2012-05-30
The Law "On sea ports" to be discussed at the port of Odessa Law firm "ANK" jointly with the port Odessa will conduct a Roundtable on "The Law on Seaports: what will change in the port industry?". The round table will be attended by heads and senior staff of the port of Odessa, line agents and stevedoring companies. Roundtable will be held on Wednesday, June 6, at 15-00 in the conference room of the port.
Odessa Commercial Sea Port
2012-05-30
Shanghai-based liner service joins CMA CGM’s Pacific Express Service as slot charter to Mobile, Miami and Jacksonville.
Mobile, Alabama‐ China Shipping Container Line Company, the world’s 8th-largest container shipping company by capacity, will begin cargo service to the US Gulf Coast and Florida through a slot charter arrangement on the weekly Pacific Express 3 string operated by CMA-CGM, which will include calls at APM Terminals Mobile, APM Terminals Jacksonville and Miami’s South Florida Container Terminal (SFCT), in which APM Terminals is a joint venture partner with Terminal Link.
“We are very pleased to welcome China Shipping as a new customer of APM Terminals in Mobile, Jacksonville and Miami, and look forward to further strengthening our relationship with this important global carrier” said APM Terminals Americas region, Chief Commercial Officer Jonathan Goldner.
Shanghai-based China Shipping Container Line Company currently operates 149 vessels, with a combined total capacity of approximately 560,000 TEUs, ranking 8th globally by this measure. This new China Shipping service which has been named the AAE2 will be made available through a slot charter agreement with French-based CMA-CGM. Ports of call on the AAE2 include Xiamen, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Busan, in the Far East, and Manzanillo, Panama, in addition to the US ports of Houston, Mobile, Miami and Jacksonville. Vessels range in size from 3,398 TEU to 5,096 TEU capacity.
APM Terminals Mobile, which opened in 2008, and features a 45 foot depth and cranes with an 18-container row reach, saw container volume grow by 45% in 2011, while throughput at SFCT, in which APM Terminals holds a 49% share, expanded by 13.5%.
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MAERSK Line will end its Tasman Star Express service and instead buy slots from MSC-ANL's Trans Tasman Service, reports Alphaliner.
The MSC-ANL loop links Australia's Sydney and Melbourne to New Zealands' Nelson, Auckland, Tauranga, Lyttelton and Wellington, using three 2,600 to 2,800-TEUers. Maersk's current Tasman Star Express had three 1,100-TEUers and called at Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Nelson, Tauranga, Sydney.
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SINOTRANS Container Line and Yang Ming will launch the China, Japan, Philippines service (CJP), connecting Tokyo, Yokohama, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Shekou, Manila, Hong Kong, Shanghai and back to Tokyo.
The three-week loop will be serviced by three 1,000-TEU ships, two from from Sinotrans (the Sinotrans Hong Kong and the Isara Bhum) and one by Yang Ming (the Stadt Berlin).
The first sailing took place May 27 from Shanghai with the Stadt Berlin, reported Alphaliner. Yang Ming is also taking slots on the Sinotrans Shanghai-Japan Kanto Service (SJ1), linking Shanghai to Tokyo and Yokohama.
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DHL Global Forwarding has added a weekly sailing from Shanghai to Dubai, bringing the number of its direct less-than-container-load (LCL) services connecting China and the United Arab Emirates to three.
This additional service also extends to some other major cities in the Middle East such as Doha and Kuwait. China-based exporters have the choice of two sailings, with transit times to the Middle East of either 17 or 19 days. With this shipping service, the company said in a statement that it is reducing CO2 emissions by 5.56 per cent compared to its previous non-direct service routed via Hong Kong.
The extra service is in response to growing demand on this trade lane and is in keeping with the company's plans to expand its LCL network in China. "Our new services from Shanghai to Dubai are a direct response to a rise in cooperation in recent years between China and these new emerging economies in the Middle East," said Asia Pacific CEO Dr. Kelvin Leung.
The company's network currently comprises 1,100 weekly point pairs from 49 Asia Pacific terminals sailing to 23 destination terminals in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
China CEO Steve Huang added: "Besides Shanghai and nearby cities such as Hangzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou and Nanjing, Chinese exporters can also enjoy the LCL service through our terminals located in Xuzhou, Hefei, Lianyungang, Changsha and even Chengdu in western China. In addition to cities from UAE including Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Fujairah and Sharjah, the destinations also involve major cities from the Middle East including Bahrain, Jeddah, PS Qaboos and Riyadh."
