Senator Lines, headquartered in Bremen, Germany, has completed integration with INTTRA, providing another avenue for innovative e-commerce shipping solutions to their customers. Senator Lines’ customers will have access to INTTRA’s suite of e-tools, including: tender, sailing schedules, booking, shi
Delegates from the 24-nation ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) were treated to a display of Singapore’s capabilities in handling sea-bourne terrorist threats recently. Singapore’s coordinated response to any security threat involves both the armed forces and Home Team.
The Japan Maritime Self Defence Force who will be docking in Muara Port tomorrow will be holding an open day for the public from March 8-10. The public is invited to visit one of Japan Maritime Self Defence Force’s most sophisticated ships, the ‘Hamayuki’.
Hopes of a settlement to the protracted dispute between Australia and East Timor over sharing energy reserves in the Timor Sea rose as talks resumed between the two sides. After nearly a year of negotiations, both sides finally appeared willing to broker a compromise on sharing reserves worth an est
Tony Bullimore and his young crew on Daedalus, the 102ft maxi catamaran, have decided today to act on advice from weather router Lee Bruce to avoid a ‘massive storm’ moving towards the southern Pacific. Bullimore’s crew is part of the Tracy Edwards’s Oryx Quest Race, which started from Doha last mon
Dhaka is likely to sign with Singapore a couple of bilateral agreements, including one on shipping to simplify trading through the sea route between Chittagong and Singapore ports and thereby reduce shipping costs.
Shipping firms are sitting on a potential goldmine of paper profit due to the surging value of ships as a result of booming demand for marine transport to China.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s No. 2 shipbuilder, said yesterday that it aims to win more than half of 44 gas-tanker orders from Qatar by 2010. Of the total, Daewoo Shipbuilding has already secured at least 15 tankers, Chung Sung-lip, chief executive of the company, said.
Navy Secretary Gordon England argued Thursday at a congressional hearing that building destroyers at a single yard rather than splitting the work between Bath Iron Works and another shipbuilder would save the country money. He said there isn’t enough demand to build at two yards.
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned the Navy’s top civilian official on future shipbuilding plans during a hearing Thursday. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., told Navy Secretary Gordon England the service should consider waiting until the department
South Korean’s Hyundai Heavy Industries has won combined orders worth USD1.1bn from Kuwait and Iran to build container ships, according to a company statement. It brings the total value of contracts won by Korean shipbuilders for LNG carriers to USD10bn.
Shipyard crews were scrambling around the Motor Vessel Jean Anne late Friday afternoon, completing the final touches ahead of the vessel’s noon Saturday departure. Built by VT Halter Ma-rine for Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines, the Jean Anne is a 579-foot, roll onoll off car.
Shipping Australia has joined a growing chorus of industry groups calling on the federal and Victorian governments to fund two-thirds of the cost of the $550 million channel-deepening project in Port Phillip Bay. But the shipping lines and exporters are at loggerheads over who should pay the bulk of
PORT AUX BASQUES, Nfld. — The ”Farley Mowat” and its crew are safe and sound in Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland. The vessel, operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, started taking on water north of Cape Breton Sunday morning and radioed for help.
