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SHIP orders for Japanese yards have more than tripled in January year on year and with gains of 218.5 per cent averaged over 14 consecutive months to 1.5 million gross tons, according to the Japan Ship Exporters Association. This is an increase over the December's 162.1 per cent increase in orders, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce, adding that in Ja...
AUSTRALIAN flag carrier Qantas plans to lease five more Boeing 737-800s and extend leases on two B737-800s, lease another ten Airbus A320s and extend the leases on eleven A320s. It will also lease an A330-200 for Jetstar, purchase ten Fokker 100s for Network Aviation and lease two extra B717s for QantasLink. From now until the end of its 2013 fiscal year,...
MONDAY the 21st February marks the 80th anniversary of the first recorded hijacking and the birth of aviation security, reports Aviation Security International. On the that day in 1931, Captain Byron Rickards flew his Ford Tri-Motor aircraft from Lima to Arequipa in Peru to be greeted on landing by armed revolutionaries needing the plane to distribute le...
ISRAEL Shippers Council (ISC) chairman Gad Schaefer stands by his position to back carriers against striking dockers despite his loss of support from Israel Manufacturers Association and the Tel Aviv Chamber of Commerce. Critics did not like ISC involvement in the "highly politicised" issue and say Mr Schaefer took the side of the ocean carriers, who had ...
SAFMARINE, a Maersk unit, has announced the commencement of a third string between Europe and the Indian subcontinent in March by deploying seven ships in the 3,550-TEU range. The new Prime-2 service features a new direct link between North Europe and Chennai. Its direct calls in Colombo, Chennai, Salalah, Zeebrugge, Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Bremerhaven ...
GENEVA's Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has announced rate increases for US exports to Asia effective March 15 of US$100 per TEU and $150 for 20-foot reefers, said a notice to the trade. This follows the carrier's March 1 rate increase from the US east and Gulf coast ports to the west coast of South America as well as fresh bunker surcharges on cargo f...
A SOMALI pirate who was taken by the US Navy in April 2009 after hijacking the US-flagged Maersk Alabama and holding its captain hostage was sentenced to 33 years in prison in a New York court. Abdulwali Muse pleaded guilty to being part of a pirate crew that took over the 1,092-TEU Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean and held Capt Richard Phillips hostage...
MORE than 20 trucks have been damaged, a score injured and some 40 arrested as the nationwide South African truck strike intensifies. Two non-striking truckers were burned when a Molotov cocktail petrol bomb was thrown into their cab in Durban after they were ambushed on the M7 highway in Queensburgh. Safmarine, the big South African carrier, said that ...
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