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Rubber exports banned
The government of Liberia has banned
the export of unprocessed rubber and
intends to introduce new regulatory legislation
due to corruption, theft, illegal
sales and illicit tapping. President Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf also wants a greater proportion
of Liberian rubber production to
be processed within the country.
Rubber is Liberia’s biggest source of
employment and most valuable export,
accounting for 40% of export revenues,
though there is some uncertainty over
how much is exported in its raw state.
Firestone Natural Rubber Company operates
the world’s biggest rubber plantation
in Liberia under a 100-year concession
that runs out in 2025.
Most lawful production is shipped
from the Port of Monrovia and it is likely
that most illegal production also passes
through the port. A source in Monrovia
revealed that a new inspection regime
may benefit from EU funding. An EU
mission visited the port in May to identify
improvements that EU member states
could help finance.
Construction work on Monrovia
container terminal is already being undertaken
as part of APM Terminals’ new
concession. According to Matilda Parker,
managing director of the National Port
Authority (NPA), the ports of Monrovia
and Buchanan have been awarded international
security clearance. The NPA is hoping
to achieve clearance for the country’s
other two ports, Greenville and Harper.
New Russian ship type
Russia’s Nevsky Shipbuilding and
Shiprepair plant in Shlisselburg, in
Leningrad region, has built a new type
of fluvio-maritime bulk carrier in
the fashion of the former Volga Don
river-sea vessels. NEVA LEADER 3 was
built for North-Western Shipping
Company (SZMP) and is a self-propelled
7150dwt bulker, which at the
time of writing is undergoing sea trials.
The vessel is the result of project
“RSD 49” undertaken by the Marine
Engineering and Design Bureau in
Saint Petersburg. It is understood that
up to 12 more RSD 49 vessels may be
ordered from SZMP-owned Nevsky
Shipyard, mainly to carry bulk commodities
such as grain, iron and steel,
timber, coal, and project cargoes. The
areas of operations are the Caspian Sea,
White Sea and North Sea and, during
the Russian winter, intra-Mediterranean
and Irish Sea trades.
The vessel has a length overall of
139.95m and a 16.7m beam. River
draft is 4.7m and sea draft is 3.6m.
Cargo hold capacity is 10,920 m 3 and
the midships hold can accept oversized
cargo pieces up to 52m long. The vessels
are classed by the Russian Maritime
Register of Shipping and can carry
IMDG classes 1.45, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 8 and 9.
Owned by Russian transport and
logistics service group UCL Holding,
SZMP is Russia’s largest shipping company
with a fleet of 105 cargo vessels.
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Systems
Lines link up
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) of Japan and
Singapore-based Pacific International
Lines (PIL) have inked a series of agreements
on the small, but expanding trade
lanes connecting South East Asia with
the Indian Ocean islands and Mozambique.
The deals will mean more effective
use of existing ships, better alignment
of slot capacity to demand and
improved service reliability.
A mix of local and deepsea feeder
cargo is moved on both routes and with
Singapore offering hub opportunities,
MOL and PIL can seamlessly plug the
Indian Ocean and Mozambique into
their global networks.
The revised fixed day of the week Indian
Ocean service uses 4x 1100 TEU
vessels, with each partner contributing
two ships. For its part, PIL has stopped
its separately scheduled IOL service.
The new link features direct calls at
Singapore, Port Louis, Tamatave, Reunion
and return to Singapore. The Mozambique
operation is based on PIL’s
new MZS service, which links Singapore
with Maputo, Beira and Nacala using
seven ships. MOL buys space on the
operation and, consequently, has halted
its former Mozambique Zuid Africa IOI
Service (MZX).
Hutchison’s
Bulldog
spirit
John Meredith, group managing director
of Hong Kong headquartered
Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), claims
he is determined to help the UK’s small
and medium sized businesses (SMEs)
increase their exports and develop new
markets overseas.
To do this he has launched “Project
Bulldog,” effectively an export assistance
programme. Through the initiative, Meredith
has promised to share the expertise
he has gained in running an international
ports business for more than 40 years
and to provide advice to SMEs in areas
such as the law, tax/fiscal policies, education,
shipping practices and customs.
The HPH executive said that he had
launched his initiative largely out of
frustration after seeing Britain decline
as a world manufacturer and exporter
over the years. At the launch of “Project
Bulldog,” he mentioned the strange response
he received to lectures he was
asked to give on export opportunities to
Asia by the UK Government’s Trade &
Investment (UK T&I) agency last year.
“Most of the people who came forward
afterwards were security people, software
houses, lawyers and/or consultants,” he
said. “There were not many people who
were actually making things.”
This year the UK T&I had asked him
to give similar presentations, but with
the focus on opportunities in Latin
America, and he felt a change was also
needed with the emphasis on manufactured
exports.
In running a company that operates
the container ports of Felixstowe and
Harwich in the UK, he said this situation
was mirrored in the “stuff that is moving
out…The containers are mainly empty
or carrying scrap, but no products and I
get irritated by this. Britain needs to focus
on manufacturing, including offering tax
breaks and cheaper energy for exporters,
or it risks getting left behind [further]
by other more innovative nations.”
Meredith stressed: “You can’t rely on
North Sea oil and gas and the City of
London. We [as a country] have to go
back to basics and start making stuff.”
He suggested that in many places British
products were valued, hence many opportunities
existed.
HPH is a global ports operator running
52 ports in 26 countries and handling
76.8M TEU in 2012, up 2.3% on
the previous year. Meredith has worked
at the company for 42 years, taking it
from its roots in Hong Kong to the multi-billion
corporation it is today.
22
May 2013