Hanjin Shipping signs 20-year CVCs with POSCO

Hanjin Shipping has signed twenty-year Consecutive Voyage Contracts (CVCs) with POSCO.

Two Very Large Ore Carriers (VLOCs) bound with the contracts will be delivered in 2011 and deployed in the transportation of 2.4 million tons of iron ore from Brazil to Korea on annual basis.

The total transport volume is estimated to be 48.46 million tons until 2031, generating revenue of approximately KRW 1.38 trillion - almost 15% of the company's total sales.

Hanjin and POSCO have worked together for many years, with several ongoing contracts. Currently, Hanjin deploys seventeen vessels (sixteen cape-size and one handymax) for POSCO.

MOL sets up Hong Kong agency

MOL Asia has established a new company - MOL (HK) Agency - to provide local agency functions for MOL's global liner and non-liner services serving Hong Kong.

The new company starts operations on September 1s.

One of the key operation offices in MOL's Central Asia Region, MOL (HK) Agency previously traded as MOL (Asia), which recently underwent a corporate reorganisation aimed at streamlining the company's control and functions, and maximising business efficiencies and performance through its local companies in Asia.

CMA CGM, Maersk and Hyundai suspend Hudson service

CMA CGM, Maersk and Hyundai will suspend their China - Korea - US East Coast service via Panama after the departure of the last eastbound vessel from Ningbo on September 27th.

This joint decision allows the three shipping lines to rationalise existing services and capacity to meet market demand.

The loop is operated by eight 5,100 TEU vessels calling at Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao, Pusan, Balboa, Savannah, New York and Miami.

Future coverage of these ports will be done through existing services already operated either independently by CMA CGM or in a partnership such as the Columbus service.

سعودى رئسيا لمصلحة الجمارك

أصدر الدكتور أحمد نظيف رئيس الوزراء قراراً بتعيين الأستاذ أحمد فرج سعودى رئيساً لمصلحة الجمارك, وهو المنصب الذى كان يشغله ندبا طوال الفترة الماضية .
و فى نفس السياق تم تجديد الثقة فى الأستاذ جلال أبو الفتوح مستشارا لوزير المالية .
وقد إستقبل السوق الملاحى القرار بترحيب شديد
نقلا عن جريدة انباء النقل البحرى

ما لم تنشره الصحف عن المؤتمر الصحفى لرئيس هيئة القناة

نقلا عن جريدة أنباء النقل البحرى:
أعلن الفريق أحمد على فاضل رفضه تخفيض رسوم عبور قناة السويس بعد المطالبات التى تقدمت بها الخطوط الملاحية العالمية.
وقال رئيس هيئة قناة السويس أنه استقبل رؤساء وممثلون لأكبر 11 خط ملاحى واستمع إلى وجهة نظرهم فى مبررات التخفيضات التى يطلبونها.
وقال .. وجدنا أن البعض لديهم مبررات قوية ويستحقون التخفيض ويمثلون 7% من حجم السفن العابرة – والبعض الآخر تعامل معنا بدون شفافية وقدموا بيانات مغلوطة ومعلومات قد تصنف تحت بند الغش والتدليس.
وأضاف رئيس هيئة قناة السويس .. إذا سمحنا بمنح تخفيضات لأصحاب الـ 7% المتضررين فيجب علينا – وفقاً لقوانين الهيئة واتفاقية القسطنطينية أن نمنح نفس التخفيضات لأصحاب الـ 93% الذين لم يتضرروا .. وهذا أمر غير منطقي.
جاء ذلك فى المؤتمر الصحفى العالمى الذى عقده رئيس هيئة قناة السويس بمناسبة مرور 53 عاماً على تأميم قناة السويس بمقر الهيئة بالاسماعيلية يوم الأحد 26 يوليو المنتهى.
وفى مداخله قال الزميل محمود التهامى – لرئيس القناة "إننى أذكركم بقولكم الهيئة تضع سياسات تسعير مرنة" .. وأننا "نناور بالرسوم" لكننا لم نلمس استخدام هذه السياسات أو المناورة بالرسوم للتخفيف من حدة شعور ملاك سفن الحاويات – بالأزمة.
قال الفريق أحمد على فاضل أنه من الخطأ التصور أن الهيئة لم تتحمل تبعات الأزمة لكننا وجدنا أن بعض الخطوط الملاحية وهى تتجه إلى المجهول" تريد أن تجرنا معها لكننا تماسكنا واستمرينا فى تطبيق سياساتنا وتحمل خسائرنا فقط وليس خسائر الغير أيضاً.
وحدد رئيس هيئة القناة طرق تحملت بها القناة خسائر الأزمة الاقتصادية العالمية عندما قررنا فى بداية العام تثبيت الرسوم تمثلت فى:
أولاً: تثبيت الرسوم يعنى تحملنا للخسائر المتوقعة من انخفاض عدد السفن العابرة بسبب انخفاض حجم التجارة بنسبة 11%.
ثانياً: أننا نتحمل الخسائر الناتجة عن انخفاض قيمة النقد وارتفاع الأسعار بسبب وصول معدلات التضخم بنسبة 4%.
ثالثاً: انخفاض إجمالى التحويلات النقدية الناتج عن انخفاض قيمة تحويل حقوق السحب الخاصة SDR بنسبة 6%.
رابعاً: أن هذه الأمور مجتمعة تقتضى زيادة الرسوم وأن التثبيت يعنى تحملنا لخسارة تقدر بنحو 10% من إجمالى الإيرادات.

