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HONG KONG-based privately held "mid-major" forwarders of Overseas Group and Globe Express Services has merged, but will retain individual management teams for supervising Overseas American exports to Europe market and Globe's Middle East and GES Asian imports to the US. Overseas president Gilbert Khoury said by combining non-competing activities of the t...
HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has announced an immediate rate increase of US$150 per TEU, $300 per FEU and $300 per 40-foot high cube containers on all cargo from Hong Kong, Macau and south China to the Middle East. OOCL also announced that from all Asian countries except Japan to Hong Kong, Macau and South China there will be a curre...
PORT of Guangzhou lifted 11.3 million TEU last year, up 1.8 per cent year on year, rising to the world's sixth largest place from seventh in 2008, Xinhua reported. Guangzhou's Nansha port area accounted for 6.56 million TEU, up 2.7 per cent. The port recorded a throughput tonnage of 375 million tonnes, up 4.4 per cent, also ranking it sixth in the wor...
Dubai: Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has taken delivery of a new crew and workboat, named Inchcape 23, built in the UK. The vessel will now be carried as deck cargo out to the UAE, to join the 16-strong ISS launch fleet there. From May onwards she will be used to ferry equipment and spares as well as crewmembers, superintendents, ISS Agency staff and oth...
Taipei: Container giant Evergreen Line is to reintroduce a 20-port pendulum service that will enhance coverage of the US West Coast-Asia-Mediterranean trade routes. The service will range from Tacoma to Valencia, Spain, via the Far East, Middle East and Suez Canal. 'This customer-centric move focuses on the market-oriented adjustment of Evergreen Line&rs...
Seoul: South Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction said on Wednesday its Philippines unit had won $450 million worth of orders for tankers and bulk carriers. Hanjin said in a statement the orders were placed by companies in China, Singapore and Greece. Hanjin runs a 349-hectare facility at the Subic Bay Freeport in the Philippines...
Nairobi: A South Korean VLCC captured by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean at the weekend arrived Wednesday off the coast of Somalia, the European Union naval force patrolling the area said. The tanker Samho Dream (pictured), previously reported hijacked approximately 600 nautical miles off the Somali coast in the early hours of April 4 has now arrived o...
Brisbane: A bunker barge is in place at the Great Barrier Reef to pump oil off the stricken bulker Shen Neng 1. Maritime Safety Queensland said the Larcom bunker barge had arrived at the scene of the casualty at 0830 hrs. Anti-pollution measures are the priority before any fuel oil can be transferred off the ship. “We need all our checks in place befo...
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