On 26 March 2012, the BBC KARAN was the first vessel in the new Europe-Asia service of the multi-purpose and heavy-lift cargo shipping company BBC Chartering to berth at C. Steinweg (Süd West Terminal) in the Port of Hamburg.
In Hamburg, the new “BBC Euro-Asia Express Line” service will be offering bi-weekly eastward sailings to Asia. Alongside Hamburg, export cargo for Asia will be loaded at the following European ports: Rauma, Kristiansand, Antwerp, Bilbao and Porto Maghera. The following ports of discharge are on the schedule in Asia: Port Kelang, Singapore, Batam, Ho Chi Minh City, Haiphong and Hong Kong in South East Asia as well as Shanghai, Masan, Busan, Kobe and Yokohama in the Far East.
The freight vessels deployed will be shipping cargo westward every three weeks from Asia to Europe. On this transport route, cargo will be loaded in Masan, Yokohama, Shanghai and Singapore and discharged in Mariupol, Genoa, Bilbao, Antwerp and Hamburg. The first vessel of the “BBC Euro-Asia Express Line” from Asia – the BBC BALTIC – is expected to arrive in Hamburg on 20 May.
Within the “BBC Euro-Asia Express Line”, mainly multi-purpose ships are deployed with dead weight tonnate of 7,200 each. Moreover, the units deployed also have ice class ratings, enabling them to sail all year. The BBC KARAN is 127 metres long, 20 metres wide and equipped with two on-board cranes that can lift 150 tons each or 300 tons in combination. Where necessary, BBC deploys heavy-lift tonnage with a combined lifting capacity of 800 tons.
The new heavy-lift cargo service underscores Hamburg's significance as a universal port. A total of approx. 1.4 million tons of conventional general cargo were exported via Hamburg in 2011. The lion’s share is accounted for by exports of heavy and pro-ject cargo with roughly 684,000 tons.
Source PORT OF HAMBURG
2012-03-30
PALFINGER is gradually strengthening its position in the access platform market under the umbrella brand of PALFINGER PLATFORMS. Customers benefit from a complete range of products with a working height between 11 and 103 meters “from a one-stop shop” and machines with a superior current market value.
Under Stephan Kulawik and Dr. Rupprecht Zapf, the two new managing directors who took over the reins in February, Palfinger Platforms will continue to implement its strategy based on innovation, first-class quality and global growth.
Stephan Kulawik, who worked at WUMAG Elevant from 1989 and has been with the PALFINGER Group since 2008, brings with him many years of experience as a sales and service manager. His areas of responsibility: sales, service, quality management, finances, HR and IT.
Dr. Ing. Rupprecht Zapf, who has worked in the PALFINGER Group since 1999 and has been Unit Manager at PALFINGER PLATFORMS since 2011, is well aware of the demands made at international level. He is an expert in production, materials management and development.
“We have finally left the mergers and reorganization phase behind us. We are now ready to continue on our consistent course of expansion together with our worldwide agents and partners. Priority will go to in-depth dialog with our customers.” (Stephan Kulawik, Managing Director)
Source PALFINGER AG
EXMAR is pleased to announce the order at Hyundai Mipo of up to 8 LPG-vessels of 38,000 m³ capacity. The vessels will be delivered from the First Quarter of 2014 onwards.
These vessels will be dedicated to strengthen EXMAR’s already substantial commercial portfolio in the Midsize segment and designed to stay ahead of the upcoming amendments in environmental legislation.
- Hull lines optimization to reduce resistance in water with corresponding savings in CO2 emissions and consumption.
- Ballast water treatment system to minimize transfer of harmful aquatic organisms.
- Funnel design facilitating the installation of a scrubber that reduces sulphur air emissions.
- Engine room and deck design ready for LNG or LPG as fuel with inherent reductions in CO2, SOx and NOx air emissions.
By so doing EXMAR wishes to adhere to its tradition of providing operational and technical excellence at the service of its customers with a competitive quality fleet based on innovative designs.
Source IMPRESS COMMUNICATIONS LTD
HONG KONG listed China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) posted a year-on-year net loss of CNY2.74 billion (US$434.59 million) in 2011 with revenue falling 18.9 per cent to CYN28.24 billion, the company announced.
