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Belgium's radiation safety regulator has discovered radiation levels surpassing European Union limits on a shipping container from Japan, the agency said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The agency is decontaminating the container after it found radiation from Cesium-137 being emitted at a level of 0.5 microsieverts per hour in two rust spots. This exceeds...
During the first quarter, 233,000 TEUs were shipped via the Port of Gothenburg, packed with everything from home electronics, clothes, furniture and food to paper, chemicals, steel and primary materials for industry. The figures are up six per cent on last year, setting a new record. Exports to the US on the other hand remain sluggish. "We have direct ro...
The Port of Melbourne is becoming a bottleneck that could choke rural exports, according to the Australian shipping industry. As the nation's largest international container port, Melbourne is crucial to southeast Australia's dairy and grain industries, reported The Weekly Times. But Shipping Australia chief executive Llew Russell said past and presen...
THE American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the Port of Los Angeles will again enter a court battle on June 10 over the legality of the port's clean truck programme which bans independent owner operators from the trade. The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, though based in San Francisco will hear the case in the LA area's Pasadena in which the A...
Three and half years after work first commenced, Bremen’s ports are celebrating the completion of a major maritime project: 900 invited guests from the spheres of economics, politics and society attended the inauguration ceremony of the new Kaiserschleuse on 29 April. The structure is 305 metres long and has a passage width of 55 metres, making it sui...
U.S. containerized imports fell 2.5 percent in March, the first year-to-year decline in 16 months, as a weak housing market contributed to a drop in imports from Asia, Journal of Commerce reports.Volume measured in 20-foot-equivalent units was down 11 percent from China, 22 percent from Hong Kong and 9 percent from Japan, where shipments were affected by th...
China's Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Co. Ltd. has awarded Norwegian naval architect firm Inocean a contract for development and basic design of a new compact ultra deepwater drillship, INO-80, suitable for global operation. The design is being introduced to the market for the first time in Houston at OTC 2011, MarineLog reported. "We are delighted to partner ...
Mafika Mkwanazi, chairman of Transnet, has revealed that the organisation is considering building a new $14.5bn port in Durban, Port Strategy reports.If approved, construction could start in 2015, with an initial phase operational by 2019. The container terminal will be able to handle 6m teu, which will be double that of facilities at the existing port. ...
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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