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  • 25 Oct 2014 11:09 AM | Anonymous

    Dear Project Cargo Specialists,
     
    New agents are going on to join our group. Today it is our pleasure to inform you that TCC LOGISTICS LIMITED has joined among us from THAILAND.

    Hereby let us share with you that C.E.O., Mr. Tom Chalermkarnchana will be attending our coming Annual Meeting in Turkey at 20,21,22 November 2014. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners.

    Please click here for full information on the event.

    By their registration to the November meeting, now TCC LOGISTICS LIMITED has the privilege of becoming OPCA member till October 2015.
    It would be our pleasure to serve our new agent for a long term cooperation in our group.  


    TCC LOGISTICS LIMITED - THAILAND

    ADDRESS: 24th Fl, Q. House Lumpini, 1 South Sathorn Road, Tungmahamek, Sathorn, 10120, Bangkok ,THAILAND

    CONTACTS: Wilai Tapa / Secretary of C.E.O.
                      Saowanid Jitjairak / General Manager
                      Tom Chalermkarnchana / C.E.O.

    TEL:+66 2287-9399
    FAX:+66 2287-9300
    WEB:www.tccs.co.th

  • 25 Oct 2014 10:38 AM | Anonymous
    Original news was published on 22 October, 2014

    The carrier’s most frequented hub for project cargo operations in the world

    BBC Chartering announces that Manchester Terminal in the Port of Houston is the carrier’s new dedicated hub in North America. Managed through Gulfstream Marine, BBC vessels and their customers can now enjoy priority berthing and 24/7 serviceability in the Port of Houston.

    BBC recorded a constant growth of its US based business which also drove the number of vessel visits. In the past 12 months the carrier counted more than 250 port calls in Houston making it the carrier’s most frequented hub for project cargo operations in the world.

    Manchester Terminal features two large docks that can accommodate up to six MPP / HL vessels at the same time and connects to all modes of transportation. The terminal also offers warehousing and specialized handling for pipes, any other break bulk cargo and containers, and it can even facilitate space for light manufacturing and assembly operations if needed. The terminal covers an area of about 72.4 acres and also serves as a designated Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). Manchester Terminal is a private marine terminal that is a United States Coast Guard approved facility.

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • 24 Oct 2014 8:37 AM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 22 October, 2014

    Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) together opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. Ian Thomas, President, Boeing China said, “Strong and continuing teamwork between Boeing and COMAC is helping our industry make progress on environmental challenges that no single company or country can solve alone, by working together for mutual benefit, we are finding innovative ways to support China’s aviation industry and build a sustainable future.”

    The two companies are sponsoring the facility, which is called the China-U.S. Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project. It will use a technology developed by Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. (HEET) to clean contaminants from waste oils and convert it into jet fuel at a rate of 160 gallons (650 liters) per day. The project’s goal is to assess the technical feasibility and cost of producing higher volumes of biofuel.

    “We are very happy to see the progress that has been made in the collaboration between Boeing and COMAC, especially the achievement in aviation biofuel technology,” said Dr. Guangqiu Wang, Vice President of COMAC’s Beijing Aeronautical Science & Technology Research Institute. “We will continue to work with Boeing in energy conservation and emissions reduction areas to promote the sustainable development of the aviation industry.” he adds.

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • 23 Oct 2014 5:17 PM | Anonymous

    Dear Project Cargo Specialists,
     
    Very professional agents are going on to join Overseas Project Cargo Association all around the world.Today we are very happy to announce you that WORLD TRANSHIPMENT SERVICES LIMITED has joined among us from UNITED KINGDOM.

    We are also pleased to announce that Business Development Manager, Mr. Mark Bright will be attending our coming Annual Summit in Turkey at 20,21,22 November 2014. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners.

    Please click here for full information on the event.          

    By their registration to the November meeting, now WORLD TRANSHIPMENT SERVICES LIMITED has the privilege of becoming OPCA member till October 2015. It would be our pleasure to serve our new agent for a long term cooperation in our group.  

    WORLD TRANSHIPMENT SERVICES LIMITED

    ADDRESS:Units 4a & 4b, Gatwick Metro Centre,Balcombe Road, Horley, Surrey RH6 9GA UNITED KINGDOM
    CONTACT:Mr. Mark Bright
    TEL:+44 1293771505
    FAX:+44 1293771524
    WEB: www.wts-lgw.co.uk

  • 23 Oct 2014 9:43 AM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 22 October, 2014

    A SECOND German-made Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane is in operation at New Zealand's most southerly box port, joining another that's been in service since 2010, reports the Otago Daily Times, serving the Dunedin area on New Zealand's South Island. South Port NZ Ltd (South Port), located at Bluff, will be used for container handling for Mediterranean Shipping Co, the harbour's biggest customer.