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CHINA has filed a complaint with the WTO over US tariffs on 22 Chinese products including solar panels and steel pipes.
"China firmly opposes the abuse of trade remedy measures and trade protectionism," China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.
Said US Trade Representative spokeswoman Nkenge Harmon: "China has determined without benefit of the facts that whatever the United States does will fall short of what China would like to see."
The US says the products, which account for US$7.3 billion of China's exports, are unfairly priced and "dumped" on the US market, reported Reuters. The complaint also covers wind towers, although the US is not set to decide on such tariffs.
The US Trade Representative's office said China is bringing the case prematurely to the WTO as the Commerce Department is working to address China's issues after a previous ruling by the organisation.
China won a similar case before the WTO in 2011 that included woven sacks, tyres and steel pipes. China filed the most recent complaint on the same day the WTO issued a confidential ruling on a case in which the US challenged the monopoly of UnionPay over Chinese electronic payments on behalf of US companies like Visa and MasterCard.
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MALAYSIA's MTT Shipping has made new links between Pasir Gudang and East Malaysia by taking slots from Singapore-based PIL's feeder units, Advance Container Line (ACL) and Malaysia Shipping Corp (MES).
The ACL/MES service offers connections to Kuching, Sibu, Miri, Labuan, Kota Kinabalu and Muara, said the Alphaliner report. The Pasir Gudang connections complements MTT's existing connections to these East Malaysian and Brunei ports from Tanjung Pelepas and Port Kelang.
MTT assumed most of Johan Shipping's former routes between West and East Malaysia after the Johan 2011 bankruptcy.
MTT has also taken in charge the newly-acquired 20-year-old 1,012- TEU MTT Kuching (from Rickmers). It is MTT's second vessel acquisition, following the purchase of the 1,022-TEU MTT Penang built in 1985) last December.
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LONDON GATEWAY, the DP World container terminal under construction in the lower Thames Estuary, is bent on becoming a hub of its own and not spoke for Le Havre, Rotterdam, Antwerp or Hamburg.
"We are going back to our roots," said London Gateway CEO Simon Moore. "We are getting the biggest ships in the world as close as we can to the biggest point of consumption and giving cargo owners the opportunity to store and warehouse their goods right next to the ships."
Only its British rival Felixstowe, owned by Hong Kong-based Hutchison, can take in the megaships now flooding the market, he said, according to London's Daily Telegraph. Despite the expansion of Felixstowe, he said there is an increasing shortage of capacity in Britain to handle megaships.
"Today there are less than 100 [megaships] of them in service. By the end of next year, there will be more than 200. As shipping lines look to improve their economies of scale, ships are getting bigger and bigger. The UK is an island nation, it has to have port capacity for the 21st century," he said.
That makes London Gateway, with its 3.5 million TEU annual capacity at full build-out, an obvious choice for direct calls, he said. "We have 15 million people living within 80 kilometres and a big cost in the transportation chain is the cost of moving the goods from the port to the end user. If you can keep that link as short as possible, if the difference is driving 20 miles or 100, you are saving money," said Mr Moore.
Being a hub and not a spoke is important. "It's not that different from the idea of hub airports. If you talk to businessmen in London, one reason they are here is because they can jump on a plane and go direct to Dubai or New York or Hong Kong. What if you couldn't? If you had to go via Schiphol, Paris, Frankfurt. It can be done. But is it going to make the UK more attractive for business or less? It's another link in the chain and that's a disadvantage.
"It's the same with ports. 90pc of our trade comes by sea. And we are big enough to have these big ships come in directly. That shortens transit times for importers and exporters. It's about ensuring we keep this island nation directly connected to the M1 of world trade. Otherwise we are an A road or a B road off someone else's highway," said Mr Moore.
Asked whether London Gateway has anchor clients, Mr Moore said: "We do, but we're not saying anything yet. People who are coming have concerns over how they may be treated in between time if we make their names public now," he said.
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THE Port of Rotterdam Authority is investing EUR15 million (US$18.5 million) in a project to renovate, redesign and expand the existing 'Heavy Lift Centre' for the storage and handling of heavy and bulky freight from the energy and offshore industry sector, project cargo.
The work on the centre for heavy cargo that is located within the eastern section of the RDM site in the Waalhaven has already started with the demolition of some dilapidated sheds. The work is expected to continue until the third quarter of 2014.
