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Jan 17, 2000
Global oil major BP Amoco has introduced new rules to restrict the chartering of older oil tankers a month after the Erika disaster that polluted 400 km of the France's coastline.
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Jan 17, 2000
Combined orders received by South Korean shipbuilders totaled 12.72 million gt for 227 ships in 1999, up 127.2 percent from a year earlier, according to the Korea Shipbuilders' Association said.
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Jan 17, 2000
Norwegian shipping group Bergesen d.y. ordered four 296,000 dwt tankers from Japan's Hitachi Zosen Corp., for $263.7 million.
Company officials said the vessels were all under construction,
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Jan 17, 2000
Strikes, and poor management and infrastructure at Bangladesh's Chittagong port are costing shippers thousands of dollars and hampering the country's external trade.
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Jan 17, 2000
Standard & Poor's lowered its corporate credit ratings on Pacific & Atlantic Holdings Inc. to 'SD' (selective default) from double-'C'. At the same time, the ratings on the company's 11.
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Jan 17, 2000
Totaling more than 37,000 vessels available to meet U.S. shippers' transportation needs, the U.S. domestic fleet is greater than previously reported, according to the U.
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