1.   A regular short sea container service between Leith and the Continent commenced in August under the name of Macvan.

2.   On completion of the project, the facility will be used to handle a new Liverpool-Dublin freight container service.

3.   -- A regular container freight service will be inaugurated next week between Shanghai, China, and the quake-ravaged western Japanese port city of Kobe.

4.   It operates a similar container barge service for international and local containers between Guam and the Marianas Islands.

5.   Ltd. announced Wednesday it will launch a new container feeder service from Singapore to the port of Haiphong in Vietnam from next Tuesday.

6.   NOL told reporters that its container shipping service, which will be combined with that of APL, will operate under the APL name.

7.   The facility will open with a cargo container service from Lhasa.

8.   TRANSPORT Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik yesterday urged port operators not to increase unnecessarily their fees for container haulage services because of the weakening ringgit.

9.   A British shipping firm announced Wednesday that a direct container service is to be lauched between Britain and the Indian subcontinent.

10.   But competition continued to be stiff in major container services to North America and Europe, with freight rates low.