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- Ceremonial groundbreaking at the Port of Baltimore has signalled the start of a US$105m construction project to develop a new 50-foot berth to accommodate future mega-containerships. To be completed by 2012, the new berth is a key element of the 50-year agreement between the Maryland Port Administration and Ports America Chesapeake to lease and operate ...
The Pacific Maritime Association recently awarded Husky Terminal with the West Coast container operators' safety award for completing 2009 with zero-time loss injuries. The award was presented to Steve Bassett, vice president, general manager of Husky Terminal and Stevedoring, at the 62nd annual Washington area safety awards banquet. APM Terminals in Tacom...
Royal Vopak has decided to expand its storage terminal for oil products in the Port of Amsterdam on which construction started in 2009. The terminal will help to meet the huge demand for storage capacity in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) region. The Port of Amsterdam plays an important international role in the ARA region as a logistics hub for gasol...
ESTONIA's Port of Sillamse (Silport) will open a new container terminal in 2011 a year later than scheduled boasting a 850 metres of quay with a depth alongside of 14.5 metres to compete with the Russian port of Ust-Luga, according to Paris-based Alphaliner. Siloport is located in eastern Estonia just 25 kilometres from the Russian border which has a con...
A port survey has shown that the total investment earmarked for expansion and renovation projects along the 2,838km navigable length of the Yangtze river now comes to around $4bn. The survey – the first of its kind - was completed by Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport. These projects, under construction, planned and likely ...
Dhaka: Bangladesh will aim to persuade China to use Chittagong port as a commercial outlet for its southern Yunnan province, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday. "It will be a great achievement if China agrees to use our Chittagong port, which we want to develop into a regional commercial hub by building a deep seaport in the Bay of Bengal," she told...
The latest United States budget has moved away from the aim of scanning 100% of US-bound container cargo at over 700 foreign ports. The shift in policy follows a report that highlighted the failure of scanning plans, estimating that less than 5% of US-bound cargo was scanned at the world’s largest ports. The latest US budget plans to p...
SAVANNAH's Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), has announced it has increased its capacity for reefer containers at its Garden City Terminal with the completion of 10 new electrified refrigerated container racks. The new racks bring to 44 the number of reefer racks at the Port of Savannah terminal, which can now accommodate 1,056 containers, said a statement ...
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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