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#Ports&Shipping –The latest IMDO Weekly Shipping Market Review includes the following stories as detailed below.

Container Market: Brussels launches anti-trust probe-The European Commission launched a formal investigation into concerns that the pricing practices of a number of major box lines showed possible collusion. The Financial Times reported that the basis for the investigation has been the public announcement by container shipping companies of future price increase intentions –a practice which became the norm following the banning of liner conferences by the EU in 2008.

Intermodal: EU trailer market to grow 10% in 2014 - A new report forecasting the demand for heavy goods trailers in Western Europe up to 2017 has predicted a 'solid recovery' for trailer demand in 2014 on the basis of improving economic data, according to Transport Weekly. The report, produced by consultancy firm Clear International, suggests that the trailer market in Western Europe will grow by 10%, with several countries experiencing growth of over 15%.

Short Sea Market-The European short sea bulk market remained firmer last week, in keeping with the trend of previous weeks. H.C. Shipping & Chartering reported spot tonnage being in short supply as a result of seasonal weather delays and a pick-up in demand which led to rates showing signs of improvement. Growing demand was likely been due to the approaching month-end and preparations being made to stock inventories for the coming holiday season.

For more on each of the above and other stories click the downloadable PDF IMDO Weekly Markets Review (Week 47). In addition to Afloat.ie dedicated Ports & Shipping News section.

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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.