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FRENCH shipping line CMA CGM has commenced a new feeder service that for the first time makes port of calls at Kaliningrad, as well as Hamburg and Klaipeda. The service deploys a 700-TEU containership, the Ice Bird, that was built in 2006 and is equipped with 120 reefer plugs. The vessel flies the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, said the Russian Transport Da...
TAIWAN's Evergreen Marine has announced that all cargo moving from Asia to Indian subcontinent and Europe will be subject to a rate increase from January 1. The shipping line will increase rates by US$75 per TEU on its services from the Far East to ports in the Middle East and will increase rates $100 per TEU on services from the Far East to the Red Sea,...
COSCO Container Lines has announced a series of surcharges on east- and west-bound cargo moving between the Far East, the Indian subcontinent northwest Europe and the Mediterranean January 1. There was also an announcement of a $6 per container International Security Port Surcharge (ISPS) for Far East to Middle Eastern trades. There is also a currency a...
On November 18, 2009 DSME was invited to the ceremony of the laying new shipyard foundation for the construction of Zvezda Shipyard in Bolshoy Kamen, Russia. Many principal figures were in Russia for the event including Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor I. Sechin, Primorsky Kra Governor Sergey Darkin, as well as Mr. Sang-Tae Nam, President & CEO of D...
Sevan Marine's Sevan Driller, the world's first cylindrical drilling unit, has completed sea trials off the coast of China on November 23, 2009, and has started its voyage to Brasil for commencement of a six-year contract with Petrobras S.A. The Sevan Driller will operate initially in the Campos basin at water depths of 1,800 meters. The rig is capable ...
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (MD-7) offered his congratulations this week to United States Coast Guard Rear Admiral (lower half) Sandy Stosz, on the occasion of her promotion to that rank. Stosz, who is from Ellicott City, in the Seventh District, is the first female graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to be selected for promotion to flag rank. As ...
Damen Shipyards Gorinchem is delivering four tugboats to the Egyptian Navy. According to Ronald Maat, this is not the first time that Damen has provided vessels to the Egyptian Navy. “In 1982, the Egyptian Navy purchased four Damen Stan Tug IV model tugboats from us. These tugs are still in service after all these years, which of course tell the Egypt...
Global shipping lines may cancel or delay about 40 percent of new vessel orders this year and next because of overcapacity concerns, according to China Cosco Holdings Co. Chairman Wei Jiafu. “The financial crisis has struck hard on the world economy and brought serious challenges to international shipping,” Wei, head of China’s biggest shi...
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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