Media
Media
Hapag-Lloyd has provided additional information about the reorganization of its U.S. operations. The company plans to bundle its five U.S. organizational units into three units. The North and East part of the country will be handled from an office in Chicago; the Southeast from an office in Atlanta; and the Gulf and Pacific from and office in...
The cost of stowaways on ships has doubled in the past decade, costing international shipping industry more than $20 million per year, the U.K. Protection and Indemnity Club estimates. The U.K. Club said it has found the cost of stowaways is rising even as their numbers decrease. The largest marine mutual insurance company said it was involved in arou...
Hapag-Lloyd will offer its customers significantly shorter transit times in the ANP service between Australia/New Zealand and the US East Coast (via Panama) from May/June this year. The port rotation is being streamlined thanks to the new cooperation on this route between Hamburg Süd and Maersk, for which Hapag-Lloyd is slot charterer. After approval...
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited announces that it has agreed to fix out on time charter one of its two Capesize bulk carriers currently under construction at Daehan Shipbuilding Co. Ltd in the Republic of Korea. The charter is for a period of five years from the delivery scheduled for July 2009 and is at a net rate of $53,000 per day. Chairman of Knigh...
Despite significant effort and substantial display of resources, sustained heavy arrivals continue to hamper the Panama Canal Administration's ability to reduce the backlog, which currently exceeds 100 ships, GAC reports. Non-booked ships are presently facing delays in excess of 5-7 days and the situation is not expected to improve in the immediate fu...
A 100 per cent increase in the cost of stowaway incidents in the past ten years means that stowaways cost the international shipping industry more than $20 million per year. The trend has prompted the world's largest ship operator, NYK of Japan, and the largest protection & indemnity insurer, the UK P&I Club, to get together to discuss the problem. Fi...
As announced on 30 January 2008, Hoegh Autoliners acquired 18 car carriers from the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group and simultaneously A.P.Moller - Maersk became shareholder in Hoegh Autoliners with a 37.5% ownership. The agreement was subject to a number of approvals by various authorities. All approvals have now been obtained and the transaction is thus ...
Swanson Intermarine said Thursday that Jake Swanson has been made commercial coordinator for the joint West Coast Industrial Express service of Associated Transport Line and Industrial Maritime Carriers, the latter of which Intermarine acts as managing agent. The West Coast Industrial Express started in 2001 and provides regular breakbulk shippi...
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
qq.com