South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries is proceeding with its plan to build a $2.0-billion shipyard project in southern Philippines, Trade Secretary Peter Favila said Tuesday. Company officials told me that they are proceeding with the project. They are just waiting for some approval, Favila said in an interview. A Manila newspaper reported la...
The 150,000-tonnage waterway of the Port of Lianyungang began operation on December 1, 2008, SinoCast reported. With the deepest waterway in Jiangsu Province, Lianyungang Port is also one of China's deepwater ports, contributing to the economic growth in Northern Jiangsu, even Central and Western China, as well as the country's coas...
Two cargo ships collided in the Dardanelles Strait late on Tuesday, Itar-Tass reports. No crewmembers were injured. The Anatolian news agency reported on Wednesday, the Danapris-2 dry cargo ship flying Ukraine’s flag moved from Russia to Italy with sunflower seeds to collide with the Emerald-1 vessel flying Panama’s flag not far from Bozcaada Island, ...
A ship carrying road salt to the small French islands of St-Pierre and Miquelon sank off the southern coast of Newfoundland on Tuesday. As of Wednesday morning, search and rescue officials said they had found only an empty lifeboat, and none of the four members of the crew. The 121 foot long ship Cap Blanc left Arge...
Maersk Line said it's starting a new service that will carry both intra-European cargo and feeder cargo from services around the world. The EUROMED service will begin with a voyage by the Maersk Buton on Jan. 5 in Ashdod, Israel. The port rotation is: Bremerhaven, Germany; Tangier, Morocco; Gioia Tauro, Italy; Al...
The European Shippers Council on Tuesday said it does not want liner carriers to lose the privileges of operating in consortia, but said the legality of such consortiums should be regulated by self-assessment. ESC is fully supportive of consortia and the extended range of services and competition they can bring to a market, the shipper group said in a...
French liner carrier CMA CGM said Wednesday that it has agreed to award hazard duty pay to crews transiting the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden. The bonus will be equal to their basic wage. The company said 65 of its vessels transit the Gulf of Aden each month, most on Asia-Europe routes. The container vessels have a capacity of 4,000 t...
German ocean carrier Hamburg Sud said last week it will open its own network of offices in Colombia beginning Jan. 1. Hamburg Sud Colombia Ltda. will have a head office in Bogota with a branch office in Cartagena and will be responsible for all the shipping group's container-shipping operations to and from Colombia. Together with its ...
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