Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it plans to impose a full-load terminal-handling charge on top of present rates as of March 1 for cargoes moving from all ports in Northern Europe, including Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, to any destination in the Far East.

MSC said the charge is applicable to cargo leaving the UK from Feb. 1.

It said the charge applies to all cargoes including waste paper, plastic, metal scrap, etc. The carrier said it is applying the charge “in order to secure more transparency in the market.”

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• MSC hikes prices from Spain

    Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on all eastbound cargo from Spanish ports to destinations in the Middle East and the Far East. It is applying an increase of $100 per container as of Feb.

• Scientists go to great garbage patch in the Pacific

     (USAtoday) A group of scientists is sailing out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to study the mass of floating plastic trash that could be twice the size of Texas, The San Jose Mercury News reports.  The debris is located about 1,000 miles west of California and includes everything from old fishing

• Evergreen strengthen Asia-Europe Supplements

    Evergreen Line says it has decided to revise upward it Emergency Bunker Surcharge on the Far East and Indian Sub-Continent to Europe and Mediterranean Westbound Trades to reflect the cost of bunker consumption based on the cargo volume. In this way it will be able to “continue offering services with

• Ukraine: in 2009 Illichevsk transported 16 million tons of goods through ports

    In 2009, the state enterprise Illichevsk sea trading port (Odessa oblast, Ukraine) shipped 16.28 mln tonnes of cargoes, in December – 1.19 mln tonnes, declared the press-cutting service of the port.

• Trash boat: boat made from recycled bottles is preparing to sail the Pacific

     (ABC) It’s a work of modern art and an engineering marvel — a 60-foot catamaran kept afloat by recycled plastic bottles. Source

• CMA CGM hikes Northern Europe-Far East Rates

     CMA CGM said it will increase freight rates for all cargoes from North Europe to the Far East on April 1. Rates will rise by $150 for a 20-foot equivalent unit and by $300 for a 40-foot box, the French ocean carrier said.

• MSC Adds export pick-up fee

     Mediterranean Shipping Company will charge a container fee for export equipment picked up at some Midwest depots as well as other locations in the United States effective Nov. 1. The new fees, applicable to export pickups only, will be $100 per 20-foot container and $150 per 40-foot unit. The Journal

• Boat of plastic bottles has sailing Study

     (sfgate) A strange looking vessel took a leisurely sail on San Francisco Bay on Wednesday – a shakedown voyage for a plastic, fantastic adventure that should finally start next month.  Source

• 50% of marine debris is plastic

     (sail-world) Alistair McIlgorm of the National Marine Science Center in Coffs Harbor Australia says ‘6.4 million tons of debris reaches the world’s oceans each year.’ ‘Of that, 80 percent is thought to come from land based sources, more than half of the rubbish is believed to be plastic’.  Source

• Asian Shippers TSA rate hike

    Asian shippers have blasted plans by container lines on the transpacific trade to levy a $320 per teu ‘emergency recovery charge’. The Asian Shippers’ Council described as ‘astounding’ the move by member lines of the Transpacific Stablization Agreement to levy a charge of $320 per teu, $400 per feu, and

• Pacific Garbage Patch \ u0026quot on the rise

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• GDF Suez eyes Asian shipments

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• Ukraine: Illichevsk Port cargo turnover decreased by 8.3%

    During ten months of 2009, Illichevsk sea trading port (Odessa oblast, Ukraine) increased own cargo shipment plan by 1.4%, in October – by 8.2%. In January-October period of 2009, the general cargo turnover totaled 13.84 mln tonnes, in October – 1.51 mln tonnes, declared the press-cutting service of the port.?

• Zim impose emergency tax on U.S. exports revenue

     Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. has announced its plans to impose an “emergency revenue charge” of US$125 per TEU on exports originating in the United States for all? destinations, effective as of March 15, 2010. ? In a press release Zim said that the charge ‘is an interim measure taken in

• Evergreen hikes prices

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