NOTICIAS MES DE ENERO DE 2002 (NEWS)

 

29/01/02 Zim Israel Navigation Co. is expanding its presence in the logistics business - announced the purchase of the Israeli forwarder and customhouse broker "Daphna Weissman & Lavy Ltd."

Zim's announced the purchase of the partners' shares (50%) in "Daphna Weissman & Lavy Ltd." logistic services company.

"Daphna Weissman & Lavy Ltd." Is one of the senior and well-known company in the forwarding and custom-clearing field in Israel.

With the completion of the purchase, Zim fully owns "Daphna Weissman & Lavy Ltd.". This step is a direct continuation of the company's strategy of intensifying and diversifying the logistic services rendered to its customers in line with the "supply chain" of their essential services. Furthermore, the company will continue to develop this strategy in order to encompass additional logistic services in Israel and abroad as part of its long-term policy.

"Daphna Weissman & Lavy Ltd." will operate in the international markets with the help of the giant company "Exel" which specializes in various fields of logistics services. "Yamit -Albany", also fully owned by Zim, has already been cooperating with Exel for several years.

The purchase awaits approval of the General Director of Anti-Trust Authorities.

This case is one more following the tendency of main worldwide Container Shipping operators which started or increased their participation in logistics and intermodal services (more comments on transportando.net news 16/01/02)

25/01/02 Sweden-based Timars Svets & Smide AB, cargo handling equipment manufacter launched "TIMARS Gravity Centrelizer" a new tool for handling of containers with wrong horizontal gravity point due to improper loaded containers.

Timars Svets & Smide AB, a designing, manufacturing and sales company located in Falkenberg, in the south-western part of Sweden, between Gothenburg and Malmö is today an established specialist when it comes to designing logistic concepts.They are manufacturing a wide range of products specialized in cargo handling equipment for ports, ships, industries and plants.

TIMARS GRAVITY CENTRELIZER

The TIMARS Gravity Centrelizer, is the latest in a row of successful products from Timars. The Centrelizer is an efficient tool for handling of containers with wrong horizontal gravity point due to improper loaded containers. With the Timars Gravity Centrelizer the crane operator seeks the gravity point along the container and lifts the container away with a straight horizontal line.

The Timars Gravity Centrelizer is a tool that helps the crane operator to level a container that has heavily slope due to improper stowing. The Centrelizer can be attached to different types of crane hooks and to different fixed frame spreader brand, like Timars C-LIFT. The Gravity Centrelizer has a safety weight load S.W.L up til 50 000 kgs. The tare is only 330kgs which makes the Centrelizer a useful tools for any kind crane eaven cranes with lower capacity.

The Timars Gravity Centrelizer is attached inbetween the crane hook and the fixed frame spreader. The wire ropes on the exisiting spreader is removed and replaced by the combined the chains/wire ropes on the Gravity Centrelizer. With the Gravity Centrelizer the crane operator can very easily seek the horizontal gravity point by slacking the wire ropes slightly and moving the crane hook towards the heaviest corner.

The Centrelizer will follow the movement from the hook and when the gravity point is found it is automatically fixed and locked when the hook is raised again. Now the container is horizontally leveled.

                                

Normal view                           Achieved with Timars Gravity Centrelizer

24/01/02 During next 10-12 April, 2.002 it will be performed the "Sea Japan 2002 International Maritime Exhibition and Conference" at Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, East Hall 1 - Japan

Date and Time : 10-12 April, 2002 10:00-17:00

. Exhibition:10-12 April, 2002

. Conference:10 April, 2002

. New Technology Seminar : 10-12 April, 2002

Venue : Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, East Hall 1

Organised by :

CMP Japan Co., Ltd. / The Seatrade Organisation (Conference organised by: The Japan Shipping Exchange, Inc.)

Sponsored by :

Japanese Marine Equipment Association

The Shipbuilders' Association of Japan

The Japanese Shipowners' Association

Japan Ship Exporters' Association

JETRO Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

The theme of the Sea Japan Conference this year will be Globalization and International Logistics.

Japan's marine equipment industry where the world can view and admire the very best in Japanese maritime technology.

There will be national pavilions from Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Austria, the United Kingdom and Holland each with a wide array of companies offering the very latest in marine equipment and other maritime products and services, offering the highest level of technological innovation, the highest standards of quality and service, and the most competitive of prices. The equipment makers that you will meet at Sea Japan 2002 can be considered to be amongst the elite in the world.

