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SERVICES to India's west coast ports have been upgraded with the new Maersk-Emirates Shipping Line container loops to Middle East and Arabian Gulf that also enhances connections to India and China. Maersk will deploy 6,250 TEU ships from June 1 to replace 5,500 TEU vessels in its weekly Europe/Middle East (ME3) service that will call at Jawaharlal Ne...
Pirates have hijacked two freighters off Somalia, bringing to three the number of vessels seized in the same region this week, a Kenyan maritime official said on Thursday. The MV Arean and the MV Lehmann Timber were seized in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan branch of the Seafarers' Assistance Program. We have confirmed th...
AS the reefer season draws to a close, Maersk has announced plans to lower the capacity of its KNSM service between North Europe and Morocco. The reefer service calls at the ports of Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Casablanca and Agadir. From June 1, one of the three vessels used to operate the service will be dropped. The Skirner, scheduled to depart f...
STX Shipbuilding Co, owner of Europe's largest shipyard, received a contract to build two bulk carriers worth 128.7 billion won (S$167.3 million) from Russia. The 57,000 ton ships will be delivered by May 31, 2009, the Jinhae, South Korea- based company said in a regulatory filing, without naming the buyer. Demand for iron ore and coal from countries ...
Poland has asked the European Commission for more time to privatise its ailing Baltic shipyards, amid EU irritation over Polish state aid. The Commission has urged Poland to come up with a viable restructuring plan soon for the shipyards in Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin. There are new investors applying for both Gdynia and Szczecin, said Polish Trea...
DK Group founder Jorn Winkler told the Sustainable Shipping Forum on Thursday that a combination of different technologies to cut fuel consumption could be the best solution to cope with emissions. In his presentation at the conference in Singapore, Winkler brought up an IMO statement that the simultaneous use of different technologies could reduce CO...
INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Shipping Chairman, Spyros Polemis told a meeting of government ministers representing the world's major economies that switching cargo to ships was best way of cutting global CO2 emissions. Mr Polemis was speaking at a meeting of the world’s transport ministers in Leipzig, held under the auspices of the OECD International Tran...
FRONTLINE-owned, newly created Independent Tankers made a Q1 net profit of US$3.7m. This compares with a net profit of $3.1m for the first quarter of 2007 based on predecessor combined accounts. Independent Tankers was incorporated on Bermuda on 18 January and its shares have traded on the Norwegian over-the-counter market, since 7 March 7. The company's ...
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