Hutchison Ports (UK) is asking planners to extend the period of consent for its proposed Bathside Bay container terminal in Harwich, UK because the economic downturn means the development is unlikely to move forward before 2016. Meanwhile, HPUK is considering using the site temporarily for offshore wind farm work. In a letter, Harwich International Port...
Russia will export East Siberian crude oil to Japan for the first time, with a tanker scheduled to set sail Friday, Kyodo News International reports. The tanker, which will leave the port of Kozmino near the Russian city of Nakhodka, will dock at the Keiyo Sea Berth in Tokyo Bay in early March. The 100,000 tons of oil, whose bid was won by trading house...
The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine announced it extended the discount, ranging from 18% to 50%, to the flat rate payment for handling of transit cargoes at the country’s ports before the end of 2010. The official document was posted on the Ministry’s website.. Earlier reports said the Ministry of Transport of Ukraine had o...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to acquire a 30% stake in the Poti Sea Port company, owned by the RAK Investment Authority (UAE), RZD-Partner.Ru reported citing a source at the ADB office in Georgia. The ADB representatives have been currently in negotiations over the deal details with the port owners. In 2008 RAK Investment Authority acquired for $155...
Construction of a container terminal at the port of Sillamae (Estonia) is scheduled for completion in late 2011, PortNews IAA reports citing Andrei Birov, the marketing manager for SILPORT jsc. Mr. Birov said the company had been currently looking for a general investor or operator of the project. The projected capacity of the terminal will be at 1 million ...
EASTERN China's Port of Nantong, north of Shanghai near the mouth of the Yangtze, registered a throughput of 33,000 TEU in January, a strong growth of 46.3 per cent over the same month in 2009, breaking the fastest growth record in nearly two years, Xinhua reported. The port's cargo throughput tonnage also set up a new fastest growth record of 24.3 per ...
DENMARK's mighty Maersk Line has added a port of call in Hamburg to its AE10 service that connects the ports of Shenzhen-Dachan Bay, Ningbo, Shanghai, Kaohsiung, Shenzhen-Yantian, Hong Kong and Tanjung Pelepas to Europe. Containerised shipments transported on the AE10 and Maersk's AE1 and AE2 services are loaded and unloaded at the Eurogate Container Te...
THE Port of Shenzhen's throughput recovered in January after 10 months' continuous decline, Xinhua reported. Statistics from the Shenzhen Transport Commission show that the port's throughput increased 29 per cent year on year and 1.05 per cent month to month to 18.69 million tonnes, while container throughput rose 16.14 per cent year on year and 2.24 p...
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