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Lloyd's List One Hundred 2011 Two top executives at Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk have overtaken China's transport minister as the most influential individuals in shipping, Lloyd's List said on Thursday.The duo came in shared first place in the shipping newspaper's annual ranking, the "Lloyd's List One Hundred", also ahead of Mike Duke, the head of the world's biggest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Somali pirate Garaad Mohammed.Maersk's group Chief Executive Nils Smedegaard Andersen and Eivind Kolding, who heads the group's container arm Maersk Line, were "changing the face of container shipping" in terms of ship size, booking systems and service, Lloyd's List said.It said that Andersen and Kolding aimed to turn Maersk into a global brand recognised also outside the industry.Andersen and Kolding overtook China's minister of transport, Li Shenglin, who topped the list last yearThe paper ranked Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen, principal owner of the world's biggest independent oil tanker group Frontline and other companies, third most influential in the industry, followed by Ma Zehua, the head of China's COSCO Group, in fourth place.Lloyd's List named Walmart's Duke fifth most influential in the shipping industry. The U.S. retail group is a huge consumer of shipping ...

On theaters on March 22nd, 2013 By the time Captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by Navy SEALs back in 2009, it was clear that they were totally going to make a movie about it. Sure enough, Columbia Pictures grabbed the movie rights the very next month. Since then, the project has signed on Tom Hanks to play the lead role of Phillips and Paul Greengrass to direct. It's taken a while, but now the project -- officially titled Captain Phillips -- has nailed down a release date. The Playlist reports that Captain Phillips will make port in theaters on March 22nd, 2013.Captain Richard Phillips and the crew of the Maersk Alabama were attacked by four Somali pirates intent on hijacking the vessel on April 8th, 2009. The crew fought back with flares and even the ship's rudder, but the pirates made it aboard anyway.The crew had smartly rerouted control of the ship away from the bridge and powered everything down, so the pirates couldn't control the ship, but they did capture Captain Phillips and several crew members. Chief Engineer Perry managed to capture the pirate leader and they attempted to exchange him for Phillips, but the pirates ...

Testing algae-based biofuel on the container ship Maersk Kalmar Norfolk, VA and Copenhagen, Denmark - Maersk and the U.S. Navy are testing algae-based biofuel on the container ship Maersk Kalmar. The ship is en route from Northern Europe to India.Maersk Kalmar has two key attributes that make it a suitable vessel for biofuel testing. The 300 meter-long container ship has a dedicated auxiliary test engine, which reduces the risks of testing, and its fuels system has a special biofuel blending equipment and separate tanks.In October 2010, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus visited Maersk headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark and learned of energy conservation initiatives across Maersk's fleet of over 1,300 vessels. These programs fit well with the Navy's interests in increasing fuel efficiency and reducing emissions. The biofuels test is the first collaboration between Maersk and the U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)."The shipping industry needs to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas intensity in the coming decades. In the short term, we can gain a lot by focusing on improving fuel efficiency. In the longer term, we would like to see sustainable biofuels become a commercially available, low-carbon fuel," said Jacob Sterling, Head of Climate and Environment at Maersk Line.During ...

The economics of very big ships Aboard one of the world's largest container ships, moving almost imperceptibly through the seas off Vietnam, it's easy to appreciate the economies of scale that allow a T-shirt made in China to be sent to the Netherlands for just 2.5 cents.The Eleonora Maersk and the other seven ships in her class are among the biggest ever built: almost 400m long, or the length of four football pitches, and another half-pitch across. The ship can carry 7,500 or so 40-foot containers, each of which can hold 70,000 T-shirts. On the voyage your correspondent took, the Eleonora was carrying Europe's New Year celebrations: 1,850 tonnes of fireworks, including 30 tonnes of gunpowder.To move all this cargo from China to Europe in just over three weeks, the Eleonora boasts the largest internal-combustion engine ever built, as powerful as 1,000 family cars. This engine turns the longest propeller shaft (130m) ever made, at the end of which is the largest propeller, at 130 tonnes. Yet the ship is so automated that it requires a mere 13 people to crew it. Reassuringly, most captains prefer to take a few more.Maersk Lines, the world's biggest container-shipping company and owner of ...

