World's idle container fleet grows 10-fold to 750,900 TEU over 6 months
Tuesday, 07.Feb.2012, 23:40
THE global idle containership fleet increased to 286 ships with a total
capacity of 750,900 TEU as of the end of January 2012, up 10-fold since
June when it hit a low of 75,000 TEU, according to Paris-based
Alphaliner.
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Rate pressure expected on Med trades as added capacity undermines demand
Tuesday, 07.Feb.2012, 23:37
CONTAINER shipping lines have been scrambling to add capacity through
the launch of new services on the Far East-Mediterranean trades despite
projected slack demand this year.
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Thickening ice causes berthing delays and surcharges at Black Sea ports
Monday, 06.Feb.2012, 23:25
THICKENING ice from an eastern European cold snap, is causing disruption
and berthing delays at Black Sea ports, reports Inchcape Shipping
Services (ISS).
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Asia dry bulk rates to remain low
Monday, 06.Feb.2012, 00:52
Rates for dry bulk carriers on key Asian freight routes are expected to hover near multi-year lows over the next week as an increase in trading activity fails to offset pressure from an ever expanding fleet, ship brokers said.
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Severe Weather Disrupts Black Sea Shipping
Sunday, 05.Feb.2012, 22:42
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading
maritime services provider, advises that thickening sea ice, resulting
from particularly low temperatures across Eastern Europe, is causing
disruption to shipping across the Black Sea.
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GAC offers pollution service to assist shipowner compliance by March 1
Sunday, 05.Feb.2012, 22:37
GAC China has launched a new service to help shipowners comply with stringent new anti-pollution regulations that come March 1.
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Port Tracker: 2012 European imports to flatten after 3.9pc rise in 2011
Sunday, 05.Feb.2012, 22:33
THE 2011 total import growth in Europe was forecast at 3.9 per cent with
North European exports expected to grow five per cent and the
Mediterranean and Black Sea regions 1.8 per cent, said the recent Global
Port Tracker Report by Hackett Associates and the Bremen Institute of
Shipping Economics and Logistics.
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Drewry: Carriers hit on-time high with Maersk, Hanjin and Cosco leading
Sunday, 05.Feb.2012, 22:17
CONTAINER service reliability reached a new high in the final quarter of
2011 with an on-time average of 69 per cent across all the trades
covered by the latest Drewry's Schedule Reliability Insight report.
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Navios Maritime Announces Charters for Five MR2 Product Tankers
Sunday, 05.Feb.2012, 12:04
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced today that it has chartered out five newbuilding MR2 product tankers.
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MOL appoints Ocean Maritime Services as new shipping agent in Istanbul
Saturday, 04.Feb.2012, 10:24
JAPAN's Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has appointed Ocean Maritime Services
Shipping Agency Tourism and Trading (OMS) as its new shipping agent in
Istanbul, which will manage activities in Turkey from February 1.
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