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Sea Star Line Caribbean and Interline Connection will align their services between Puerto Rico and the Eastern Caribbean effective today. Sea Star, which operates Jones Act services between Florida ports and Puerto Rico, also operates a service to the Eastern Caribbean through its Sea Star Line Caribbean unit. Interline, which is a Netherlands Antilles...
Japan's NYK Group has rolled out its common information technology system One System Covers All Regions (OSCAR) to include the Asian liner services of its wholly owned subsidiary Tokyo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd. T.S.K. Line has already started taking bookings through OSCAR with that cargo scheduled to be loaded from Feb. 18. NYK uses the system for routes ...
The Norwegian Shipowners' Association has lifted its recommendation dating back to late 2001 not to use the Liberian ship registry. The NSA had previously called on its members not to deal with the Liberian registry until the African country answered the UN's call for increased transparency surrounding cash flows from the country. The Liberian Regis...
Norway's Wilh. Wilhelmsen, which has interests in roll-on/roll-off carriers Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, EUKOR, and American Roll-On Roll-Off, posted a profit of $6.9 million in 2007, down from $230.1 million in the previous year. The company's shipping division posted a $76.2 million loss last year, compared to a profit of $172.2 million in 2006. T...
A 2,000-gross-ton vessel carrying scrap metal from Glasgow in Scotland to Portugal ran aground in the River Clyde early Wednesday evening when it lost engine power. The Minerva 2 was successfully refloated with the assistance of the tug a couple of hours later and was then towed to Greenock for inspection. Source:American Shipper
NYK Group affiliate Monohakobi Technology Institute, in partnership with Tsuneishi Holdings Corp., has developed a device that is said to reduce a vessel's fuel consumption by about 4 percent. MT-FAST is a pre-swirl stator type device that can be fitted to the submerged part of a vessel's hull to maximize the propulsive efficiency. In addition to being...
APL today started a weekly feeder service linking the Estonian port of Tallinn and Russia's St Petersburg with Rotterdam and Zeebrugge in North Europe. The North Baltic Express (NBX) deploys two vessels, the Uppland, which APL said has a loaded capacity of 550 TEUs, and Norderoog, with a loaded capacity of 850 TEUs. In the summer, Uppland will be repla...
Buenos Aries, Argentina-based Maruba Lines will in March leave the U.S. East Coast/East Coast South America Usatlan service of Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) and its subsidiary Libra. As a result of the impact of the subprime crisis in the U.S. housing industry, cargo volumes and rates for Brazilian exports have taken a downward track since t...
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
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