KENYA'S AMBITIOUS USD 290 MILLION SECOND CONTAINER TERMINAL BEGINS

Kenya Ports Authority has begun operations at the new Sh29 billion second container terminal, setting pace for the port's new cargo handling capacity.

Container vessel MV Busan Trader, with a length overall of 210 metres docked at berth 21 on Monday, becoming the first vessel at the terminal. KPA public relations manager Bernard Osero said the ship was expected to complete discharging 934 containers yesterday, and load a similar number on her return voyage.

Kenya's Transport and Infrastructure Permanent secretary Irungu Nyakera said the facility “should be put into maximum use to enhance efficiency in cargo handling”. The first phase of the terminal, which has an annual capacity of 550,000 TEUs, was handed over to KPA in February, boosting the port’s container handling capacity by 50 per cent.

It has increased total terminal capacity at the Port of Mombasa to 1.55 million TEU’s from 1.1 million. The first phase comprises berths number 20 and 21 measuring 250 metres and 300 metres, with an additional small berth.

Maersk Line, MSC, African Shipping Line, CMA-CGM, Emirates Shipping Lines all operate from Mombasa Port.

COSCO SHIPING CORPORATION DEAL WITH VALE (BRAZIL)

The newly-created shipping major China COSCO Shipping Corporation COSCOCS has penned a 27-year agreement with Brazilian miner Vale that will see the Chinese shipping giant transport 16 million tons of iron ore for Vale on annual basis, the Chinese company said.

The deal has been signed earlier today in Beijing and marks the first major deal COSCOCS has signed since its formal launching. The agreement was signed by Ye Weilong, E.V.P of China COSCO Shipping, and Luiz Meriz, Executive Manager for Shipping and Iron Ore Marketing  of Vale.

“The signing of the agreement marks the commencement of a new chapter of the cooperation between the two companies,” a statement from China COSCO Shipping reads.

COSCOCS was officially launched in Shanghai on 18 February, following a merger between China Shipping and Cosco, thus becoming the world’s largest dry bulk and tanker owner and fourth on global scale with respect to its container fleet.

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 Recently and according to the director of China’s State Oceanic Administration, China has big plans for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) in 2016. Xinhua cited SOA chief Wang Hong as saying that China will advance the MSR with an action plan this year. Wang also spoke of establishing “a China-ASEAN maritime cooperation center and a platform to boost maritime cooperation in East Asia,” according to Xinhua.

Logistics investors in Asia have been weighing the relative effects of a slowdown in Chinese export trade, the changing composition of Chinese demand, and the potential trade boost from the new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). 

But at the same time, a fundamental transformation of Asian economic structure, trade relations and policy has been taking place – one that could have a far-reaching impact on the flow of goods and on the infrastructure that connects producers and consumers from the South China Sea to the Mediterranean.

The ‘one belt, one road’ strategy, announced in 2013, aims to bring back China’s historic land and sea trade routes, in the form of the so-called 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road Economic Belt.

Already China Shipping Container Lines Company (CSCL) announced the official launching of its services in the Republic of Georgia through the event “New Maritime Silk Road in Georgia”, hosted at Tbilisi Marriott Hotel on 2nd of December, 2015. 

Meanwhile, just recently, The Greek port of Piraeus emerged under OBOR as China’s new gateway into the EU, creating a shorter link between Southeast Asian production and consumer markets in Europe and Central Asia via the Silk Road maritime corridor across the Indian Ocean and Suez Canal. OBOR is a massive programme and embodies China’s most vital strategic goals, according to a paper by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). Since first investing in the port in 2009, China Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO) and its subsidiaries have obtained a contract extension to 35 years, built or rebuilt two terminals, and added modern cranes enabling the port to ramp up annual volume five-fold, from 700,000 standard 20ft containers to 3.6m.

In September, COSCO led a joint venture with two other Chinese state-owned enterprises that invested $940m to buy 65% of a logistics terminal in the Turkish port of Ambarli, on the European side of the Marmara Sea. COSCO is one of three bidders for a 51% stake in Piraeus, most of the Greek government’s 67% share. A decision was expected in late October.

