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Since January 16th, 2009 the Vasily Golovnin has been unloading supply cargo, fuel and equipment to the polar stations of Argentina in the Antarctic. The cargoes are delivered to shore by two helicopters KA-32 based onboard of the FESCO vessel. The shortest distance between the vessel in the ice and the shore is 5, 5 miles. The Vasily Golovnin is adrif...
Ship classification company Germanischer Lloyd recently moved into a bigger office in Mumbai to account for the growing shipbuilding industry in the country. India's shipping industry in terms of order size now ranks eighth in the world, GL said in a statement. Eighteen months ago, it did not even figure in the top 20. Multipurpose vessels, heavy...
Intermarine, the agent for Industrial Maritime Carriers and West Coast Industrial Express, on Monday revised the carriers' bunker surcharge, beginning Feb. 1 To the North, East and West coasts of South America, including the Caribbean and Mexico, the surcharge will be $36 per weight/measure for breakbulk cargo, $370 per TEU and $650 per FEU. ...
A Russian-registered cargo ship lost 1,500 tons of timber in rough seas off the coast of England. The BBC reports the accident happened in a major English Channel shipping lane 14 miles off Newhaven, East Sussex, and that the ship as been escorted to the Solent, the stretch of sea separating the Isle of Wight from the mainland of England, where it ...
A seminar on piracy in the Gulf of Aden, held last week in London, focused on a coordinated approach to the problem, which saw more than 100 attacks on merchant ships, and more than 40 ships seized during 2008. Better coordination between stakeholders will improve countermeasures, increase the flow of information between them and enable more meaningfu...
The South Korean government on Monday approved a plan to send one of its naval ships to the waters off Somalia to help patrol the area for commercial vessels, the Korea Herald reported Tuesday. A Navy destroyer with 310 troops, a helicopter and three speedboats, will set sail for the piracy-beset region, at a cost of $20 million. The plan would hav...
The idle containership fleet is on its way to reaching 750,000 TEUs or 6 percent of the world containership fleet, in early February, according to the information service AXS Alphaliner. In its most recent newsletter, it says lay-ups of this magnitude would surpass the levels reached in 1986 when U.S. Lines went bankrupt and 5 percent of all c...
SWISS logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel has won a three-year contract from Emak, a member of the industrial Yama Group and European farm and garden machinery manufacturer, to manage its distribution centre in Italy. A statement from Kuehne + Nagel said it has opened a newly built 10,500-square-metre warehouse adjacent to its existing 64,000-square-metre ...
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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