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#Ports&Shipping –The latest IMDO Weekly Shipping Market Review includes the following stories as detailed below. Container Market: FMC approve P3 Alliance –The US Federal Maritime Commission has granted regulatory approval for the P3 vessel-sharing agreement between the world's top three…

#Cattleships – The detention of the Ireland-Libyan serving livestock-carrier which has been in Fowey since February has been lifted by UK authorities, writes Jehan Ashmore. Commenting to Afloat.ie, a spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "We inspected the…

#Shipping - A cargo ship captain has been fined by Cork District Cork over failing to immediately inform the Irish Coast Guard of engine difficulties suffered by his vessel late last month. As the Irish Examiner reports, the Department of Transport,…

#ShippingReview - Over the last fortnight Jehan Ashmore has reported from the shipping scene where Arklow Bay, second of six 'green' newbuilds was launched in the Netherlands for Arklow Shipping Ltd. Containership Arslan II that is understood to have got…

#CleanFuels - Negotiators for the European Parliament and the Council reached an informal first reading agreement yesterday on the Clean Fuel Strategy. If confirmed by EP's Transport Committee and Plenary, the Directive could still be adopted before the EU elections…

#SeaRailFreight- A year has passed since Afloat.ie reported on the revival of container rail-freight services between Waterford Port and Ballina, to link in with DFDS Logistics sailing schedules to Europe. According to multimodal.org.uk which has more on this, since the…

#Cattleships – The Ireland-Libya serving livestock-carrier Atlantic M departed Belview, Waterford today and is understood to be bound for the North African state's port of Misrata, writes Jehan Ashmore. As reported today, a sistership, Express 1 which in February encountered…

#Cattleships – The livestock vessel Express 1, which was detained in Fowey for five weeks to undergo urgent maintenance is likely to leave the port this week, writes This Is Cornwall. The vessel has remained in Fowey since early February…

#Cattleships- Express 1, an Ireland-Libya serving livestock-carrier which was detained in February by the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has this week been on 'post-repair trails' in the English Channel, writes Jehan Ashmore. Having anchored overnight off the Cornish…

#PortRegulations - This week, MEP and Rapporteur, Knut Fleckenstein and the shadow Rapporteurs on the Ports Regulation Proposal have jointly decided not to vote on the Regulation before the EU elections. The EP key players on this proposal are stressing…

#ShipsRudder- A containership Arslan II (1991/3,125grt) that is understood to have got into difficulties involving her rudder off Arklow Bank in January, and has since remained in a Dublin Port for almost two months, is scheduled to depart today, writes…

#UnionRMT – The BBC reports that the union leader of the Rail and National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), Bob Crow has died at the age of 52 of a suspected heart attack. Leading the RMT from…

#ShortSea14 – This year's ShortSea European conference will take place in the Portugese capital of Lisbon (12-13 May), and follows previous conferences held in Paris 2013 and Dublin the proceeding year. It will be supported by the Shortsea Promotion Centres…

#Ports&Shipping –The latest IMDO Weekly Shipping Market Review includes the following stories as detailed below. Container Market: Carrier reliability declines once again - Global containership schedule reliability, the proportion of ships that arrive into port on time, decreased 3.5% in…

#GreenNewbuild - Arklow Bay was launched by a Dutch shipyard on Friday, she is the second newbuild of six 'B'class 4,800dwt multi-purpose cargoships on order to Arklow Shipping Ltd, writes Jehan Ashmore. The amidships or sideways launch of the vessel…

#ShippingReview - Over the last fortnight Jehan Ashmore has reported from the shipping scene where Express I, the first Ireland-Libyan serving livestock-carrier for nearly two decades was detained by the UK's Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA), leading to calls by the…