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THE proposed development of a new container terminal by the ports of Houston and Galveston has raised concerns the trade gateway could turn Pelican Island and areas such as Seawolf Park into a "bustling freight centre" by 2020, according to the Houston Chronicle. It said that plans for the facility date back nearly a decade when Houston port leaders bou...
RUSSIA's Kaliningrad Commercial Seaport handled 1,625 million tons of cargo in the first half of the year, an increase of 42 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier. During the reporting period, exports amounted to 1,268,500 tons, up 42.6 per cent year on year. The outbound cargo volume includes 277,500 tons of petroleum products (+25.28 pe...
ST PETERSBURG's First Container Terminal volume increased through the first half of the year 31.7 per cent to 554,072 TEU with June spiking at 99,280 TEU a rise of 32.7 per cent led by imports at 52,409 TEU and exports at 46,871 TEU. In June the terminal's average turnaround per vessel was 1,360 TEU out of 73 vessels with the period of January-June th...
STRIKING Los Angeles and Long Beach dock clerks have returned to work, ending their two-week strike, but leaving a volatile situation that might yet erupt into a total shutdown of North America's biggest port complex. While the clerical strike had little impact on cargo movement, because management personnel took over employee functions, an arbitrator...
Six-month freight traffic via Port of Singapore gained 8.1% as compared with H1, 2009, to 250.38 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. In January-June, crude volume shrank by 4.4%, to 87.8 million tons, while container count rose by 14.3%, to 14.06 million TEUs. Singapore, a city-state, is located on an island in the South-East Asia. 2009&...
The Ras al-Zour port on the Persian Gulf will start trial operations next month and receive its first ship by the end of the year, Al Watan reported, citing Khalid Al Mesfer, the public relations managing director for the Saudi Ports Authority. The port is expected to handle 6 million tons of granular diammonium phosphate, 440,000 tons of liquefied ammonia,...
The $360 million China-funded Hambantota Port in the south of Sri Lanka will begin bunkering operations when it opens on November 18, an official from Sri Lanka Port Authority said Friday. SLPA director Prasanna Kalutarage said the port will begin bunkering operations on November 18 but was unable to say who will be supplying bunker fuel at the port as SLPA...
The Port of Vancouver has completed its Terminal 5 (T-5) unit train improvement project. Part of the larger West Vancouver Freight Access (WVFA) initiative, the project adds 10,600 metres of rail capacity to the port's internal system. The new track, constructed in a loop with associated yard tracks, will provide rail service for a variety of cargoes. ...
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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