    "Six or seven years ago we were handling 8,000-10,000 TEU annually. Last financial year that was up to 32,000 TEU and we are expecting that to increase again in the next 12 months," said South Port cargo chief Geoff Finnerty.

    South Port offers a comprehensive service portfolio. A projected containerised cargo increase over the next five years in the southern region called for additional state-of-the-art cargo handling equipment.
    Growth in agricultural products, most dairy and food, made a second crane was a must, said the company. Said Mr Finnerty: "We have worked with Liebherr since 1995, so a good partnership has evolved.? The crane comes with a twin-lift spreader and tower extension, giving a cabin height of around 29 metres.

    "Most of the MSC vessels enter the port light meaning they are high in the water, so the additional height of the cabin and boom pivot were essential components of the order," Mr Finnerty said.
    There was the 115-tonne undercarriage with its 72 truck wheels and its four stabilisers; the slew housing which contains the winch, engine and other machinery; the 75-tonne tower and the boom. The investment was necessary to cope with increasing cargo volumes and to potentially double container handling capacity over the next five years, Mr Finnerty said.

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • 22 Oct 2014 9:04 AM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 20 October, 2014

    LONDON classification society Lloyd's Register says 24,000 TEUer will soon be plying the world's oceans,reports Copenhagen-based ShippingWatch.

    "Twelve years ago researchers were looking at Malaccamaxes, 18,000 TEU vessels named after the Malacca Strait," said Lloyd's Register container segment manager David Tozer.
    "People thought that this was absolutely crazy. But things have developed since to the extent that we'll soon see ships of 24,000 TEU. The volumes are there, so it's going to happen," said Mr Tozer. Today, the biggest are China Shipping's (CSCL) new 19,100 TEUers, which will take the crown from Maersk's 18,000 TEU Triple-E series.

    "Our customers need to understand what the future is going to look like, and they need to take control and become part of it," he said, reported Vancouver's Ship&Bunker.
    Mr Tozer said that with companies such as Maersk Line, CSCL, Evergreen and CMA CGM having already invested in 17,000 to 19,000-TEU ships, 24,000 TEU was only a matter of time as the commercial pressure to put more cargo on ships rises.

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • 21 Oct 2014 10:36 AM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 20 October, 2014

    Steel and project cargo volume increases signal improving regional economy

    At last, cargo volumes at the Great Lakes ports have rebounded to levels not seen since 2006.

    Increases in tonnage were reported by all ports and that is expected to continue through December, according to the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
    The amount of international freight coming through the Port of Cleveland is up close to 20 percent over last year. Even smaller ports undefined like those in Oswego, New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania, are up this year, Laura Blades, spokeswoman for the Great Lakes Port Association, said in a statement. Rising steel imports signal increased manufacturing in the U.S. And the export of heavy machinery indicates construction is on the rise in other parts of the world.  The Port of Cleveland has been handling an unusually large amount of project cargo, much of which has been shipped to Europe, Russia and Saudi Arabia, David Gutheil, vice president of maritime and logistics at the port, told The Plain Dealer.

    “The cargo moving through the U.S. ports serves as a positive indicator that the regional economy is healthy due in part to the maritime industry,” the SLSDC  said in a statement. “The numbers speak for themselves.”

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • 20 Oct 2014 12:23 PM | Anonymous

    Original news was publsihed on 19 October, 2014

    At the half way stage of the current fiscal year that began in April, the 12 ports owned by the Indian government loaded 288.48 million tonnes (mt) of various cargo, 4.2% more than the 276.85 mt handled during the same period last year. For the whole of last year (2013-14), the cumulative volume growth at the dozen portsundefinedwhich has a market share of 57%undefinedwas a paltry 1.78% at 555.49 mt. These ports are located at Kolkata, Vizag, Paradip, Chennai, Tuticorin, Ennore, Cochin, New Mangalore, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Mormugao and Kandla. Private ports (essentially those owned by the state governments but given to private firms for development and operation) account for the balance 43% share of India’s sea-borne cargo with a volume of 420.24 mt. A look at the data compiled by the Indian Ports Association (IPA), a body representing the 12 ports, gives an indication that India’s in-bound and out-bound cargo shipped through these ports is improving, compared with the sluggishness seen in the last three-four years, chiefly a fallout of the global meltdown of 2008.

    Driving this volume growth is India’s voracious appetite for thermal coal that is used to fire power stations. Between April and September, thermal coal loadings at the 12 ports jumped 8.54% to 39.59 mt from 36.48 mt a year earlier. Last year, the 12 ports loaded a combined 71.60 mt of thermal coal, 22% more than the 58.65 mt handled in the previous year. Coal imports have been increasing sharply year-on-year because of a severe shortage of coal in India despite significant coal reserves.

