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The Port of Felixstowe has started work on a berth-lengthening scheme with the appointment of VSBW Joint Venture, a consortium of VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, as the lead contactor to extend the port’s Berth 9 by 190 metres. The Boskalis Westminster dredger, Causeway, began work in the area on 13 April 2014. Construction is due to be completed in mid-2015.
CMA CGM has added a new weekly direct call on Wednesdays in Buchanan (Liberia),100km south of Monrovia, to its PC North service to Tangiers, making it the only operator to call there in 20 years. It mainly services exports of wood, rubber, palm oil and minerals and import services are also available through Tangiers. The service is operated by four 1,600teu ships.
MEPs at the 17 March meeting of the Committee on Transport (TRAN) voted to postpone a decision on the opening of the port services market. Following the TRAN vote, the issue was due to go to the European parliament’s plenary session in April. The European Commission wants to end monopolies on services like pilotage, towing, refuelling, though not stevedoring. The European Shippers’ Council s was disappointed at the decision, saying: “This proposal had the support of almost all maritime stakeholders - not only shippers but also ship-owners, freight forwarders and shipping agents.” It was though encouraged that the next TRAN meeting could take up the topic again in either its current or amended form.
Containerships is promising improved frequency from Teesport to Russia, including direct connections and improved transit times to the new port of Ust-Luga as part of a package of improvement to its North Sea and Baltic services. A new east bound service departs Teesport on Monday arriving via Rotterdam in Ust Luga on Saturday. Connections are available from Ireland and other European ports via Rotterdam. The westbound service departs Ust Luga on Saturday for Helsinki, Aarhus and Lubeck. Additional connections to Teesport are available via transhipment.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has added a monthly call in San Antonio, Chile to its South America West Coast schedule. The service calls at Southampton in the UK and also serves Cartagena, Manzanillo, Guayaquil, Callao and Angamos.
Port of Tyne CEO, Andrew Moffat has been appointed chair of the British Ports’ Association (BPA), taking over from Colin Parker of Aberdeen Harbour. The BPA represents a wide variety of UK port
interests to government in the UK, Europe and internationally including many of the UK’s largest ports and terminals.
DFDS Seaways is now operating the ferry Seven Sisters on its the Portsmouth-Le Havre route, following the end of the charter period of Norman Voyager. Seven Sisters is currently the back-up vessel on DFDS Seaway’s service between Newhaven and Dieppe. The latter will continue to operate two sailings a day with sister ship, the Côte D’Albatre.
Cargo handled on the tidal Thames in 2013 was marginally down by 1.2% (0.5 million tonnes) at 43.2 million tonnes, according to the Port of London Authority’s latest figures. The PLA, which oversees shipping movements in and out of port terminals on the Thames, says the main reason for the fall was the closure of Coryton oil refinery in May 2012.
All-freighter airline Cargolux has finished its search for a new leader with the appointment of Dirk Reich as president and CEO. He replaces Richard Forson, senior vice president and member of the executive committee, who had assumed the role of interim CEO since August 2012. Forson will continue to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Reich was previously a member of the management board and
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executive vice president at Kuehne & Nagel and before joining the forwarder held various positions with Luſthansa and the VIAG German industrial conglomerate. The move should bring to an end
a turbulent time in the Luxembourg- based airline’s history, which has lately included the departure of 35% shareholder Qatar Airways and the eventual purchase of a similar stake by China’s Henan Civil Aviation Development and Investment.
MEPs voted in favour of a compromise deal reached with the member states at the beginning of March the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) for aviation, despite its earlier rejection by the Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on 19 March. ETS will only apply to intra-EU flights, up to the end of 2016, with long-haul flights in and out of the European Economic Area exempted until that date, by which
New captain for Cargolux MEPs vote in air emissions deal
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time the International Civil Aviation Organisation should have reached a global agreement on an emissions trading system. The Global Air Cargo Advisory
Group (GACAG) welcomed the provisional agreement. The EC’s original proposal
caused controversy because it planned to include the emissions of all international flights within EU airspace, even those to and from third countries.
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