Samskip completes Seawheel deal

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The acquisition of UK shortsea intermodal operator Seawheel by Icelandic shipping-to-logistics company Samskip (see WorldCargo News July 200...

Vinashin to add boxes in Vietnam

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Vinashin Container Co (Vinashincont), a subsidiary of stateowned Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corp (Vinashin), is to invest VND396 bill (US...

Domestic suppliers gear up

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Kaliningrad-based Baltkran is due to complete this month the handover of a 40t SWL RMG for containers to Interter minal. This is Saint Peter...

Foreign investors target port projects

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Throughput has been growing strongly in Russia’s seaports and they are struggling to keep up. According to the Russian Ports Association, ...

Boxships on the Volga

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Volga Shipping, a specialist in dry cargo carriage on Russia’s inland waterways and owner of maritime dry cargo operator Northwest Shippin...

NYK/LauritzenCool team up

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NYK Reefers and LauritzenCool have received clearance from the European Commission to merge their reefer activities....

Congestion focus at ITL

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The Intermodal Transport & Logistics (ITL) 2005 conference in Bilbao (8-10 November) will focus on the thorny issue of congestion....

Airship goes by sea!

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Dockwise has been awarded a contract by South African diamond miner De Beers to transport a Zeppelin NT airship from Holland to South Africa...

Swift in move for BNSF domcons

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Truckload carrier Swift Intermodal and BNSF Railway Company have reached an agreement for Swift to acquire around 3,800 53ft domestic contai...

Volga-Dnepr buys and flies

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Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VDA) has announced a 15-year financial agreement with Ilyushin Finance Corporation (IFC) to take delivery of two newbu...

Box lessors face more challenging times

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The world’s container leasing industry is bracing itself for its first downturn in over three years. The recent build-up of equipment stoc...

Box boom running out of steam?

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Though the world’s two biggest box builders, CIMC and Singamas, posted strong results for the first half of this year, there are clear sig...

Lively times for straddle carriers

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There are no reliable figures on straddle carrier output, but it looks as though this year is another good one as far as production in conce...

How big will Panamax be?

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Your article “How big will New Panamax be?” (WorldCargo News May 2005, p68) does a nice job bringing to light some of the crucial consid...

Re Mega-carriers

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I believe that the article “Mega-carriers pushing it to the limit” in the June 2005 issue of WorldCargo News (pp21-22) was the most inte...

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