United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has signed contracts to build some of the world's largest and greenest container ships – all of which will be classed by DNV. Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea (HHI) is to build the five 18,000 TEU ...
Tags: Shipping, logistics, Container Ships
The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
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The biggest dilemma faced by the shipping industry faced since its inception and still prevailing even after so many years is the unexpected and uncontrolled leakage inside the cargo hatches. The water that manages to enter inside the holds ...
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The US Navy and 40 allies gathered in Bahrain Monday to begin two weeks of naval anti-mine exercises designed to keep the Persian Gulf open to oil shipping. Although the exercises, billed as the largest ever in the region, have been ...
Tags: US Navy, Allies, Persian Gulf
CakeBoxx Technologies, developer of the CakeBoxx doorless intermodal shipping containers, has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with The Valspar Corporation as its coatings supplier for a new line of containers. Valspar will ...
Dr Anil Sharma president and chief executive officer of GMS has been selected by Lloyd's List amongst the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Shipping Industry for the year 2012. For the third year in a row, Dr Sharma has been featured ...
Tags: Scrap Metal, Copper Scrap Price, Ship Freight, Ship Cargo
Philippine Transmarine Carriers Inc vice chairman and chief executive Mr Gerardo Borromeo was elected as the new president of InterManager,an international ship management trade association of 91 shipping companies running about 5,000 ...
PTI reported that Essar Shipping is planning to convert around INR 800 crore of total INR 5,500 crore debt into dollar loans to bring down the interest burden. Mr AR Ramakrishnan MD of Essar Shipping said that "We are planning to convert ...
Tags: interest burden, financing cost, domestic and foreign banks
Gulf LPG Transport Company, a Qatari liquefied petroleum gas shipping company owned jointly by Milaha and Nakilat has secured financing amounting to USD 200 million from Qatar National Bank in a deal brokered by Nakilat, Qatar's premier gas ...
A little heralded change to China's crude import rules may have a much greater impact on Asia's fuel oil market next year further depressing margins for the residue. Industry sources said that China National Chemical Corporation may be ...
Tags: teapot, PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, fuel
Gulf News reported that the recently issued World Oil Outlook report by OPEC comes at a time when the oil refining industry is passing through many changes around the world. While the refinery distillation capacity is stagnant in the US, ...
Tags: OPEC, oil refining industry, refinery
China has become a big producer of welding and cutting equipment. In 2010, the market size of welding and cutting equipments in China reached RMB22.3 billion, with RMB7 billion attributable to inverter welding and cutting equipment, the ...
International ocean freight bill of lading in the International shipping ocean freight industry also referred as a B/L or BOL. This shipping document used for shipping freight overseas by sea issued by an International ocean freight carrier ...
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TTS Group ASA (TTS) rose the most in more than nine years in Oslo trading after the developer of equipment for the marine and energy industries sold a drilling machinery unit to Cameron International Corp. (CAM) for $270 million. TTS ...
Tags: market view, drilling machinery
Research and Markets has published a new report titled, "China Anti-Corrosion Coating Industry Report, 2010-2011. " Recent years have seen fast-growing developments in China's anti-corrosion coating industry, with the producers numbering ...
Tags: coating