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THE US Coast Guard has reopened a nine-mile stretch of the Mississippi at Baton Rouge that had been closed Friday when three barges sank amid high water and fast currents. Authorities now allow transits of northbound barges while plans are made to salvage the sunken barges, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce. Southbound barges will be allowed to transi...
EAST China's Port of Lianyungang in Jiangsu province lifted 40 million tonnes of cargo during the period from January to March, 21.5 per cent more than in the same period in the prior year and slightly ahead of the quarterly schedule. The port is aiming to achieve a throughput of 160 million tonnes by the end of this year, according to Xinhua. In the fi...
DA CHAN BAY Terminal One in the western Shenzhen port area has received a maiden call on the China-India service (NCX) jointly operated by MOL and Samudera. The NCX service is also MOL's first direct service linking Shanghai and Shenzhen to Nhava Sheva, after its Singapore Mumbai-Nhava Sheva Karachi service was split into two loops. MOL deploys three...
SHENZHEN, one of China's busiest ports, saw its container throughput in 2010 hit a record high of 22.51 million TEU, a 23.34 per cent increase over 2009, according to the Transport Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, Xinhua reports. The 770,000 TEU increase was the highest on record and marks the eighth straight year as the world's fourth busiest port....
AUSTRALIA's four big container ports - Brisbane, Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney - face a seven-day dock strike, as the union resumes cancelled work stoppages on Thursday May 26, which were first threatened in April but cancelled at the last moment. "Our terminals will grind to a halt," said Patrick Terminals director Paul Garaty. "This will have a huge ...
Guinea-Bissau, Africa’s fifth biggest exporter of cashew nuts, may lose its primary container port within two years as sediment builds up, said an official from the World Bank, Bloomberg reports.Water levels at the capital city port, Bissau, are becoming too shallow for container ships, World Bank Liaison Officer Carmen Pereira said in an interview in...
Ukraine-based SE Odessa Commercial Sea Port (OCSP, OMTP) was the first among the country’s enterprises introduced the regime of "free practice" while loading / unloading oil tankers, the Odessa Port Authority said. On May 22, 2011 the so-called "free practice" was used for handling the tanker Minerva Concert. After the ship docked at the Berth Numb...
Search and salvage operation of two missing fishermen whose boat was hit by the bunkering ship Flandriya in the Gulf of Finland has been ceased, the St. Petersburg regional Emergencies Ministry’s press service said. At the moment the EMERCOM is just conducting visual inspection of the site. Yesterday, the a divers team completed inspection of underw...
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