The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) continued to experience positive growth during the month of February and has recorded three consecutive months of increased trade through its ports. “Three consecutive months of double-digit growth at the Georgia Ports Authority is a positive sign that overall market conditions have improved considerably since last ...
THE UAE's Gulftainer has announced its Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) has eight new gantries working on a single ship and bringing the port's total number of ship-to-shore cranes to 20. The acquisition and delivery of four new 'Megamax' Liebherr container gantries at the end of last year are now working at the extended 440-metre berth, said a com...
APM Terminals has invested US$176 million to upgrade the Apapa Container Terminal at Nigeria's Lagos Port Complex. The bulk of investment at the APM-managed facility related to IT infrastructure development, manpower development, and the purchasing of new cargo handling equipment, the Lagos Daily Independent reports. Chief among the purchases was the a...
THE Port of Marseilles reported that its Fos container terminal enjoyed a 30 per cent year-on-year increase in volume to 160,000 TEU, which helped to provide the greater harbour's four per cent year-on-year overall cargo increase to 13.5 million tonnes in the first two months of the year. The container volume increase included a 10 per cent boost to 38,0...
GEORGIA's port authority has recorded three months of double-digit growth in trade volume, with container shipments for February up 20.6 per cent year-on-year at 202,620 TEUs - a testament to the state's rising share of US-bound Asian cargo. Overall tonnage for the month, the bulk of which was handled by Savannah, saw a 29.7 per cent gain over the same ...
In order to increase capacity and change the limits of maritime cargo-passenger all-round checkpoints through the border of Russia seaports of Murmansk (North West), Temryuk (Krasnodar Region) and Svetly (Kaliningrad region) are planned to be reconstructed. According to the report of Russian Boarder Services Agency, the orders are issued by Russian Boarder ...
Big Port of St. Petersburg will be able to receive ships with draught to 14 meters since 2012. During the opening ceremony the first direct ocean container service Maersk Line ECUBEX Mr Levitin, Minister of Transport stated that, by that time approach channels with the corresponding characteristics are planned to be established in the Gulf of Finland &ndash...
On Saturday, 13 March, the ships of the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group arrived on a two-day visit in Gdansk. Four minehunters: the British HMS "Walney", the Belgian BNS "Aster", the Dutch HNLMS "Middelburg", the German FGS "Passau" and ORP "Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki".docked at the Obroncow Westerplatte Quay. The visit came about as part of the...
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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