Thailand is also receiving investment in its transport and logistics from OBOR. China is moving to create a network connecting Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s industrialised Yunnan province, and an economic bloc including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, called CLMV. China Railway Construction Corporation will participate in building a rail line running more than 840km from Kunming to Bangkok and ports on Thailand’s coast.

Through this service extensions, China Shipping intends to support It's Containerized goods directly from it's Factories to the Middle East and Africa and to Increase, facilitate activities of the international commerce.

China Shipping was founded in 1997, has its headquarters in Shanghai, China and is listed on both Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges. The company offers a diverse range of container transportation and supporting services all over the world. Following 18 years of developing, China Shipping has more than 100 branches overseas, more than 540 container vessels deadweight over 36 million tones. 

CSCL is a global container liner service provider affiliated to China Shipping Group currently having a global transportation network with more than 80 international, domestic and feeder service routes serving 180 ports across 60 countries. GNS Georgia was nominated by China Shipping as the sub-agent of the carrier China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. in Georgia. 

African Shipping Line covers many of those ports in the China Silk Ports on The Indian Ocean including Mombasa, Mogadishu, Berbera, Djibouti (Doraleh Port), Salalah, Jebel Ali, Karachi, Mumbai and Colombo Ports. We also have Agency Offices in China Guangzhou, Shenzhen 

NYK, MOL, EUKOR & WILHEMSEN IN NEW FINES BY CHINA

• Nippon Yusen, Mitsui OSK, Kawasaki Kisen among those indicted
• Move follows similar investigations in Europe and Japan

China fined eight shipping lines 407 million yuan ($63 million) in total after finding them responsible for price collusion in the transportation of vehicles and heavy machinery.

Japan’s Nippon Yusen KK, Mitsui OSK lines, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Eastern Car Liner Ltd., Korea’s Eukor Car Carriers Inc., Norway’s Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS, Chile’s Cia. Sud Americana de Vapores SA and its shipping line were the eight indicted after a year-long investigation, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on its website Monday. The companies acknowledge wrongdoing, the top Chinese economic planning agency said.

The probe follows similar investigations by the European Union in 2013 and Japan’s Fair Trade Commission. Japanese regulators raided the offices of five shipping lines in 2013 over allegations they discussed raising rates together for transporting cars, and imposed fines on Nippon Yusen and Kawasaki Kisen in January 2014. AP Moeller-Maersk A/S, CMA CGM SA and MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. were among companies in the European Union probe.

Companies’ Actions

Eukor will accept the Chinese decision and pay a fine of 284.7 million yuan, the company said in a statement on its website. The company also has implemented a competition law compliance program and corrective measures including antitrust compliance training, it said.

Eastern Car Liner "will execute what was directed immediately," said Yoshihisa Inmasu, the general manager of its general affairs department. The company will undertake stricter and more detailed legal compliance measures. Kawasaki Kisen is restructuring to carry out compliance, said spokesman Masaya Futakuchi.

Nippon Yusen has fully cooperated with the investigation by the Chinese agency and consequently received an immunity from the fine, the Japanese company said in a statement. A Mitsui OSK spokesman declined to comment.

Calls to the Shanghai and Hong Kong offices of CSAV group and Wallenius’s Asia Pacific media representative Bianca Himmelsbach weren’t immediately answered. Rainer Horne, a spokesman for Hapag-Lloyd AG, didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail sent outside regular German business hours. Hapag-Lloyd agreed last year to buy most of CSAV’s assets and become the fourth-largest container shipping company in the world.

The China investigation focused on Mitsui OSK, Kawasaki Kisen and Nippon Yusen because they controlled the bulk of the Chinese market, Bloomberg News reported in July, citing a person familiar with the matter. The person asked not to be identified because the investigation hadn’t been made public then.

In the European investigation, the EU drafted a possible deal with the companies that would spare them any immediate fines, people familiar with the case said.

