- The Panama Canal Authority’s operational metrics from October to December 2009, show that Canal Waters Time (CWT), the average time it takes a vessel to transit the Canal (including waiting time for passage), significantly decreased despite increases in total transits and net tonnage. CWT decreased 27.5% compared with the corresponding period in t...
France’s Port of Dunkirk has achieved the ISO 9001 certification following audits conducted in October and November 2009. In line with the Strategic Plan, this certification marks a new phase in the improvement drive that has been on-going for several years. According to port authority management this accreditation, together with the certifica...
- Dover Harbour Board has announced that it has made a formal application to the UK Secretary of State for Transport to move from trust port status to voluntary privatisation. The Board believes that the change would ensure that the necessary capital was secured for investment in the port to deliver new capacity as and when required, guaranteeing the port...
SMALL and medium sized enterprises - 95 per cent of Asian businesses, employing 80 per cent of the workforce, will be vital to economic recovery this year, says Asia Pacific FedEx Express president David Cunningham. Mr Cunningham made his statement based on a FedEx commissioned study from The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) entitled "Towards the Recover...
CONTECON Guayaquil S A (CGSA), operator of the Guayaquil Multipurpose and Container Terminal in Ecuador, has received four ISO certifications: ISO 9001 (Quality Management System); ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System); OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety); and ISO 28000 (Supply Chain Security Management Systems). CGSA was certified by Burea...
Hanjin Pacific Corporation (HPC), a terminal subsidiary of Hanjin Shipping, and APM Terminals, the independent port operating division of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, have announced they have entered into an agreement in which Hanjin Pacific will take over APM Terminals facilities at Piers 76 and 77 in Kaohsiung and combine them into Hanjin’s current...
DP World, the world's fourth-largest container terminal operator, said on Wednesday that it welcomed Malaysia's MISC Berhad as a new customer to its brand new Saigon Premier Container Terminal (SPCT) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. MISC is adding two weekly calls to SPCT, with the maiden call of Bunga Teratai Empat, a 1,725 TEU (twenty foot equivalent con...
The Sea Port of Le Havre (GPMH) (France) was granted on December 11 2009 the ISO 28000 certification as compliant to standards of security supply chain management system established at the port by the authorities, the port press service reported today. The port turned to be the first European port certified and the world’s second after Houston (USA). ...
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