Vessels News

Vessels beached during the past 24 hours

M.V. Han Hong beached at Alang
M.V. Morning Melody also beached at Alang

Ships in trouble.

M.V Weser
Police are searching for witnesses to the ocllection which occured between the the Weser and Elly and the matter is being dealt with by the police in Hannover.

Dump truck fell off ferry
A dump truck aboard the Captain Earl W. Windsor" fell into the water at Change Islands in the evening of Feb 8, 2016, while the ferry was unloading.

MV Epsilon forced to take shelter off the UK coast due to heavy seas and winds blowing up to Force 11

MV Modern Express 
The vessel has heeled 45 degrees and the cause remains a mystery 

 

The crew of the vessel left quickly heading towards the Philippines and a salvage company has started to pump out the water from the vessel 

M.V.Pacific Heron

two British ghost ships are reported to be on their way to Japan to collect enough plutonium for 80 nuclear warheads  It would appear the vessels are being shadowed by a Royal Navy submarine.

Company News

CMA-CGM increases Port Calls and capacity to its PCRF Line service

this service increases links with Northern Europe and the West Indies with two new calls at Zeebrugge

 

Trade News 

ATR Signs EUR1,9 bn planes deal with iran

European manufacturer of turboprop aircraft ATR said Monday it had signed a one-billion-euro deal with Iran Air for up to 40 planes after the dropping of US sanctions against Iran.

 

Georgia on Monday announced plans to build a new deep-water Black Sea port in a $2.5-billion project that aims to boost trade between China and Europe along the historic Silk Road route.

The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is a trade agreement currently being negotiated by 23 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the EU. Together, the participating countries account for 70% of world trade in services.

The text of the EU-Vietnam Agreement is made public here exclusively for information purposes. The text presented in this document is the text at the end of the negotiations conducted by the European Commission. It will be subject to legal revision in order to verify the internal consistency and to ensure that the formulations of the negotiating results are legally sound. It will thereafter be transmitted to the Council of the European Union and to the European Parliament for ratification. The text presented in this document is not binding under international law and will only become so after the completion of the ratification process.

The World Trade Organisation on Monday ruled against the European Union in a dispute that has been raging since 2009 between the bloc and China over import duties on nuts and bolts.

The EU on Wednesday said it would wait until later this year to decide if China should finally be considered a real market economy, a status keenly sought by Beijing that would make it harder for Europe to limit its cheap exports.

On 1 January 2016, the European Union and Ukraine started applying the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) which forms part of the Association Agreement signed in June 2014. The rest of the Association Agreement has already been in force since November 2014