SMART Communications inc. says it has tied up with foreign telecom firms to offer mobile roaming connectivity on board cruise ships and luxury ferries worldwide. The service, called Coastline Roaming, allows postpaid and prepaid Smart subscribers to send and receive calls and text messages on select cruise ships and liners without having to change their p...
Shipping company Maersk is to build an inland container depot in Bangladesh to ease worsening congestion at the country's main port of Chittagong, an official said Sunday. Maersk Bangladesh Limited, a subsidiary of the Danish shipping giant, will construct the 25-acre (10-hectare) container depot at a cost of 20 million dollars next year, company deputy g...
Twenty-two people are missing after a cargo ship registered in North Korea capsized in the Yellow Sea about four miles off China's eastern Shandong province on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported. An official with the provincial maritime bureau said strong winds were sweeping the area when the accident happened and only three of the 25 crew members had be...
Kuehne + Hagel (Australia) won a contact with Gloria Jean’s Coffees International (one of the world’s leading specialty coffee franchisors) for the provision of intergraded logistics solution covering international transport management. According to the press-service of Kuehne + Hagel, the company has dedicated a warehouse near Sydney Airport. In the nex...
At the beginning 2008 the shares of some shipbuilding ventures will be convey to the United Shipbuilding Corporation. This was announced by head of the Federal Industry Agency (Rosprom) Andrey Dutov, reports RBC. According to him, all documents concerning the United Shipbuilding Corporation’ Registration have been already sent to the RF president’s admini...
Golden Ocean Group Limited ("Golden Ocean") has agreed to get released from the bare boat agreements for the two 1994 built Panamax vessels "M/V Golden Jade" and "M/V Golden Jasmine" against purchasing the vessels for $14.5 million per vessel. Simultaneously the Company has agreed to sell the two vessels for net sale proceeds of $124.1 million in total. ...
Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC) is stepping up its global involvement in the shipbuilding sector with its organisation of the German joint stands at the leading Asian shipbuilding fairs Kormarine 2007 and Marintec China 2007, thereby generating synergy effects for HMC’s flagship event SMM and boosting its status as the top shipbuilding fair. The shipbu...
Singapore-listed Cosco Corp (COSC.SI: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Wednesday that its 51-percent owned unlisted unit, COSCO Shipyard Group, in China has won orders worth a total of $1.34 billion to build 29 bulk carriers. The vessels, ordered by three different customers, will be built at COSCO Dalian Shipyard and COSCO Guangzhou Shipyard in China, ...
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