Patrick Stevedores has warned that half the nation's container terminals will be forced into a week-long shutdown from Wednesday as a result of the maritime union imposing work bans at four major ports, reported The Australian. In an escalation of its long dispute with the Maritime Union of Australia, the company said Patrickthe industrial action would e...
THE Port of Charleston in South Carolina has been allocated funding from the US Army Corps of Engineers' work plan for the next phase of the US$300 million Charleston harbour 45 foot (13.5 metres) dredging project. The corps predicts the work will bring $100 million in annual national benefits, a statement from the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) s...
DUBAI's DP World, one of the world's biggest port operators, has gained shareholder approval of consolidation, which will give one new share for every existing 20 they previously held, boosting share price 20 times. The move is to "better reflect the value of the company but there will be no change in value for shareholders as a result of the consolidat...
APM TERMINALS, Maersk's port operator, has won the right to bid on development of a fourth container terminal at Jawahralal Nehru Port from an Indian Supreme Court ruling. In 2009, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) refused APMT application because conditions of a licence for its joint venture unit Gateway Terminals India (GTI) prevented a private operat...
FELIXSTOWE, Britain's biggest container port, has gained Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company's Lion Service with the call of the 14,000-TEU MSC Livorno in July. Hong Kong's Hutchison Ports UK CEO David Gledhill said the addition of the Lion service to the Felixstowe roster is "a great vote of confidence for the port." "With our new berths in ...
Concor's dependency on Jawaharlal Nehru port has declined following competition from newer ports on the West Coast, reported The Hindu. In 2010-11, 64.2 per cent of container rail firm Concor's export-import traffic movement was through JN port compared to 74 per cent in 2009-10. This is because the competing ports on the west coast – Pipavav an...
Following two years of planning alongside Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP) Finnlines has relocated all its ferry services to Malmö’s North Harbour, Norra Hamnen. At the same time CMP’s new Combi Terminal for rail freight has started operations at the North Harbour. “All ferry traffic has disappeared from Malmö’s in...
OOCL deployed a sixth vessel in its Scandinavian and Baltic services. It rises the capacity of these feeder services with 20%, the Rotterdam Port Authority said. The extra vessel is in the Scan Baltic Express Service (SBX1-seervice), connecting Rotterdam with St.-Petersburg, Gdynia and Göteborg. Tschudi Logistics rises the capacity of its Rotterdam...
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.
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