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Guangdong ports' aggregate container throughput fell 4.8 per cent year on year to 36.6 million TEU last year due to weak export demand, Xinhua reported. But thanks to the rapid growth in domestic demand, coast and fuel sales have increased and general throughput has climbed 12.4 per cent to 995.4 million tonnes. (Source: Transport Weekly)
A main line container vessel of Pacific International Lines (PIL), m. v. Kota Arif, called at New Mangalore Port on February 1 from the East African port of Mtwara, according to Exim News Service. The vessel unloaded 176 TEUs of raw cashew for distribution among the local processing units and loaded 206 TEUs of export cargo like fish meal, fish oil, grani...
Minister for Shipping, GK Vasan stated that Indian shipping will have two significant milestones in 2011. The Indian ports' capacity will cross 1 billion tonnes and tonnage carried by ships under Indian flag will cross 10 million tonnes. He said that the ports still need to increase their capacity to meet the growing cargo traffic. K Mohandas, Secretar...
Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia has announced it enacts its earlier reported changes (September 10th, 15th, 2009 N1643, N1691 Acts) in customs clearance procedure from 1 November 2010, the FCS press office said. The agency said the amended regulations were postponed (the order of the FCS September 15, 2009 N1691 was to come into force on March 1st...
Net profit of the Estonian state-owned Port of Tallinn (Tallinna Sadam, Estonia), according to provisional data for 2009 amounted to 407.8 million crowns (about $36.8 million), a year-over-year 2 percent drop. The port authorities posted 8 percent growth from a year earlier in consolidated revenue that totaled in 2009 1.267 billion kroons, a record number g...
The Myanmar authorities will privatise some port terminals' handling business, designating at least three port terminals in Yangon to be handed over to tender winning private enterprises for continued and effective operation, the local weekly Voice reported yesterday. At the docks: Freighters are loaded at the city port of Yangon, Myanmar. The privatisat...
As reported by local customs authorities, the port of Rizhao in China's Shandong Province saw a sharp rise in its volume of iron ore imports in 2009, registering a total of 78.927 million mt, up 49.4 percent year on year, which was the largest iron ore import volume of all Chinese ports during the year in question. With business affected by the internati...
The newly established companies at the Port of Gothenburg will commence operations today and the work involved in the transfer to external operators will enter a new phase. "Today is a milestone in the history of the Port of Gothenburg and marks the start of a new era for the largest port in the Nordic region. It will help us to become an even more effici...
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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