The French classification society Bureau Veritas has issued new guidelines for the design of 10,000 TEU + ships

The new guidelines from Bureau Veritas (BV) are aimed at yards designing ultra large container vessels (ULCS) – defined somewhat broadly as ships of 10,000 TEU capacity and above.

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This entry was posted on Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 2:03 pm and is filed under Cargo & Shipping News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Air China Cargo will add three 747-400 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) to its cargo fleet, PR Newswire reported.

The modification work on the three Combi airplanes will take place at Taikoo Aircraft Engineering (TAECO) in Xiamen, China. They previously were operated by Air China.

Air China Cargo currently operates eight freighters, including three 747-400 Freighters delivered new in 2005, 2006 and 2008, as well as two other 747-400 Freighters on lease and three 747-200 Freighters.

Modifications include a side cargo door addition, a strengthened main-deck floor, full main-deck lining installation, provisions for a new cargo handling system and complete revisions to the airplane systems.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 3:21 pm and is filed under Cargo & Shipping News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Sanur locate on the east side of Bali only few minuet drives to the west from Denpasar. sanur has many interesting places that can be visited which each of them has they own unique characteristics. Sanur beach is one the beautiful beach that owned by Bali with the quiet surf and beautiful sand. At jln Danau tamblingan are the main street for shopping, art shop, and it has a number of Car rental places, as well as bicycle rentals and hundreds of metered taxis patrol the streets looking for passengers, and the other facility are many villas and hotel can be found.

Sanur is very popular for its mysticism, legend and for having the first star rated resort in Bali. Until now Sanur is still considered as one of the favorite areas in Bali where you can feel the true spirit of Bali. Quiet and relatively laid back Sanur has certain flair about it that appeals to just about everyone.

This place has a great stretch of white and black sand beach, with a variety of water sport activities for all ages to enjoy, fine hotels, villas, restaurants, traditional drama places as well as modern entertainment establishments. It is also one of the preferred areas in Bali, where affluent residents prefer to setup residence. Being almost in the center of Bali’s major tourist areas, Sanur is a good location to explore Bali. The people of Sanur were know as very kindness person, where most of them are an actor some art was born here like painting, dancer and many other. There is very famous art museum are located here namely the art museum of Le Mayuer.

Le mayuer was born in 1880, he was the youngest son of a noble Belgian family. As an adult he was passionate about travel and spent time exploring various countries before arriving on Bali’s shores in 1932. Spellbound by the sights and sounds of the island, he journeyed south to Denpasar in sanur he rented a small house and chose to live within a Balinese community and merid with one of sanur girl namely Ni Polok., much to the displeasure to the ruling Dutch authorities.

Sanur is a perfect places with beautiful views beach with black and white sand, in the morning we can see the beautiful sunrise on the beach while relax and having a great day in the Sanur beach. Enjoying the beach braze doing some water sport activities like banana beach, water sky, air modeling, and many other.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Bali Destination, Sanur. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Seminyak is the most up market of the west coast’s beaches, which is located ten kilo meter to west from denpasar near by kuta. Seminyak is one of heart of Bali where the tourism activities are beating here, in south side is Legian if you confused about the located you can cheek it on the map .

Seminyak has a beautiful beach with white sand and the blue ocean and the great surf for surfing. There are many water sport Here many facilities already building to support your vacation like hotel and villas, shops, restaurant art shop, so you don’t need worry about it, make you feel comparable and enjoy your holiday in Bali.

Seminyak is very famous place for shopping so this reason why seminyak has a nick name for the most up market, because along the street their much mini market, art shop, restaurant, jewelry market, and many traditional market which offering some traditional art like painting, jewelers and many other. And about the night life in Seminyak there are many places here which are offering some night life like bar, disco tic, and café, which each of those place offering some beautiful night entertainment.

About the beach Seminyak has great beautiful beach especially the surf even thought it has beautiful with white sand and good surf for those who love to surfing this place is great places for try the ability to facing the surf. There many water sports in seminyak which are giving you some water sport choice like banana boath, paraseling, water sky, and many other water sport that can be try it.

Seminyak is the most up market places where this places is famous with the trend mark for it market along the street. Many tourist facility all ready build here like hotel, art shop, restaurant, mini market, villa and many other, this facility build to easiness to the tourist so they should not worries about it when having the vacation in bali especially in seminyak area.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm and is filed under Bali Destination, Seminyak. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.