International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) recently named Jose Manuel De Jesus as president of Davao International Port Stevedoring Services Corp. (DIPSSCOR) in Davao, southern Philippines and Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC) in Olongapo, and Julien Domingo as general manager of DIPSSCOR. De Jesus is concurrently ICTSI vice pres...
The governments of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana have initialled a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the implementation of a tripartite project to develop a deep-water port at Techobanine, in Mozambique’s southernmost district of Matutuine. The project to develop the port and to build a rail link from Mozambique to land-locked neighbours Bots...
French Navy's 21,600-tonne amphibious assault ship, also called Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD), Mistral, together with Anti-Submarine Warfare Destroyer Georges Leygues, arrived here on Thursday on a three-day port call, Hindu.com reports. The ships, on what is termed as the ‘Jean D'Arc Mission'— a five-month-long training voyage to expose ab...
LONGSHOREMEN of British Columbia's ports have ratified a eight-year contract that will increase wages by 3.5 per cent a year, with provisions to offset cost of living inflation. The contract is a first for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU) whose previous deal with British Columbia Maritime Employers Association lasted three ye...
The Bangladesh Government has started the process to construct a container transshipment port of international standard in Ashuganj, shipping minister Shahjahan Khan said. If this project is implemented successfully, both countries, the other being India, will benefit from it, he said, reported The Financial Express (Bangladesh). Shipping Minister Shahj...
National agreements on French port reforms will come into force at Marseilles-Fos from May, with the transfer of some 400 port authority personnel to private or part-private stevedoring companies. The breakthrough on tripartite agreements covering all major French ports coincided with the signing of a national agreement on the linked issue of retirement a...
Libya’s heavily contested port of Misurata has fallen to regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, according to unconfirmed reports from the country’s Foreign Ministry. The Libyan Foreign Ministry claimed yesterday that the rebels had surrendered in exchange of amnesty, but there was no confirmation of the same from the opposition. The olive branch...
Intense lobbying over award of tenders at the Mombasa port in Kenya is threatening to delay construction of the second container terminal which is funded by the Japanese government. According to officials at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), some individuals who are connected to the firms that tendered for the job have been accused of lobbying for award o...
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