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Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader says his government will start privatizing six government-owned shipyards by the end of the year. Sanader is hoping that selling the shipyards will speed up Croatia's efforts to join the European Union. The European Union has urged Croatia to speed up the restructuring of the shipyards to reach the final s...
Representatives of the Port State Control Committee, the governing body under the emorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region (Tokyo MOU), met from 17 to 20 November 2008 in Bali, Indonesia, for its eighteenth session. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Vitaly Klyuev, Deputy Director of the Department of State Policy ...
Matson said Tuesday it was raising its rates for the company's Hawaii service by $120 per westbound container and $60 per eastbound container, effective Jan. 4, an average hike of 3.9 percent. The Jones Act carrier said it would raise its terminal handling charge by $175 per westbound container and $90 per eastbound container on the same date...
Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday in federal court in Beaumont, Texas. As part of the sentencing, OSG was ordered to pay an additional $3 million to satisfy the original criminal settlement with the United States, entered on June 20, 2007, that originally involved 33 felony counts, 12 oil tankers ...
Evergreen Line said Wednesday it is reshuffling its services between the U.S. West Coast, Asia and Europe beginning in mid-December. The Taiwanese carrier said that it would be dividing its existing nine-ship Asia-U.S. West Coast (AUS) butterfly service into its two constituent parts. The AUS leg currently covering south China will merge into...
International Registries Inc. and its affiliates, the Marshall Islands Maritime and Corporate Administrators, said it plans to open offices in Dubai, Houston and Istanbul in early 2009. IRI said it would also begin conducting examinations and issuing certificates of competency for seafarers from its office in Mumbai. This year the registry opened ...
Next year promises to be even more difficult for the container shipping industry than the second half of 2008, said a well-known analyst of the container shipping industry. Charles DeTrenck, who earlier this year left Citibank to start the firm Transport Trackers, told American Shipper that I want to look for silver linings. But it is too ear...
The Nippon Foundation has urged ship owners to contribute to a fund for ensuring navigational safety in the Malacca Straits. The Tokyo-based group shouldered a third of the overall cost of maintaining navigational aids in the narrow waterway, and ship owners must help to ease the financial burden for border nations. ''I appeal to ship owners ...
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.
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