Tecon Suape S.A. (TSSA) recently received eight new rubber tired gantries (RTGs) for the Suape Container Terminal (SCT). The purchase is part of TSSA’s three-year USD45 million capital investment program for the terminal, which will further improve capacity and operations at the SCT, the most modern container handling facility in the northern and nort...
The number of traders whose cargoes are passing via the Vladivostok customs post has grown considerably. Customs officers fail to cope with the flow of goods, Deyta.ru reports. However, according to Nikolai Loshchinin, the head of the customs post at Vladivostok seaport speaking at a press conference, the cargo clearance procedure is held in accordance wi...
APM Terminals’ chief environmental officer is calling for cooperation among the leading global terminal operators to standardize ways of measuring their carbon footprints so as to reduce their greenhouse emissions. Speaking at the GreenPort 2010 International Ports and Environment Conference on the topic of “Carbon Footprinting for Container Ter...
In September 2009 the EU funded INTEGRITY project implemented its IT platform, the Shared Intermodal Container Information System SICIS. SICIS tracks containers along the entire logistics chain and registers all data and related events which are generated during the transport. SICIS regularly monitors the INTEGRITY consortium members’ containers...
- Sydney Ports Corporation has signed a contract for the delivery of a vessel surveillance system for both Port Botany and Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour). CEO of Sydney Ports, Grant Gilfillan, said that global technology company SOFRELOG will supply the new Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) System, which will be based at Port Botany and is scheduled to become ...
MARSEILLES FOS has posted a 27 per cent increase in container volume to 84,029 TEU in January year on year as well as a 10 per cent rise in general cargo (including containers) to 7.2 million tonnes, suggesting signs of global recovery, said the port authority statement. Ro-ro volumes fell 11 per cent to 250,000 tonnes after a 41 per cent slump in exports...
THE Port of Shanghai, the world's second largest container port after Singapore, experience a throughput increase of 18 per cent to 2.24 million TEU in January, reported Xinhua. The port's performance began to pick up since the second half of 2009 when the foreign trade revived. Shanghai moved 2.39 million TEU in December last year, creating the first p...
Koon Holdings has won a US$160.29 million port project in Vietnam – its first major overseas contract, reported Business Times. The civil engineering, reclamation and shore protection specialist clinched the deal for the turnkey design and construction of Sao Bien International Port through its 60 per cent owned subsidiary Koon-Top Pave Joint Ventur...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi