Hapag-Lloyd Restructures North Europe Service

Hapag-Lloyd has restructured its European Express Service between North Europe and Greece / Turkey facilitating a doubling of weekly departures.

Both services will be run in cooperation with MSC shipping line serving the ports of Izmir and Piraeus twice a week. Istanbul, Thessaloniki and Gemlik will be called once per week. In North Europe the ports of Felixstowe and Antwerp (both services), and Le Havre (EEX 1 only) and Sines in Portugal (EEX 2 only) will be served. From Antwerp and Le Havre, the ports of Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Liverpool will be served by a dedicated feeder service. All ships provide sufficient reefer plugs. The first departure from Bremerhaven is on February 11th, from Hamburg on February 12th.

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Euro Tariff Conversion in the Europe - Oceania trade

With effect from April 1, Maersk Line will change the tariff currency from USD to Euro on its Europe - Oceania services.

The change will apply to all shipments from Europe and North Africa for destinations in Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands). The change is due to the volatility of the USD at a time where an increasingly high proportion of the line's costs are settled in Euro. The change will not apply to cargo originating in the Middle East and South Asia for destinations in Oceania nor will it be implemented in the northbound trade from Oceania to the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. In these corridors we will maintain USD as our tariff currency.

Sonobuoy Contract Awarded

Undersea Sensor Systems Incorp., Columbia City, Ind., is being awarded a $9,750,276 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of AN/SSQ-62E sonobuoys in support of the United States Navy Air Antisubmarine Forces in the mission functions of detection, classification, and localization of adversary submarines during peacetime and combat operations.

This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $18,923,029. Work will be performed in Columbia City, Ind., and is expected to be completed by Feb. 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through Government-wide Points of Entry, Navy Electronic Commerce On-line, and Federal Business Opportunities websites with two contractors solicited and two offers received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-08-C-GP02).

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