Transportation group FESCO is planning to use the Japan Trans-Siberian Line (JTSL) service on a weekly basis so that cargo owners will be able to ship containers from Japan every week rather than the previously available twice a month, RIA Oreanda News reported. In June, the new improved service will begin operations from Japan to the far east of Russia...
Dunedin: The world’s most southerly container port is a step closer to being able to accept 8,000 teu class container vessels. Port Otago has lodged a resource consent application with the Otago Regional Council for its proposed $100 million channel deepening project following an exhaustive environmental consultation. Port Otago, which lies in...
YUSEN Terminals Inc (YTI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYK, has completed the first tenant-installed solar project at the Port of Los Angeles. The pilot system, installed in cooperation with NYK Trading Corporation and designed by SeaPort Energy, will produce about 11,800 kWh annually using only 96 modules. This represents an emissions reduction equal ...
PORTS on the trunk stream of Yangtze River handled 680,000 TEU in April, up 45.9 per cent year on year and 3.7 per cent over March, Xinhua reported. Tonnage of the throughput of these ports amounted to 120 million tonnes, up 33.5 per cent year on year and 7.7 per cent month on month. Foreign trade cargo volume increased 8.5 per cent over the same month ...
GEORGIA's deepwater ports are expected to remain one of the state's strongest economic engines, according to the results of a study conducted by the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA). GPA's executive director Curtis Foltz said, "The fundamental finding of this study is that the state's strategic decisions to invest in our two deepwater ports have contri...
Container throughput at the six container terminals in New York Harbor in the first quarter of 2010 increased by 9.6 percent over the same quarter last year though overall port activity remains 6 percent below first quarter 2008 levels. Containerized imports rose 9.8 percent during the first quarter of 2010, while exports were up 9.6 percent, the Port Aut...
Peel Ports has commissioned a double barge service on the Manchester Ship Canal to handle growing container volumes at the UK’s Port of Liverpool. Consequently, capacity of the service has jumped from 160 teu to 320 teu per journey, with two barges tied alongside each other and pushed by a single tug. The service operates between Liverpool and Man...
A key western Sydney council is pushing back against federal and state government plans to build a massive freight terminal at Moorebank because it fears a deluge of heavy truck traffic, reported The Sydeny Morning Herald. At this week's meeting of Liverpool City Council, councillors sought the help of local state and federal MPs "in opposing this facili...
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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