Car Carriers to Make Up for the Shortfall?

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Published on Monday, 08 December 2014 12:16
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The capacity growth in the Pure Car Carrier (PCC) sector for the next few years looks fairly moderate with the orderbook standing at 11% of the fleet, judging by Clarksons’ recent market review. 

Namely, trade is provisionally projected to grow by 5% in 2015, making up for some of the shortfall this year.

However, according to Clarksons, the bigger question is “whether we can expect trade growth to maintain the robust levels seen historically in the longer term.”

The PCC fleet has responded eagerly to the challenge of growing seaborne volumes of cars. The fleet has grown from an overall capacity of 1.35m vehicles at end 1996 to 3.76m vehicles today, total expansion of 175%.

Today, there are

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El Gobierno cambia el rumbo y abre la posibilidad de ayudar a la Motril-Melilla

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Published on Monday, 08 December 2014 07:30
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El Gobierno cambia el rumbo y abre la posibilidad de ayudar a la Motril-Melilla

Motril seguirá peleando por mantener la línea marítima con Melilla. / JAVIER MARTÍN

  • Tras meses negando de forma rotunda el apoyo económico, la ministra se compromete a buscar alternativas para la continuidad del ferry

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 El ‘no’ fue tan rotundo que a la alcaldesa motrileña, Luisa García Chamorro, se le agrió el recorrido por el tramo de la A-7 que avanza entre La Gorgoracha y Puntalón. La pregunta la formuló este periódico (en una visita a finales de octubre) y una tajante ministra de Fomento contestó diciendo –con un lenguaje enrevesado– que no se ayudaría económicamente a la línea entre Motril y Melilla porque no

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Greek stability amidst shifting energy trades

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Published on Friday, 05 December 2014 18:00
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Greek stability amidst shifting energy trades

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By from New York

SeatradeGlobal 5.12.2014
 

From being a country in crisis Greece is bouncing back with its strong shipping sector and an increasingly important position in the energy trades.

Capital Link’s well-attended “Invest

in Greece” forum, held at New York’s Metropolitan Club, explored the shipping business from fresh angles not always apparent at maritime gatherings.

 

Much of the conference was devoted to capital markets and banking- where Greece’s situation has improved drastically over the past three years. Asimakis Papageorgiou, the Deputy Minister for Environment, Energy & Climate Change, talked big picture but alluded to Greece’s strategy of becoming a hub for LNG cargoes moving into southern Europe. An LNG import terminal

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SAL Heavy Lift completes work for Ichthys LNG Project

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SAL Heavy Lift completes work for Ichthys LNG Project

SeaTrade Global- 5.12.2014

MV Regine sets sail from Sattahip

 

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Hamburg-based SAL Heavy Lift has completed a heavy lift contract with freight forwarder SDV involving more than 100,000 frtts for the Ichthys LNG Project near Darwin, Australia.

SAL was contracted by SDV for five shipments performed on a consecutive basis from load-ports Sattahip, Masan, Busan and Shanghai. All shipments were discharged at the LNG Project’s module offloading facility.

SAL’s MV Regine with two 700 tonnes cranes and open hatch capability together with a third aft mount crane of 350 tonnes lift cap was selected to work for the project.

Among the items shipped were two acid

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