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THE Virginia Port Authority (VPA) will likely take over the Port of Richmond administration on July 1 following an agreement in principle to sign a five-year lease with renewal options. Last July, the City of Richmond asked for private sector bidders to take over its underperforming port, but nothing of interest emerged. The VPA says it intends to "aggre...
Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone, India’s largest private multi-port operator and subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, India’s leading infrastructure conglomerate, today reported its financial performance for the quarter ended 31st March, 2011. Total Income for the quarter ended March 31,2011, was at Rs. 644 crore registered a growth of 50%...
SOUTHEAST China's Fujian province registered a volume of 2.9 million tonnes of transshipments from neighbouring provinces via its sea ports from January to March, an increase of 91.8 per cent year on year, Xinhua reports. The Port of Xiamen shipped 1.9 million tonnes of cargo to Jiangxi province, up 34.2 per cent, while port of Meizhou Bay shipped 544,6...
TAICANG, a once obscure Yangtze River port 60 kilometres upstream from Shanghai, posted a first quarter volume increase of 30 per cent year on year to 522,000 TEU, but now it must face life without The Containership Company's (TCC) Los Angeles shuttle which was recently suspended. In March, the port handled 188,000 TEU, up 15.8 per cent year on year, Xin...
Violent protests in the Middle East may have shaken the world economy but Philippine port operator ICTSI sees opportunity amid the turmoil, reported the Times of Oman. ICTSI, run by billionaire Enrique Razon, is one of only a few Philippine companies to have become a successful global player and it has done so largely by boldly going where others may feel...
Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau has issued a typhoon warning for approaching Tropical Storm Aere, which is increasing in speed to 25 kilometres per hour. The bureau said the storm was about 650 km south of Taiwan's southern tip as of Monday morning and was moving north. Ships in the Bashi Channel off the southern coast are advised to brace for the storm a...
As April ended and May started, ships that had called at Japanese ports post-radiation leaks finally found their way to European and US ports. And what greeted them was a disjointed mix of reactions and confused strategies on screening and decontamination plans. Tactics ranged from outright expulsion and outside port limits radiation checks, to random sp...
The experiences of New Zealand’s Port Nelson with the vexatious issue of noise and a juxtaposed community reveal how far a port company may have to go to seek a solution. In Port Nelson’s case, it involved becoming a property developer. Over time city and residential areas encroached on to the port, with former industrial areas being develop...
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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