For additional info:

E-Mail: sales@cmpjapan.com

23/01/02 Maersk Logistics completes coverage of South America - With the opening of offices in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, Maersk Logistics completes its extensive network in South America.

Maersk Logistics announced the opening of offices in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela to complete the company's coverage of South America. The new offices, which are located in Bogota (Colombia), Guayaquil (Ecuador) - and in La Guiara, Valencia, Caracas and Puerto Cabello (Venezuela), signal the completion of Maersk Logistics' 12-month roll-out plan to cover South America.

Maersk Logistics now has own offices in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. All Maersk Logistics offices on the continent have their own dedicated staff who are trained to provide the same high level of service that characterises Maersk Logistics' operations around the world.

Mr. Peter Kjaer Jensen, Maersk Logistics' Regional Manager for South America, says the completion of the roll-out places Maersk Logistics in the exclusive small club of companies that can entertain Latin American request for proposals from clients. 'We are now able to provide seamless transportation handling, even in areas of the world that some clients and companies may consider to be difficult.'

Maersk Logistics is a recognised leader in the international logistics market, providing customised solutions for integrated supply chain management, warehousing and distribution, and sea- and airfreight transport. Maersk Logistics employs over 4,300 people in over 200 offices in more than 70 countries.

22/01/02 During next Tuesday, June 4 , 2.002 to Friday, June 7, 2.002 it will be performed the "Posidonia Congress and Exhibition" at the Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall and OLP, Piraeus Exhibition Centre

The Posidonia Congress

The first Posidonia Congress was held in conjunction with Posidonia 2000 at the magnificent Megaron - Athens Concert Hall. Attended by leading figures from the Greek and international shipping community, senior government representatives, Posidonia exhibitors and visitors, the Congress established a programme of high-level discussions and debate that will set a pattern for the first day of Posidonia 2002. The opening ceremony of the Congress on the morning of Monday 3rd June will also mark the start of Posidonia week.

The Posidonia Congress is under the auspices of the Union of Greek Shipowners and the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee and will be chaired by John C. Lyras, the President of UGS.

Venue: Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

Tickets available through Posidonia Exhibition SA

Posidonia Exhibition

Venue: OLP, Piraeus Exhibition Centre

Full program and details will be available shortly.

For information and registration, contact:

Posidonia Exhibitions SA

Catrine Doverholt

Tel: +301 4283608

Fax: +301 4283610

Email: congress@posidonia-events.com http://www.posidonia-events.com/home.asp

Posidonia is five days of non-stop business and social activity. In 2002 the acclaimed Posidonia Congress will start the week with discussion and debate at the highest level, followed by four days of the exhibition: an international showcase of new ideas, products, services and technology.

The Greek-owned fleet

Greek owners control 155 million tonnes of cargo-carrying capacity, the largest commercial fleet in the hands of any one group of nationals and some 17% of total world tonnage. The Greek-flag element of their huge 3,500-vessel fleet on its currently accounts for over 40% of merchant shipping sailing under European Community flags.

Keeping this huge commercial armada in business requires Greek owners to spend upwards of US$ 4 billion a year just on repairs, drydocking, equipment renewals and general maintenance of their vessels. And the increasing demands of the SIM Code and ever more demanding regulatory standards have seen major investments by fleet managers in cutting-edge navigation and other shipboard technology and in customised software and IT systems both ashore and afloat.

All in all the Greek maritime community represents a huge market for hundreds of suppliers of equipment and services, for dozens of shipbuilders and shiprepairers, and for the many financial, insurance and other institutions. Posidonia 2002 takes place at Piraeus in what is increasingly not just home port but also the heart of Greek shipping, with more and more traditional Greek owners having in recent years chosen to relocate management of their global operations here in preference to other world shipping capitals.

18/01/02 Swisscargo announced it's termination of operations per March 31, 2002 - All remaining staff to be dismissed

Swisscargo, the airfreight company of Swissair Group and currently under creditor protection, will be terminating all its operational business definitely by March 31, 2002.

As a consequence of the creditor protection granted since December 8, 2001 and the fact that the remaining medium and long-haul flights of Swissair will be taken over by Crossair as of the Summer Timetable 2002, Swisscargo is going to terminate operations by the end of March 2002.

