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Shanghai: Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) reported a 43% jump in full year profits. Shanghai Stock exchange-listed SIPG reported an RMB5.4bn profit for 2010 up 43.6% on the RMB3.76bn profit it made in the previous year. Cargo throughput at the port jumped to 428m tonnes last year from 365m tonnes in the previous year. Shanghai overtook Singapore la...
Brisbane: The Australian port of Brisbane will be closed from midnight tonight and all ships will be removed from the port's berth due to forecasts of severe flooding, the local authority advised on Tuesday. Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) said the port will be closed until further notice. “There is a possibility that various roads linking to and fr...
A NATIONAL committee of inquiry, constituted by the Indian shipping ministry a month ago to look into the Mumbai ship collision between the 2,314-TEU MSC Chitra and the aging 33,113-ton bulk carrier Khalijia 3 on August 7, has recommended banning all ships older than 25 years old from all of India's ports. The report contains 18 suggestions, reported I...
CONTAINER throughput at France's Le Havre port rose five per cent in 2010 over 2009 to 2.4 million TEU despite much industrial unrest throughout the year. Despite the French government having imposed its increase in retirement age from 60 years to 62 years into legislation, the CGT union is still fighting for concessions, particularly for those forced ...
Two more screening gates have been set up at Kandla Port, one at Kutch Salt Junction and the other at K.K. Road, according to Exim News Service. Kandla Port is an ISPS-certified Port with Level-II security. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) guards have been posted round-the-clock on these gates, the Kandla Port Trust (KPT) said in a relea...
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) registered an increase of 11 per cent in overall throughput growth in calendar year 2010 despite the relatively less-than-satisfactory global economic scenario, Mr L. Radhakrishnan, Chairman of JNPT, disclosed. In the Chairman’s customary meeting with Port customers and other stakeholders/agencies early in th...
An innovative air pollution-reduction device called the "seawater scrubber" will be tested for the first time on a container ship visiting Southern California in a $3.4 million project co-sponsored by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and starting in spring 2011. The technology uses seawater to filter pollutants from ships' auxiliary engines and ...
PSA International Pte Ltd handled 65.12m teu at its global port projects for the year ending December 31, 2010 up 14.4% over 2009 with 27.68m teu (+10.1%) contributed by its flagship PSA Singapore Terminals and 37.44m teu (+17.8%) from the PSA terminals outside Singapore. Eddie Teh, PSA International’s Group CEO said, "The PSA Group recovered some...
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.
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