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Shipping and Ship Management
Scandinavian Shipping Gazette
May 21, 2004
 Editorial:
The key to quality shipping
The same day cargo owners say
“we will not accept substandard ships”, the problem will
be gone.
Honestly: A purveyor of
national truth. Chinese philosopher Confucius once
said: “Truth does not depart from human nature. If what is
regarded as truth departs from human nature, it may not be regarded
as truth.” .
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Oil
spills � a very costly business. Every time an ocean-going
vessel has an accident – or worse, founders completely –
there is a public outcry and immediate demands for safer seas. There
are, thankfully, very few accidents at sea, but when they happen
the environmental lobby has a field day.
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From one to twelve
in 15 years. Today Tallink, with twelve ferries in its fleet,
is the undisputed market leader in the ferry traffic to and from Estonia.
The development of the company has been amazing taking into consideration
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Oslo is Norway’s biggest maritime
cluster. Oslo’s maritime community met in the City Hall last
month to mark its support for better operating conditions for owners
and thus for the whole maritime cluster. 170 representatives from
owners, banks, insurances, service companies, brokers and maritime
manufacturers listened to a strong line of speakers. |
Denmark:
Larger units, more orders and record income.
Measured in numbers, the Danish merchant fleet is shrinking, but the
remaining vessels are earning more foreign currency than ever before.
Also, the average age of the fleet is at a historically low level.
Measured in tonnage, the fleet is, however, growing, so the trend
is very clear: fewer, but larger units.
Managing low-cost shipping in high-cost DenmarkCEC
Shipmanagement is the latest star on the
sky of ship management. It was set up in September, last year, when
the owners of T&C Shipmanagement in Svendborg sold their activities
to Clipper Group’s subsidiary Clipper Elite Carriers (CEC). |
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Estonia: A maritime country against its will.
Half a day before Estonia joins the European Union, the Ministry
of Economic Affairs and Communications greeted shipowners with the
announcement that they will not be receiving the long-expected state
aid that they had requested and that they had already been promised.
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Finland:Actions needed promptly. Although
a lot has been done to improve the conditions for operating vessels under
Finnish flag, some crucial elements are still missing. The manning costs
are becoming competitive, but an adequate system of making reservations
for acquiring new vessels is still missing.
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Germany:
Flagging-back increases as owners reward Berlin.
A promise by German shipowners to return 200 flagged-out vessels
to the German flag in return for more sympathetic government policies
towards shipping appeared to be bearing some fruit this spring.
Good times roll for German shipping.
Germans bring in more small safety tankers.
Study tips stable container investment.
Rate boom the result of 2002 developments.
Sweden: Tankers and tonnage tax.
Swedish tanker owners invest heavily in new tonnage. Of 55 confirmed
newbuilding contracts in the current Swedish order book, 44 are
tankers. With the exemption of two, all are oil products and chemical
carriers.
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Norway: Down and counting. With the
new whitebook on shipping, the gloom seems to be slowly lifting
from the Norwegian maritime community.
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 “One
Stop Shop” to Turku.
In co-operation with Sydväst Maritime, Wärtsilä Land
& Sea Academy is able to offer a wide range of training solutions
for crew and officers, tailored for the shipowner. A training centre
– One Stop Shop – is being established in Turku (Åbo).
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More feature articles:
• Latvia: Back to the Latvian flag.
• Lithuania: A successful maritime country.
• Poland: Shipping on the threshold of EU
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Also in this issue: News review, Comment, Perspectives on
an accident, PCTC earnings under threat, LNG freight could suffer
from over-supply, Chemical tanker earnings hit by over-supply, Inflatable
bridge raises safety, Market reports, Fleet news, IT and Communications,
Technical News and Old Ship.
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Next english issue, Finance and Insurance, is due 18 June, 2004.
Latest update 18-10-2006 8:49
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