Princess Maria ferry from St. Petersburg has arrived safely at the port of Helsinki. PortNews IAA correspondent reports the passenger ship is being currently moored at the Port’s pier. It has been reported earlier that the yesterday’s Princess Maria maiden trip has opened regular ferry services on St. Petersburg - Helsinki line. The ferry li...
Loading operations at Dalrymple Bay and Hay Point coal terminals have returned to closer to normal conditions after being hit by Cyclone Ului three weeks ago - although operations at Hay Point are still significantly restricted. Congestion at the two coal ports has fallen to approximately 88 vessels, says Jeffrey Landsberg of Commodore Research, which mak...
Two major terminal operators have challenged Associated British Ports’ dominant position on the Humber, where the company owns the ports of Hull, Goole, Immingham and Grimsby. Two major terminal operators have challenged Associated British Ports’ dominant position on the Humber, where the company owns the ports of Hull, Goole, Immingham and Gr...
A new Chinese canal project should strengthen Wuhan’s role as a shipping hub in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, according to David Lammie of Yangtze Business Services. The new project is a 67km-long canal from the mid section of the Yangtze River to a tributary that connects with the central route of the country’s major south-north wa...
Ghana's western sea port in Takoradi is to be redevel oped and expanded to meet the challenges of the emerging oil and gas industry in the West African country, the Minister of Transport, Mike Hammah said. The first phase involves a detailed engineering design while the second phase w ill consist of marine works. The third phase will cover both marine and ...
Union Minister for Shipping and Ports G. K. Vasan said that the Vallarpadam transhipment container terminal near Kochi in Kerala would be completed by August, reported The Hindu. Vasan said the US$4.5 million International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT) at Vallarpadam, being developed by Dubai Port International, was scheduled to be commissioned i...
Abu Dhabi International Airport maintained a robust performance on cargo with a 22.2 percent increase in tonnage in the first quarter of 2010 compared with the same period last year, Reuters reported. The month of March saw similar growth trends with a 23.4 percent increase in cargo throughput. Ahmad Al Haddabi, senior vice-president of airports operati...
Shanghai-listed Rizhao Port Co Ltd, a subsidiary of China Rizhao Port (Group) Co Ltd, last week said that its net profit attributable to the parent for the first quarter of this year was RMB 103 million, up 89.77% from the same period of last year, sources reported. In a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the company said that it realized RMB...
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