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SWIRE plans to add a fifth 1,100-TEU ship to the four it already runs between south east Asia and the east coast of Australia and Northern Territory ports. The port rotation is: Phu My, Vietnam; Map Ta Phut and Sri Racha in Thailand and Port Kelang in Malaysia and then to Singapore and Jakarta before heading to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea; Honiara in...
SMALL arms, fire hoses and sonic weaponry do not deter pirate attacks because of their rapidly evolving tactics, says Maersk Alabama first mate Shane Murphy, who experienced the first attack on his 1,100-TEU ship in April before it was attacked again last week. Pirates are reinvesting profits in bigger boats with greater range and heavier fire power, incl...
MOL's president Akimitsu Ashida has announced its first contract with overseas shipowners, Jiangsu Shagang Group, to transport iron ore between Western Australia/Brazil and Ningbo on a consecutive voyage contract to run for 10 years from late 2011. MOL will transport iron ore using a 207,000-ton iron ore carrier to be constructed at the Universal Shipbui...
GERMANY's Hamburg Sud shipping line has moved its Pacific Coast-South American West Coast services in Seattle from Terminal 18 to Terminal 46. The company's Pacific Coast to Australia-New Zealand service, however, will continue to operate from the former site. (Source: www.schednet.com )
CONTAINER volumes for October in Los Angeles fell 8.3 per cent year on year and declined a whopping 24 per cent at the Port of Long Beach in the final full month of the peak season. Los Angeles volumes fell 647,000 TEU while Long Beach went down to 452,000 TEU year on year, reported American Shipper. For the year, volume at Los Angeles is down 15.4 per ce...
VOLUMES through Cosco Pacific container terminals worldwide fell 2.3 per cent year on year in October to 35.6 million TEU, but throughput declined 6.5 per cent year to date. Pearl River Delta terminals lost 4.5 per cent in October and 9.8 per cent for the year, with sizable gains at Guangzhou's Nansha terminal being insufficient to offset Hong Kong and S...
GENEVA's Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced a rate increase for cargo moving from the US to Asian ports from January 1. From US west coast ports, the increase will be US$150 per TEU and $200 per FEU on non-reefer boxes. For cargo moving from US west coast ports or originating at intermodal points on the east coast and Gulf ports the inc...
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. , the world's second-biggest shipbuilder, said Sunday its subsidiary received a US$167 million order from a shipyard in the Middle East. The order calls for DSEC Co., the shipbuilding engineering subsidiary of Daewoo Shipbuilding, to supply steel plates and other parts to build four oil tankers at the Middl...
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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