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...
Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to be up nine percent in December over the same month last year, and 2010 should end with a 17 percent increase over last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. "The nation's improving...
UAE-based marine terminal operator DP World said that Hong Kong carrier Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has started making port calls at DP World's Aden container terminal in Yemen, reported ADPnews Shipping. OOCL added Aden to its port coverage on a new route connecting the Far East with the Red Sea ports of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and Sokhna (Egy...
London Thamesport celebrated the return of United Arab Shipping Co's AEC1 service with the arrival recently of the UASC Al Farahidi at the port. The reinstated call of the AEC1 at London Thamesport marks the return of vessel operations in the UK for the line, which has, over the last 12 months, serviced its UK business via a number of partnerships and ...
Kerala government-controlled Vizhinjam Port has invited request for qualification bids from 31 companies that had earlier submitted expressions of interest for operating the proposed port, reported Business Standard. The companies include domestic shipping companies such as Shipping Corporation and Essar Shipping, besides port companies such as Mundra P...
Abdul Aziz Al-Tuwaijri, chairman of Saudi Ports Authority (SPA), signed two contracts worth US$116.24 million for the expansion of Ras Al-Zour Port in the Eastern Province, reported Mist News. Transport Minister Jabara Al-Seraisry attended the signing ceremony. China Harbour Engineering Co won the first contract valued at $85.04 million to build two...
The Yangtze River Delta's Nanjing port has just won more business with the launch of a new service to South Korea. This comes on the back of news that the port started offering cash incentives from November to encourage more liners to use the port, reported China Daily. Hamsung Shipping launched a weekly direct service between Nanjing and Ulsan, South ...
A new bidder has entered the race for the stakes in the privatisation of Penang Port after tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary and, more recently, the Penang state government, now governed by the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP). According to executives familiar with the matter, a consortium led by Malaysian and mainland Chinese companies submitted a...
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