Famous Pacific Shipping, an Asia-based NVOCC and freight services provider, has launched a weekly ocean freight consolidation service from Hong Kong to Odessa in the Ukraine. According to Exim News Service, the service is intended to enable shippers to transport consignments onwards to Central and Eastern European destinations via the gateway port of Odess...
In Macau, at the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Famous Pacific Shipping Group (FPS Group), delegates agreed to a restructuring of the Asia-based NVOCC and freight forwarding network’s senior management team. The previous constitution of the FPS Group has been re-written and the Group Executive Committee has been replaced by a newly elected Advis...
The appointment of Siri Jacobsen as Vice President International Customer Services and Thomas Smordalen as Vice President International Sales is adding new strengths to the management of leading maritime service network Wilhelmsen Ships Service. Both are to be part of the Central Management Team (CMT). Announcing their appointment, President David Tandy sa...
CHINA Merchants Holding International (CMHI) has announced that it now provides wi-fi Internet service for berthed ships at its Western Shenzhen's Shekou and Chiwan container terminals, the first in China to do so, says the company. "Nowadays, wi-fi (wireless fidelity) technology is widely used in office, public and even outdoors, while most vessels call...
MARSEILLES' shipping giant CMA CGM has announced it will launch a new Black Sea-Azov weekly service with 300-TEU ships after the New Year though the terminal in Novorossiysk has not yet been chosen, reports St Petersburg SeaNews agency. The new service expects to handle the growing volume of traffic between Russia and Turkey including the cargo flows to ...
DANISH shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk has again gone to the debt market to raise US$704 million in two bond issues. The issue was placed by Danske Bank, Nordea and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and will be listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. The parent company of Maersk Line raised $1.6 billion in September from a share sale to institutional inves...
MITSUI OSK Lines (MOL) may apply greater focus on shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil as oversupply of container capacity dampens freight rates and Drewry Shipping Consultants forecast that container shipping lines worldwide may to lose at least US$20 billion this year. Separately, Maersk chief executive Nils Andersen said his company will also s...
Jeppesen Marine announced that Adams Offshore has installed its Jeppesen Primar ECDIS Service on one of its dive support and offshore supply vessels, and is considering implementation of the solution across its fleet worldwide. Adams Offshore installed the Jeppesen Primar ECDIS Service on DPSV Adams Challenge in October. Kumar reports that since then the ...
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