The ceremony took place at the NASSCO shipyard here. Mrs. Shirley Anne Massey, the wife of Morehouse College president and BP board member Dr. Walter Massey, was the honoree at the ceremony and is the ship's sponsor. As ship's sponsor, Mrs. Massey named the ship and broke the traditional bottle of champagne against it.
Vessel operators on the Irish Sea face a tough winter, despite this year's seasonal peak and a slowing of volume decline, reports Isabel Lesto
The port of Liverpool is in talks with lines to create a direct shipping service to the west coast of India, opening-up what it claims would be a lucrative trade route to southern Asia. Senior management at the port say they have already secured commitment for more than 45,000teu a year.
Marseilles Fos has become the latest European port to announce plans to not put up rates next year in order to help customers.
P&O Ferries is not expecting to be affected by the restructuring of its parent company, Dubai World.
Shanghai's container throughput this year may drop 14 percent from 2008 to around 24 million TEUs according to preliminary estimates, the Shanghai Daily reported.
The port of Liverpool is in talks with lines to create a direct shipping service to the west coast of India, opening-up what it claims would be a lucrative trade route to southern Asia. Senior management at the port say they have already secured commitment for more than 45,000teu a year.
The port of Antwerp has announced that the Van Cauwelaert Lock closed last week for 13 months for renovation work.
The port of Tyne has won a new contract that will see it handle between 400,000 and 1.4m tonnes of biomass material a year for the next 10 years.
A port developer is seeking to convert its six-hectare industrial land in the Philippines into an economic zone as it intends to pour in more money for cold-chain facilities and accommodate other locators. BusinessWorld reported.
Somali pirates have released the Singapore-flagged container ship Kota Wajar, which was seized on October 15 north of the Seychelles, Reuters reported.
Marseille Fos has announced deepsea year-on-year container volume increases of 25% during the first ten months of the year.
British Airways World Cargo is to implement a screening charge of US$0.05/kg on US-origin freight, from 21 December.
Import cargo volume at major retail container ports in the US is expected to see three straight months of gains in early 2010 after more than two years of year-on-year declines, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and IHS Global Insight.
The completion of the first phase of Jeddah Islamic Ports newest premier container facility, Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT), was recently celebrated with the arrival of UASCs Vessel Al Muttanabi, Mist News reported.
Reports have it that the US will miss the container scanning deadline, the Hindu Business Line reported.
Logistics providers need to do a better job of telling their customers what they are best at, rather than pretending to be an expert in all things, according to a senior logistics buyer at one of the world's largest shippers.
The Swedish government has urged the EC to scrap restrictions on road cabotage, following a recent decision to allow it in certain circumstances.
The full extent of job and volume losses at Teesport following the partial closure in the new year of its biggest customer Corus's plant is still unknown.
The Grand Alliance group of shipping lines will add a call at Vietnam's Cai Mep to its Asia East Coast Express service from 9 January.