Monday, 2 November 2015
Shipping Trade and Transport Updates for 2nd November 2015
Hapag-Lloyd AG adjusted its initial public offering plan for the third time this month which may deprive part-owner TUI AG of an option to sell any of its holding, This is partly caused a dismal outlook from shipping-industry leader A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S.
United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), one of the fastest-growing shipping lines in the industry, is reportedly in advanced negotiations with Korean yards for another US $1-billion order. The initial contract will be for seven vessels, with the option for seven more in the coming years 11,000 TEU capacity
Saturday, 31 October 2015
Shipping Trade and Transport News 1st November 2015
Vessel News
M.V. Thetis D - Hapag Lloyd
Explosion on board this vessel has caused extensive damage to the vessel it has made repair on the ship impossible. The charterer Hapag-Lloyd has removed this vessel from the Russian Express Service and replace it with the Malta Flagged vessel M.V. Frederik.
Port News
Port of Chennai - India Maersk adds the longest ship to call at the port
M.V. Maersk Serangoon making it the longest vessel to call at Chennai port. This demonstrates their confidence in the south India market.OOCL celebrates their Final 8,888 TEU newbuilding
OCCL announce their newest container ship, the OOCL 'Ho Chi Minh City' at Changxing Island today This vessel is the last of the eight ordered from Hungdong-Zonghau Shipbuilding yard.
EU Publications
Single market integration and competitiveness in the EU and its member states 2015
The economic performance of the EU has improved in 2014 relative to the two previous years. While growth rates remain low and it will take time to reduce unemployment in some Member States, the EU is steadily recovering despite political and international economic uncertainties. The fall in oil prices is providing an additional boost to the EU economy which has presented record trade surplus figures in the first half of 2015. This report has been written by the staff of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission. It was published as Staff Working Document SWD(2015) 203 final on 28 October 2015 accompanying the Communication Upgrading the Single Market: more opportunities for people and business, COM(2015) 550.
Report on EU cusotms enforcement on intellectual propety rights - Results at the EU border 2014
According to a report published by the European Commission on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the EU, authorities detained 35.5 million individual items of fake or counterfeit goods in 2014 with an overall total value of over EUR 617 million. The statistics for 2014 show that the high number of detentions can be linked to the large amount of small parcels in express and postal traffic due to the rise in Internet sales. Information is also included on the categories of goods detained, on their countries of origin and on the modes of transport used to ship such goods.Asia and the EU
Latest news about Asia and the European Union. The EU is deepening its strategic partnerships with China, India, Japan and negotiations are well underway on new partnership and free trade agreements with South Korea and with south-east Asian countries. Asia comprises high-income industrialised partners and dynamic emerging economies but is also home to two thirds of the world's poor. Development cooperation therefore remains high on the EU's agenda with Asia, and more than five billion euros allocated to Asia by the EU for the period 2007-2013. Policies are address common challenges, such as climate change, sustainable development, security and stability, governance and human rights, as well as the prevention of, and response to natural and human disasters. The EU is stepping up its support to regional integration through the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), and intensifying cooperation with the Association of South-East Asia Nations (ASEAN), the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).China Calls for the UK to remain as part of the EU
Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded his visit to Britain on Friday with a call for Britain to remain in the European Union and a trip to see the English Premier League leaders Manchester City.
EU and the Middle East
The European Union's relations with the Middle East. The European Union is an active player in supporting efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and contributes, also as a member of the so-called Middle East Quartet (US, EU, Russia and UN), to the Middle East Peace process. EU relations with its southern neighbours features a regional dimension, the Union for the Mediterranean. The EU also has a region-to-region relationship with the “Gulf Cooperation Council” (GCC) made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Furthermore, there are also bilateral EU-relations with Iran, Iraq and Yemen.
If you would like us to report on your area in trade contact us.
WCO - World Customs Organisation - Is your company prepared for AEO when trading with global markets?
Information advice and guidance is
available to anyone involved in shipping, trade (export/import) transport,
warehousing and freight forwarding.
