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Venezuela is refurbishing its main port, Puerto Cabello, with Chinese help at a cost of US$600 million after decades of under-investment and spurred on by a scandal over rotting food, reported Reuters. China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company, will be in charge of the project to build a new cont...
Fukuoka: The potential for Japan as a cruise destination and opportunities to expand its ports of call was discussed at the opening panel session at the Japan Cruise Symposium taking place in Fukuoka. Christopher Hayman, chairman, Seatrade and moderator, who saw two cruise ships at Hakata port as he touched down in the city, commented the discussion rev...
CARGO movement at Kolkata airport has been at standstill following "teething problems" with a new IT system which has caused customs to shut down its clearance system, officials told The Times of India. The delays of flights including the Spicejet Guwahati-Kolkata-Ahmedabad due to depart 1845 hrs created passenger demonstrations at 2200 hrs until a repl...
NORTH CAROLINA's Port of Charleston Jim Newsome believes the expansion of the Panama Canal "is a game-changer" and the biggest development since the advent of stuffing cargo into containers. The North Carolina State Ports Authority (SPA) plans to take a delegation on a tour of the canal and to meet its administrator. The group will include six or seven...
The Port of Yuzhny (Ukraine) began loading bulk cargo simultaneously onto five ships of total deadweight of 500,000 tons, the Port Authority press release said. The largest vessel Kassos Warrior is of 194,000dwt. The ships docked at berths number 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 at the second cargo area of the port, where facilities for handling coal and ore are located. ...
Months after the government ended the monopoly by Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (Ticts) at Dar es Salaam Port, Infrastructure Development Minister Shukuru Kawambwa ordered the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) to ensure it obtains a competent investor, reported All Africa. The move is aimed at challenging Ticts in providing quality ser...
The shipping community in Kochi is keeping its fingers crossed over the recent hike in tariff at Kochi port, which has pushed prices beyond those at ports in the neighbourhood as well as other major ports in the country, reported The Hindu. Sources in the shipping circles here pointed out that the Kochi port is charging US$9,994 to handle a vessel of 5,...
Mumbai: Krishnapatnam Port has established a new record for coal discharge in India using the conventional system of coal unloading. The vessel MV. IKAN KEDEWAS called the port on 26th August and the discharge commenced at 12:40 hrs. Within 24 hrs. 55,374 tonnes of coal was unloaded from the vessel for importer JSW Steel. The feat surpassed Krishnapatna...
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