International Shipping
Monday, March 08, 2010
THE Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), whose shipowners run 65 per cent of global shipping, wants the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to control all high seas regulation and "govern shipping's response to greenhouse gas emissions".
BIMCO, representing the big companies, wants the United Nations body to end rights of national sovereignty and be the "only viable vehicle for regulation of a global industry".
"Central is the need to keep regulation global, and control the forces of unilateralism, regionalism and the tendency to make local laws, which threaten to make the operation of internationally trading ships chaotic," said the BIMCO statement said.
"The plague of piracy has become the most serious security challenge despite the efforts of naval forces and best management practices aboard merchant vessels.
"BIMCO, which has launched its Automated Voyage Risk Assessment Service to help owners gauge all security risks, lobbies hard for more effective defences, a government based solution to the security situation ashore in Somalia and an effective legal regime to prosecute pirates," the BIMCO statement said.
MSC to receive the 14,000-TEU Savona on charter hire
MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company (MSC) is preparing to take in the MSC Savona, the sixth containership to be built as part of 26 vessel programme, with ships ranging in size from 13,798-14,000 TEU that are to be delivered by Samsung and DSME.
The 14,000-TEU MSC Savona is the third of the DSME vessels and is built to a design quite similar to that of the Samsung ships, said Paris-based Alphaliner.
The MSC Savona is chartered from German ship owner Claus Peter Offen and follows the MSC-owned MSC Camille in the DSME series, it said.
The MSC Savona is expected to be deployed in the Asia-North Europe Silk Service, replacing the 9,200-TEU MSC Lisbon, which Alphaliner said is the smallest of the 11 ships used to run the service that uses ships with a capacity of up to 14,000 TEU.
New World Alliance revamps Pacific Southwest Express Service
THE New World Alliance (TNWA) - made up of APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and MOL - have announced plans to revamp their Pacific Southwest Express (PSX) service.
TNWA will add one ship to the PSX service for a direct service from Laem Chabang, Thailand, to the US west coast from March 15 with the sailing of the MOL Solution 107E.
The new eastbound PSX rotation will be: Laem Chabang (Sun/Mon), Cai Mep (Wed/Fri), Hong Kong (Sun/Mon), Shenzhen-Yantian (Mon/Tue), Los Angeles (Mon/Thu), Oakland (Fri/Sat), Tokyo (Thu/Thu), Xiamen (Sun/Mon), Hong Kong (Tue/Tue), Shenzhen-Da Chan Bay (Wed/Thu) and back to Laem Chabang (Sun).
CMA CGM to increase rate from US to the world March 15
MARSEILLE-based CMA CGM has announced it will increase a full range of US export cargo rates to Asia, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent from March 15.
From the US east, west and Gulf coasts to Asia the rate will increase US$150 per TEU and $200 per FEU. From the east and Gulf coasts to the Middle East, the rate will increase $75 per TEU and $150 per FEU. From the east coast to the Indian subcontinent, the increase will be $150 per TEU and $200 per FEU.
Said the company: "In a continued effort to provide its valued customers with a high quality of services, CMA CGM Group has decided to restore freight rates for cargo moving from the United States to Asia, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, effective March 15."