China
- CME
Japan
- AEO
Korea
- AEO
Malaysia -
AEO
New Zealand
- SES
Singapore -
STP
Argentina -
SAOC
Canada - PIP
USA - C-TPAT
EU - AEO
Norway - AEO
Switzerland
- AEO
Jordan - GLP
Countries to
be Launched
Botswana - TKAS
Chile - AEO
pilot
Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia - AO
Israel - AEO
Morocco
AEO
Customs
Compliance Programmes
Brazil - Blue Line
El Salvador
- PACE
Indonesia -
MITA
Kenya - AEO
Rwanda
Compiant Trader Schemes
Serbia - PSD
Tanzania -
CTS
Thailand -
Gold Card
Mutual
Recognition Status:
Concluded
New Zeland -
USA
Japan - New
Zealand
Canada - USA
Jordan -
~USA
Japan - ~USA
Eu - Norway
Canada -
Japan
Canada -
Korea
Friday, 30 October 2015
Shpping Trade and Transport News 31st October 2015
Trade News
The EU's competition regulator has launched an investigatoin into the proposed sale of Telefonica's O2 business unit to a Hong Kong investment company as this would create Britain's biggest mobile operator.South Sudan rivals blooking aid to high risk famine zones
Rival South Sudanese forces are blocking aid to war zone areas where thousands are already starving to death, the United States and European Union warned Friday.Airbus Helicopters agrees deal with China worth EUR 750m
Airbus Helicopters said Friday it has signed a letter of intent for the sale of 100 H135 helicopters to China and the construction of an assembly plant there.Eurozone inflation
Eurozone inflation rose to zero per cent and out of negative territory in October, official data showed Friday, but the level is still low and will press the European Central Bank to pump up its stimulus.Peace talks are underway with 17 of the EU countries including the UN
Talks on a political solution to the civil war in Syria got under way Friday, with 17 countries plus the United Nations and European Union taking part.Vessel News
M.V Mathilde MaerskThe Maersk Triple-E Mathilde Maersk made its maiden call at the DP World Southampton on Wednesday 28th October
Maersk Line
Izmir Port Turkey
Etlim container port in Turkey’s Izmir city, which is currently under construction, will be commissioned in spring of 2016.The initial capacity of the port will be 1.5 million TEU. The Dutch company APM Terminals, will manage the port for 28 years while the port will belong to Turkey
Port of Izmir
Shipping Trade and Transport News 30th October 2015
Vessel News
M.V. Haidar
Thousands of cattle decomposing
The rotting bodies of the shipwrecked cattle lie on one of the beaches in the Barcarena region, in Para State, after the "Haidar" capsized in Vila do Conde. The ship had on board 4,900 live cows. The animals, which belonged to the Brazilian beef company Minerva Foods, whhich were headed to Venezuela
M.V. AP Temasek
The "APL Temasek" collided with a berth in Port Said at the SCCT Container Terminal on Oct 29, 2015, . The vessel was being detained until experts have estimated the amount of damage, which may amount to several million US dollars.
Union Customs Code - Update
Summary of the main changes
·
Annex
A: Changes taking effect from 1 May 2016
·
Annex
B: Changes only taking effect once a full UCC authorisation is held
Some
of the main changes from 1 May 2016 are:
· mandatory guarantees for most special
procedures and temporary storage (TS) – this only applies to new authorisations
· the ability to make some movements
under TS rather than national transit or Electronic Transit System
(ETS) – formerly New Computerised Transit System (NCTS)
· the removal of the earlier sales
provisions relating to valuation – but there are some transitional arrangements
· all communications between customs
authorities and economic operators must be electronic.
In
addition, some procedures and
reliefs will cease or change on 30 April 2016, these are detailed below.
Procedures and Reliefs ending on 30
April 2016
Currently,
a €10 waiver of customs duty for free circulation customs declarations applies.
Under UCC, where customs duty is payable, no de-minimis exemption will apply. This does not affect any Community System of
Duty Reliefs (CSDR) that you may be eligible for.
Goods
being declared to Onward Supply Relief (OSR customs procedure code 42 series)
may only be entered using a full customs declaration or the Simplified
Declaration Procedure (SDP).
INF documents may
no longer be used with Entry in Declarant’s Records (EIDR). This was previously allowed under Local
Clearance Procedure (LCP)
No new imports may be made to
these customs procedures after 30 April 2016:
·
Inward
Processing Drawback (IP (D)),
·
Processing
under Customs Control (PCC),
·
Type
D customs warehousing and
·
Low
Value Bulking Imports (LVBI)
Inward
Processing Drawback (IP (D)) and Low Value Bulking Imports (LVBI) authorisations
will cease to be valid and these authorisations may no longer be used to import
goods regardless of any expiry dates shown on your authorisations.
