TRADE flows through Kaliningrad Commercial Seaport in January-May increased by 32.6 per cent over to the same period last year to 1,374.400 tons, reports Portnews News Agency of St Petersburg. Year-to-date exports rose 27.56 per cent to 1,074,700 tons. Five-month volume of petroleum products increased 15.68 per cent to 249,300 tons, ferrous metals expor...
PORT Metro Vancouver and Canadian National Railway Company (CN) have signed a supply chain deal to drive further efficiencies at the port and "recognise the importance of balanced accountability." The agreement sets the framework for the port, CN and port stakeholders to develop mechanisms to define, measure, monitor and evaluate the performance of each...
THE Port of Tacoma needs to reach agreement with banks to prevent it from issuing US$230 million worth of bonds to finance a container terminal it no longer needs, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Failure to come to favourable terms with the banks could lead to the port paying them more than $24 million to extricate itself from bond financing agr...
China’s Port Industry showed a clear sign of recovery at the end of 2009. Therefore, port operators are seeking solutions to secure future growth, in order to stand out after the economic crisis. Port of Qingdao is one of the largest ports in China. As part of a joint venture, Qingdao invested 1.4 billion dollars in the fourth stage of Qianwan Harbor,...
Port Metro Vancouver and CN have reached a supply chain collaboration agreement to drive further efficiencies at the port and recognise the importance of balanced accountability. The agreement sets the framework for the Port, CN and port stakeholders to develop mechanisms to define, measure, monitor and evaluate the performance of each participant at th...
The silver lining seems to have begun to appear for Hamburg port - that's what German maritime experts are saying - thanks to the thriving trade with Asia. China's container lines have resumed calling at Hamburg port, which went through a difficult 2009 because of the global recession. Things have been looking up since the start of the second quar...
Vietnam's container traffic has been growing rapidly and to keep up with demand the government is furiously building new ports, particularly in the south, arousing concerns of overcapacity. John Cushing, general director of international container services at SP-SSA International Terminal (SSIT), said: "Whenever we look at this much development - and i...
China Merchants Holdings (International) intends to further deepen co-operation with Qingdao Port (Group) through a potential equity investment. The two groups signed an agreement on Saturday forming a second joint venture to consolidate their bulk cargo terminal resources in the city, China Merchants managing director Hu Jianhua told the South China Mo...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi