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GAIL, IOC Join Dhamra LNG project

May 15, 2015

Gas Authority of India Limited (Gail) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to join Adani Group promoted Rs 5,000-crore ($805 mln)  Dhamra LNG Port (DPCL) project on the Odisha coast. The MoU comes within…

Ultrapetrol Reports Loss

May 15, 2015

New York-listed ship and barge  Ultrapetrol Ltd. (ULTR) has reported a loss of $5.1 million in its first quarter. The Nassau, Bahamas-based company said it had a loss of 4 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 3 cents per share…

No Signs of Improvement in Container Rent Seen: Cosco Pacific

May 15, 2015

Cosco Pacific said it has seen no signs of a pick-up in the container leasing market, as oversupply continues to haunt the liner industry. Executive director Feng Jinhua said that the container leasing business has showed a down trend since 2012 and hovered at a low level…

Hellenic Ship Finances Look Up

May 15, 2015

The overall Greek loans of Hellenic maritime companies and ship owners (drawn and committed but undrawn) rose to $64.019 billion by the end of 2014, 4.1% higher than the $61.498 billion of 2013.Petrofin Research in its latest annual research says that drawn loans are up by 2…

Container Industry Competence Standard Launched

May 14, 2015

Seagull Maritime AS has launched the Container Industry Competence Standard (CICS), an assessment and training system covering container vessel operations. The program aims to bring new consistency to competency on-board containerships, following…

Glencore Calls for Price Regulation in Newcastle Port

May 14, 2015

Coal mining giant Glencore has now applied to have the competition watchdog oversee pricing in the  newly privatised Port of Newcastle, reports  The Sydney Morning Herald. The NSW port is hiking some shipping charges up to 60 percent after its $1…

Hapag Lloyd Back in the Black

May 14, 2015

German container line Hapag-Lloyd has defied the challenging market environment in the containership market and returned to profit in the first quarter of 2015 euros as a stronger dollar and lower bunker prices helped to offset weaker freight rates…

NYK Orders Three LNG Carriers

May 14, 2015

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) has concluded time-charters for two new LNG carriers with Diamond Gas International, a Singapore affiliate of Mitsubishi Corporation. NYK also concluded a contract with MI LNG Company Limited for the construction of the LNG carriers…

Cosco Scraps Four Vessels

May 14, 2015

China COSCO Holdings disassembled four vessels including two container vessels and two bulk carriers in April 2015, with the aggregate capacity of 261.8 thousand deadweight tons. The company realized losses from the disassembly of the vessels of approximately RMB59 million  (USD9 million)…

Hanjin Swings to the Black

May 14, 2015

South Korea's leading shipping line Hanjin Shipping Co has swung to the black in the first quarter from a year earlier thanks to lower fuel costs and better streamlined shipping routes. Net profit came to 22.91 billion won (US$21 million) in the January-March period…

Maersk Beats Forecasts, Loses Shipping Market Share

May 13, 2015

Maersk Line lost market share in container shipping in the first quarter, disappointing analysts who said A.P. Moller-Maersk's  forecast-beating results on Wednesday had been helped by one-offs. While the world's largest container shipping…

MOL Transports Wheelchairs for Paraguayan Children

May 13, 2015

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. received a letter of appreciation from the Paraguayan Embassy, thanking the company for providing ocean transport of used wheelchairs from Japan to Paraguay, where they were delivered to needy children. This is the…

Single Window Reporting for All German Ports

May 13, 2015

Effective from 27 May 2015, German Authorities will implement the reporting requirements for vessels according to EC-directive 2010/65/EU (national single window reporting formalities).This directive is designed to achieve harmonization…

TSB to Investigate : MOL Precision Strikes Berth

May 12, 2015

Richmond, British Columbia, 11 May 2015 — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is deploying a team of investigators to Port Metro Vancouver, in British Columbia, where the container vessel MOL Precision struck the berth. The TSB will gather information and assess the occurrence…

CMA CGM in Cuba Deal

May 12, 2015

CMA CGM Group will work with Cuban company Almacenes Universales SA to run a logistics complex serving the Port of Mariel, giving a boost to the island’s effort to make itself a transshipment hub. CMA CGM, the world’s No. 3 container ship operator by capacity…

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