THE Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has announced that it will extend a scheme to offer "20 per cent port dues rebate" for vessels handling transshipment vehicles in Singapore for three years from January 1, 2011 until December 31, 2013. The MPA said it will review the conditions and relevancy of the scheme after 2013 in a port marine cir...
ISRAELI shipping line Zim Integrated Shipping Services is separately adding calls at the Chinese ports of Qingdao and Xiamen on two Asia-Europe services. According to a report by the Asian Shipper, the carrier said it will add a port of call at Qingdao on its EMX service, effective from December 29. However, American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data maint...
A leading shipping executive refuses to be drawn into an argument about whether the port of Tauranga or Auckland should become the North Island hub for the larger container vessels, reported the Bay of Plenty Times. Julian Bevis, the New Zealand managing director of the world's biggest shipping line Maersk, believes there is a future role for both port...
Congestion of containers at the Dar es Salaam port would be substantially reduced after the construction of an inland container depot at Kisarawe, some 40 kilometres from the port. The development of Kisarawe ICD, a project whose feasibility study was funded by the World Bank, would be to shuttle containers between Dar es Salaam port and the depot by ra...
The Port of Gothenburg's standing as an export gateway for Swedish paper will be boosted even further with the announcement by the logistics company RPG of plans to build a new forestry terminal. Paper, timber and other forestry industry products are moved by rail from paper mills and saw mills throughout Sweden to the Port of Gothenburg for onward tra...
Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait, an export route for Russian crude oil, re-opened to tanker traffic on Monday after a brief closure due to poor visibility and heavy snow, coast guard officials said. The waterway opened at 4:30 p.m. after closing for one hour to both directions of traffic, the officials said. At the other end of the Sea of Ma...
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has authorised DP World Australia and Patrick Stevedores Operations which operate container terminals at the Port of Fremantle to give preferential treatment to truck carriers engaging in dual runs, i.e. where a truck both delivers and picks up a container in the same run at the terminal. Forkl...
The Port of Gothenburg's standing as an export gateway for Swedish paper will be boosted even further with the decision by logistics company RPG to build a new forestry terminal. Paper, timber and other forestry industry products are moved by rail from paper mills and sawmills throughout Sweden to the Port of Gothenburg for onward transport by sea to e...
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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