"UK Seafarers Unprotected from Unfair Competition" A new report from maritime specialists at Cardiff University into UK seafarers has found ineffective enforcement of the National Minimum Wage and a failure to protect UK seafarers and vessels working the coastline from unfair overseas competition, UK’s transport trade union RMT said.
Syriza targets to stop privatization of Piraeus Port Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has named a cabinet of anti-austerity veterans and halted privatisation of the country's biggest port, indicating he aims to stick to election pledges despite warnings from the eurozone and financial markets.
Maersk McKinney Moller loads a record 18,168 TEU MAERSK Line super-sized ship, the Maersk McKinney Moller, came away from the Port of Algeciras bound for Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia, with a record load of 18,168 TEU.
BG appoints GAC as hub, ship agency services provider, globallyGAC has been chosen as the sole provider of hub agency services for the worldwide LNG fleet of the BG Group. The five-year contract that started on January 1 also covers crude oil and LPG shipments to accommodate the group's expanding cargo range. Saturday, 31.Jan.2015, 00:21
CMA CGM ups UAE to Zanzibar rate US$250 from February 10FRENCH shipping giant, Marseilles-based CMA CGM, in the latest of industry-wide rate increases and port fees will increase its rate on services from the Persian Gulf to East Africa. Saturday, 31.Jan.2015, 00:20
Mega ships to crowd Evergreen in fleet renewal programmeJAPAN's Imabari Shipbuilding has secured an order for eleven 20,000 TEUers from its affiliate Shoei Kisen and plans to invest JPY40 billion (US$340 million) in a new dry dock to do that job and build a slew of 18,000-TEUers for Evergreen. Saturday, 31.Jan.2015, 00:16
Hoegh Osaka discharge begins, most ro-ro cargo 'undamaged' as lashings heldHOEGH Autoliners is believed to found most ro-ro cargo undamaged by the accident in which its 51,000-dwt Hoegh Osaka was run aground after listing 50 degrees three weeks ago after leaving Southampton, reports Lloyd's Loading List. Saturday, 31.Jan.2015, 00:14
China looks on as new leftist Greek PM scuppers Cosco Piraeus port planCHINA looks on as the new leftist Greek government scuppers the privatisation deal worked out with Hong Kong's Cosco Pacific by the previous government for the next phase of the Port of Piraeus near Athens. Saturday, 31.Jan.2015, 00:09
'K' Line profit up 110pc to US$273.8 million as sales rise 10pcJAPAN's No 3 container shipping company, "K" Line, posted a 110 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit in the nine months ending December 31, to total US$273.8 million, drawn from revenues of 8.4 billion, which increased 10 per cent. Saturday, 31.Jan.2015, 00:08
NYK profit spoiled by anti-trust ruling, but revenues rise 14.4pcJAPAN's No 2 container shipping line, NYK, posted a 0.3 per cent year-on-year net profit increase, somewhat spoiled by an antitrust fine in the nine months ending December 31, to total US$268 million, a sum were drawn from revenues of $16.8 billion, which rose 14.4 per cent. Saturday, 31.Jan.2015, 00:06
Dockers again walk out in Portland after a half-day slo-mo shiftMANILA's International Container Terminals Services Inc (ICTSI), which runs Portland, Oregon's sole container port, said dockers have hit out a second time with another wildcat strike. Thursday, 29.Jan.2015, 19:15
Shipping giant NYK looks to schools to provide seafarers from JapanWITH the demand for seafarers around the world rising, Japanese transportation group NYK has commenced the NYK Mirai Project to encourage greater awareness of maritime affairs and the seafaring life among students at elementary, junior high, and maritime schools in Japan. Thursday, 29.Jan.2015, 19:09
Japanese December exports up 12.9pc, signalling recovery from recessionJAPAN's recession-struck economy enjoyed an export recovery in December on the back of a weak yen and renewed US demand even as doubts persist about the strength of global consumption, reports Reuters. Thursday, 29.Jan.2015, 19:07
18,980-TEU CSCL Indian Ocean sets for to service Asia-Europe tradeTHE new 18,980-TEU CSCL India Ocean is to join the Asia-north Europe service offered in partnership with CMA CGM and UASC in the Ocean Three alliance, named respectively FAL 8 by CSCL, AEX 1 and AEC 1. Thursday, 29.Jan.2015, 19:03
Capt. Cahit Istikbal has been IMPA Vice President for 3 terms , 12 years in total. Captain Istikbal was nominated for IMPA President for elections at General Assembly which will be held in Panama early this April. We interviewed with Capt. İstikbal on almost everything..
On Jan 23, 2015 at 9:20 p.m. the 190-meters long, Maltese flag "Perth 1" laden with 53.148 M/T of Corn, suffered an engine failure during the North-south Transit of the Dardanelles at Kanarya Burnu area.
Nowadays, I miss my days of move and production. Those were the days that we used to pursue life running ahead of us. I miss the days that I soaked in the rain, the feverish life as if unceasingly snatching something away; and I also miss the smell of the sea.
MIGHTY Maersk Line is to add a direct southbound call at Adelaide to the southeast Asia-Australia-Northeast Asia segment of the Asia-Australia service in April.
GLOBAL oil traders have started to charter supertankers to store crude at sea, to await better markets as they did in the 2009 the last period of steeply falling prices.
The cargo ship ‘La Floreana’ ran aground early today in front of Puerto Ayora, in the Bahía Naufragio locality, at Galapagos Islands, said the Armed Forces through their twitter account.
MAERSK Line, the world's biggest container shipping company will levy a US$400 per TEU rate increase from ports in Asia to northern Europe from February 1.
Cheap oil is awesome, right? Most economists describe it as a sort of tax cut for Americans at the gas pump. Even Larry Fink, a hot-shot Wall Street money manager, declared oil’s decline “spectacular.”
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