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In the month of March, the port of Rotterdam was the first port in Europe to handle 1 million containers in a month. The record was reached in the evening of the last day of March on the Ital Oriente. In total, 47 vessels were loaded and unloaded on that day: a total of nearly 50,000 TEU. The Port of Rotterdam Authority is marking March’s mileston...
The port of Antwerp handled 47,374,451 tonnes of freight in the first three months of this year, up 12.7% on the same period in 2010 and higher than the level reached at the same point in the record year of 2008. According to Port Authority CEO Eddy Bruyninckx the port has clearly shaken off the recession, even if the volumes of conventional/breakbulk an...
APM Terminals, Maersk terminal operations unit, has announced the acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in Poti seaport located on Georgia's Black Sea coast. The equity interest was purchased from Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority of the United Arab Emirates for an undisclosed sum. The company will operate Poti seaport in a joint venture with RAKIA. T...
THE Port of Shanghai has cut fees to satisfy truckers who had been protesting over high fuel prices for a week, reports London's Financial Times. Truckers at several terminals around Shanghai have been protesting what they say are unfair fees from container loading centres and complaining that the rising cost of diesel makes it impossible for them to ma...
Sea Star Line and Crowley Maritime will proceed with their parts of a settlement in which they and Horizon Lines agreed to pay shippers a total of $52.25 million to settle allegations of price-fixing in the U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico trade, the Journal of Commerce reports. Sea Star will pay $18.5 million and Crowley will pay $13.75 million, the companies t...
Following negotiations held in Vietnam on April 18-20, Zvezdochka Shipyard and the Navy of Vietnam signed the protocol on supply of spare parts and tools to the country, the shipbuilder's press service said. Negotiations with the Navy Command of Vietnam and the General Export and Import Company Wang Xuan of the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam we...
The world’s largest roll-on, roll-off vessel, the Tonsberg, called at Georgia’s Port of Brunswick Monday with a load of heavy-lift project cargo, the Journal of Commerce reports. The Tonsberg, which is operated by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, docked at the Port of Brunswick's Colonel's Island Terminal RoRo Facility. Following discharging ...
The removal of ice restrictions for vessels with propulsion power below 2000hp entering the approach channel of Big Port St. Petersburg has come into effect as of 0.00 (Moscow Time), 26 April 2011, the Port Authority press release said. The restrictions are still effective on calls of towed ATBs, and for vessels with hulls without ice class. (Source:http...
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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