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PORTEK International, a port operator headquartered in Singapore, has signed an agreement to purchase six units with a total floor space of 12,324 square feet within the Lion City's Westech Building in Pandan Loop for S$7.05 million (US$5.54 million). The premises will be used as the new offices for the company and its Singapore subsidiaries. They expect...
SINGAPORE's container shipping and logistics group NOL is donating US$100,000 to the Japanese Red Cross Society, to aid victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan earlier this month. NOL said it will also match its employees' contributions to the Japanese Red Cross Society. "Like everyone, we are saddened by the dest...
JIANGSU province's port of Taicang lifted 175,200 TEU in January, up 44.4 per cent year on year with import cargo surpassing 1,000 TEU for the first time as the port's overall throughput increased 31.4 per cent to 7.5 million tonnes, Xinhua reports. The robust increase in import cargo container volume was brought by the surge of wood imports. There wer...
ZIM, Hapag-Lloyd and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) plan to offer a fixed day of the week north Europe to west African ports starting April 5, reported London's Containerisation International. The rotation will be Antwerp, Hamburg, Thamesport, Antwerp, Dakar, Lagos-Tin Can Island, Tema, Abidjan, Amsterdam and back to Antwerp. Amsterdam calls only will be made in...
TAIWAN's Evergreen shipping line has commenced an intra-Asia service linking Japan to south China, called the JTS service. The port rotation for the new weekly service is: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Keelung, Kaohsiung, Shenzhen-Shekou, Hong Kong, Haiphong, Zhangjiang, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Shekou and back to Tokyo. According to affiliate ComPair Da...
Korea Gas Corp, the world’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, will divert 400,000 to 500,000 metric tons of the fuel to earthquake-hit Japan after a request by Japanese utilities. The state-run South Korean utility will provide the LNG starting from the end of March, the nation’s energy ministry said in an e-mailed statement tover the we...
Hyundai Heavy Industries has bagged a $1bn containership newbuilding order from Germany. Hamburg Sud is ordering up to 10 post-panamax ships at the South Korean shipbuilder. The deal consists of six firm ships of around 9,700 teu each and four options with deliveries starting from 2013. The ships will have around 1,600 reefer plugs, placing them among...
Korean yards have secured rare bulker orders. Turkish shipowner Manta Denizcilik has booked three bulker newbuildings at two shipyards. The Turkish owner has inked two 35,200 dwt handysize vessels at Samho Shipbuilding and one 82,000 dwt bulker at Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. (Source:http://www.seatrade-asia.com)
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