Laden containers in 2011 came to 7,438,002 TEU, company said in a filing to the Hong Stock exchange. This was a 3.2 per cent volume increase year on year, but lower demand from Europe and America depressed freight rates and earnings.
Too much tonnage afloat also depressed rates, said the CSCL statement. The worst rates appeared on Europe/Mediterranean trade lanes, while rates for Chinese domestic trade lanes held up from the year before, increasing CNY78 to CNY1,652, "mainly attributable to the sound development in the domestic economy", said the company statement.
The group's average freight rate in 2011 came in at CNY3,589 per TEU, a decrease of 23 per cent year on year. The average freight rate per TEU in international trade fell 24.7 per cent to CNY5,352, the company said.
Transpacific volume was down 12.9 per cent year on year to 1,238,811 TEU while volumes fell 0.5 per cent on Europe/Mediterranean trade lanes to 1,177,546 TEU. But Asia Pacific trade lanes posted a 5.3 per cent increase to 1,398,536 TEU while China's domestic trade came in with a robust 11.2 per cent jump to 3,544,064 TEU. Other trades fell 8.8 per cent to 79,045 TEU.
"In 2012, the shipping market will continue to be affected by the global economy and international trade as numerous uncertainties continue," said CSCL chairman Li Shaode.
"The Euro zone countries will pick up slowly as risks from the sovereign debt crisis remain while the US economy is expected to recover steadily and therefore stimulate trading demand. Moreover, stronger market demand will come from the Southern Hemisphere, which will serve as the driver for higher trading volume," he said.
"We will continue to see pressure arising from oversupply over a longer period. Shipping companies will continue to cooperate with each other. The shipping market will continue to move forward amid challenges and opportunities," said Mr Li.
The group will intensify marketing efforts by adhering to its "Large Clients, Large Corporation" strategy, said the CLSC statement accompanying the results.
"The group will thoroughly open up the container market in the Yangtze River valley as a shift of its service focus. The group will step up sales network construction in the Yangtze area, and gradually establish and improve upward and downward services in the Yangtze market to increase competitiveness," said the CLSC statement.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
HUMEN port's west Shatian port area in Dongguan just south of Guangzhou, has experienced a sharp increase in container throughput, having handled 76,700 TEU in only two months and 12 days in this year - surpassing last year's total volume.
According to Dongguan government's website, Humen port Datan phase 1 terminal posted a throughput of 38,880 TEU in January, surging 1,587 per cent year on year, and 41,300 TEU in February, surging 3,342 per cent year on year.
As of March 20, the terminal's throughput this year has reached 87,700 TEU. Its monthly throughput in March will top 50,000 TEU.
The skyrocketing increase is brought by the increasing shipping services launched at the port, says Xinhua.
China Shipping has added one more 2,200-TEU ship to its domestic trade lane calling at Humen, bringing the total of its capacity to Humen to over 10,000 TEU.
Cosco added four ships with a total capacity of 5,932 TEU to the existing 6,622 TEU, raising the total to more than 12,000 TEU.
Other smaller carriers have also launched new lines and increased their frequency to the port.
This year, Humen's throughput is expected to hit 800,000 TEU.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
HONG KONG's Kerry Logistics, a unit of Kerry Properties, has posted an 11 per cent year-on-year 2011 net profit increase to HK$740 million (US$95 million) drawn on 47 per cent more revenue of HK$16.03 billion.
The result excludes the HK$130 million fair value adjustment on investment properties, a company statement said.
During the year, Kerry Logistics' integrated logistics (IL) services growth in Hong Kong and southeast Asia drove segment revenue up 43 per cent to HK$6.89 billion.
"The IL segment has increasingly focused on the potential to serve new demand emerging from China's shift from an export-led economy to a domestic consumption-led growth model, as well as from the flow of manufacturing activities into ASEAN countries. The segment's performance was also helped by the further expansion of Taiwan operations," the company said.
International freight forwarding revenue increased 51 per cent to HK$9.14 billion with net profit from operations surging 200 per cent to HK$90 million.
The strong performance was attributed to the IFF segment leveraging rising economies of scale and a growing capability in intra-Asia and Asia-Europe trade lanes, while it said it gained solid ground in serving the growing import requirements in the markets where the company operates.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
EU naval forces will soon widen their operational scope to pursue Somali pirates ashore until 2015, according to the EU NAVFOR commander, the Royal Navy's Rear Admiral Duncan Potts.
