The Business Times, 2 January 2001

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  • 15 1 MITA (P) 028/12/2000 850 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2001
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  • 76 1 FOBEX RATES us$ s$ l!S$ (S$perUS$) 1.734 £(US$/S$ per 1.492 1687 EURO(US$/S$/E) 0.930 1.612 DM 2.104 1213 YEN 114j8 66.20 RM 8500 2.192 HK$ 7500 4.499 BAHT 43.10 2456 8UPIAH 9,650 5,566 •SStolOO units PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK .9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50
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  • 760 1  -  Divestment of non-core assets by OCBC may entail revamp of F&N, Centrepoint By. Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Speculation is mounting among analysts that listed Centrepoint Properties could emerge as the buyer of up to $1 billion worth of choice properties that OCBC Bank will
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  • 551 1  -  No year-end rally as investors stayed on the sidelines By Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] 2000 was a year Singapore stockbrokers would rather forget. With market volumes falling to just above the regional crisis levels in 1997/98, brokers saw their commissions
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  • 240 1 [SINGAPORE] Shaving one's head is often associated with religious rites, but for Willie Cheng and eight of his colleagues, it was their way of doing their bit for charity as well as marking the renaming of Andersen Consulting, the world's largest consulting firm, as Accenture.
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  • 396 1  -  i Tax department held np as model for developing countries Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The World Bank has held up the Singapore tax department's use of new technology as a model for developing countries. "Singapore's integrated, computerised approach to tax administration has had impressive results,"
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    • 107 1 msmE New Asia Biz Woman Chinese style, according to fashion designer Vivienne Tam. Page 20 Top Stories Japanese stocks, economy seen moving downwards. Next Page Soros sees hard Wm landing econo- K my. Page L^A-H Food Empire to raise output by 40%. Pg 4 A year of M&As, mad 3G
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 350 4  -  It has new $350,000 processing plant for instant beverages By\ David Boey FOOD Empire Holdings, a mainboard listed food and beverage firm, expects to raise its production capacity of instant beverages by about 40 per cent once its new $350,000 food processing
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    • 307 4 INDICATIVE NUMBER MIDDLE PRICES GROSS MATURITY YEAR RAISED COUPON AMOUNT INTEREST Of DAYS OF (EXCLUDING REDEMPTION RATE ($M) PAYMENT ACCRUED ACCRUED YIELD ISIN CODE PA) DATES WTBBT INTEREST) PA) 15/03/2001 N*****0W1996 2 3/8# 800.00 15/3 15/9 107 99.94 2.64» SG********** 01/04/2001 N*****0Z
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    • 833 4  -  SfrMH lock siew quak hiang whai POR those who work or travel frequently in China, Beijing's announcement on new telecom charges must be one of the best pieces of news heard in a long time from the Chinese authorities. Indeed, Beijing's decision last
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    • 56 4 This announcement appears as a matter of record only \JjEI) 1908 y GREAT EASTERN HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) MERGER BETWEEN GREAT EASTERN HOLDINGS LIMITED AND THE OVERSEAS ASSURANCE CORPORATION LIMITED BIL Asia Singapore DEXIA BIL ASIA SINGAPORE LIMITED Financial Adviser to the Independent Directors of Great
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 971 5  -  Y2E started on high note, only to tnrn into a liquidity crisis as 2001 approached By Teh Hooi Ling LIKE a pendulum, sentiments for the telecommunications industry swung from one extreme to the other last year. The year 2000 couldn't
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    • 225 5 Reuters [UNITED NATIONS] Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Colombia and Mauritius yesterday became members of the prestigious UN Security Council for two-year terms, with Singapore immediately taking over the 15-nation body's rotating presidency for the month of January. The council has 10 nonpermanent members,
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    • 247 5  -  I=ll=4 on the economy money supply By] Eugene Low THE decline in Singapore's money supply continued in November, although at a slower rate, with broad aggregates M 2 and M 3 registering year-on-year slides, latest figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
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    • 169 5  -  MAiLrm Mr Mrs Tan Song Poh Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Malaysia won't cede control of MAS: Dr M" (BT, Dec 28). The Malaysian government will have to decide whether Malaysia Airlines is to be a regional or an international carrier.
