Tokyo: CKYH Alliance members, Coscon, “K”LINE, Yang Ming and Hanjin Shipping, have announced further “rationalizations” to their Asia/Europe services from early December 2008 to end of March 2009.
The cutbacks will reduce weekly CKYH capacity to North Europe by around 16,000teu or 30% of the existing capacity during this period. On the heels of its recent suspension of its CNX service, the alliance is to combine its AES and AEN services from end of November by offering a combined service called CNEU. The new service will deploy eight vessels of 8204-9469teu with direct port calls at Dalian, Xingang, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian, Nansha, Singapore, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Hamburg, Antwerp, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Additionally, a number of sailings in both the AES2 and AES3 services will be suspended from mid December 2008, in order to cope with the slack season. However the CKYH Alliance will modify the service network of its AES1, AES2 and AES3 services, to meet the needs of its customers by maintaining the existing port coverage and service.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Gateway Terminals handles 1 m TEUs
Gateway Terminals India (GTI) completed handling one million TEUs during the period from April till date.
Mr. Arvind Bhatnagar, CEO of GTI, said the target for 2008 (calendar year) set at 1.45 million TEUs, would be achieved. In 2007, the throughput was 1.17 million TEUs. Slowdown impact. Till October, as Mr. Bhatnagar said, the impact of the economic slowdown was not felt. “The impact is being felt only now, in November,” he said, pointing out that the drop in throughput so far in the current month had been around seven per cent. He was not sure of achieving the target for next year (2009) set at 1.8 million TEUs. “The impact might be more next year but we’re not sure; it is too early,” he observed. Meanwhile, GTI posted national record in operational productivity by doing 2,706 moves, comprising 1,461 discharges and 1,245 loading of the vessel MV Maersk Damietta. Mr. Bhatnagar informed that two high capacity quay cranes (RMQCs) from China would start arriving from December and start operation from the first quarter of next fiscal. Meanwhile, yard cranes, popularly known as RTGs (manufactured by Finnish company Kalmar in China), have started arriving.
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Mr. Arvind Bhatnagar, CEO of GTI, said the target for 2008 (calendar year) set at 1.45 million TEUs, would be achieved. In 2007, the throughput was 1.17 million TEUs. Slowdown impact. Till October, as Mr. Bhatnagar said, the impact of the economic slowdown was not felt. “The impact is being felt only now, in November,” he said, pointing out that the drop in throughput so far in the current month had been around seven per cent. He was not sure of achieving the target for next year (2009) set at 1.8 million TEUs. “The impact might be more next year but we’re not sure; it is too early,” he observed. Meanwhile, GTI posted national record in operational productivity by doing 2,706 moves, comprising 1,461 discharges and 1,245 loading of the vessel MV Maersk Damietta. Mr. Bhatnagar informed that two high capacity quay cranes (RMQCs) from China would start arriving from December and start operation from the first quarter of next fiscal. Meanwhile, yard cranes, popularly known as RTGs (manufactured by Finnish company Kalmar in China), have started arriving.
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MOL to develop box depot in Thailand despite low growth
Japanese shipping group MOL plans to invest in its first container depot to be built in Laem Chabang, Chon Buri, Thailand.
The Thai depot is slated for completion in April 2009. It will cover an area measuring 75,800 square metres and will be located about ten kilometers from the deep sea Port of Laem Chabang. This development comes despite the president of MOL (Thailand) Takao Furukawa saying that the business outlook next year was still unclear, although the company expected some growth, on expectations that Thailand's export and import trade would remain steady. "Many Japanese automakers are expanding in Thailand's manufacturing centres. That could bring growth of import-export activities," Mr. Furukawa stated. As a result MOL has revised downwards its growth forecast for the Thai unit to three percent this year, from ten percent earlier, owing to the slowdown in the global economy weakening demand for Thailand's exports. Mr. Furukawa said Thai volumes grew by 16 percent in 2007 and ten percent in 2006. The carrier controls about six percent of the import-export volume between Thailand and Japan that amounts to 4.9 million TEU annually. MOL Thailand anticipates it will handle 320,000TEU in Thailand this year, up from 300,000TEU last year.
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The Thai depot is slated for completion in April 2009. It will cover an area measuring 75,800 square metres and will be located about ten kilometers from the deep sea Port of Laem Chabang. This development comes despite the president of MOL (Thailand) Takao Furukawa saying that the business outlook next year was still unclear, although the company expected some growth, on expectations that Thailand's export and import trade would remain steady. "Many Japanese automakers are expanding in Thailand's manufacturing centres. That could bring growth of import-export activities," Mr. Furukawa stated. As a result MOL has revised downwards its growth forecast for the Thai unit to three percent this year, from ten percent earlier, owing to the slowdown in the global economy weakening demand for Thailand's exports. Mr. Furukawa said Thai volumes grew by 16 percent in 2007 and ten percent in 2006. The carrier controls about six percent of the import-export volume between Thailand and Japan that amounts to 4.9 million TEU annually. MOL Thailand anticipates it will handle 320,000TEU in Thailand this year, up from 300,000TEU last year.
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NOAA to modernize fleet
USA: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association will modernize its marine operations by replacing nine research ships and refurbishing a tenth in the next 15 years.
“Sea-going vessels are a key source of observational data used by NOAA scientists. A modern, more capable fleet will ensure we can meet the ever changing demands of the science community,” said retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. “When I arrived at NOAA in 2001, the average age of our fleet was 32 years. Today, it is 27, and at the end of this ambitious program the age will drop to 17.” NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations conducted an assessment of the 19 ships in the fleet, and determined that ten of those vessels will reach the end of their useful service life over the next 15 years. The fleet replacement plan is a comprehensive program to systematically replace or upgrade the fleet. The fleet supports a wide range of marine activities, including fisheries and coastal research, nautical charting, and long-range ocean and climate studies. NOAA's ships are specially equipped and designed to support the agency's programs, and have some capabilities not found in the commercial fleet. Nine vessels have entered into service since 2001, including ‘Okeanos Explorer’, the first NOAA vessel solely dedicated to ocean exploration.
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“Sea-going vessels are a key source of observational data used by NOAA scientists. A modern, more capable fleet will ensure we can meet the ever changing demands of the science community,” said retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. “When I arrived at NOAA in 2001, the average age of our fleet was 32 years. Today, it is 27, and at the end of this ambitious program the age will drop to 17.” NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations conducted an assessment of the 19 ships in the fleet, and determined that ten of those vessels will reach the end of their useful service life over the next 15 years. The fleet replacement plan is a comprehensive program to systematically replace or upgrade the fleet. The fleet supports a wide range of marine activities, including fisheries and coastal research, nautical charting, and long-range ocean and climate studies. NOAA's ships are specially equipped and designed to support the agency's programs, and have some capabilities not found in the commercial fleet. Nine vessels have entered into service since 2001, including ‘Okeanos Explorer’, the first NOAA vessel solely dedicated to ocean exploration.
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