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International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) announces the appointment of Jan Nowak as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the Batumi International Container Terminal LLC (BICT), manager, operator and developer in the Port of Batumi in Georgia. Capt. Nowak replaces Frank Carter, who left BICT last 30 September. Capt. Nowak joi...
Under the auspices of the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH), the World Ports Climate Initiative (WPCI) will introduce the Environmental Ship Index (ESI), an international standard for calculating emissions by ships, from January 2011. Ports and other nautical service providers will be able to use the index to reward clean ships, and so...
The European Commission has decided to request Italy to amend its rules to ensure that port dues applied are no higher for ships sailing to or from non-Italian ports than for ships sailing to or from Italian ports. The Commission considers that current Italian rules are in breach of EU legislation liberalising maritime transport between EU Member States and...
In October Cargotec has secured EUR 10 million order from the Sinopacific Group in China for the supply of a further 16-shipsets of anchor-handling systems for BOURBON's newbuildings. The shipsets will be delivered between April 2011 and February 2012. This contract follows an order placed in June this year for four ships in the same series, the first shi...
International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) has appointed Jan Nowak as chief executive officer and general manager of the Batumi International Container Terminal in Georgia, reported the Manila Bulletin. Nowak replaces Frank Carter, who left BICT last 30 September. Nowak joined ICTSI in 2006 as terminal manager of Baltic Container Terminal (BC...
Global marine terminal operator DP World has completed the first phase of expansion of its Spanish terminal DP World Tarragona, reported Domain-B. The terminal has three super post-Panamax cranes capable of handling vessels with a nominal capacity of over 13,800 TEUs. The port has currently two Panamax cranes and a harbour crane that are already in use ...
US FEDERAL, state and local officials have launched a US$30 million "marine highway" project at inland Stockton, California, in the hope of shifting freight to barge from trucks in response to environmental concerns. The Port of Oakland currently handles nearly 100 per cent of cargo packed into marine shipping containers that move through northern Califor...
TRADE freight volume through Manzhouli, China's largest land port in the north border near Russia, grew 12.6 per cent to 19.34 million tonnes in the year to date at mid-October, reports Xinhua. The port's trade freight volume has kept a steady growth since the beginning of the year. Most increases come from import bulk cargo such as crude oil, timber an...
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