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A huge tanker fleet controlled from Copenhagen.
The Danish tanker owners and operators have gained a strong
foothold in the product tanker segment world-wide. At present, some
230 product tankers are controlled from the Copenhagen area of Denmark.
“Maersk Nordenham” is the first in a series of six. Owners
in Germany, run by Danes.
Goods stay with renewed fleet
While Estonian transit companies are rather cautious about releasing
any forecasts, Mr Artur Kivistik, harbour master of Muuga Harbour,
is convinced that the amount of liquid freight will remain the same,
although the fleet is being constantly renewed.
Forecast: less profit for Estonian companies.
Mr Raivo Vare, the Development Director of Estonian Railways, assumes
that the new oil products terminal of Primorsk will rob the Estonian
oil terminals of their current main advantage – the speed of
the turnover – and therefore decrease their earning capacity.
Ventspils still hopes. The Latvian
Government would prefer to sell the shares of Ventspils oil transit
companies together with the major shareholders in a common package
in an attempt to guarantee the continued oil transports via the
Polotsk–Ventspils pipeline.
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The
fleet in the LNG sector to double.
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is going to be an industrial shipping
adventure in the coming years. The growth in this sector is high,
with yearly rates of 10–15 per cent.
Clipper and Wonsild in a merger
A product tanker giant to be created in Copenhagen.
A new tanker giant is about to be created in Copenhagen. From September
this year, the wellknown Wonsild Tankers A/S will merge with Copenhagen
Tankers, which is a joint venture between the Clipper Group, Wonsild
Tankers, and the Clipper Group's British tanker company Crescent
Tankships Ltd.
Three times more oil via Primorsk
When a group of Estonian harbour masters visited Primorsk Harbour
back in October 2001, they had to walk through sand; the quays and
first tanks were already completed, however, as well as the port
administration building.
Containment
technology on the move.
Since transport of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by sea first began
in 1964 from Algeria to the U.K. the onboard containment systems
have been either an independent tank type – better known as
the spherical tank – developed by Norwegian Moss Rosenberg
(now Moss Maritime) or the membrane type tanks later developed by
Gaz Transport and Technigaz.
Large tankers – a new challenge for the
Baltic Sea. Shipping is growing in the Baltic Sea region.
Increased trade in general and Russian oil exports in particular
is boosting maritime transportation and there is an increasing demand
for larger ships.
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2005
Editorial:The
Scandinavian leadership. 
