Tradelane Rivalry May Scupper South Korean Shipping Alliance
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) Yesterday’s partnership agreement between 14 South Korean shipping lines falls far short of the consolidation needed to bring
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) Yesterday’s partnership agreement between 14 South Korean shipping lines falls far short of the consolidation needed to bring
South Korea’s 14 domestic shipping lines launched a shipping alliance as predicted on Tuesday. The Korean Shipping Partnership (KSP) was announced by the
South Korea’s shipping companies are preparing to launch a domestic shipping alliance to help the nation better compete in the global container shipping
by Matías Larramendi (Reuters) Uruguay’s navy said on Sunday it was losing hope of finding alive any of 22 crew members missing two days after a South
By Joyce Lee SEOUL, March 23 (Reuters) – South Korean state banks are preparing a fresh $2.6 billion bailout for floundering Daewoo Shipbuilding &
By Suyeong Lee (Reuters) South Korea prepared on Sunday to raise the Sewol ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, March 9 (Reuters) – Global cruise giants Carnival Corp and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd will cancel South Korean port visits from their
By Kyunghee Park and Jung Park (Bloomberg) — Last August, the Korea Development Bank left cash-strapped Hanjin Shipping Co. adrift at sea —
By Jung Park (Bloomberg) — As if investors in Asia’s troubled corporate bond markets don’t have enough to worry about, concern is mounting about
SEOUL, Dec 10 (Reuters) – South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd received a $650 million order to build 10 ships for Iran’s
SEOUL, Nov 15 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries is being split into four companies, with its non-shipbuilding businesses being
By Jiyeun Lee, Kanga Kong and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea, home to the world’s three biggest shipbuilders, plans to spend about 11
By Joyce Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) – South Korea said on Monday it plans to establish a state-backed ship financing company with an
By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea’s shipbuilding industry — home to the world’s top three manufacturers — has eliminated
by Jiyeun Lee (Bloomberg) Extravagant dinners with whiskey and wine, golfing weekends, pricey beef and seafood gift sets. South Korean companies are trying to
By Joyce Lee (Reuters) South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd said on Friday its board of directors have approved a plan to raise about 1.1
by Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) Samsung Heavy Industries Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, reported a quarterly loss that was bigger than estimates as
SEOUL, June 20 (Reuters) – Two Vietnamese crewmen on a South Korean fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean have allegedly stabbed and killed the ship’s
By Christopher Langner (Bloomberg) — Now, the ship really has sailed. After kicking the can down the waterway for a few years, Korean banks will have to
High waves have forced salvage crews to delay the operation to lift the sunken Sewol ferry in South Korea until later this month. The lifting of vessel kicked
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