The Dunoon passenger ferry experience
For Argyll
… passing shipping, a major attraction for boat buffs in the historic Clyde waterway. Western Ferries red vehicle and passenger carrying boats make colourful punctuation marks against the navy water and the white spume (above). A cargo boat, past the …

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Busy half-year but lower fish landings at Lerwick Harbour
Fishnewseu
The tonnage of shipping, at 5.2 million gross tonnes, was 19.2% higher, with the increases including fishing, cruise, oil-related and roll-on/roll-off vessels. The tonnage of shipping servicing the offshore oil and gas industry was up 59% at 820277 …

Old Port Profits With New Exports
Wall Street Journal
Cosmo Specialty Fibers has one of only a handful of US plants capable of converting cellulose into "dissolvable" pulp and the only one close to Pacific port shipping lanes. The plant's owners—a consortium led by private-equity investor Gores Group …

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Services round-up
ifw-net.com
… International Direct Distribution Ocean is a “speed-to-market ocean shipping solution” to destinations in the US and Canada from Asia, Latin America, Middle East, India and Europe; and International Direct Priority OceanSM for LCL and FCL cargo. …

Positive outlook as Aberdeen welcomes record traffic figures
Offshore Shipping Online
Vessel numbers rose by seven percent on the same period last year to 3746 while shipping tonnage increased from 11.6 million tonnes to 12.2 million tonnes. Total cargo tonnage also increased over the same period by 4.7 percent from 2.2 to 2.3 million …

Traffic at Aberdeen Harbour increases
Business7
Vessel numbers grew by seven per cent to 3746 with shipping tonnage going from 11.6 million tonnes to 12.2 million tonnes. Colin Parker, chief executive of Aberdeen Harbour Board, said: "A key part of our ongoing development strategy is the board's …

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Gate terminal buyers prepare for on-time Dutch LNG debut
ICIS (subscription)
With European prices at a substantial discount, shipping constraints remained the factor most likely to see cargoes offered into continental Europe in September. "The number of sub-charters on offer has slightly increased liquidity, but vessels are …

Santeramo Trading Expands Thanks to Innovative Freight Container Liner
The Handy Shipping Guide
… is a fully woven reflective liner that is hung into a general-purpose ISO shipping container and allows for forklift loading, hand loading and slip-sheet. It offers protection to cargo inside a container from dangerous levels of heat or cold that …

News In Brief
ifw-net.com
Lufthansa Cargo is to start using 500 new lightweight containers to reduce fuel consumption. The new containers are up to 15% lighter, and annual fuel consumption can be lowered by about 2180 tonnes, bringing Lufthansa a saving of 6867 tonnes of CO2. …

Thinking inside the box at MIF with the children?s playground that is Music Boxes
Manchester Evening News
And he's even smiling as we sit in the most unconventional of offices, both of us perched on small plastic stools in a shipping crate decorated in the vibrant livery of children's TV station CBeebies. It's a nice way of dispensing with the idea that …