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    • 9 5 Phone firms press on with USs3oob bet, Pg 13
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  • FOCUS tdb
    • 1235 6  -  PWD Consultants' Pang Toh Kang tells chuang peck bdhg why the China market is being targeted and what it takes to succeed there CHUANG PECK MING YOU'VE heard of the five 'Cs' credit card, cash, career, car and condominium. Possessing them marks you out
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    • 883 6  -  Byi Chuang Peck Ming JTC International (JTCi) has just finished reviewing business prospects in India. Its conclusion? "There're lots of opportunities there," says the firm's senior general manager Chua Tiow Chye. "After China, India is the next biggest market we'll be focusing on
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    • 13 6 THE NEW TRADE EQUATION. SOLVED. itdb/cfffii SINGAPORE TRADE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INTERNATIONAL DAY 2001
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 764 8  -  mm bottom line OPINION susan tsang Susan Tsang is a freelance writer who contributed this article to BT THE recent Zahara Lateef maid abuse case should start soul searching and provide some food for thought about the way we live. Certainly, the case
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    • 74 8 'Five years and 10 Ph.D. theses later, we will know all the various ways in which technology stoked the economy on the way up and depressed it on the way down.' -Bob Barbara an economist, on the decline of the US economy. 'The year started off as
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    • 590 8 EDITORIAL INDONESIANS are still reeling from the aftershocks of the year just ended. Social and political unrest across the archipelago intensified while the economy was still struggling to emerge from its worst recession in more than 30 years. A sobering reminder of just how unstable
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    • 1277 8  -  His achievement of sequencing the hnman genetic code will stand the test of time by Clive Cookson FT IF people are still around a millennium from now, what will they remember 2000 for? The year's petty political developments are unlikely to leave a memorable
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    • 728 8  -  COMMENTARY By Paul Krugman NYT AT this time last year a share in WebMD formerly Healtheon, the "new new thing" of Michael Lewis' best-selling book about Silicon Valley was worth about as much as 1.5 megawatt-hours of wholesale California electricity. But since then tech stocks have plunged,
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  • YEAR 2001
    • 1275 9  - Annus horriblis after I I comment ECONOMICS vikram khanna Markets close century with a roar, thundered the page one headline ofßT's special millennium edition exactly a year ago. Things seem to have turned upside down since; the year 2000 has turned out to be just about the worst for stock
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    • 893 10  -  Rlcomment STOCKS Economic forecasts for the year are pretty grim. But there are grounds for optimism r.sivanithy PICK a stockbroker at random and ask him where the market is headed this year and the chances are the reply will be negative. First, many observers believe the
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    • 1040 10  -  -li comment CURRENCIES Keep those fingers crossed for Alan Greenspan larry wee A SLOWING economy has dramatically taken the sheen off the US dollar's unchallenged supremacy in the past two months, the spectre of an economic relapse finds the yen in even
      Source: Deutsche Bank Markets Research  -  1,040 words
    • 740 11  -  hi I comment PROPERTY lee han shih WANT to know which way the Singapore property market will turn next year? Then keep an eye on Alan Greenspan. This year, how the chairman of the Federal Reserve handles the US economy is going to have a
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    • 936 11  -  I-I I comment INFO TECHNOLOGY It's the year for speeding up yonr Internet access raju chellam D. ESPITE all the gloom about the dotcom doom, businesses that take advantage of the emerging world of high-speed broadband Internet access using PCs (personal computers), handheld PDAs (personal digital
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    • 1028 11  -  I-li comment BANKING The need to Interact with man rather than machine persists siow li sen THIS is not about any particular bank, though a few will be mentioned. Told to write about banking in the millennium a rather wide brief I decided to approach
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    • 1183 12  -  John gee casts a concerned eye over the very nasty future that we may be shaping for ourselves JOHN GEE AS THE 20th century drew to a close, companies and governments around the world spent millions of dollars making their computers Y2K compliant. The crucial moment came