Chongqing set to be major steel plate manufacturer

Chongqing: The Yangtze river city of Chongqing's burgeoning shipbuilding industry is set to be boosted with Chongqing Iron and Steel's plans to make the largest ship plate plant in China. The company is ramping up production, especially of its 4,100 mm plate, with a view to having an annual plate production capacity of 6.5m tonnes by the end of the first phase of the new facility's construction at the end of 2010.
Chongqing lies at the very upper reaches of the navigable part of the Yangtze river, China's longest waterway. Chuandong Shipyard and Donfeng Shipyard are the two principle shipbuilders in Chongqing, the world's largest municipality. Last year China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) decided to invest RMB10bn in establishing an industrial base in Chongqing covering four industries, namely specialised ships, ship engines, power supply equipment, and railway locomotives - a giant project that will take till 2015 to complete.
The downturn in global shipbuilding has begin a shift in industry focus towards the demolition side of shipping, with China-based Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding becoming the latest yard to target this buoyant sector. The yard intends to set up a $88m ship demolition joint venture in the municipality with Chongqing Iron and Steel, which would begin operations by the end of next year. [19/08/09
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Newbuilding order trickle continues

Shanghai: Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry Co,. Ltd. is the latest shipyard to benefit from the renewed flow - or perhaps trickle - of newbuilding orders. An undisclosed shipowner from Southeast Asia has placed an order for seven 57,000dwt bulk carriers costing around about $29.3m each. Deliveries will take place during 2010-2011.
Hantong is a modern, mid-sized newbuilding and repair yard that was set up as a joint venture between a Korean investor a Nantong Ocean Water Construction Co., Ltd. Production started in December 2005, with capacity that could reach 300,000dwt a year for ships and 100,000dwt for steel structures.
Separately, unconfirmed reports suggest major yard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard has booked its first orders of the year for six 319,000dwt VLCCs from one or more undisclosed shipowners, for 2012-13 delivery.

CMA CGM raises rates on India/Pakistan to Europe routes

Karachi: CMA CGM Group has announced that it is to increase freight rates between India/Pakistan and Europe “to a sustainable level in a continued effort to provide its customers with the same reliable and efficient services to which they are accustomed.”

New rate increases will apply to all cargo and commodities moving westbound and eastbound between India, Pakistan, Europe and the Mediterranean, effective September 1st, 2009.

The increase quantum will be as follows:

WB from India/Pakistan to Europe and the Mediterranean:

USD 250 per 20’ dry container
USD 400 per 40’/40’ High Cube

Over weight surcharge > 23 tons (Incl. tare) : USD 150 per 20’ dry

EB from Europe and the Mediterranean to India/Pakistan:
USD 100 per 20’dry container,
USD 200 per 40’/40’ High Cube
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“K” Line becomes first Japanese line to order a ship for a year

Tokyo: “K” Line is ordering a 32,000 dwt bulker from Hakodate Dock for delivery in the first half of 2011 becoming the first Japanese operator to order a newbuilding since the shipping market collapsed in the last year. The order also represents the first time “K” Line has ordered at Hakodate. The new ship will replace the 1996-built 24,000 dwt vessel it sold in July. Meanwhile, reports from Japan suggest NYK Global Bulk, the nation’s largest handysize operator, is “poised” to enter the newbuild market as well as dipping into the sale and purchase market.
There was some rejoicing in the archipelago yesterday at news Japan had joined the likes of France and Germany in coming out of recession with latest economic data showing a very small rise in the national economy
searates asia news .

أول صورة حقيقية لحريق مركب ال MOL

The fire that broke out in the cargo hold of the MOL Prosperity on July 2nd (local time) has, according to MOL, now been brought under control.

.The vessel is anchored off Hong Kong

While various media reports said that containers were being removed from the vessel's No.7 hatch, MOL says that the majority of the containers will remain on board the ship
المصدر : محرم فؤاد