    The Narendra Modi-led government, which assumed power in May, is looking to raise power production to light up every home in India, where an estimated 400 million of the 1.2 billion people live without electricity. Thermal coal imports is poised to soar further after India’s Supreme Court last month ordered wholesale cancellation of 214 coal blocks awarded to private firms. The ports located at Paradip. Vizag, Ennore, Tuticorin, New Mangalore and Mormugao are ramping up their coal loading capacities to cater to the rising demand for imports. Container volumes handled by the 12 ports clocked a growth of 6.46% at 4 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs (the standard size of a container and a common measure of capacity in the container business), from 3.76 million TEUs a year ago. In the year to March 2014, the container volumes loaded at the 12 ports shrank 3.1% to 7.46 million TEUs from 7.70 million TEUs a year earlier. Volume growth in imported raw fertilizers is another redeeming feature of the recovery in cargo volumes at these ports. Raw fertilizer loadings jumped 25.72% to 4.39 mt from 3.49 mt a year earlier. Petroleum, oil and lubricants (POL) cargoundefinedthe largest category of cargo handled by the 12 portsundefinedremained flat at 94.24 mt in the April-September period from the 94.50 mt handled a year earlier.

    POL loadings touched 187.31 mt in the year to March 2014. Iron-ore shipments through these ports remained depressed as a court-imposed ban on production and exports in Karnataka and Goa sliced exports by about 90% over the past three years. During April-September, the 12 ports handled a combined 9.14 mt of the steel-making commodity, down from 11.84 mt a year earlier. Once a hot commodityundefinediron-ore loadings at the 12 ports touched a peak of 100.33 mt in 2009-10undefinedit has now become insignificant, unless India’s apex court alters the course on production and exports. Given the growth trajectory, Kandla port located in Gujarat could well become only the second Indian port and the first among the 12 to reach the 100 mt cargo handling mark by the end of the current fiscal. Mundra port run by the Adani Group crossed this mark last year.

    While the private ports such as the ones located in Mundra, Pipavav, Gangavaram and Krishnapatnam have benefited from the capacity constraints at the 12 ports and the delay in expanding capacities to wean away cargo, the former also have the added advantage of market-driven pricing and less interference from the bureaucracy. The 12 ports would be able to perform better if these attributes are granted to them.


    *NEWS SOURCE

  • 18 Oct 2014 12:34 PM | Anonymous

    Original news was published on 17 October, 2014

    IAG Cargo announced that it has increased the frequency of its cargo services between its Madrid hub and Santiago in Chile, facilitated by an increase in Iberia passenger flights on this route from one flight daily to ten weekly. Operating until March, the additional flights take off on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays and are serviced by Airbus A340s. Businesses using this route will benefit from a boost in freight capacity of up to 111.6 tonnes each week.

    The additional flights will operate during a season of peak supply and demand: the Chilean summer, when fruit and other perishables come into season and New Year celebrations and other festivities take place globally. IAG Cargo’s additional flights will benefit Chilean businesses by providing them with more shipping options for the duration of this busy period. Businesses exporting to the Chilean market will similarly benefit from the additional lift and flight frequency.

    Rodrigo Casal, Vice President Commercial LATAM at IAG Cargo, commented: “Chile is a hugely important country both as a market and as an exporter. We hope to help ensure that the peak season is as profitable as possible for Chilean businesses while also providing a welcome lift in services for customers shipping to the region. We are able to do this due to our product depth, service excellence and the breadth of our global network, which is one of the most important in the world when it comes to connecting to Latin America.”

    *NEWS SOURCE

  • 17 Oct 2014 12:02 PM | Anonymous
    Original news was published on 15 October, 2014

    The American Institute for International Steel will sign a joint cooperation agreement with the Panama Canal Authority by the end of the year, and likely before the end of November. “Our agreement is related to promoting steel-related trade that flows through the Panama Canal to the United States and to different markets,” Richard Chriss, AIIS executive director, told American Metal Market. That trade includes both U.S. steel imports and exports, he said. The Port of Houston Authority has a similar agreement in place with the Panama Canal Authority that includes joint marketing and data sharing.

    The benefits of the agreement will extend to all AIIS member ports, including Houston, the Georgia Ports Authority and the Port of Mobile in Alabama, and boost U.S. imports and exports of finished steel and scrap.
    The Panama Canal is currently being expanded by the construction of a third set of locks, which is scheduled to open in early 2016 and designed to accommodate larger vessels. Steel shipments have played a significant role in the construction of the third set of locks. In September, ArcelorMittal shipped more than 192,000 tons of rebar for the project. In total, more than 242,000 tonnes of steel from the steelmaker’s Las Truchas plant in Mexico has been provided for the expansion.

    *NEWS SOURCE

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