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  • e-NEWS
    • 385 13 NEW YORK Money will be spent on spectrnm licences, equipment to develop 3G Net networks NYT THE warnings have come from a chorus of critics rating agencies like Moody's Investors Service, the technology analyst Nicholas Negroponte, even the Bank of England. But. throwing
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    • 228 13 WASHINGTON Reuters MORE than twice as many people used the Internet to message friends and relatives during the holiday season than to buy gifts, according to a survey released on Sunday. Based on the responses of 2,038 Web-surfing adults between Nov 22
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    • 597 13 COLOMBO AFP AS 2001 finally dawned yesterday, sci-fi guru Arthur C Clarke said the next 100 years would be even more amazing than the last and predicted people would soon be directly plugged into their computers. Clarke who co-wrote the screen play of
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    • 141 13 projecteyeball. I The hot new phones of 2001 won't just be ringing, they'll be singing too. I H| Meet the Samsung SGH-MlOO, B Iff a great cellphone and a dandy MP3 music player. fil Iff It's among the new range of hybrids digicam-phone anyone? coming m down the pipeline from
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 475 14 MARKET OUTLOOK Bank Negara urged to set new time frame for banks to resolve their impasse and merge AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Economists yesterday warned that financial stocks may fall after delays in Malaysia's bank merger plan. They expressed disappointment over the
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    • 808 14 Market expected to move sideways rather than downwards in Q1 [KUALA LUMPUR] THE year 2001 is expected to be a very challenging one for the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, The Star reported yesterday. It cited analysts saying that in the first quarter, the market
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    • 682 14 They see Hang Seng ending the year jnst 16% np year-on-year [HONGKONG] This year probably will be a moderate year for stocks, investment professionals said. The Hang Seng Index will end the year at 17,635 points, just 16.82 per cent higher than
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    • 432 14 Reuters [BOMBAY] India's bedazzled investors should keep an eye on the government's efforts on economic reforms and restructuring of the corporate sector before committing fresh money to stocks this year, analysts said. They forecast tough times for the high-flying software services sector
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    • 277 14 MANILA AFP PHILIPPINE police yesterday said they were closing in on a group responsible for a wave of deadly bombings that left 14 people dead and nearly 100 wounded, as troops were asked to help boost security in the capital. Philippine National Police
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    • 269 14 QUEMOY, Taiwan Trip would have been the first direct travel between China and Taiwan Reuters THE first Taiwan vessel permitted to sail directly to China in more than 50 years was forced to turn back yesterday, beset by heavy seas and
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  • WORLD news
    • 540 15 SEOUL Further decline seen; Kim apologises for failing to tackle economic woes Reuters, AFP SOUTH Korea's 2000 trade surplus almost halved to U5512.13 billion (Ss2l billion) from U5523.93 billion a year ago and it expects a further decline this year because
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    • 400 15 WASHINGTON AFP, AP OUTGOING Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the highest-ranking woman ever in the US government, said that being a woman brought certain advantages to her role as top US diplomat. "In many ways it's been an advantage to be
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    • 182 15 LONDON Bloomberg CORUS Group pic, Europe's second-biggest steelmaker, plans to cut as many as 10,000 jobs and close three plants in Britain, the Sunday Times of London said, citing unidentified company executives. The executives said the measures will not be announced
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    • 165 15 TOKYO AP EXXON Mobil Corp is about to join Toyota Motor Corp and General Motors Corp in an alliance to develop environmentally friendly fuel-cell vehicles, a Japanese newspaper reported yesterday. By uniting their development efforts, the trio hope to set a global
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    • 36 15 [SYDNEY] Fireworks explode over Sydney Harbour Bridge to usher in New Year and to mark the centenary of the Federation of Australia on Sunday night. One million people watched the display. AFP