"Piracy has caused so much misery to the Somali people and to the crews of ships transiting the area and it is right that we continue to move forward in our efforts," said Admiral Potts, reported London's Containerisation International.
The extension of the mandate underplayed by the EU naval taskforce has been accepted by the Somali Transitional Federal Government.
The latest number of vessels captured by pirates number eight with an estimated 213 hostages, with some held onshore despite ransoms paid.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
THE Guangxi provincial government will launch a road transport service from Bose to Kopin in Vietnam this year, which is to be the first international service of its kind in the autonomous region, reports Xinhua.
Currently, cargo and passengers moving between the two need to be transferred at the checkpoints. The new service will change this way to a direct transport style.
China's transport ministry has approved the cargo service running from Bose, across Jingxi and Longban checkpoint within the China border, to Tralinh checkpoint and Kopin in Vietnam.
The new service will become the 28th international service carrying passenger and cargo for Guangxi to build in the future. Guangxi has 10 services of this kind operating at present.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
MILEAGE of the "green roads" in northwestern China's Shaanxi province, which exempts trucks carrying perishable agricultural products from tolls, has totalled to 7,038 kilometres, Xinhua reports.
The roads were free of CNY1 billion (US$158.5 million) in road tolls in 2011, and CNY2.12 billion since the toll exemption scheme started.
This year, the Shaanxi provincial government will also not collect on 62 second-grade highways to reduce logistics costs and steady prices of agricultural produce.
Meanwhile, the province will subsidise supply chain of agricultural produce to prevent disruptive price increases.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
CARRIERS diverted ships away as farmers and political protestors blocked roads to Mumbai's Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) port in a battle over late land compensation settlements, successfully closing India's biggest container gateway.
The protest is scheduled to continue through Friday if authorities fail to reach a settlement.
"Protestors have set up blockades on access roads to the port to prevent trucks loading or unloading containers at cargo terminals," local shipping sources said.
The west coast port has three terminals: port-run Jawaharlal Nehru Container Terminal; Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal operated by DP World; and Gateway Terminals operated by APM Terminals, with a combined capacity of more than four million TEU.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
THE Port of Seattle is to lose the Grand Alliance consortium of three shipping lines to rival port Tacoma taking away 20 per cent of its container traffic.
The consortium of three shipping lines, Germany's Hapag-Lloyd, Japan's NYK Line and Hong Kong's OOCL of Hong Kong will relocate to Washington United Terminal in Tacoma taking with it an annual throughput estimated at 400,000 TEU. This will boost Tacoma into a top ranking container terminals in the Pacific North West.
It is likely to lead to job losses for Seattle unless the two rival ports agree to cooperate, said the Port of Seattle in a statement.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
CONTAINERISED exports from the United States grew by 2.3 per cent in the month of January at 1.4 million TEU buoyed by solid growth in Asian markets to offset losses to Europe, a 3.1 per cent increase on same month in 2011.
Shipments of soybeans were up 37 per cent or 5,034 TEU; meat, 28 per cent or 3,870 TEU; mixed scrap metal, 16 per cent or 3,679 TEU, and paper and paperboard up four per cent or 6,026 TEU. Export groups of fabrics including raw cotton, dropped 30 per cent (14,522 TEU) and synthetic resins a steeper decline of 48 per cent or 10,867 TEU.
Regionally, exports to northeast Asia led the growth at six per cent increase (24,798 TEU) followed by Caribbean growth of 22 per cent (7,479 TEU) while southeast Asia was up at seven per cent (6,125 TEU).
The petrochemical sector increased demand for oil field equipment in Taiwan at 15,219 TEU, a 30 per cent increase year over year of 65,148 TEU; China at 9,266 TEU, a four per cent increase; India up 25 per cent (6,057 TEU) and Vietnam up 21 per cent (3,385 TEU).
A decline of exports to the Mediterranean was attributed to a fall in demand for fabrics including cotton, paper and paperboard, as well as logs and lumber reflected in a decline of 15 per cent to a total of 47,293 TEU. Shipments to northern Europe slipped four per cent to 109,183 TEU due to dampening of demand.