BUSAN, HONGKONG, NINGBO BIGGEST PORTS IN ASIA REGION

Asia’s ports of Busan, Hong Kong and Ningbo have kept their lead in Container operation turnaround efficiency as they required shorter waiting times at anchorages as compared to the rest of top 10 container ports from around the world for October, the latest analysis from IHS Maritime&Trade shows. The analysis was based on a review of the navigation records of 4,703 full cellular container carriers, greater than 500 TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit). Even though waiting times at anchorages cannot perfectly reflect conditions of port congestion, average waiting hours per ship (AWT) serves as a useful indicator on ship turnaround efficiency at ports.

In Asia-Pacific, the top 4 ports in September held their same positions in October in terms of the total number of sailings. Singapore remains the world’s busiest port for sea-going containers. In the top 10 group, average waiting time (AWT) at Shanghai main ports, Kaohsiung and Qingdao, saw their waiting times increase that of others. Asian ports Hong Kong and Port Klang recorded increased traffic where the traffic they received increased 6.7% and 5.7%, respectively, the analysis shows.

South China’s ports Shekou, Mawan and Shantou received 10% and 20% more callings, respectively, compared to last month. Direct Berth Rates (DBR) of ports in Shenzhen like Shekou, Chiwan and Mawan and Guangzhou decreased 40% to 60% and their AWT correspondingly increased by 3 to 5 hours.

The review finds that Indonesian ports saw more containers traded with 20% and 13.2% more container ships calling at Tanjung Priok and Tanjung Perak. The other two smaller ports Belawan and Makassar each had more than 20% ships visited as well. The DBR of these four ports all improved, however, with the AWT of Tanjung Perak and Belawan at 8.3 and 6.1 hours, respectively.

Japan in general had less container trades in October, notably the Kawasaki ships seeing a reduction of 6.25%. Consequently, Japan’s DBR for its ports all increased except in Kobe.

Traffic to Laem Chabang in Thailand slumped 37%, which pushed its DBR to 54%.

In the Philippines, the daytime truck ban caused severe road congestion in Manila and caused its ports’ AWT jumped to 22.4 hours. This figure now matches that of Jawaharlal Nehru, India, where shipping traffic is still depressed and suffers from severe port congestion.

In the United States, congestion caused by labour shortages continues to be a drag on Oakland’s performance with its port AWT hitting 20.5 hours during the October month. The West Coast is also getting hit with longer waiting times with disruptions by ongoing lorry drivers’ strikes with Los Angeles experiencing a 10-hour increment in AWT to 16.1 hours, while Long Beach saw an increment of 9.4 hours to 23.6 hours.

Shipping volumes to both Spanish ports Algeciras and Valencia rose to more than 5% each. Algeciras’s AWT lowered by half to 8.5 hours, and also saw a noticeable drop in its DBR.

Compared to last month, 3.25% more ships called at Bremerhaven in Germany, which saw its AWT slightly decreased to 9.2 hours and its DBR increased 5.59%. Meanwhile the port performance at Hamburg remained flat at 9.38%, while there was increased traffic to the Ambarli port in Turkey. Felixstowe in UK increased its DBR to 72%.

Container shipping to the East Port Said, Egypt, dramatically declined by almost half, but its AWT still held above 10 hours. South African port Durban had 14.61% more traffic and its DBR increased 12.44%. African Shipping Lines operates from Shanghai, Ningbo and Nansha ports in China Direct to Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam, Mogadishu and Djibouti Ports.

In the Middle East, weather conditions were a concern for port operations in Salalah, Oman, with 7% more traffic up in October and the AWT lengthened to 24 hours. Vancouver in Canada recorded 7.81% less traffic and its DBR reached 53%. More ships called to all 4 major ports in Brazil and the volume at a country level grew to about 20%.

SWISS SHIPPING LINE RORO SERVICE TO WEST AFRICA

Lebanon-headquartered Swiss Shipping Line and Jacksonville-based Africa Car Carrier have formed a joint venture company in an effort to to strengthen their RoRo services in the U.S.

