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Thailand's Deputy Transport Minister Anurak Jureemart is likely to delay the closure of the state-run Thai Maritime Navigation pending a corruption investigation into the state shipping line and a former deputy transport minister, the Bangkok Post reported this week. Anurak said Thai Maritime Navigation is being investigated for alleged corruption in ...
France's CMA CGM Group has ordered four multipurpose container and roll-on/roll-off (con-ro) vessels from Hyundai Mipo in South Korea. The 29,000-deadweight-ton vessels, due for delivery in the second half of 2011, will have a 600-unit car capacity and be able to carry 1,738 TEUs. The new ships will replace existing 1,300-TEU con-ro ships used in ...
Crowley Maritime Corp.'s liner services group on Friday reported an equipment acquisition plan involving more than 1,500 new containers and related cargo handling units. Included in the order are about 50 45-foot containers with recycled, composite-material floors, which are considered more environmentally friendly than traditional wood floors. We...
Evergreen Line is today starting a regional service from its Mediterranean hub port of Taranto to connect with other ports in Italy, Tunis and Libya. The 612-TEU vessel Reecon Eagle will call at Taranto, Civitavecchia, La Spezia, Tunis, Misratah, and Taranto on a 10-day rotation. This new feeder service is providing customers with greater capacity...
Korean company Hanjin Shipping today took delivery of the Hanjin Rio de Janeiro, the first in a series of eight a 4,300-TEU containerships ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries in 2005. Hanjin will phase the vessel into its China-North Europe Express (CNX) to replace a chartered ship. The company said deploying its own vessel would improve the schedul...
Neptune Orient Lines, parent company of container carrier APL, said Monday it carried the equivalent of 289,400 40-foot containers (FEUs) in the six-week period ending Feb. 8, up 17 percent from the year earlier six-week period. Rates were also higher, an average of $2,989 per FEU, also 17 percent higher than the average of last year. The period's...
TUI Chief Executive Michael Frenzel's plan to merge container shipping subsidiary Hapag-Lloyd within the holding company is close to being shelved due to shareholder unrest, according to Reuters. The report said Norwegian billionaire John Fredriksen, who owns 5 percent of TUI, is opposed to the merger plan and is close to getting enough allies to reac...
German container line Hapag-Lloyd today named a 8,749-TEU capacity containership in the Port of Bremerhaven. The 335-meter Bremen Express was built by South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries who will deliver another 15 sister ships to the Hamburg-based carrier by the end of 2011. Adrion The new vessel will be deployed on one of the...
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