AE8 to be discontinued next year, but Danish carrier is finalising replacement products Maersk Line is assuring customers that its daily service from Asia to Europe will not be harmed by the imminent departure of CMA CGM from one of the loops that forms part of the offering.The Danish line confirmed to IFW's sister publication, Lloyd's List, that its AE8 service, operated in co-operation with CMA CGM's FAL 5 loop, will be discontinued next year.The two lines each contribute five vessels of around 13,000teu to the service.Following the vessel sharing and slot-charter agreement between CMA CGM and MSC last week, the French and Danish carriers will end their Asia-North Europe service. However, they are expected to continue to co-operate on the Asia-Mediterranean trades.Maersk Line's head of Europe services, Vincent Clerc, said the line was finalising its replacement products and would provide details soon."Our Daily Maersk promise is the cornerstone of our product offering and has in a very short period become extremely popular with the customers. Therefore, it will of course remain unchanged and our customers will continue to enjoy the absolute reliability of our network," he said."Other port pairs currently covered by AE8/FAL5 will be covered through new, improved ...

Changes of Schedules on Four Continents After the recent news that CMA CGM and MSC will be working more closely together to maximise efficiency of freight services the two giant container shipping lines have confirmed adjustments to their schedules whilst Maersk, Hamburg Süd, CSAV and CSCL have also seen Winter season restructuring.In an effort to balance supply and demand during the forthcoming traditional period of weaker demand, Hamburg Süd and Maersk Line on the one hand and CMA-CGM, CSAV and CSCL on the other, have reached an agreement to adjust their services between Asia, South Africa and the East Coast of South America as from this month until next May.Each Group is currently operating two weekly services in the trade. For the period from December 2011 through May 2012, the existing ASAS/NGX Sling 2 service will be merged with the existing ASAX/SEAS Sling 2 service. The current capacity deployed by the carriers in the ASAS/NGX Sling 1 service (Maersk and Hamburg Süd ) and ASAX/SEAS Sling 1 service (CMA CGM, CSAV, CSCL) will remain unchanged and independent. This means the ASAX/SEAS 1 which currently utilises eleven 6,500 TEU vessels will now have the same number of smaller ships each between ...

Head of fleet operations at Maersk tells what can be done to combat piracy Erik Rabjerg Nielsen, head of fleet operations at the global shipping company Maersk Line, tells Insider what can be done to combat the growing scourge of piracy.

Tehy will both operate their Northern and Southern Star services through Tauranga Maersk Line, the world's largest container shipping line, operating in conjunction with Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad (MISC), have announced plans to relocate their Southern Star service to Port of Tauranga (with the new port rotation: Tanjung Pelapas (Malaysia), Singapore, Tauranga, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Tanjung Pelapas).Port of Tauranga Chief Executive, Mark Cairns, said Maersk Line and MISC's announcement is great news. We have been working for some time to attract a new import ship call to Tauranga to better balance our MetroPort rail shuttle service to and from Auckland. We are very pleased to confirm the announcement by Maersk Line and MISC who will now operate both their Northern and Southern Star services through Tauranga on a weekly basis, with connections through to their South East Asian hubs.Maersk Line and MISC s new port rotation will commence on Saturday 10 December 2011 with the arrival of the vessel Euromax and will be reviewed again in June 2012, when MISC are withdrawing from container line shipping globallyPort of Tauranga is commencing a significant capital expenditure programme over the next few years to ensure that the Port continues to provide ...

Agreement to pool a fleet of around 50 VLCCs Four major shipowners have signed an agreement to pool a fleet of around 50 VLCCs.Mitsui OSK Lines/Phoenix Tankers Pte Ltd, Maersk Tankers, Samco Shipholding and Ocean Tankers, Singapore, have signed a letter of intent to pool roughly 50 VLCCs with an average age of three years.The pool, which could control around 10% of the world fleet is expected to start operations on 1 February next year with offices in Singapore, Copenhagen and New York."The flexibility of a large, young and reliable fleet ensures that the VLCC Pool can, at all times, offer relevant vessels of the highest standard to cater for our customers' need for safe and environmentally friendly marine transportation," the companies said in a statementSource: Seatrade Asia

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