CARGO at Florida's Tampa International Airport (TIA) remains robust during May and April but passenger figures still depressed by 2.1 per cent and 3.1 per cent year on year. Outbound cargo reached 6.85 million pounds, an increase of 3.9 per cent in May and 8.6 per cent in April to 6.92 million pounds compared to first quarter declines at St Petersburg-...
HONG KONG's Asia Airfreight Terminal (AAT), the airport's No 2 ground handler, has announced that the company handled 60,024 tonnes of cargo in June, a 56 per cent increase year on year. Exports came to 42,406 tonnes, up 70 per cent against the same month last year. June imports hit 17,173 tonnes, up 33 per cent. Transshipments reached 445 tonnes, dow...
THE INDIAN state of Kerala, on the southern west coast, has done a U-turn on its plan to develop a terminal at Vizhinjam into a container transhipment port instead in hopes of attracting an investor to put up INR50 billion (US$1.06 billion) needed for the project. The Kerala government has invited bids from firms to develop a multi-purpose port instead ...
A STRIKE by harbour clerks of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Los Angeles and Long Beach is drifting into its second week, but has yet to slow down cargo movement. Talks between the ILWU's Office Clerical Unit and the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Employers Association, representing 14 companies, broke down and had not yet resumed, r...
Shanghai International Port , China's biggest port operator, said first half net profit rose 50 percent from a year ago as it handled more cargoes following a recovery in global trade. Shanghai Port's first half net profit rose to about 2.57 billion yuan ($379 million), compared to 1.71 billion yuan in the year-ago period, based on Reuters calculation...
Capacity is set to increase at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT), the newest container facility at Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP). Two ZPMC quay cranes capable of stacking containers 24 across, and six RTGs featuring the latest technology including crane monitoring systems (CMS) and single and twin lifts, have just arrived on the mv Zhenhu...
The US Department of Transportation said it has granted three US air carriers to launch direct flights from four US cities to Tokyo's Haneda airport, paving the way for the first regular international flights to the airport in 32 years since Narita airport opened in 1978, Kyodo News reported. Hawaiian Airlines will operate flights between Honolulu and ...
Container volume growth at a Colombo port private terminal run by an associate firm of John Keells Holdings slowed down sharply in June after surging in previous months, Lanka Business Online reported. Analysts said it was the terminal's lowest monthly container volume handled so far this year and the slowest monthly growth compared with the previous y...
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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