Container fleet grows less fast
Placed on february 18th 2010|Placed by M. Prins
Clarkson Research expects that the container fleet will grow this year with only 5.2 percent because the large South Korean Shipyards have a lot of postponed orders. The capacity increase would be just as large as the expected increase of the cargo offer.
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Announcement from Arab countries to sign Rules Rotterdam
Placed on february 8th 2010|Placed by M. Prins
During a meeting within the framework of the Arab Liga in Alexandria in Egypt the 21 Arab members announced itself to sign the Rotterdam Rules (2008).
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Rotterdam falls from top-10 container ports
Placed on january 21th 2010|Placed by M. Prins
New top-20 of the largest container ports in the world which were established on the basis of the first transshipment figures for 2009, counts two Chinese newcomers. Xiamen and Dalian has pushed New York/New Jersey and Bremerhaven from their previous ranking.
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Somali pirates release captured ship
Placed on january 18th 2010|Placed by M. Prins
Somali pirates released oil tanker under Greek flag Monday.
Sunday, they had between 5.5 and $ 7 million (3.8 to 4.9 million euro), the highest money received lump-sum ever paid.
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Overcapacity in ports of Northern France and Benelux, inevitably
Placed on december 2nd 2009|Placed by M. Prins
According to a new study of Ocean Shipping Consultants (OSC) on the development of supply and demand in container handling capacity, there will be a prolonged period of excess capacity in the ports of Northern France, and the Benelux countries. This has mainly to do with the developments in Rotterda
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