NEW South Wales Ports Minister Eric Roozendall revealed that while container volume increased over the last 12 months in Port Botany, stevedoring at the new DP World terminal was hampered by six-hour truck delays. September container exports increased 8.9 per cent year on year with imports up 9.7 per cent with the first quarter of the financial year 201...
THE Port of Rotterdam Authority plans to award a one-off recovery rebate of three per cent on the tariffs for sea and inland harbour dues in 2011. "The rebate is intended to support the companies in their further recovery from the crisis and in this way to strengthen the competitive position of the port complex further," a statement from port authoritie...
PORT of Brisbane's CEO Jeff Coleman has been sacked just one week after Australia's Queensland state government privatised the harbour. Mr Coleman was appointed CEO in May 2002. The port's new owner is a consortium called, Q Holdings, made up of New York's Global Infrastructure Partners, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Australian fund manager QI...
MAERSK Group's APM Terminals (APMT) appears to be targeting second tier ports in Asia, particularly China, for container development, according to London's Containerisation International. "Secondary ports are smaller fast growing facilities with the potential to be a player in the growing intra-Asia market - these are ports we are interested in," said...
The tug ‘Fairplay-22’ that capsized in Rotterdam Port on November 11 has been refloated by Smit Salvage with the help of their sheerleg ‘Taklift 7’. After the remaining water had been pumped out of the tug, a search-team tried to locate the still missing Captain inside the tug but was not successful. The master remains missin...
The Port Authority's planning and development committee today approved a Jan. 1 fare increase and 35 percent service reduction effective March 13 to address a $47 million deficit in its current budget. "We are painfully aware of how devastating these service cuts will be, particularly for riders who depend on transit as their lifeline to work, medical ...
More main line operators’ container vessels will be calling at the Sapangar Bay Container Port in Kota Kinabalu with the arrival of two Panamax-size ship-to-shore (STS) gantry cranes, said the port’s chief operating officer Mohd Shahid Nawab Khan. Bought from Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co Ltd (ZPMC) at a cost of US$13.78 million, the ne...
The Savannah Harbour expansion project reached a major milestone this week following the release by the US Army Corps of Engineers of its draft environmental impact statement (EIS). Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) executive director, Curtis Foltz described the release of the study as a significant step forward for the project, which addresses a cr...
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