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Drewry examines carriers' financial health Feb 1, 2010

LONDON's Drewry Shipping Consultants has started publishing a new product "Freight Shipper Insight" that examines the financial position of 25 major container shipping lines, airlines and logistics firms for which financial information is available. Included in Drewry's new Freight Shipper Insight is a Z-score table, which measures the financial health ...

OOCL unveils Mobile Cargo Tracking solutionFeb 1, 2010

HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orient Overseas (International) Ltd (OOIL), has announced the upcoming launch of its Mobile Cargo Tracking system that will be available from February 1. The solution offers customers the ability to search and track their cargo by booking number, bill of lading number, or con...

World container fleet continues to pile on tonnageFeb 1, 2010

ISRAELI carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services is expected to deploy its 8,440-TEU newbuilding, the Zim Ningbo, which is the second of four sister ships ordered from Hyundai-Samho in 2006 on the transpacific loop PNX that it jointly operates with Grand Alliance carriers. The extra ship is being assigned to the PNX service to "slow down" this loop "and y...

Maersk, MSC buys rivals' slots on AAS to extend Asia-Oz coverage Feb 1, 2010

DENMARK's container shipping giant Maersk and its runner up rival Geneva-based MSC are both buying slots on the Asia-Australia AAS service run by Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Sud, HMM, APL and Evergreen. The upgraded AAS will be described as "Yoyo" by Maersk and "New Panda" by MSC and will connect Taiwan and South China to Australia. The new slots will complete ...

Chinese New Year drives up spot box rates from ShanghaiJan 29, 2010

Spot container box rates from Shanghai on the mainline trades have skyrocketed ahead of Chinese New Year. Hong Kong-based research house Transport Trackers described the situation of getting cargo out of Shanghai as “hell” with cargo owners forced to pay whatever rate was being asked. Transport Trackers quoted an example from a forwarder sayin...

Nakilat and Damen form Qatar yard jvJan 29, 2010

Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (Nakilat) has signed a joint venture agreement with Damen Shipyards Qatar Holding B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Damen Shipyards Group, to jointly operate a shipbuilding facility in the Port of Ras Laffan, Qatar. Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry, and Chairman of t...

Another Japanese utility signs up for Aussie LNGJan 29, 2010

Chevron has signed an agreement to supply Japanese utility Kyushu Electric Power with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Gorgon and Wheatstone projects in Australia.   Kyushu Electric Power will receive 0.3m t/y of LNG from Gorgon for 15 years and 0.7m t/y from Wheatstone for 20 years. It will gain a further 0.1m t/y if it buys as planned a 1.83% s...

Cambodian-flagged ship latest Somali pirate victimJan 29, 2010

Somali gunmen hijacked a Cambodian cargo ship, the MV Layla-S, off Berbera after it unloaded at the port in the breakaway northern enclave of Somaliland, a regional maritime official said Thursday. "Crew members on board the ill-fated vessel are ... Pakistani, Indian, Sri Lankan, Somali and Syrian nationals," Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa, Kenya-based East...

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