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A PIRATE attack on a COSCO ship in the Red Sea has been thwarted using an electric fence, the IMB told Fairplay today. The 52,825dwt bulker Kang Long was travelling close to the Gate of Tears (Bab-el-Mandeb) when about 30 pirates in up to four skiffs approached at the end of last week. According to Cyrus Mody of the International Maritime Bu...
SULPICIO Lines today is facing more legal trouble from the Princess of the Stars sinking – but this time from the Philippines Department of Justice. The government filed the criminal charge of reckless imprudence resulting in multiple homicide against Sulpicio’s VP Edgar Go and the ro-ro’s Captain Florencio Marimon, adding that ther...
SWIRE Shipping has ordered a major reorganisation and big layoff in response to continuing weakness in European and North American economies. Swire will withdraw its two round-the-world services and shed 200 of it 550 liner staff worldwide. The company also said it will refocus on its core Asia-Pacific trading areas. The changes grew out of a compr...
Environmental protesters from the group Greenpeace boarded a ship delivering coal to a power plant in England Sunday night as part of a campaign to fight global warming. The members of the group swam from inflatable boats and boarded the ship as it sailed up the Medway River to deliver coal to the Kingsnorth power station in K...
The International Shipsuppliers and Services Association said it would use its commitment to quality ship supply services by vowing to "rid the shipping industry of rogue players operating in the world's ports. "In this age of self-assessment and service transparency, ISSA has taken it upon itself to ensure that only those ship suppli...
Swire Shipping said it will end its multipurpose eastabout round-the-world service. "The ongoing global financial crisis and specifically the prolonged weakness in the North American economy have resulted in a sharp decline in cargo demand combined with a rapid deterioration in freight revenues,” the company said. “As such,...
ACA Shipping is on the expansion mode, as evidenced by the latest investments undertaken and illustrated in Mr. Angelopoulos’, CEO of the shipping company in his latest interview with “Hellenic Shipping News”. He declares the current period as proper for new investments at these low ship values. He also agrees with the notion that current...
PETALING JAYA: While the local shipowners deem the recently-announced partial relaxation of the cabotage policy as untimely, some quarters of the local maritime industry think otherwise. The Government had partially liberalise the cabotage policy for containerised transhipment cargo for the sectors between the Port of Sepangar , Bintulu, Kuching w...
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