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Norwegian ship owner Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA (WW) is preparing to transfer its Norway-flagged rolling cargo fleet to other registries due to changes to the Scandinavian country's tonnage tax scheme, hinted a senior company manager part of the majority shareholding Wilhelmsen family. From Jan. 1, 2007, Norwegian owners were faced with the choices of eithe...
U.S. Federal Maritime Commission leadership urged the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation on Tuesday to favorably consider President Bush's proposed budget for the agency in fiscal year 2009. The budget proposal provides $23.95 million to cover the commission's operating expenses in fiscal 2009, a 7.8 percent increase over t...
Maersk Line said it has changed its service between the U.S. East Coast and the western Mediterranean, adding a call in Leghorn, Italy, and direct call in Valencia, Spain. The new port rotation in the service will be: Gioia Tauro; Leghorn and Genoa, Italy; Algeciras, Spain; Newark, N.J.; Charleston, S.C.; Houston; and then back to Algeciras and Gioia ...
Kuwait-based United Arab Shipping Co. on Monday received the third of eight 6,919-TEU containerships ordered from Hyundai Heavy Industries at the South Korean shipbuilder's Ulsan yard. The United Arab Emirates-flagged vessel Al Bahia -- a coastal district of the UAE which translates as pretty, glowing and bright -- will join sister vessels Hatta and A...
Chipolbrok America, owned by Chinese Polish Joint Stock Shipping Co., is offering shippers and receivers the choice of monthly vessel calls at either Camden, N.J. (Gloucester Terminal) or Philadelphia (Greenwich Terminal) on its Far East/U.S. Gulf and East coasts/Europe breakbulk service. According to the latest sailing schedule on its Web site, the s...
Taiwanese shipping company Yang Ming today held a naming and delivery ceremony at the Kaohsiung shipyard of CSBC Corp., Taiwan for a 4,250-TEU containership. The YM Eminence is the first of five sister vessels ordered from CSBC, and will be phased into the carrier's transpacific Pacific North West (PNW) service. Yang Ming has 36 new containershi...
CMA CGM (America) LLC, the U.S. agent of France-based container shipping giant CMA CGM, has appointed Christopher Dianora as director of inbound transpacific. Dianora was general manager, Pacific services at Maersk Inc., the U.S. arm of Denmark's A.P. Moller - Maersk. In a shipping industry career spanning more than 25 years, he has held various posit...
The International Maritime Organization is significantly underestimating growth in future carbon dioxide emissions from ships by more than 500 million tons per year, according to the Dutch marine technology company DK Group. In a release Monday, the company said the underestimated emissions are roughly equivalent to the entire current emissions output...
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