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4 July 2008

Africa

3 July 2008

Far East

Vietnam found a way prevent carriers from introducing surcharges or rate increases to compensate for delays in its congested ports: carriers doing so risk having their operating licence revoked.

2 July 2008

Mergers/Takeover
It is understood that interested parties in the acquisition of Hapag-Lloyd will be required to make a provisional offer by mid-July, after which parent TUI will shortlist preferred bidders for participation in the due diligence process. The ultimate buyer will not own the Hapag-Lloyd brand, if TUI gets its way, but just get leasing rights until 2011, after which it should become the exclusive trademark for the holding company’s cruising and airline business. The carrier’s work council said to be considering action if any no so-called Hamburg-solution of Hamburgische Seefahrtsbeteiligung Alfred Ballinn  or similar guarantees for the staff come out of the sales-process. Meanwhile, tanker tycoon John Fredriksen further increased his shareholding in TUI to just over 15%, as an apparent sign of confidence in good sales proceeds.

1 July 2008

Europe - Far East
Hyundai joins CMA CGM as a ship provider on latter’s weekly Europe-Far East FAL service, supplying one of the nine 8,500-9,000 TEU ships employed and thus replacing the unit so far operated by its New World Alliance colleague MOL. The South Korean carrier will also take slots on FAL3 in the same trade lane.

30 June 2008

Europe/Mediterranean - Far East

27 June 2008

Newbuilding
Sliding economy and stagnating volumes seems to take their toll on the box ship charter market. While average charter rates have been going down consistently since their peak in March this year, for the first time in a long period a vessel risks leaving the shipyard without a charter deal attached. Next month the 3,600 TEU “Nordwinter” will be delivered, but for the second time in two weeks a liner operator pulled out of a prospective charter deal with its owner Reederei Nord Klaus Oldendorff.

26 June 2008

Mediterranean - Far East
The Grand Alliance with five ships (Hapag-Lloyd, MISC, NYK, OOCL) and the New World Alliance with three (APL, Hyundai, MOL) actually merged into a single weekly operation their since February separate fortnightly Far East-Black Sea services, but with above carriers then already swapping slots. Average 5,200 TEU vessels will be deployed. Hanjin and UASC charter slots. Both operations were launched -on a weekly basis- in 2007; at the same time as many other carriers launched new Black Sea links.

25 June

Europe - Far East
More and more pundits start having second thoughts about the actual strength of the Far East to Europe trade. Up to and including April, total westbound growth (including the Mediterranean) of the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) carriers (making up for around 78% of the full trade capacity) was exactly 10% - this was 21% in the first quarter of 2007 alone, ending up with (no less than) 19% up to and including December. 2008 forecast was put at between 15 and 18%. Lots of things happened in the relatively short time since the US housing market and all its associated effects starting to manifest, further impacted by fuel prices and inflation, altogether underlining what forecasts actually are … sophisticated crystal ball gazing. The general feeling now seems to be that everybody should be happy if 10% overall westbound growth is actualised, though increasingly carriers are bracing for single digit growth for not just this year.

24 June 2008

Intra-Europe
MSC added a tenth loop to its portfolio of Baltic Feeder Services. The single 600 TEU vessel of the new link will shuttle weekly between its Bremerhaven-hub and St. Petersburg.

23 June 2008

Europe - Far East

China Shipping (AEX8) and CMA CGM (FAL4) will actually launch their joint 9,500 TEU-ship Europe-Far East service early next month, initially at a fortnightly frequency, to become weekly by October (DL 23/08). The schedule, eight ports only, has been fixed as: Zeebrugge, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Port Kelang, Shanghai, Xiamen, Shenzhen (Yantian), Guangzhou (Nansha), Port Kelang, Zeebrugge.

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