Monthly Archives: November 2009

Work together, shippers and service providers told

SHIPPERS and service providers along the logistics value chain should work together to keep costs at competitive levels, says Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan. “An efficient and cost competitive logistics and transportation sector is vital to maintain the competitiveness of …

Message from Shipping ?????

To all returning readers, thanks for the support all this while. You’ll see much lesser updates in this blog for the next few weeks or so (in fact, since the past few weeks) – got quite caught up really (hey i need a job to …

Giant CMA CGM Ship Makes Maiden Call At Westports

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 (Bernama) — As an early appetizer for 2010, one of the world’s largest containership, the 13,300-TEU CMA CGM Christophe Colomb made its maiden call at Westports Malaysia Container Terminal last Sunday. It represents the biggest vessel to arrive at Port Klang …

Hubline raises RM124mil for expansion

By SHARIDAN M.ALI PETALING JAYA: Container and dry bulk shipping company Hubline Bhd has, via a recent corporate exercise, successfully raised RM124mil to be partly used in its expansion plan.Its rights issue of up to 621,676,421 new 20 sen shares at an issue price of …

External trade summary: Sep 2009

Following earlier post, below summary: Malaysia’s exports registered a total value of RM47.2 billion in September 2009,  decreased slightly by 1.1% while imports dropped by 0.7% to RM38.0 billion compared with August 2009. Exports and imports dipped by 24.2% from RM62.3 billion and 20.2% from …

External trade stats: release Nov 11th 2009

External Trade (Updated :11/11/2009)