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CHINA's active engagement with Africa has resulted in Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL) making its largest vessel order in the company's 46-year history, reports maritime consultant Alphaliner. The Ethiopian national carrier has placed a contract for nine new ships at Chinese yards this week for about US$300 million with the Export-Import Bank of China f...
Bigger is often better, the project cargo operators are finding. Demand for larger vessels of up to 2,000 tonne lift is growing, particularly in the energy sector, reports Europe Correspondent Phil Hastings A growing demand for larger capacity vessels to transport offshore energy industry project cargo - for example to the huge Gorgon natural gas fields b...
CMA CGM has upgraded its ACSA service linking Asia to Mexico, Central America and the West Coast of South America. This new configuration will enable CMA CGM to consolidate its presence in the Asia-Mexico- Central and South America trade through the following enhancements: Faster transit times between Asia, Mexico, and South America – Conn...
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, country's biggest container port, is planning a fifth container terminal in the Nhava Island area, reported Business Standard. The terminal is expected to add a capacity of eight million TEUs to the port for which a pre-feasibility study has already begun, “It will take us five to six years to float the tender. B...
Singapore: Raytheon Anschuetz Singapore has won contracts to supply navigation equipment for three vessels being built in Malaysia. Nam Cheong Dockyard of Malaysia, has chosen Raytheon Anschuetz Singapore for the supply of the total navigational bridge equipment to two 75 meter multipurpose offshore support vessels. Another contract covers the supply of g...
Shanghai: Chinese shipbuilder Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry contracted its first order in 2011 with Norway company Jo Tankers to build 2 plus 2 plus 2 stainless chemical tankers. It is the first stainless chemical tanker order Mingde received. Jo Tanker is professional on stainless chemical tanker shipping business, the tankers ordered this time are tech...
New York: India’s Reliance Industries has been revealed as one of the most active aframax players in the past 12 months. Brokers Poten revealed that Reliance, owner of the world’s largest oil refining complex, was the eighth largest charterer of aframaxes in 2010. The Mukesh Ambani-controlled firm held about 3% of the aframax clean tankers segme...
THE ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will test a "seawater scrubber' on an APL containership in a US$3.4 million project to study its filtering of emissions and particles. The 5,510-TEU APL England will be tested during its service on APL's Pacific Coast Express service during port calls in the San Pedro Bay over a one-year period. How we...
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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