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CMA CGM and subsidiary Delmas have denied accusations that they were involved in illegally exporting rare timber from Madagascar and condemned “smear campaigns” targeting the group. The French line was responding to accusations last week by Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) that Delmas was facilitating the destruc...
Mumbai: Great Eastern Shipping has modified a double suezmax order at Hyundai Heavy Industries into a trio of VLCCs. The private Indian firm ordered the suezmaxes at the height of the price scale back in June 2008 but has now successfully renegotiated for a series of 318,000 dwt ships to be delivered by April 2012. The order marks a return to VLCC owner...
Singapore: Marco Polo Marine has bagged a $20m coal transshipment contract as it continues to grow its Indonesian business. Marco Polo’s Indonesian subsidiary MP Marine has inked a four-year contract for coal transhipment worth around $20m. It is the second such deal Marco Polo has won this year, having won a $10m Indonesian coal transhipment contract...
Nantong: Two seafarers are missing after an explosion and fire ripped through a liquefied natural gas carrier sailing from China. The 1995-built, 2,999 dwt, Golden Crux 18, operated by Daiichi Tanker Co, was at the mouth of the Yangtze River when an unexplained explosion ripped through its engine room. According to the Chinese authorities 12 of the ships 14...
THE UK's Neptune Maritime Security has issued a statement stressing the need for professional security contractors to protect ships against Somali pirates after a group of sea-robbers were repelled recently with loss of life by armed guards aboard the Panamanian-lagged 2,886-ton Almezaan multi-purpose freighter. "This recent incident serves to highlight ...
THE Irish Continental Group, (ICG) a container shipping and ro-ro ferry company, suffered a 25.7 per cent box volume decline in 2009, but found that its ferry business suffered little in the global economic downturn. "People are not letting the economy affect their social habits as regards travel whereas their buying strategy has influenced a marked downt...
MV Delmas Nacala and FV Reiman beat off sustained pirate attacks on the evening of March 31st, the attacks being conducted by two separate Pirate Action Groups (PAG), Eu Navfor Public Affairs Office reported. The attack on the MV Delmas, Antigua and Bermuda flagged 22525-dwt ships, came in the early evening of March 31st some 600 n. miles east of the Seyc...
Dubai-based UASC also announces general rate increase Hapag-Lloyd will seek a general rate increase on all cargo moving from India to the U.S. East and West Coasts, effective May 1. The planned increase will be $600 per 20-foot container, $750 per 40-foot container and $845 per 40-foot high cube container. The move follows a similar GRI announcement b...
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