The port authority is working with the Broekman Group on the project. It said in a statement that Broekman hopes the redeveloped centre will meet the growing demand from the energy sector for storage and handling of heavy objects in well-equipped sheds with modern overhead cranes.
Covered assembly space will also soon be available which will give added value to the activities. The space for outside storage will be enlarged for the sizeable objects and the centre will also have a more efficient layout, new heavy foundations and paving.
The redesigned 'Heavy Lift Centre' will comprise four modernised high halls with a total of around 16,000 square metres of space and overhead cranes with a lifting capacity of 75 to 700 tonnes; an outside space of around 26,000 metres square; a 300-metre quay with a draught of 10.5 metres at which cargo items of up to 1,800 tonnes can be handled; and sheds of 4,000 metres square directly on the quay.
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BALLAST water treatment system provider, Norway-based Optimarin, has signed a major fleet-wide ballast water treatment contract worth more than NOK100 million (US$16.7 million) with Saga Shipholding (SSH) of Norway, the open-hatch carrier subsidiary of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK).
The retrofit contract covers complete ballast water treatment (BWT) systems including engineering and service agreements for 24 open-hatch bulk carriers.
With an agreement already in place for seven Saga and one NYK newbuilding, Optimarin's combined Saga work programme now amounts to NOK140 million. Optimarin's aggregate order book stands at NOK250 million, representing over 110 vessels.
The Saga contracts call for large scale Optimarin Ballast Systems (OBS) capable of handling all seawater salinities and fresh water in accordance to the International Maritime Organisation's ballast water management convention. The OBS system features a fully back-flushing filter with 40 micron screens. It is fully automatic and self-cleaning and capable of removing large sediment particles, zooplantkton and phytoplankton under heavy sediment load conditions.
"There is going to be a bottleneck when some 50,000 ships scramble to meet global BWT regulations in a few years' time. Now with the US Coast Guard pushing ballast water ratification, global shipowners must ramp up their BWT decision-making choices. We are one of them," said Lars Traaseth, managing director of SSH.
If all shipowners plan a BWT retrofit during a vessel's five-year survey, about 11,000 retrofits must be completed between 2013 and 2016. Market observers estimate a peak in 2017 with 16,500 vessels needing to be retrofitted that year, an average of 45 systems per day.
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ON the recently held China Civil Aviation Development Forum, Director of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) Li Jiaxiang said there are concerns about losses of small and medium airports in China and questions whether China has built more of these airports than necessary. And he said that this is misunderstanding about the strategic status and function of the aviation industry in China, Xinhua reports.
Mr Li pointed out that it is a common puzzle across the world for small and medium airports to keep making profit, even in developed countries. As of end 2011, China has 180 airports with a total profit of CNY5.3 billion (US$835.4 million). Of these 135 recorded loss, which totalled to CNY2 billion and 119 of them were small and medium ones, taking up 87 per cent of the total.
Mr Li said that small and medium airports' services covers over 70 per cent of the countries in China, making trillions of renminbi's contribution to the local economy, and this is where these airports' function should be judged from, not simply from the losses they are making.
When asked about the CAAC's strategic orientation of each airport in China under the circumstances that airports in mega cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are short in capacity while smaller ones get not enough passenger or cargo feed, Li said there are many structural problems in China' aviation industry, where a mechanism of collaborations between international and regional hubs, major airports and feeder ones have not yet developed.
Mr Li said that government of smaller cities has been appealing for launch of more flights to airports in large cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou during recent years. But capacity shortage of these airports is making these demands hard to meet.
At the meantime, not enough passenger and cargo flow in smaller airports have resulted in less routes launched, making these airports far from able to cater the need of development of the local economy. While the disappointing operating results of these airport is also diminishing the local governments' desire to invest in them.
Mr Li said China is planning to build up a network where passenger and cargo are fed from hub airports to smaller ones to support the development of smaller airports.
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THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has expanded the scope of the programmes to assist local companies to enhance their competitiveness, productivity and increase access to new markets and business opportunities.
Under its Aviation Development Fund (ADF), with the enhancement of the Aviation Innovation Programme (AIP) and the addition of the Aviation Promotion Programme (AProP), CAAS will enable the sustained, long-term growth of the local aviation industry, said a statement from the authority.
The programmes were announced by Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew at the Aviation Community Reception (ACR), held at the Red Dot Design Museum.