LVBI
applications will not be accepted for processing after 1 December 2015. Businesses wishing to use LVBI after 30 April
2016 will require a Simplified Declaration Procedure authorisation for Low
Value Imports.
Processing
under Customs Control (PCC) authorisation holders will be issued with an IP
authorisation number which must be used after 30 April 2016 for any new
importations. The customs debt rules in
article 85 of the UCC must be used for the new importations.
Type D customs warehousing
authorisation holders will be issued with an amended authorisation with a
prefix of:
·
C
(if it is currently only a type D authorisation) or
·
E
(if it is currently a type E warehouse with type D rules of assessment)
which
must be used for all entries to the customs warehouse made after 1 May 2016 and
the normal customs debt rules of assessment will apply.
If you are involved in customs clearance as an importer/exporter or customs broker and would like full details contact us through our education commitee at: education@felixstowe-ac.co.uk
EU Trade News
EU Suspends most Belarus sanctions, ties improving
The EU suspended most sanctions against Belarus Thursday, citing "improving relations" after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko released all remaining political prisoners, a statement said.
EU. New Zealand launch free trade talks
New Zealand and the European Union launched free trade talks on Thursday that would give the small farming nation open access to Europe's 500 million consumers.
MEPs throw out GMO compromise law
The European Parliament has rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU Member States to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.
The EU suspended most sanctions against Belarus Thursday, citing "improving relations" after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko released all remaining political prisoners, a statement said.
EU. New Zealand launch free trade talks
New Zealand and the European Union launched free trade talks on Thursday that would give the small farming nation open access to Europe's 500 million consumers.
MEPs throw out GMO compromise law
The European Parliament has rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU Member States to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Shipping Trade and Transport News 29th October 2015
Shipping Trade and Transport News 29th October 2015
Vessel News
M.V. Sestrea
Greek owner Chandris has agreed to pay a $1m fine for dumping pollution into the Texas Gulf CoastThe chief engineer failed to document that the ship had dumped directly into the sea oily waste that should have been disposed through a separator aboard the vessel or burned in the ship’s incinerator.
Chandris was sentenced to three years of probation
Port News
Port of Tema
The first power ship, to help to alleviate the power cuts in the country has begun its journey to Ghana. The ship is expected to dock at the Tema port in approximately 15 days.Karadeniz Holding is expected to build two electricity-generating vessels to produce over 450 MW of power, which is expected to contribute about 22 per cent of the country's electricity needs for 10 years.
Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool became part of the biggest carbon saving project in Europe this week. Phase 1 of the new £100m terminal began business with the first-ever shipment of sustainable biomass pellets bound for Drax Power Station, near Selby in North Yorkshire.
Port of Gioia Tauro - Italy
October 30 will see a strike at the Italian port of Gioia Tauro as workers protest against the current management of the port and of the local container terminal. Virtually all the workers under labour unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uitrasporti, Ugl Mare and Sul will down tools at Italy’s largest container transhipment port. Dockers are protesting against several issues including port and bunker taxes and the continued decreasing volume of boxes handled at the Medcenter XContainer Terminal.The terminal is join owened by Gitaurco Ltd an MSC and Contship.
De Nang, Vietnam
Da Nang Port is going to invest VND1 trillion ($47.6m) for the second phase upgrade of Tien Sa Seaport in the second quarter in 2016. he port is designed to handle 14m tons of cargo including container throughput of 200,000 teu by 2025
Vessel News
M.V. Foxhound
21 Filipino crew members of the "Foxhound" were assisted by the Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in Sydney, Australia after their vessel sank in Northern New Guineain the Vitiaz Strait in Northern New Guinea on Oct 17 due to inclement weather. They were rescued by the "COSCO Shanghai" from their lifeboat.
Trade News
Cameron warns against Norway-EU model for Britain
Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday warned against calls by some eurosceptics for Britain to adopt a Norwegian model for relations with the European Union as debate heats up ahead of a membership referendum.
MEP's throw out GMO compomise law
The European Parliament on Wednesday rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU Member States to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.Transport News
Lorry driver jailed for smuggling tobacco
A Polish lorry driver, who smuggled 445 kilos of tobacco into Dover’s Eastern Docks, has been jailed for 14 months. Adam Zbigniew Tyszkiewicz, 42, was arrested by Border Force officers in September 2015.They discovered 445 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco in his lorry. Following his arrest, HM Revenue and Customs carried out an investigation and discovered that around £82,747 of duty had been evaded.Did you know?
