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With freight on the Sydney to Brisbane corridor estimated to triple in the next 20 years, Ballina MP Don Page has suggested to the State and Federal governments that coastal shipping could be the answer to alleviating the pressure on roads, the Northern Rivers Echo reported. “I believe the Pacific Ocean is a perfect freight corridor,” Page s...
Maersk Line has launched an innovative upgrade option that enables customers to get urgent cargo on board a ship. The new service known as Priority Product Upgrade, will be introduced on selected services on June 1 and will be implemented on majority of Maersk Line's services during the month of June. Priority Product Upgrade is available only at t...
THE AAUS Asia-Australia service is being upgraded with a further peak season five-ship string that puts on another 2,400 TEU a week on the run between major Far East ports and Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The service, offered by APL, Hamburg Sud, Hapag-Lloyd and Hyundai Merchant Marine, with Maersk chartering slots, will have three loops, northern, s...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) plans to increase the volume of container transportation between Japan and the Russian Far East, Itar-Tass reported. According to the plan, container cargo from Japan will be delivered regularly to Far Eastern ports no less than once a week while before it was twice a month. MOL plans to increase the number of TEUs up to one thous...
Four carriers, Hanjin Shipping, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Yang Ming Line and United Arab Shipping Company, introduced a new regular direct container line between Far East and Adriatic (AAX - ASIA - ADRIATIC EXPRESS). The port rotation will cover Pusan – Shanghai – Ningbo – Yantian – Singapore – Colombo – Jeddah - Port Said...
State-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) on Monday said it would float global tenders for acquiring 30 ships by 2012, which is likely to entail a Rs 8,000 crore investment. The company also plans to diversify and enter into areas like ship-building to become a full-fledged maritime player from a shipping company at present. "We have on order over 30 ...
An official naming ceremony of OOCL’s newest container ship has been held today at Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard on Geoje Island, Korea, the OOCL press release said. The ship was the last vessel of 32 line ordered at the shipyard by OOCL. The order included sixteen 4,578 vessels and sixteen 8,063 vessels. Among the guests who attend...
Barcelona: Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has unveiled its own generic LNG floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit at the FLNG 2010 meeting in Barcelona, a sector that rival Samsung has sewn up so far. The yard has developed a design for a two-million-tonne-per-annum (mtpa) LNG-FPSO. Named DFLNG, the unit will be 3...
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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