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    • 372 15 NEW YORK Last year's falls led by telecom giants Ericsson, Vodafone Bloomberg EUROPE'S biggest telecommunications companies including Ericsson AB and Vodafone Group pic led declines in New York-listed foreign shares last year as US investors sold because of disappointing returns. WhUe US interest
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 608 16 ATLANTA Experts say it's necessary to do lots of homework; look for strong balance sheets NYT YES, the technology sector has been hammered. Yes, there are questions about earnings growth in the sector. But no, investors should not abandon technology stocks,
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    • 444 16 BOMBAY Reuters INDIA'S private sector Agee Gold Refiners Ltd is setting up a 217-tonne gold refinery in the western state of Maharashtra which will start commercial production by March, a senior company official said yesterday. "We plan to start trial runs this month
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    • Article, Illustration
      1241 16 ntTERBAmi CROSS RATES A$ C$ tub Euro Ffr Dm HK$ Iwd it frpiah Yw Won RM WZ$ Pali Hi Ptso S$ Rand Sfr HT$ 6afct Pound US$ Australia 0.830 4.596 0.59S 3.907 1.165 4219 25.874 53.437 0.636 7.005 2.104 1.259 32.*****.693 0.960 4.192 0.908 18.332 23.869 0.371 0.554 Canada 1204
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    • 1870 16 SICOM FUTURES Dec 29 RUBBER (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTUS cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 01 104.75 Feb 01 106.25 50 Mar 01 108.50 1900 Apr/Jun 01 111.50 300 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month Htyi Low Sett (tonnes) interest
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • KNOWLEDGE economy
    • 1490 18 In the process of sharing knowledge, four key tensions get in the way and present challenges to those trying to weave knowledge management into an organisation IN today's highly charged competitive environment, companies know they have to make their knowledge count. Examples abound about the costs of failing
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    • 1694 19  -  Developments in the world of biotechnology hold much potential for the future, say yvette flanigah and aj ramachamdran YVETTE FLANIGAN, AJ RAMACHANDRAN The writers are from the technology practice group of Rajah Tann, Andersen Legal. Comments can be emailed to yvette.flanigan @sg.rajahtann.com IT holds the promise of destroying
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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    • 614 18 THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 HART YAO ENTERPRISE PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation i Ai an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovementioned Company duly convened and held at 190 Middle Road #15-08 Fortune Centre Singapore *****9 on 29 December 2000 the following Special Resolutions were passed 1. RESOLVED that
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  • NewAsiaBizWoman
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      1004 20  -  Guangzhou-born fashion designer Vivienne Tam makes time from building an empire to produce a labour of love that may lay the foundation for expansion beyond her present business, writes MARSLUDUSR MARK LANDLER AP [HONGKONG] VIVIENNE Tam has not lived here in her hometown for 18 years an eternity
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 149 21 Reuters LOOKING back over the year, the panamax market looks set to start 2001 in a better condition than it began 2000, brokers said. Voyage charters for panamaxes are roughly US$2 per tonne higher now than 12 months ago and timecharter fixture rates are attracting between US$2,OOO and
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    • 305 21 SGX '000 Dec 29 S$ Vol CWT Distribution. 0.59 0.01 31 ChuanHup 0.36 -0.01 1135 Cosco Investment 0.15 unch 0 Freight Links 0.11 unch 75 GB Holdings 0.48 unch 0 Hai Sun Hup 0.22 -0.01 416 IMC Holdings-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.15 unch 71 Keppel Corp
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    • 637 21  -  Eight new vessels, with capacity of 4,500 TTUs, are expected to be delivered in 2003 Prow'. P T Bangsberg in Manila WITH business booming, Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines is planning to deploy eight significantly bigger containerships on the trans-Pacific beginning in 2003. The
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    • 96 21 [LONDON] Danish shipping company J Lauritzen has bought Leif Hoegh reefer subsidiary Cool Carriers, which also includes Arctic Reefers, for U5535.4 million (5561.2 million) the world's largest reefer operator at 90 ships. The two operations were a part of what was then the world's
