India may allow fleet owners to register ships overseas

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Published on Sunday, 18 May 2014 03:20
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Plan aimed at reversing a trend of local fleet owners opening subsidiaries abroad to register and operate ships to increase the national shipping capacity
P. Manoj
 
The proposal, which needs the government’s approval, involves giving a relaxation from this law to Indian shipowners so that the task of registering ships overseas becomes official and legal. Photo: Bloomberg
India’s maritime regulator, the director general of shipping, is pushing for a plan that allows local shipping companies to register their ships in tax-friendly overseas jurisdictions without opening subsidiaries, in a bid to increase the national shipping capacity.
   The proposal will allow local shipping companies to directly register their ships overseas sitting in India without opening subsidiaries abroad to create a new fleet category known as Indian-controlled, foreign-registered ships.

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Rolls-Royce drone ships challenge industry

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Published on Sunday, 18 May 2014 03:16
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Crewless vessels touted to be cheaper and less polluting but critics  question their safety

 
By Isaac Arnsdorf, Vancouver SunMay 16, 2014
 
 
 
In an age of aerial drones and driverless cars, Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is  designing unmanned cargo ships.

Rolls-Royce's Blue Ocean development team has set up a virtual-reality  prototype at its office in Alesund, Norway, that simulates 360-degree views from  a vessel's bridge. Eventually, the London-based manufacturer of engines and  turbines says, captains on dry land will use similar control centres to command  hundreds of crewless ships.

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Feature: The great EU Filipino crew conundrum

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Published on Thursday, 15 May 2014 05:38
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Thursday, 15 May 2014 | 00:00

So just to clarify: The Philippines has failed an audit of its maritime training by inspectors from a European Union safety agency but its seafarers are OK to carry on working on EU-flag ships. The Asian country may, however, fail another audit and then Filipino seafarers may not be o.k. Perhaps this is the right way to put it: The Philippines is in a perpetual state of being audited and no-one will ever know for sure whether Filipino seafarers are EU-approved.
The news last month that the EU, after months of indecision and speculation, had decided that, while a report by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) had made it clear the Asian country did not meet the

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Hellenic ship owners control 46.72% of EU tonnage says President of Union of Greek Shipowners

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Published on Friday, 16 May 2014 10:44
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Friday, 16 May 2014 | 00:00

Hellenic ship owners control 46.72% of the EU fleet based on dwt tonnage, a token of the size of the country's maritime industry, despite the challenging conditions in global shipping. As such, Hellas has remained the No1 maritime nation globally, controlling a total of 3,669 vessels (over 1,000 GT), which make up for the 16.16% of the global fleet, in terms of deadweight tonnage. This according to yesterday's message by Mr. Theodoros Veniamis, President of the Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS), on the occasion of the Posidonia Exhibition, which is to be held this coming June, attracting exhibitors from more than 93 countries.
Mr. Veniamis noted that the vast majority of the fleet is been managed by

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Pourquoi le transport routier français est menacé de disparition

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Published on Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:36
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  Publié le 29/04/2014 - Mis à jour le 29/04/2014 à 12:14

Par Julien Bouillé

 

Les chiffres ne trompent pas. Seulement 58 % des entreprises de transport françaises ont enregistré un résultat positif l’an passé. Déjà récurrentes, les défaillances s’accélèrent. À fin mars, elles ont augmenté de 4,9 % sur douze mois pour passer à +8,5 % sur le dernier trimestre. Après une année 2013 marquée par le redressement judiciaire douloureux de Mory-Ducros, plus localement par la liquidation du châlonnais Acosta (90 emplois) ou les difficultés de Szymanski, à Muizon, l’année 2014 s’annonce, une fois encore, très difficile. À la tête de la plus importante société de la région (près de mille salariés), le

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