MAERSK

Maersk Line, the world's largest container shipping firm, expects container shipping to grow by 7 to 8 percent globally this year, with trade within Asia outperforming that, in spite of soaring fuel costs and a slowing world economy. "Asia is the factory of the world, so Asia doesn't grow anymore than the U.S. and Europe is willing to buy," Maersk Line's Asia Pacific Chief Executive Jesper Praestensgaard told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday."But intra-Asia trade is growing relatively more than between the regions, so Asia is probably more shielded from a downturn in the U.S. and Europe," he said, adding the firm will introduce a new China-Singapore service from next week to tap growing demand.Maersk Line, part of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, now operates over 500 container vessels and 1.9 million containers. Since June it has ordered 34 new ships for delivery by 2012, amid concerns of an impending oversupply in shipping capacity worldwide."Shipping is cyclical, everyone knows that. So when we make investments in shipping, we invest in ships with life-spans of 25-30 years, and you have to measure success over that life-span," said Praestensgaard.Soaring bunker fuel prices, now at over $750 per tonne up from about $500 in January, now represents over 50 percent of the firm's operating costs, and has had a significant impact on margins, he said.Maersk's biggest container ships, at full capacity, can consume an estimated 46,200 litres of fuel for every 100 kilometres traveled.Maersk Line partially offsets its fuel costs by imposing a bunker adjustment charge on customers, fuel hedging, and the practice of "slow steaming", where shippers operate vessels at slower speeds to cut fuel consumption and make up for it by increasing the number of ships on a route."There is no doubt that the current oil prices is hindering global trade, both in terms of reducing consumption and increasing transportation costs in general," Praestensgaard said.MERGERS GOOD

Exporters need more shipping containers

At ports, a shortage of cargo containers seems about as unlikely as cardboard boxes suddenly becoming obsolete. The weak dollar has made U.S. goods cheaper overseas and has created a new wrinkle for the shipping industry: Containers are increasingly hard to come by. “The import volume has slowed down, so fewer boxes are coming in, and exporters are seeing more demand,” said Kevin Mack, a vice president at Newark, N.J.-based Columbia Containers. “I’ve been in the business for 25 years, and this is the first time I can remember this happening.”While most containers come into ports on the East Coast, the Midwest can’t find enough of them to handle the rising exports of grains, soybeans and corn bound for overseas markets.“It’s all logistics,” said Sherif Gendi, who arranges U.S. grain exports for the trading company Marubeni America in New York City. “The containers,” he said, “aren’t getting to where they’re needed.”That’s because moving empty containers around is an expense no one wants to absorb.

Lines to increase inland fuel surcharges

Container lines in the Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (TSA) are set to increase inland fuel surcharges (IFS) to better reflect the prices they pay for inland fuel in their intermodal operations, TSA announced. TSA, whose members include CMA-CGM, Orient Overseas Container Line, Hapag-Lloyd and Cosco Container Lines amongst others, first introduced IFS in mid-2005, a result of rising surcharges from railroads and motor carriers. TSA executive administrator Brian Conrad noted that ocean carriers are seeing the base rates of rail and trucking operations increase, and those rates increased yet again through fuel surcharges.He further noted that costs are frequently compounded when carriers provide intermodal services using third-party transportation companies, and that container lines will return to a floating surcharge that is adjusted on a monthly basis to reflect highway diesel price fluctuations. TSA lines are seeing slower year-to-date cargo volumes relative to 2007. Factors responsible include a slowdown in cargo exports from North China, a result of factories closing down around Beijing due to the Olympic Games. Dense fog conditions affecting vessels at Qingdao was also cited. TSA members noted that there has been a shift in cargo to the US East Coast, in part due to uncertainly over West Coast longshore labour negotiations following the expiry of their six-year labour agreement on July 1.

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تنويه هام

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زيادات شهر يونيو

Freight surcharges for container shipping between Europe and the Far Eastare set by Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC). :

JUNE:

BAF: 546.00 USD per TEU

CAF: +18.2%

High Cube Premium:
USD 350 per container effective 15 June 2004 to Mediterranean

War Risk:
To/From Syria :USD 24 per TEU until further notice
To/From Lebanon :USD 50 per TEU until further notice
To/From Egypt :USD 0 per TEU until further notice

Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) From Asia (Excluding Japan) :

From Asia (excluding Japan) to the Mediterranean USD 158 per TEU for the period 1st June 2008 to 17th October 2008

Europe — Middle East
Freight surcharges for container shipping between Europe and the Middle East are set by India Pakistan Bangladesh Ceylon Conference (IPBCC).

JUNE:

BAF: 370.00 USD per TEU

CAF: +20.64%

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Emma Mærsk is the world’s largest containership

The A.P. Møller Corporation’s new giant containership was christened Emma Mærsk – named after Mærsk McKinney Møller’s recently deceased wife Emma.
The shipyard’s former chairman of the board, the 93-year-old Mærsk McKinney Møller, was also present at the christening, writes Børsen.
Emma Mærsk beats all former containerships by 10 per cent with regards to the number of carriers loading 20 feet containers (teu). Emma Mærsk is 400 m long and the motor yields 110,000 hp.
It will be possible to carry approximately 11,000 containers all over the world the world onboard Emma Mærsk, which by some experts is said to be able to carry up to 13,000 containers with the proper load technique.
In several ways the enormous construction is ground-breaking. For example, silicone painting covers the hull below the waterline, which reduces the water resistance and the ship’s fuel consumption by 1,200 ton annually.

Hapag Lloyd moves to Port of Liverpool building

SHIPPING giant Hapag-Lloyd is relocating its Liverpool staff into a single city centre location. Around 60 staff are currently located across two sites – India Building and the Royal Liver building – are moving to a new home in the Grade II Listed Port of Liverpool Building. Hapag, one of the top five shipping companies in the world, has awarded the £300,000 contract for the design and fit-out to Warrington-based Claremont. The new office will include meeting rooms, an open-plan area for 60 people, new partitions, power, data and IT installations and a new breakout facility and communications room. The project will take eight weeks to complete.Claremont will be working alongside the current landlord to ensure the new scheme remains in keeping with the building’s ongoing refurbishment plans and the landmark’s architectural features.

Evergreen and COSCON to offer seperate China/Persian Gulf services

Evergreen and COSCON have announced that each is to launch a weekly independent service covering the China/Arabian Persian Gulf route beginning early June 2008. The new services replace the current CPG service jointly operated by the two container lines. The move is said to be the result of increased customer demand on the route. COSCON is to deploy five 3400teu vessels into China and Persian Gulf service (CPG1) with the rotation as Shanghai - NingboYantian - Singapore - Jebel Ali - Banda Abbas - Karachi - Singapore - Shanghai. Evergreen will deploy six vessels of identical size into China and Arabian Persian Gulf service (CPG2) with the rotation: Qingdao - ShanghaiNingbo - Yantian - Hong Kong - Tanjung Pelepas - Jebel Ali - Dammam - Nhava Sheva - Singapore - Kaohsiung - Qingdao. Evergreen has said that it intends to maintain cooperation with COSCON in this trade lane through the slot swap arrangement.
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