Crossair interested in a continued airfreight offer: In order to preserve the moratorium assets after the termination of operations, Swisscargo is legally forced to end all remaining working contracts by latest March 31, 2002. This will be affecting 153 employees in Switzerland and 287 abroad. According to Crossair, the airline "is interested in establishing an own cargo division". Swisscargo supports this decision and assumes that a realization of such a solution will consider a huge number of the employees of the current Swisscargo organization.

Separately, effective January 15, 2002, Crossair assumed commercial responsibility for most of the European routes formerly operated by Swissair.

The European flights (from Zurich to Paris Charles de Gaulle, Nice, London-Heathrow, Vienna, Rome, Istanbul, Stockholm, Bucharest, Prague, Oslo, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Lisbon, and Porto, as well as from Geneva to London-Heathrow) will, for this reason, be published with a Crossair flight number, with immediate effect. Exceptions are the flights to Athens, Moscow, Kiev, Pristina, Tripoli, and Benghazi, which will receive a Crossair flight number at a later date, but which, in the meantime, will retain Swissair flight numbers.

16/01/02 COSCO Group announced COSCO Logistics Co.,Ltd. to offer business services.

The establishment of COSCO Logistics is believed to be one of historical events launched by COSCO Group, aiming to meet the challenges of China's entry into the WTO and help carry out COSCO's strategic plans of becoming a global logistics service provider from current status of one of the major global carriers.

The newly-established COSCO Logistics armed with a set of mature advanced information technology consists of 8 subsidiaries altogether throughout China.

The special package of service platforms such as " On-line Inventory Management Information System", " On-line Road Transportation System", "On-line Space-booking System" and others is supposed to provide with internet-based transaction platform for logistics business operations.

With the support of abundant logistics resources, interactive business platform, together with advanced technology, COSCO is full of confidence that the latest consolidation efforts will enable the group to provide better services for prospected customers both in home and abroad in a variety of fields such as modern logistics service, international shipping agency, international multimode transportation service, freight forwarding, road transportation service, air transportation service, railway service, terminal operation management, storage & distribution operation, LCL service, project development and management and chartering business and so on in the future.

COSCO is one more container shipping line who started offering this type of operations and logistic services as other lines like APL, Hamburg Sud, Maersk, MOL, NYK , P&ONedlloyd between others did before; offering services beyond their core activity as ocean carrier, entering into the door to door service, in a business which until short time ago was exclusivity of forwarders and NVOCC.

14/01/02 TMM Lines announced the appointment of its new General Agent in Argentina - LOGIX S.A.

TMM Lines announced the termination of its agency agreement with MERCOMAR S.A. and announced the appointment of LOGIX S.A. as its new General Agent for Argentina as from January 14, 2.002   

LOGIX S.A.

25 de Mayo 277 - Floor 6 C1002ABE Buenos Aires

Tel: 54 11 4331 0375 Fax: 54 11 4342 2759

E-Mail: tmm@logixsa.com.ar

09/01/02 Seatrade Cruise Shipping 2002 conference

Next March 11 to 15 will be developed at the Miami Beach Convention Center; the 2002 Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention and trade show, event that provides cruise lines and suppliers a unique venue for the exchange of ideas on marketing and management, as well as the latest advances in ship operation, technology, food and beverage, human resources and vessel design. It is a program developed for the industry by the industry.

The 18th annual Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention is scheduled for March 11-15 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The convention is to follow the new schedule implemented at the 2001 event, beginning on Monday, March 11, with the World Cruise Tourism Summit, produced by CMP Princeton in association with the International Council of Cruise Lines and Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association.

The Trade show and Exhibition hours are 9:00 am - 6:00 pm on Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 12 and 13; and 9:00 am - 5 pm on Thursday, March 14.

For Exhibition and conference details, register for the event, and request additional information www.cruiseshipping.net - E- mail: info@cruiseshipping.net

08/01/02 Procedures for Cargo going to / from Argentina - Freight collection

Maersk Sealand announced that in light of the recent events and developments in Argentina and due to the new government continues the strict economical measures and international transfer of funds remains interrupted, until further notice all freight sent collect to Argentina or shipped from Argentina is being required to be paid in U.S. Dollars. All shipments effective as from January 3 are required to be paid outside of Argentina.

Investigations in the market result in that majority of other shipping lines are proceeding in similar way.

Government has imposed a new Bank and exchange holiday for yesterday and today , expecting to re establish exchange operations as from next Wednesday 9, for which no news on this issue are expected for next days.      

