A Russian tanker, which has come under pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden, has safely arrived in the Egyptian port of Suez with a shipment of aviation fuel, a Primorye Shipping Company spokesman said on Friday according to RIA Novosti. "The vessel has delivered 41,000 tons of aviation fuel to the Suez port and is currently pumping the fuel from on-board ta...
A NORTH Korean cargo ship has reportedly repelled a pirate attack by hurling petrol bombs as pursuers fired small arms and rocket propelled grenades at the ship as it sped away. One of the 30 member North Korean crew is said to have sustained injuries, and the ship was damaged in the ambush. A report by The Associated Press quoted Noel Choong, who heads...
AN 18-member Chinese delegation including representatives of logistics companies, freight forwarders and air cargo carriers called on the container port of Prince Rupert and the nearby Prince George air field on Canada's west coast. Delegates toured Prince George Airport, the future logistics park site and Prince Rupert to see the transportation and logi...
CHINA and the US have approved in principle the renewal of their scientific research and agricultural trade cooperation agreements. The first 2003 agreement established the joint committee on cooperation in agriculture that meets every two years. Said US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: "With two-way agricultural trade reaching nearly US$15 billion, t...
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has announced that from October 1 it will call at the Egyptian port of Alexandria in its Adriatic Express Service (ADX), which sails between Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean ports. ADX is a fixed-day weekly service operated with two 1,300-TEU ships. Its new port rotation will be Koper, Trieste, Venice, Ravena, Alexandria...
TROUBLED Asian container shipping lines stand to lose ships in bank seizures because they can no longer meet financial obligations, says a top Moody's official in Hong Kong. Moody's Global Corporate Finance vice president Peter Choy said bank foreclosures looked likely in six to 12 months as troubled shipowners lurch ever closer to insolvency. "Operat...
A Russian tanker has come under pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden, a Primorye Shipping Company spokesman said on Thursday according to RIA Novosti. He did not say when the attack took place or provide any more details, saying an official report would soon be posted on the company's website. According to some reports, the Alexandra tanker, with 19 Russi...
Novoship’s new tanker NS Africa delivered On Monday, 21 September 2009, the delivery ceremony of the product carrier NS Africa ordered by JSC Novoship (Novorossiysk Shipping Company, the Sovcomflot Group) took place at Hyundai Heavy Industries Со., Ltd., Korea. The 112 000 DWT tanker NS Africa was built with fully coated cargo tanks to carry up to ...
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