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Relevant documentation for containers imported to New Zealand will now have to be submitted 12 hours before a vessel’s estimated arrival and six-sided inspections (as opposed to four-sided) may be undertaken if quarantine declaration requirements have not been met. However, the New Zealand Importers’ Institute says the revised Sea Container Im...
Two months of operation of water recycling and harvesting rainwater has allowed Goodyear South Africa to save 5.6m litres of water; enough to supply 180 homes for a month. The Uitenhage plant is finding a new use for wastewater from its boiler house, and saving steam condensate. The recovered water is redirected to plant toilets or used as makeup water for ...
After suffering through their worst two-year stretch in history, ports in the US have begun climbing out of a deep hole brought on by the global economic collapse. Since January, trade volumes are up about 20 percent from 2009 - a dreadful 12 months labelled "the most difficult year in shipping history" by at least one shipping executive, the McClatchy-Tr...
LIAODONG Bay on the Yellow Sea posted a 20 per cent year on year increase in cargo volume to more than 100 million tonnes in the first two months of the year despite a sea ice disaster not experienced in 30 years, reports Xinhua. Five ports of Dalian, Yingkou, Dandong, Jingzhou and Huludao together posted a throughput of 54.5 million tonnes in January, up...
CHINA's Ningbo Port Group is working with shipping lines and forwarders to launch a direct service from Jiaxing (another port in Zhejiang province) to Japan, reports Xinhua. Jiaxing port's transshipment volume goes by the Ningbo inland branch line, which brought about 29,000 TEU in the first two months of the year, accounting for 80 per cent of its 37,0...
The Rotterdam International Forum for Industrial Fire-fighting (IFIF) has found a way to prevent burning oil from a fire in an oil tank from spurting out of the tank with great force. Such a ‘boilover’ resembles a gushing geyser and can cause serious damage within a radius of up to 1000 metres from the burning tank, Rotterdam Port official websi...
The 2009 statistics on European port cargo volumes as collected through the ESPO Rapid Data Exchange System (RES) are now available from the ESPO website. The overall picture for 2009 is, as expected, negative. The total cargo volume of the ports participating in RES has declined with 11.9% compared to 2008. Particularly the solid bulk market segment wa...
More and more industry organisations are calling for action to deal with the negative implications of the IMO sulphur requirements covered by Emission Control Areas (ECAs - currently Baltic, North Sea and English Channel ports). The requirement to shift to 0.1% sulphur content level in the ECAs as from 2015 was introduced without a proper impact assessmen...
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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