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Russia has sent two Black Sea Fleet vessels to take part in an anti-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden, off northeast Africa, a Defense Ministry source said on Friday according to RIA Novosti. The vessels will soon pass the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits on route to the Somali coast through the Suez Canal, the source said. The Yamal and the Az...
A salvage tug from Russia's Pacific Fleet is escorting a Danish ship that was earlier released by Somali pirates to Oman, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Friday according to RIA Novosti. The ship has 13 sailors, including 11 Russians, on board. The CEC Future ship, which is operated by Danish Clipper Group company, and its crew members had been ...
An anti-piracy group held its first meeting at the United Nations to coordinate state and industry actions to combat Somali gangs operating in the Gulf of Aden and waters near the Horn of Africa. The meeting in New York of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia was chaired by Mark T. Kimmitt, a U.S. assistant secretary of state, and fol...
Shippers forecast Hong Kong’s container throughput would fall 10% this year. The port of Hong Kong handled 24.24m teu in the full year 2008, up 1% from the previous year. It managed to retain its third place in the world’s container port league. However, users of the port are not optimistic about its performance in the new year. Hong K...
On 30 December 2008 Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, had a working meeting with Sovcomflot's Chief Executive Officer. At the meeting Sovcomflot's CEO reported on the Group's results for 2008, the first year following the merger of the State-owned assets of Sovcomflot and Novoship. It was noted that mainly due ...
RF Government takes a decision to open seaports Vitino (Murmansk region) and Dudinka (Krasnoyarsk territory) for foreign vessels. The Decree No 2060-р dated December 31, 2008, was signed by RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, PRIME-TASS reports. Source: Portnews
One of the banks involved in the sale of the ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd has backed out of financing the deal, according to a report Thursday in Lloyd's List. The Royal Bank of Scotland, one of a clutch of banks involved in the sale of Hapag-Lloyd to a consortium of Hamburg businessman -- including Kuehne + Nagel Chairman Klaus-Michael Kühne -- ...
The Mina service was launched at Gateway Terminals India (GTI) here on January 10, with the first call by the Hanjin vessel, m.v. Hanjin Rio de Janeiro Voy. 006, Exim News Service reported. A small function was held on board the vessel to mark the new service, which was attended by senior officials of GTI, the Deputy Conservator in-charge of ...
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