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Nine seafarers are missing after a Taiwanese-owned tanker caught fire on Tuesday night after colliding with a Greek-owned bulk carrier in the Malacca Strait. The 2005-built, 70,426 dwt product tanker Formosaproduct Brick, collided with the 1998-built, 73,207 dwt panamax bulker Ostende Max at 2130 hrs, local time, on August 18, 20 miles off Port Dickson, M...
Environmental benefits and machine efficiency are two of the key reasons as to why one of the world’s largest alumina producers, Alunorte, opted for a Siwertell alumina ship loader from Cargotec Planned to come into operation at the end of this year is a newly-designed Siwertell alumina ship loader from Cargotec. It is designed to load Kamsarmax-type ...
The Panama Canal is celebrating 95 years as the "engine of global trade and national growth." According to the Shipping Gazette, since the steamship Ancon's inaugural Canal passage on August 15, 1914, the waterway has offered service to more than 983,000 transits. The canal will reach the significant mark of one million transits next year, said a stateme...
Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has announced that its container shipping arm, APL, carried 11 per cent fewer boxes in the four weeks to July 24 year on year, but earned more per box than in many months. The news cheered Paris-based Alphaliner. "These results provide a small glimmer of hope for liner operators after the dismal past nine months, wh...
Marseilles' CMA CGM has announced rate increases on cargo moving westbound and eastbound between India, Pakistan and Europe as well as Mediterranean ports from September 1, the Shipping Gazette reported. Westbound cargo India/Pakistan to Europe and the Mediterranean will have a new rate increase of US$250 per TEU and $400 per FEU and 40' high cube. Ea...
More and bigger vessels head for scrap yards as idle global tonnage grows to record highs of 1.34 million TEU, or 10.4 per cent of the world's cellular capacity, according to data compiled by Alphaliner. The Paris-based consultancy that tracks tonnage removed from service reports that bigger ships in the 4,000-TEU class are going to scrap yards as larger...
WALLENBRON Transports, is to buy Haugsted AirCargo Services one of the leading trucking and handling operators in Scandinavia from Dachser collaring three important hubs of Copenhagen, Billund and Oslo in its race to become the sole fully pan-European logistics provider, reports the UK's Transport Intelligence. "We will be able to offer more strongly in ...
TEXTAINER, the world's biggest container rental operator, has made a profit on falling revenues and increased the size of its stock 15 per cent in the first half despite its own prediction that global box numbers will fall five per cent as trade slackens. As Textainer's quarterly revenues fell 22 per cent year on year to US$54.4 million, the company sti...
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.
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