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Qingdao Port, China's second-largest foreign trade port, said it expects a steady rebound in volume in the first half of the year, although throughput has yet to return to pre-financial crisis levels. The port's cargo throughout was up nine percent in January and February from a year earlier, while container throughout was up six percent, chairman Chang...
Scotline has been forced to put its Humber terminal into liquidation after receiving a court summons over a £600,000 backdated rates bill. The terminal at the Port of Goole, which handles up to 200,000 m3 of timber imports a year, has ceased trading and ten people have lost their jobs. “We have received a very large summons for backdated rat...
A controversial plan to build a new port, competing with Dublin Port, has been criticised by Enda Connellan, chief executive of Dublin Port Co, for being the sole “legacy of unsustainable public expenditure” in the Irish ports sector. Mr Connellan said that the proposal had been accepted in “a legislative and policy vacuum” in the ...
While Finnish passenger and goods traffic was set to resume today after unions struck a deal with employers, an agreement has yet to be reached with the nation's port workers. The union accepted wage proposals for bus and truck transports and oil product deliveries, but is still in talks with employer representatives for stevedores. If talks fail, loadin...
The Port of Trieste has advised that, with effect from 3 March 2010, vessels using fuels with a sulphur content exceeding 0.10% by mass (in contravention of EU Directive 2005/33/EC) will be prosecuted with fine of between Euros 15,000 and 150,000 (usually 30,000 for the first offence). Exemption to the law will not be granted anymore and all eventual specia...
TOTAL cargo volumes handled by India's major ports in January 2010 grew 13.4 per cent compared to the previous month to 51.3 million tonnes, with container throughput rising 31 per cent as well to 60.8 million TEU. The surge in January's cargo volume was driven by the ports of Paradip, Mormugao, Tuticorin and New Mangalore which saw year-on-year growth ...
SHARJAH Container Terminal (SCT), the first purpose built container terminal in the Middle East, experienced steady import volumes according to Gulftainer which will now be augmented by the launch of a feeder service by Yangming Lines. The YM XIAMEN weekly service will be serviced by a 350-TEU, 107 metres long. SCT manager Paul Hennessy said of the servic...
During 1st and 2nd March, the 10th Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference (TPM) was held in Long Beach, USA. China Merchants International Holdings and its subordinate business unit including Chiwan Container Terminal (CCT), Shekou Container Terminals (SCT), China Merchants Maritime Logistics (CMML) and China Merchants International Cold Chain (CMIC) for the thi...
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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