04/01/02 TradeAndShipNet.com - A new Web-based service wants to provide assistance to small and medium size companies engaged or planning to engage in international commerce making rates easily available to the public.

TradeAndShipNet is an independent group of consulting enterprises with expertise in trade, transportation, international law, banking, insurance, marketing and regulatory compliance. Their mission is to support the needs and services required by international trade. Providing assistance to small and medium size companies engaged or planning to engage in international commerce.

It provides users with instant calculations of freight rates for ground, air, and water transportation by a simple click and drag action of the mouse over a map that renders a point-to-point geographic location, its distance and the time needed to complete a particular shipment.

The company understand that new rulings in the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 have failed in making rates easily available to the public, mentioning that "Freight rates are either unavailable to the common user or difficult and expensive to obtain through third parties that provide a peek tariff service by subscription or charges by the minute for looking up freight rates that belong in the public domain. For which declare that the vision of TradeAndShipNet.com is to fill in these blanks in view of the failure of the industry to provide users with a tool for instant calculation of freight rates free of charge.

At their Web site www.tradeshipandnet.com users can download a tool for estimating the cost of shipping goods from location to location by sea, air or ground transportation. Freight quotes are based on a statistical average for an specific route, based on information from the Federal Maritime Commission.

The company based in Miami also offers consulting services in international trade, Marketing, providing International Market Research. Quick reviews of the investment climate, taxation, forms of business organization, and business and accounting practices in over a 100 countries, Export Management handling exports needs including transportation and logistics, export credit and trade insurance, clearing customs and obtaining an export license as needed for restricted products.

They are also involved in Consulting on trends regarding shipping costs, ship building, ship chartering, ship repair and conversion, ship finance, ship sales, bulk carrier markets, container market, container ship market. Tracking of the merchant marine world fleet active and inactive vessels and the markets of the volume-capacity fleet of Handysize, Handymax, Panamax and Capasize. Insurance Services managing cargo risk for consolidators, indirect air carriers, surveyors, intermodal shipping, inland carriers.

02/01/02 ShipChem, Inc., the logistics solutions provider focused in the chemicals industry, announced that it has changed its name to Cendian Corporation.

The company collaborated with internationally recognized branding and design consultancy Landor Associates in creating the new name and accompanying corporate identity.

        

"Our company is a trusted business partner for our clients, and our new corporate identity reflects the unique and important role that we play in helping them compete in today's business environment," said Mark A. Kaiser, CEO, Cendian Corporation. "As Cendian, we will continue our position as the leader and innovator in the chemical logistics field by providing unsurpassed service and reliability to our clients.'

Cendian is the leading global solutions provider for the comprehensive management of shipping and logistics services for chemical companies, providing the highest level of information integrity for its clients' global transactions. Cendian delivers comprehensive logistics solutions for all shipping modes driving increased value and efficiencies through the entire chemical logistics supply chain.

Cendian is headquartered at Six Concourse Parkway, Suite 2800, Atlanta, GA and its new Web site is www.cendian.com

Cendian has an innovative outsourcing model using best-in-class internet-enabled technology, delivers better on-time delivery performance, global reach for its clients, and improved efficiencies across all aspects of the chemical logistics supply chain. With a network of over 300 preferred logistics service providers, worldwide operating locations, and the ability to ship across all modes of transportation (bulk truck, dry van, marine, rail and air) into and out of more than 80 countries makes Cendian one of the most comprehensive logistics outsourcing resource for the chemical industry.

01/01/02 MOL to Improve Asia - South Africa and South America Service

MOL plans to upgrade its Asia-South Africa service by developing two existing trunk lines (CSW - Asia-East Coast South America service and CWA - Asia-West Africa Super Express), starting in April 2002.

Using these two loops to create a more effective port call rotation, MOL will be able to offer a wider range of services to and from all of southern Africa, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Swaziland, Namibia, Lesotho, Zambia, and Botswana. In addition, the frequency of service will be increased to twice a week from the current weekly schedule, and transit time will be about a week faster.

In line with the implementation of these service upgrades, inaugurated with the MOL Parana sailing from Yokohama on April 4, the SAFARI consortium that currently serves the Japan, Asia-South Africa trade will be disbanded at the end of March 2002 by unanimous agreement of all members.

This realignment demonstrates MOL's ongoing commitment to deliver a wide range of top-quality services with adequate sized vessels that meet customers' demands in Asia, Japan, Southern Africa, West Africa, and the East Coast of South America.

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