1. Eighty-five per cent of everything we buy, eat, wear and use is moved by a UK-registered lorry
2. The word lorry was first seen in English in 1838 when it referred to the luggage truck on a train
3. The Oxford English Dictionary says its etymology is obscure but it may be related to the dialect verb lurry, meaning to lug or drag along, which dates back to the 17th Centuary
4. . The earliest record reference to a “lorry driver” was in 1926.
5. In the US, lorries are called trucks which comes from the Greek word for wheel: trochos
6.. The amount of beer carried by UK lorries in a year would be enough to fill Wembley stadium.
7. The first motorised lorry was built in 1896 by Gottlieb Daimler who also produced the first motorbike and the first taxi.
8. Peter Lorre (pronounced lorry) was the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he played Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale in 1954
Shipping Trade and Transport News 29th October 2015
Shipping Trade and Transport News 29th October 2015
Vessel News
M.V. Sestrea
Greek owner Chandris has agreed to pay a $1m fine for dumping pollution into the Texas Gulf CoastThe chief engineer failed to document that the ship had dumped directly into the sea oily waste that should have been disposed through a separator aboard the vessel or burned in the ship’s incinerator.
Chandris was sentenced to three years of probation
Port News
Port of Tema
The first power ship, to help to alleviate the power cuts in the country has begun its journey to Ghana. The ship is expected to dock at the Tema port in approximately 15 days.Karadeniz Holding is expected to build two electricity-generating vessels to produce over 450 MW of power, which is expected to contribute about 22 per cent of the country's electricity needs for 10 years.
Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool became part of the biggest carbon saving project in Europe this week. Phase 1 of the new £100m terminal began business with the first-ever shipment of sustainable biomass pellets bound for Drax Power Station, near Selby in North Yorkshire.Port of Gioia Tauro - Italy
October 30 will see a strike at the Italian port of Gioia Tauro as workers protest against the current management of the port and of the local container terminal. Virtually all the workers under labour unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uitrasporti, Ugl Mare and Sul will down tools at Italy’s largest container transhipment port. Dockers are protesting against several issues including port and bunker taxes and the continued decreasing volume of boxes handled at the Medcenter XContainer Terminal.The terminal is join owened by Gitaurco Ltd an MSC and Contship.
De Nang, Vietnam
Da Nang Port is going to invest VND1 trillion ($47.6m) for the second phase upgrade of Tien Sa Seaport in the second quarter in 2016. he port is designed to handle 14m tons of cargo including container throughput of 200,000 teu by 2025Vessel News
M.V. Foxhound
21 Filipino crew members of the "Foxhound" were assisted by the Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in Sydney, Australia after their vessel sank in Northern New Guineain the Vitiaz Strait in Northern New Guinea on Oct 17 due to inclement weather. They were rescued by the "COSCO Shanghai" from their lifeboat.Trade News
Cameron warns against Norway-EU model for Britain
Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday warned against calls by some eurosceptics for Britain to adopt a Norwegian model for relations with the European Union as debate heats up ahead of a membership referendum.
MEP's throw out GMO compomise law
The European Parliament on Wednesday rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU Member States to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.Transport News
Lorry driver jailed for smuggling tobacco
A Polish lorry driver, who smuggled 445 kilos of tobacco into Dover’s Eastern Docks, has been jailed for 14 months.
Adam Zbigniew Tyszkiewicz, 42, was arrested by Border Force officers in September 2015.
They discovered 445 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco in his lorry. Following his arrest, HM Revenue and Customs carried out an investigation and discovered that around £82,747 of duty had been evaded.
They discovered 445 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco in his lorry. Following his arrest, HM Revenue and Customs carried out an investigation and discovered that around £82,747 of duty had been evaded.
Did you know?
Eighty-five per cent of everything we buy, eat, wear and use is moved by a UK-registered lorry.
The word lorry was first seen in English in 1838 when it referred to the luggage truck on a train
The Oxford English Dictionary says its etymology is obscure but it may
be related to the dialect verb lurry, meaning to lug or drag along,
which dates back to the 17th Centuary The earliest record reference to a “lorry driver” was in 1926.
In the US, lorries are called trucks which comes from the Greek word for wheel: trochos
The amount of beer carried by UK lorries in a year would be enough to fill Wembley stadium.
The first motorised lorry was built in 1896 by Gottlieb Daimler who also produced the first motorbike and the first taxi.
Peter Lorre (pronounced lorry) was the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he played Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale in 1954
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