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The Houston-based American Bureau of Shipping has signed a cooperative agreement with the Polish Register of Shipping (Polski Rejestr Statkow) that will see the two class societies offering dual class services and exploring other areas of mutual interest. The two societies said they are looking at sharing software and other joint research and developm...
A plastic scrap shipper has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission against the Mediterranean Shipping Co. and non-vessel-operating common carrier Shipco Transport in a dispute that involves documentation and demurrage charges. The complaint, filed by Nathan Freeman, said he hired Shipco to carry two containers of plastic scrap fro...
Japanese shipping companies MOL and K Line are about to add a second weekly joint service in the Asia/Mexico/West Coast South America trade. The two services, referred to by MOL as WL1 and WL2, will replace the existing CWL/New Andes loop, which uses 10 ships averaging 2,443 TEUs. Starting with the 2,747-TEU HS Challenger, departing Keelung on Mar...
BIMCO, the world's largest shipping association, said Tuesday that Secretary General Carsten Melchiors has been "relieved from his duties with immediate effect." The executive committee of the Denmark-based association has named Melchiors successor as Torben C. Skaanild, who previously held the post from 1984 to 1991. Deputy Secretary General S鴕en Lar...
Hapag-Lloyd is reducing staff at some U.S. offices and moving employees to other offices as part of a corporate restructuring. A report in the Virginia Pilot newspaper said the German container carrier is downsizing an office in Virginia Beach, and that offices will be downsized or closed in Tampa and Corte Madera, Calif. It was not known how many job...
Aker Yards has been awarded a contract with DOF ASA to build an innovative LNG-powered platform supply vessel. The vessel is designed and equipped with the newest and most innovative environmentally friendly equipment and solutions. After delivery from Aker Yards in Norway in 2010, the vessel will operate on charter for StatoilHydro ASA. The selected...
A.P. Moller - Maersk Group's Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark on Saturday delivered a 7,000-TEU containership for use by Maersk Line. The Margrethe Maersk is the first ship in a series of six container ships being built by the yard. Source: American Shipper
The Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement's bunker adjustment factors and currency adjustment factor will be left unchanged through at least May 15. TACA's bunker rates for traffic to, from and via U.S. Pacific Coast ports are $911 per TEU, $1,822 per FEU or 45-foot container, and weight-measure adjustment of $91. The conference's currency adjustmen...
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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