The volume of oil and petroleum products through Batumi Oil Terminal (BOT Ltd, Republic of Georgia) in January-April 2010 rose to 2.385 million tons, showing a 32.5% surge year-over-year, IA RZD-Partner.Ru reports. In April, the volume reached 580.300 tons, or 25% up from last year’s April number. Crude oil exports in total transshipped volumes made...
The first-quarter container volumes at the Port of New York and New Jersey gained 9.6% to 917.413 TEUs from 836,733 TEUs in Q1, 2009, the Port Authority trade stats said. The number includes imports growth by 9.8% (564,207 TEUs) and exports by 9.4% (353,206 TEUs). The March container count rose by 18.3%, to 332.303 TEUs vs 280,828 TEUs in Mar, 2009. The P...
The recession is not slowing container traffic growth at the Port of Montreal, Canwest News Service reported. In the first quarter of this year, the Port's overall traffic gained 7.6 percent over the first quarter of 2009, driven mainly by containerised cargo and iron ore. Container cargo was up 11.1 percent year-on-year. Traffic with Northern Europe w...
RANKINGS of the top five container lines calling at the Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk changed in the first quarter with Geneva's Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) leading the pack while Copenhagen's Maersk Line slipped a notch. MSC's share totalled 26 per cent in the first quarter of 2010, which is the same as in 2009. MSC was rated first throughou...
THE Port of Houston Authority has authorised use of nearly $1.5 million from the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance programme to reimburse Maersk Line for clean fuel use. Port Authority CEO Alec Dreyer also reported that import container movement has increased 18 per cent in March, with loaded containers s...
NORTH China's Port of Tianjin posted a 9.4 per cent growth in throughput to 93 million tonnes and a 12.7 per cent increase in container movement to 2.17 million TEU, reports Xinhua. The port registered a record high of 8.2 per cent in throughput to 34.5 million tonnes, mostly attributed to CSAV's Mediterranean and South America service, MOL's South Ame...
A third coal export terminal has opened in Newcastle, maintaining the NSW city's position as the No.1 coal port in the world. The new terminal opened on Monday three years after owner Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG) won the right to construct and operate a third loader in the port. The stage one terminal cost more than $1 billion and can shift...
Oman Observer quoted industry experts as saying that Oman’s success in snagging one of the world’s biggest ports as a partner in the management of Duqm port is a major shot in the arm for the government’s efforts to develop a world scale industrial and maritime hub on the Wusta coast. Belgium’s Port of Antwerp signed the partnership ...
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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