The new company, operating under the name of Blue Alliance Shipping, will combine resources and experience of the two founding companies to offer RoRo services on the U.S. East Coast. Blue Alliance Shipping’s main destination remains the west coast of Africa, with other destinations in the Mediterranean and Middle East to follow.

Next to the usual cargo handling from terminal up to delivery on quay at destination, Blue Alliance will offer real time cargo tracking. The company expects its first sailing to be by the end of this month on the Swallow Ace – V714.

SOMALIA PIRACY NO MORE

The News is: Somalia Piracy is no Longer a Threat.

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is out with its statistics for maritime piracy in 2015, and says there is sharp decline in the number of Somalia piracy attacks in recent years and this is a good sign for the Shipping Industry. 

The big driver of this trend is the decline off the piracy at the coast of Somalia. The IMB reports that atleast no Piracy happened in 2015 in the coast of Somalia attributing the drop to a number of factors, including “the key role of international navies, the hardening of vessels, the use of private armed security teams, and the stabilizing influence of Somalia’s central government.”

This was happening as E.U. Chair for the Contact Group of Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) was reported to have revised and reduced territories it deemed to be High Risk Areas (HRA) for piracy in the Indian Ocean. The revision will take effect on December 1 and reflects a decline of piracy in the region.

The revision might also reduce operating and insurance costs for vessel operators transiting the region. The HRA has previously covered most of India’s western coast and triggered increases in insurance rates that have led to a rise costs. About 70 percent of India’s international trade is by sea and about 40 percent of India’s $7 trillion GDP is generated through international trade.

The HRA was extended to India’s west coast in 2010, which brought the entire Indian Ocean into an exclusion zone. The HRA extension of the Indian Ocean meant the exclusion from annual war risk cover increased premiums for ship operators. The standard war risk insurance charge covered normal operations.

In response to rising surge of piracy in the region, the EU, China, Russia and the U.S. amongst other nations sent warships to protect the commercial shipping lanes. The increased military presence led to a steep drop in piracy. In January 2014, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and International Maritime Bureau (IMB) reported that piracy in the Indian Ocean 40 percent since 2011.

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Many Shipping Lines have already established their offices including African Shipping Line Somalia which operates as Liner Agents.

SOMALIA PIRACY NO MORE

The News is: Somalia Piracy is no Longer a Threat.

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is out with its statistics for maritime piracy in 2015, and says there is sharp decline in the number of Somalia piracy attacks in recent years and this is a good sign for the Shipping Industry. 

The big driver of this trend is the decline off the piracy at the coast of Somalia. The IMB reports that atleast no Piracy happened in 2015 in the coast of Somalia attributing the drop to a number of factors, including “the key role of international navies, the hardening of vessels, the use of private armed security teams, and the stabilizing influence of Somalia’s central government.”

This was happening as E.U. Chair for the Contact Group of Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) was reported to have revised and reduced territories it deemed to be High Risk Areas (HRA) for piracy in the Indian Ocean. The revision will take effect on December 1 and reflects a decline of piracy in the region.

The revision might also reduce operating and insurance costs for vessel operators transiting the region. The HRA has previously covered most of India’s western coast and triggered increases in insurance rates that have led to a rise costs. About 70 percent of India’s international trade is by sea and about 40 percent of India’s $7 trillion GDP is generated through international trade.

The HRA was extended to India’s west coast in 2010, which brought the entire Indian Ocean into an exclusion zone. The HRA extension of the Indian Ocean meant the exclusion from annual war risk cover increased premiums for ship operators. The standard war risk insurance charge covered normal operations.

In response to rising surge of piracy in the region, the EU, China, Russia and the U.S. amongst other nations sent warships to protect the commercial shipping lanes. The increased military presence led to a steep drop in piracy. In January 2014, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and International Maritime Bureau (IMB) reported that piracy in the Indian Ocean 40 percent since 2011.

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Many Shipping Lines have already established their offices including African Shipping Line Somalia which operates as Liner Agents.