Said CAAS director general Yap Ong Heng: "The global aviation landscape is increasingly marked by challenges, demands and pressures, requiring aviation companies to stay ahead in the highly competitive environment. The two initiatives launched today under the Aviation Development Fund will provide platforms for aviation companies in Singapore to grow their businesses and keep Singapore at the forefront of aviation."
AProP is the fourth initiative under the ADF1 with a budget of S$5 million (US$3.9 million) from April 2012 until April 2015.
"Open to Singapore-registered companies, organisations and industry trade associations, AProP aims to strengthen the Singapore aviation brand and help Singapore companies to expand their reach in international markets and their access to business opportunities. The AProp will assist Singapore companies to showcase their products and services at major international trade shows. Singapore companies will be encouraged to exhibit under a Singapore Pavilion, contributing to enhancing our position as a comprehensive aviation hub. AProP will also encourage the adoption of international best practices at the cluster level by supporting business missions, study trips and consultancy studies by Singapore companies, organisations and industry trade associations," said the CAAS statement.
The AIP has also been expanded to boost productivity of the Singapore aviation industry. Launched in 2010 with a budget of S$25 million over five years, the AIP seeks to encourage organisations to embark on innovative projects, initially to develop new or enhanced capabilities.
With its enhanced scope, the AIP will now also support companies embarking on projects geared towards achieving transformative productivity goals, ie, significant and sustainable productivity gains of at least 20 per cent.
"These can include process re-engineering, the adoption of new technologies and the development of new tools to increase operational efficiency. The programme continues to be open to all Singapore-registered companies and organisations and those with a presence in Singapore; including institutes of higher learning and research centres," said the statement.
In 2011, along with CAAS efforts to bolster the aviation industry's productivity, the authority launched the Process Innovation Challenge to encourage aviation companies to implement "quick win" projects to improve their productivity. The top eight projects received funding of up to S$50,000 each. These companies will now share their projects via various industry platforms, including a productivity in aviation seminar in July to facilitate intra-industry learning and accelerate the adoption of productivity improvement initiatives across the aviation sector in Singapore, said the statement.
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DUE to a lack of air freight space hindering the export of perishable goods in the Indian state of Gujarat, the government has decided to build a air cargo complex at the Ahmedabad airport to be undertaken by Gujarat Agro Industries Ltd (GAIL) at a cost of INR50 million (US$0.89 million).
Over the last few years, key products from the state could not be exported at high season because there was no air cargo facility, relying heavily on exporting from south Gujarat and on to Mumbai airport. Mumbai airport accounts for 40 per cent of its vegetables shipped abroad and 25 per cent of its fruit.
The UK and Dubai are its biggest importers of products which include capsicum, tomato, ladies finger, exotic flowers and fruit like mango.
The project has suffered a two-year delay due to land-related issues, said GAIL managing director NK Singh cited a report from New Delhi's Indian Express. "Finally, the Airport Authority of India, Ahmedabad, provided us land on lease. We are waiting for the final nod from the customs," he added.
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Automotive market of Kazakhstan has established a record of sales growth, consulting company Qncepto published the review of the Kazakh market of new cars produced on the territory of Kazakhstan and other CIS countries.
According to the information, sales dealers of Kazakhstan noticed the increase of 32% in April against the previous month. This is a sharp breakthrough of Kazakh market, which demonstrated the efficiency after the crisis.
So, the last month was the most "fruitful" in the history of domestic auto business. In the showrooms of the country were sold 7,868 new cars and light commercial vehicles. Buying activity is characterized not only by the highest growth rates, but also by their persistence against the backdrop of the last year. During February-April, the growth rate kept within 132-138%. Thus, the increase in April 2012 was 135.9%.
Kazakhstan sold 22,822 cars, or 137.3% in Q1 of this year to last year's volume. These rates are significantly higher than the rate of growth.
According to BNews.kz, sources of growth of the market remain the same: 70.6% were in the dynamics of vehicles produced in Russia and Kazakhstan, 29.4% growth was achieved by imports from Uzbekistan, Ukraine and other countries.
Central Asian News Service, en.ca-news.org
MEMBER carriers of Asia Australia Discussion Agreement (AADA) plan to adjust the bunker surcharges to US$675 per TEU and $1,350 per FEU for dry and refrigerated containers from June 16 due to recent decrease in the price of oil in Hong Kong and South Korea.
AADA is a voluntary discussion forum of ocean carriers serving the trade from north and east Asia to destinations in Australia, whose members include ANL, CSCL, Cosco, Hamburg Sud, Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), "K" Line, MSC, MOL, NYK and OOCL.
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