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Management Information System of maintenance and repair of vessels at Amur Shipping Company (ASC) LLC was put into operation, IA PortNews reports citing SpecTech office. The system ordered by ASC was created by specialists of "SpetsTek". The system was said to be based on the TRIM EAM/MRO-system. Amur Shipping Company is the largest river shipping company...
Effective February 15, 2010, Hapag-Lloyd will increase rates for all commodities (Dry Containers) for cargo from the U.S.A. to East Asia follows: • USD 100/40ft (USD 80/20ft) for Long Beach, CA and Los Angeles, CA origins • USD 150/40ft (USD 120/20ft) for all other origins East Asia comprises Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China (PRC), Vietn...
JAPANESE shipping group NYK has announced that a 69,549-tonne gas carrier managed has taken part in a joint piracy response drill conducted with the Japanese Coast Guard. As part of the drill, the carrier was chased by a suspicious speedboat south of Miyako Island. The vessel activated its ship security alert system (SSAS) and contacted the Japanese Coast...
AP Moller Maersk's Group's logistics arm Damco and DHL Forwarding experienced a rebound in volumes second quarter with capacity shortage in particular from China and Hong Kong likely to continue with a shift from sea to air shipping possible. Damco CEO Rolf Habben-Jansen is expecting less laid up capacity year beginning compared to the start of 2009, bu...
THE capacity operated by smaller regional carriers has fallen 3.2 per cent this year, but they often performed better than larger ones, according to Paris-based Alphaliner's analysis of the shipping lines ranked from 26th to 50th in size. The bigest gainer was Grand China Shipping (GCS), which grew by 320 per cent as it actively acquired tonnage this yea...
SHORE-to-ship electric power, or cold-ironing, will commence on five APL containerships in Port of Oakland as part of a US$11 million project to be operational in December of next year. In a process used by the US Navy for the last decade cold ironing will reduce an annual emissions of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter by 1,500 pounds with a time-line...
Tanker NS Stream owned by Novoship JSC was attacked by pirates off the coast of Guinea on Saturday night, the shipping company reports. According to captain NS Stream, the incident occurred when the vessel was 60 miles offshore the port of Conakry. A boat with heavily armed men approached the ship, the captain said, and attempted to board. NS Stream rever...
For the first time this year, U.S.-flagged ships carried more than 9 million net tons of dry-bulk cargo in November. The 9.02 million tons was a 3 percent increase from October but a large increase from monthly totals earlier in the year. In May, for example, U.S.-flagged cargos totaled only 7.1 million tons. The 3.6 million tons of iron ore hauled in Nove...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi
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