THE government of the Indonesian capital Jakarta plans to raid container trucks deemed unworthy to operate, in a bid to restrict truck numbers, reduce traffic and improve road safety. The target of the swoop will be the seaport area and the streets leading to the port. The head of the Jakarta Transportation Agency Udar Pristono said his agency has been ...
THE acting CEO of South Africa' state-run transport giant Transnet, Chris Wells, will step down at the end of the company's fiscal year on March 31. Mr Wells is willing to leave earlier if asked to do so, according to London's Containerisation International, having been acting CEO of the freight rail, ports and pipelines group since March 2009, having ...
The Port of Durban will welcome the largest container vessel ever to sail into South African waters when the MSC Maeva enters Durban harbour on Friday, 05 November 2010 on its maiden voyage to the country. Built in 2005 the vessel’s generous proportions meant it was not able to call at Durban prior to completion of the harbour mouth’s de...
PD Ports has recently welcomed four exceptionally talented undergraduates and postgraduates to its team on Teesside. As a major employer in the region, PD Ports is fully committed to the development of young adults in the region by providing quality training opportunities through its graduate programmes and apprenticeships, whilst also ensuring that those ...
Shipping execs from across the region and beyond will be heading to China next week for a couple of major conferences and exhibitions. Taking place in the first half of the week (November 8-10) is the Cosco World Shipping Summit, this year held in Guangzhou, from where next week's issue of our sister publication the popular e-newspaper Seatrade Asia Week...
OAKLAND's Matson Navigation Company has announced the appointment of Vic Angoco as senior vice president of the country. Announcing the appointment at the board meeting Matson president Matt Cox, said: "This promotion is in recognition of the consistently strong performance Vic has delivered for the company in a number of challenging assignments." "In ...
PORTS in south eastern China's Guangxi province posted a 42.6 per cent increase in container volume to 591,600 TEU in the first nine months, reports Xinhua. The province's Beibu Gulf port moved 384,000 TEU, a 61.2 per cent increase while inland river ports handled 207,600 TEU, a rise of 17.6 per cent year on year. During the same period, Guangxi's po...
MISSISSIPPI-Yangtze Strategic Cooperation Forum, with the aim to promote exchange and cooperation, has been held in Chongqing, reports Xinhua. The chief engineer of China's Ministry of Transport Xu Guang addressed at the forum. He stated that this forum is of great importance for the development of shipping in the Mississippi and the Yangtze rivers with ...
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