dry and refrigerated containers from July 16. The quasi-conference said that they used established review procedure to keep surcharges in line with the recent increases in the price o...
CMA CGM is switching partners and upgrading the vessel size on its Victory Bridge service linking North Europe to the U.S. South Atlantic, Mexico and the U.S. Gulf. It is teaming up with CSAV on the new service in place of Mediterranean Shipping Co., which is due to start in October. The new vessel-sharing agreement with CSAV will deploy five vessel...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Singapore Shipping Report Q3 2010" report to their offering. Singapore Shipping Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, shipping associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Singapore's shippin...
India and Poland yesterday signed a shipping agreement replacing that signed in 1956. Under the new agreement, a scheduled shipping service will operate between the two countries. It is proposed to have twelve sailings each per year. The two governments have undertaken to give to the ship, crew and cargoes of either country the same treatment as it gives to...
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