EVERGREEN, OOCL TO LAUNCH SOUTHEAST ASIA-MIDDLE EAST LINER SERVICE

New Asia Africa Container Lines are envisaged everyday as business is booming between Asia and Africa countries even as Evergreen Line, Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) have agreed to operate a new joint Southeast Asia-India-Middle East liner service beginning on August 20, 2010. 

In The Meantime, AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE in co-ordination with various Lines has initiated a Feeder Service in the Indian Ocean AFRICA CONTAINER FEEDER LINE covering Mombasa, Zanzibar, Pemba, Dar Es Salaam, Mogadishu, Kismayo, Bosaaso, Djibouti, Berbera Ports,

The partners have agreed to operate the AGI service with five 2,700 TEU ships. The Evergreen vessel LT Genova will initiate the service from Laem Chabang departing on August 20. Evergreen, OOCL and Simatech have entered the new service to meet growing trade demand between ASEAN nations, India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. The AGI service will shorten transit times and enhance the shipping network in the region.The ASEAN-Gulf-ISC (AGI) service will have the following port rotation with a 35-day voyage.

Laem Chabang – Singapore – Tanjung Pelepas - Port Klang – Colombo – Jebel Ali – Karachi – Mundra – Colombo – Port Klang – Singapore – Laem Chabang

African Shipping Line at Mombasa-Kenya are Liner Port Agency, Container Agency, Project cargo in Eastern African Ports (Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam, Mogadishu, Djibouti, Berbera Ports, Please email: info@ashline.net or Call Mr. Ibrahim on +254-726-722-226

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CHINA KEEN ON INVESTMENT, TRADE AND SHIPPING IN KENYA, TANZANIA & SOMALIA

China will finance the building of a second port in Kenya, a transport corridor connecting South Sudan and the upgrading of a railroad linking Kenya's Mombasa port and the Ugandan capital, a statement said Wednesday.

Kenya is a gateway to East Africa and a key focus of China's trade and economic cooperation with the African continent. The war-free country with stable political situation made Kenya an ideal regional base for Chinese investors to expand their business in Africa.

China has had a long involvement with Africa, going back to the early days of independence movements in the 1960s and before. But the current level and intent of China’s involvement is different. China’s principal interest in the continent is access to natural resources. But it is not its only interest. China’s economic interests are wider. China’s trade with Africa has risen sharply, from $10 billion in 2003 to $20 billion in 2004 and another 50 percent increase is expected in 2005. Chinese goods are flooding African markets, and – not so different from the United States – there has been growing concern in Africa about the effect on local industry. The primary focus is on textiles where the growth of Chinese exports constitutes a double whammy for Africa. Exports of Chinese textiles to Africa are undermining local African industry while the growth of Chinese exports to the United States is shutting down the promising growth of African exports in this field.

The road could provide a route to export Chinese oil from southern Sudan.



Recently, China's CNOOC (0883.HK) spudded a $26 million exploration well in northern Kenya on Wednesday that will be the deepest yet in a country that has searched in vain for commercial oil and gas deposits for decades.

The Boghal-1 well in Block 9 of the Anza Basin is the 32nd drilled in the east African nation, which hopes to capitalise on growing interest in the continent among explorers due to high oil prices and growing energy nationalism elsewhere.

MSC MV CHITRA COLLIDES WITH MV KHALIJIA 2 OFF MUMBAI

The Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra that had Saturday collided with the MV-Khalijia-II, a St. Kitts registered ship, tilts in the Arabian Sea, close to Mumbai, India, Monday, Aug 9, 2010. Indian coast guard ships and helicopters are working to try and contain an oil spill from the dangerously tilting container ship following the collision near Mumbai, a spokesman for India's defense ministry said Monday.


MSC Chitra had collided with MV Khalijia-111, about 10 kms off the Mumbai coast. Oil was leaking from two of the 12 tanks of MSC Chitra which had got damaged due to the collision. The two tanks could together hold 879 tonnes of oil, sources in the Coast Guard said. The accident caused the vessel to run aground and list heavily to one side. The ship had 2,262 tonnes of oil and up to 400 tonnes of it had leaked into the Arabian sea, threatening marine life and ecology along the Mumbai coastline including in the mangroves.