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    • PORTShots
      • 80 21 [LONDON] UK-based classification society Lloyd's Register (LR) is on target to return to profit by the end of next year, according to its annual financial report. LR saw operating losses of US$B4.2 million (*****.66 million) over the year ending June 30, well up from
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      • 59 21 [LONDON] The general secretary of the Liberian Shipowners' Council has proposed the use of so-called "Q ships", armed merchant vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships, to combat piracy in South-east Asia. Writing in the latest LSC Information Bulletin, Richard Deely said: "The ability to
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      • 66 21 [LONDON] Members of the India Pakistan Bangladesh Ceylon Conferences (IPBCC) liner group are bringing in a US$5O (5586.5) per TEU surcharge on all rates on routes passing through Calcutta. Due to draft problems at the port, the Calcutta Feeder Operators group has decided to introduce
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    • PANAMA canal
      • 544 22 A year after the US handover of the canal, shipping operations are running smoothly but the economy is hurting AP THE Panama Canal is operating smoothly a year after the US handover, but the Americans' departure has aggravated an economic slowdown and doubts about Panama's
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    • 185 22 PACE Accord 6 Appenship 5 Assets 5 Austral 6 Balaji Shpg 5 8SA 7 B'tang Mas 6 CCNI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 Columbus 6 CSAV 3 Central Ex 6 Cho Yang 5 China Shpq S Cougar 7 CWT Globelink 7 Oelmas 4 Djafc Lloyd 6 Donqnama
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    • 18318 28 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT TUESDAY, JA ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 09/01 13/02 Detmas VILLE DE TANYA T41W 65-*****44 11/01 17/02 COSCO HUMEN BRIDGE 00I1W 65-*****00 16/01 20/02 Delmas VILL OE TAURUS A41W 65-*****44 17/01 03/03
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 208 31 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Juronq Port Santa Suria 14 J23 16/12/1:40 18/12/5:30 Rss 1 2 J11 16/12/15:50 18/12/20:30 Batulicin 102 J12 17/12/15:00 19/12/22:30 Nusa Jaya Jul-20 J02 19/12/13:35 20/12/6:30 C Progress 20-Dec J10 20/12/9:00 20/12/16:00 Siam Ivory 19 J06 20/12/12:10 21/12/13:00 Unistar 2023 J09 20/12/18:50 25/12/10:00
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      • 1875 31 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX FALCON 009B 2/13:00 U 01/1500 01/1659 01/1900 AC* GARNET ITS 4/20:00 S 01/1500 01/1659 01/1900 IB 01/1500 01/1659 01/1900 2A 01/1700 02/0659 02/0900 2B 01/1700 02/0659 02/0900 3 02/0700
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      • 204 31 Jan 2 New Zealand: New Year Holiday. Jan 0 Finland: Epiphany. Italy: Epiphany. Sweden: Epiphany. Jan IS Japan: Adult's Day. USA: Martin Luther King's Jr. Birthday. Jan 23 Taiwan: Chinese New Year Eve. Jan 24 Brunei: Chinese New Year. China: New Year Holiday. Vietnam: Chinese New Year. Jan
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      • 804 31 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 627 31 Carbon 180 Max 993.0 0.4 14.6 0.08 72 0.02 Dec 28 Density Water Residue Ash Aluminium Sediment No above E2S 1 0 0 0 0 0 380 Ave 988.5 0.3 13.3 0.06 23 0.01 Eiion 380 Max 993.0 0.6 15.3 0.08 38 0.03 Mgw %W m/m
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 873 32 Temporary runway, set to open in 2002, will not be able to accommodate all the countries wishing to fly to Tokyo airport AFP [TOKYO] Tokyo's controversial Narita airport, opened more than two decades ago amid environmental protests, is suffering from a serious
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      • 299 32 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd is likely to build the wings for Boeing Co's new 747 X long-haul plane, touted as a rival to the planned Airbus superjumbo, reports said. Mitsubishi is in final talks with Boeing to shoulder 100
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      • LOGBook
        • 104 32 AFP [MONTEVIDEO] Three of the four passengers of a small plane died when it crashed just minutes after take off from a local airport, the Uruguayan Air Force said in a statement. The plane had taken off from the Aero Club de Minas, 100
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        • 121 32 Xinhua [SHENYANG] China Northern Airlines is to add more than 1600 flights in the coming 40 days lasting from Jan 9 to Feb 17. At the airport of Shenyang, capital of north-east China's Liaoning Province, the flights added will mainly fly to Beijing,
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