PD Ports has announced it has reached another major milestone at Teesport – handling its 150,000 container through its container terminals for the first time in history within a calendar year. Frans Calje, PD Ports MD Unitised, said: “To have reached this record number from a steady throughput of around 80,000 container...
A strike at Israel's major ports of Ashdod, Eilat and Haifa after the collapse of wage negotiations, has brought harbour operations to a standstill with the exception some reefer cargo and passenger movement, reported Israel Business News. The strike is expected to cost the economy ILS400 million (US$113.5 million), said the...
Odfjell Holdings (US) Inc has concluded a contract for land in North Charleston to construct tank terminal facilities creating 12-20 jobs. "The new tank terminal site in Charleston will consist of 40 tanks with excellent deep draft marine, rail and truck accessibility. This will be a great supplement to our existing terminal ...
On the 30 of December (Thursday), 2010 at 2.00 p.m. the contract agreement between Port Authority of Klaipeda Port (Lithuania) and the company Josef Mobius Bau-Aktiengesellschaft on construction works of the object “Reconstruction of quays No. 8 and No. 9 planning the 1st, 2nd and 3rd construction stages in Klaipėda. The 2nd construction stage &...
Parsec Inc., a leading provider of contracted terminal management services in North America, has ordered a further 150 Kalmar terminal tractors from Cargotec, adding to the 200 similar tractors the company ordered earlier this year for use at its 30 locations. The equipment will by used to supplement Parsec’s expanding rail o...
The Port of Antwerp has predicted that its final freight throughput for 2010 reached 178m tonnes, up 13% from the recession year of 2009. The increase is mainly due to container freight, which, once more, passed the 100m tonne mark setting a new record at 102.7m tonnes, an increase of 17.8%. Translated into teu, the figure was up b...
The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey has announced that its preferred and most cost-effective solution to the Bayonne Bridge clearance issue is to raise the bridge's roadbed to approximately 215 ft (65.5 m) to increase the existing 151 ft (46 m) navigational clearance restriction. The recommended bridge modification and rehab...
Container cargo handled at South Korean seaports jumped to a record high last year as improving global market conditions boosted trade, a government report revealed today. The total cargo containers processed amounted to 19.33 million TEUs last year, up 18.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the report by the transportation...
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