U.S. trade groups warned Senate lawmakers on Wednesday to refrain from including certain trade and competitiveness provisions in its version of climate-change legislation. “We believe any successful legislation that aims to restrain greenhouse gas emissions must abide by U.S. international trade obligations and should encourage action by...
SLCS (St. Lawrence Co-ordinated Services) members, OOCL and Hapag-Lloyd, announced they will rationalize their jointly-operated SLCS1 North Atlantic service/ GEX1 with the Canadian Gateway service of Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), known as the Montreal Express 1. The first sailing of the new service, which has the objective of providing better overall p...
Evergreen Line and Cosco Container Lines (COSCON) will launch a new joint service, the China South East Asia Express Service (CSE), expected to take effect from Shanghai on 26 July 2009. The service will operate with four 2,100 TEU vessels. Evergreen will deploy one vessel and three ships will be supplied by COSCON. The port rotation is as follows: Sha...
CSAV Norasia has announced the launch of its new Indus service, with its first sailing from Shanghai on August 12, the Shipping Gazette reported. On the same day, its existing Super Galex service will begin calling at Bandar Abbas in Iran. The Indus service is being dedicated to the trade between China and the Indian subcontinent, including connections wi...
Dockwise Ltd. announced 8 new near-term contract wins awarded to its subsidiary, Dockwise Shipping, for the transportation of jack up drilling rigs and port & marine infrastructure. Dockwise Ltd further confirms a long-term contract for transport and installation on the Bonkot project in Thailand. Dockwise Shipping is to transport 3 ...
The Norwegian shipping group Eitzen is to manage six gas carriers belonging to Germany's MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship. The six carriers will be operated by Eitzen Gas, Eitzen's Danish subsidiary. Three of the pressurised liquefied petroleum gas carriers, Malvern, Longchamp and Coniston, will be managed by Eitzen Gas with immediate effect, while ...
Europe's total import volume for containerised cargo in the first five months of the year decreased by 20.6 per cent to 6.9 million TEU year on year on the back low demand, surplus capacity and weakening freight rates. According to figures provided by the European Liner Affairs Association (ELAA), Europe's export volume fell 14 per cent year-on-year to ...
The Panama Canal Authority has begun to see “signs of recovery” in shipping traffic, including in the volume of auto units transported on car carriers, according to Alberto Aleman Zubieta, the authority’s chief executive officer. Aleman told Bloomberg News he expects traffic in the fiscal year ending in September to total about 295 milli...
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