The discussion agreement of carriers moving containerized cargo from Asia to the United States said there has been a major structural shift in the transpacific trade, with carriers successfully getting floating bunker fuel charges put into service contracts. Transpacific container lines have taken an important step forward in the current round of serv...
Islamic Republic and South Africa joint cooperation meeting on ports and maritime opened in Tehran on Sunday. Deputy head of Ports and Shipping Organization (PSO) for ports and special zones affairs noted that the three-day meeting aims to develop bilateral shipping cooperation. Alireza Satei called for boosting shipping cooperation particularly in the fi...
Shipbuilders at Harland and Wolff worked with US modelmakers on a scale replica of the Titanic, which is expected to fetch more than a million pounds. The model took seven years to build using original plans and measurements from the ship which hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers. The 1:48 replica is more than 18fee...
Mr. Brian Tingle reports ESHIPPERS ANNOUNCES THE DISPOSITION OF WEB BASED SHIPPING SOLUTIONS BUSINESS eShippers Management Ltd. has entered into an agreement to sell its Web-based shipping solutions business to Noble Pacific Financial Corp., a private British Columbia corporation. The corporation has agreed to sell the assets of the business includ...
Two last vessels were lead by the Taimyr nuclear icebreaker from Dudinka port, headquarters of maritime operations of Murmansk Shipping Company reports. According to the company, the last vessels were m/v Yuri Arshenevski of Murmansk Shipping Company and m/v Captain Man of Far East Shipping Company. Thus, winter navigation of 2008 has been over in the por...
Islamic Republic and South Africa joint cooperation meeting on ports and maritime opened in Tehran on Sunday. Deputy head of Ports and Shipping Organization (PSO) for ports and special zones affairs noted that the three-day meeting aims to develop bilateral shipping cooperation. Alireza Satei called for boosting shipping cooperation particularly in the fi...
Russian border guards have detained two vessels sailing the flag of Cambodia, which was illegally poaching crabs in the Russian economic zone, Interfax reports. Russian border guards detained two steamships Khobart and Dampir, which illegally caught sea food resources, in Russia's exclusive economic zone near the eastern shore of Sakhalin on...
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world's second-largest shipbuilder, said Friday that it has won a 1.44 trillion won (US$1.37 billion) deal to build two drill ships. The deal from an American customer calls for Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering to deliver the vessels, used for deep-water oil exploration, by April 2011, the com...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi