liner shipping

'At worst they could virtually finish the liner shipping industry in Europe.

It is clear that the introduction of competition in the liner shipping sector constitutes a major change.

Liner shipping conferences do the same for part of the nonbulk maritime transportation.

Nor Lines is a short sea liner shipping and logistics company based in Norway.

I am pleased that the Commissioner has expressed the intention of doing so before the end of 2007 with regard to liner shipping.

EC policy threat to liner shipping.

That said, the Commission has also been concerned with preserving the competitiveness of the EU liner shipping industry.

Liner shipping has been organised as a cartel, albeit legally, since the 1870s, not just in Europe but in most other industrial nations.

Wilson ASA is a shortsea liner shipping company that operates about 100 vessels, of which 64 are owned.

Lloyd's List, the London-based shipping publication that reported the deal, said "the unprecedented decline reflects the growing crisis within the liner shipping industry."

There were differences between sail and steam, between tramp and liner shipping and between passenger and cargo services.

Kristian Jebsens Rederi usually known as Jebsens was a short sea liner shipping company founded in 1929.

Such a change is positive not only for shippers, the consumers of liner shipping services, but also for the liner shipping industry itself.

Sea transport systems in today's shipping market have evolved into three separate but closely connected segments: bulk shipping, liner shipping and specialized shipping.

Until World War II, the port at Millbay Docks was used for Transatlantic liner shipping, as it had been since the 1870s.

Starting out as a marginal Liner shipping Company with just 19 vessels, the SCI has today evolved into the largest Indian shipping Company.

By taking the step of examining market conditions carefully, we have all come to acknowledge that liner shipping is a highly competitive industry that does not need to be protected against competition.

The World Shipping Council (WSC) is the peak industry trade group representing the international liner shipping industry, which offers regularly scheduled service on fixed schedules.

In 1987 a strategic decision to start actively seeking outside shipping agency principals to complement the in-house core business activity of container liner shipping - Ben Line Agencies was established.

These acts were less thoroughgoing than the legislation dealing with U.S. domestic transportation, in that they left in place the "conference" system in international ocean liner shipping, which historically embodied cartel mechanisms.

The way in which the European Community's competition policy is being applied threatens the existence of the liner shipping industry in Europe, Edmund Vestey, president of the Chamber of Shipping has warned.

Additionally, many of the fleets competing on the high seas enjoy high levels of State participation and subsidy, such as the China Ocean Shipping Company, now one of the world's largest liner shipping companies.

This House sets great store by the fact that the Commission spells it out that other forms of cooperation, including the consortia block exemption, would continue to apply to this container liner shipping sector, because important operational agreements can be made in this respect, for example in terms of capacity.

Large homogeneous parcels such as iron ore, coal and grain are carried by the bulk shipping industry, small parcels of general cargo are carried by the liner shipping industry and specialised cargoes shipped in large volumes are transported by the specialized shipping industry.