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NYK Logistics has been awarded a contract by Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) to provide inbound logistics services to its manufacturing facility in Sunderland, to support production of the Micra, Note and Qashqai (pictured). NYK is responsible for the delivery of nearly 800 different parts to the plant, from 47 UK based suppliers. It is a highly time sensit...
Radoje "Rod" Vulovic, a former Sea-Land Service executive and one of the founders of U.S. Ship Management died June 21 in Charlotte, N.C., after a lengthy illness. Vulovic joined Sea-Land Service in 1978 as a naval architect and rose to vice president of ocean transportation services where he was responsible for building, operating, and maintenance and re...
The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York has reversed a lower court in a case growing out of the 2002 sinking of the tanker Prestige, which resulted in a 70,000-ton oil spill. A district court judge granted summary judgment to the classification American Bureau of Shipping back in January 2008. ABS, which had classed the tanker, was sued by ...
The GAC Group has launched a new innovation in crisis management and anti-piracy services – GAC Protective Solutions, Powered by Cerberus – to provide professional security and protective solutions for ships, cargo and crew. The alliance between GAC and Cerberus brings together the resources, expertise and reach of the GAC Group with Cerberus ...
Shippers in Singapore are facing a hard year ahead with US trade weakening, despite its government's stimulus injection of US$20.5 billion, said Singapore National Shippers' Council chairman John Lu to the Shipping Gazette. At the council's AGM Mr Lu spoke of the crisis as the "biggest challenge in modern history" and that the situation "will get worse...
The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has announced a hike in freight rate on its India to Europe ISE service. According to Exim News Service, the Rate Restoration/increase will be $200/TEU on cargo moving ex-Indian Subcontinent to the Europe sector with effect from July 1. According to a company release, this has been necessitated by the burgeoning op...
Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) has drawn up a plan to set up a shipyard complex near the proposed international container transhipment terminal (ICTT) at Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram involving an initial investment of Rs 1,000 crore, it was reported. CSL has already submitted its expression of interest (EoI) in this regard to the state government. CSL has ...
Wärtsilä today opened its new office and workshop facilities in Mexico, in the city of Veracruz, which is the largest container shipping port in the country and is home to the Mexican Merchant Marine Academy. The new facilities will further expand Wärtsilä's offering in all market segments, especially in the marine and offshore segments...
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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