Exports to Brazil declined 12 per cent and exports to Turkey dropped 13 per cent.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
A UNITED STATES-AFRICA trade bill is intended to boost exports from small and medium-sized enterprises 200 per cent within the next decade, said New Jersey Republican Congressman Chris Smith.
The new legislation would stimulate US job creation by 6,000-7,000 jobs every US$1 billion exported to a continent whose exports account for 20.2 per cent of US imports, he said.
"For the past decade, the US has pursued the expansion of African exports to the US under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, but that legislation was designed to be more mutually beneficial to business people on both sides of the Atlantic than it has been," said Mr Smith, according to London's Containerisation International.
Mr Smith said he believes this bill would increase the volume of goods sold to Africa by supporting small and medium-sized business amounting to 60 per cent of the nation's export volume.
The US Export-Import Bank will provide trade financing up to 25 per cent of value for US-Africa projects, he added.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
THE European Commission has fined 14 air forwarders US$225 million for price fixing with the largest fine - $71.5 million - going to Swiss logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel ($71.5 million) with fellow Swiss operator Panalpina having to pay $61.9 million penalty. Both are contemplating appeals.
UPS was also hit with a $13 million fine, but DHL Global Forwarding and Exel were exempt because they turned on the others and informed the EU's antitrust regulators.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the probe, started with EC office raids in October 2007, concerned price-fixing in four separate cartel infringements, including services from the UK to outside the European Economic Area to the United States, China and from southern mainland China and Hong Kong to European destinations.
"Companies should be aware that crossing the line and colluding on prices comes at a high price, as today's decision illustrates," said EU antitrust commissioner Joaquin Almunia. "These cartels affected individuals and companies shipping goods on important trade lanes."
In November 2011, Kuehne + Nagel made a plea bargain with US Justice Department prosecutors and agreed to pay a $9.8 million fine, reported American Shipper.
"We will carefully consider the decision of the EU Commission and its rationale," said KN chairman Karl Gernandt. "We are of the opinion that the commission has not correctly investigated the facts and the participation of Kuehne + Nagel and has drawn significantly incorrect factual and legal conclusions.
"In addition, Kuehne + Nagel's comprehensive cooperation throughout the investigation was not adequately acknowledged. That is why we take into consideration to appeal against the decision before the European courts," he said.
Panalpina felt the same and is considering an appeal too. "Panalpina will analyse the commission's decision given its right to appeal the decision to the European General Court," the company said. "The group has so far made no provision for the penalty of EUR46.5 million euros (US$61.9 million) as it was not in a position to predict the outcome of this proceeding and to assess its financial exposure. It is Panalpina's position, which is supported by independent economic evidence, that the infringements likely did not affect prices paid by Panalpina's customers."
Panalpina settled with the US prosecutors for $12 million.
"Panalpina also completed settlement negotiations with the New Zealand Commerce Commission and the agreed penalty was approved by the competent court," the company said. "Identical antitrust proceedings in Canada and Australia were dropped. Two antitrust proceedings are still ongoing in Switzerland and Brazil."
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
HONG KONG's Cathay Pacific Airways announced this week's launch of a new twice-weekly freighter service to through Hong Kong, Shanghai to Zhengzhou, the capital and commercial centre of Henan province in Central China.
The latest destination in the Cathay Pacific freighter network will boost the airline's presence as a cargo carrier on the mainland following the launch of services to Chengdu and Chongqing in western China in the second half of 2011.
"We see great business potential in Zhengzhou which is one of the fastest-growing centres for electronics manufacturing in the mainland and is well-connected to a wide catchment area in Henan. Cathay Pacific's new freighter service will offer shippers seamless connections to our extensive global network through the Hong Kong hub, helping to connect Zhengzhou to the world." said Cathay Pacific cargo chief Nick Rhodes.
The Zhengzhou service will be operated by a Boeing 747 freighter and will follow a Hong Kong-Shanghai-Zhengzhou-Hong Kong routing.
"We are confident about the long-term success of Cathay Pacific's cargo business and about Hong Kong's future as an international air cargo hub. That's why, in addition to launching new destinations, we are investing heavily in new freighters and also building our own HK$5.7 billion cargo terminal at Hong Kong International Airport which is on schedule to begin operations in early 2013." he said.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
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