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Click here for more Banks to take firmer grip on shipping in 2013 International accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens says banks will exert more control over the shipping industry in 2013. It also expects vessel values to fall further and the cost of regulatory compliance to increase.... Click here for more Mississippi shipping hits the rocks The drought situation in the US Midwest could result in barge operations ceasing on a section of the Mississippi river this month... Click here for more Oakland Marine Highway still stuck A year after the Port of Stockton took delivery of two new Liebherr mobile harbour cranes, the "Marine Highway" project to barge containers between Oakland and the ports of Stockton and Sacramento has yet to get underway... Click here for more New Montreal terminal for CSX CSX Intermodal is understood to be redeveloping its intermodal terminal in Beauharnois, Quebec near Montreal into an RTG facility... Click here for more Canadian railroads re-regulated Late last year the Canadian Government moved to conclude the Rail Freight Service Review that it began in 2008 with a Bill that would re-regulate some rail freight services in Canada... Click here for more Collapsible containers - has their time come? Many have been designed, none has taken off, but there may be renewed interest in the idea of collapsible containers.... Click here for more Uncertainy creeps into the reefer market The global reefer trade has been posting stronger rates of growth than that for dry freight cargo over the past decade and container liner shipping companies have been gaining market share, but predatory pricing policies appear to have made the business unprofitable.... Click here for more Flexitank market proves to be recession-proof The demand for flexitanks is being buoyed by emerging markets and the need to adopt the most cost-efficient methods for the transport of non-hazardous liquids.... Click here for more Slowdown for reefer manufacturers After enjoying almost two years of record production, reefer builders have had to readjust to fewer orders and a growing equipment stockpile at factories.... Click here for more Terminal tractors enter the green zone Even as terminal tractor builders prepare for Stage IV/Tier 4 Final, innovators are looking for alternatives to diesel, including diesel hybrids and alternative fuels, such as CNG/ LNG, LPG and even petrol (gasoline). Most ambitiously, Capacity of Texas, Inc has developed a "zero emissions" plug-in electric/hydrogen fuel cell drive platform (ZETT) in collaboration with Vision Industries. It may be some time, if at all, before hydrogen fuel cells are commercially viable in the terminal tractor power range. Batteries, however, may prove to be a readier route to "zero emissions."... Click here for more Troubled times for marine insurers The overriding message from the 2012 annual conference of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) in mid-September was depressingly downbeat. Prospects for marine insurers are bleak in the short to medium term, the global marine market has registered its 16th successive year of technical loss and total attritional losses are increasing. Pricing must move up, but efforts to raise premium rates, especially for hull insurance, are being stifled by overcapacity and the abysmal state of freight markets, with shipowners doing all they can to reduce operating costs.... Click here for more Tough going for dry freight box builders After experiencing a short-lived production surge in mid-2012, the world's dry freight container manufacturing industry is again facing tough times.... 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