SPAIN's leading marine and port terminal operator Grup TCB has started operations at the container terminal, TCBuen, in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia with an annual volume of 260,000 TEU. The Maersk Line's 5,900-TEU Rio Verde was the first ship handled at the latest terminal development from Spain's Terminal de Contenedores de Barcelona (TCB) with...
SEABRIDGE FREIGHT has halted its Gulf Coast service after going bankrupt despite being awarded funding from the US Department of Transportation under its marine highways initiative aimed at shifting cargo off congested highways on to the waterways through the development and sustainment of short-sea services. Seabridge Freight launched the tug and barge s...
SOUTH Africa's four trucking unions, representing half of 65,000 transport workers, threaten strike action if demands for a 20 per cent wage increase is rejected by employers. The Transport Workers Union, the Professional Transport Workers Union and the Transport and Allied Workers Union are demanding wage increases, shorter working hours and a ban on la...
SINGAPORE-based MCC Transport, a wholly owned subsidiary of the AP Moller Maersk Group, has announced it will launch a new intra-Asia IA-8 service to connect ports in Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Taiwan and Malaysia, starting February 25. The new IA-8 service runs on a 28-day rotation, calling at Jakarta (JICT), Surabaya, Manila, Nagoya, Shim...
DP World has added an inland destination to its operations in Pakistan with the official opening of its state-of-the-art Inland Container Terminal (ICT) in Lahore, the country's second largest city. DP World Lahore, also known as the Prem Nagar Dry Port, was inaugurated by Shahid Hussain Raza, Chairman, Pakistan's Ministry of Railways, at a ceremony att...
Singapore may build its first floating oil storage unit in the second-half of this year following years of planning. JTC Corporation, a Singapore government agency, unveiled that final-stage engineering for the floating oil terminal at Pulau Sebarok has started, with tenders for its construction expected around June. The very large floating storage (VLFS...
MCC Transport, the feeder shipping arm of Maersk Line, has launched a new intra-Asia Service (IA-8). The IA-8 will provide direct and fast transit between ports in Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, China, Taiwan and Malaysia, according to MCC Transport. The first sailing for the new route is scheduled to depart Tanjung Pelepas on 25 February 2011. The IA-8 ...
- DP World has officially opened ‘DP World Lahore’, a state-of-the-art inland container terminal (ICT) also known as Prem Nagar Dry Port, in Pakistan, the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) project by the Ministry of Railways. The facility will serve Pakistan’s largest hinterland market – the Lahore-Sahiwal region – and ...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi