Grand Alliance partners Hapag-Lloyd, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) announced their Winter Program for Asia-Europe services, Four of the GA’s current Asia-Europe services, EU1, EU2, EU3, and EU4, will be temporarily adjusted into three weekly services, renamed Loop A, B and C. Loop B and Loop C will call Chin...
With Haiti’s tiny airport now under the control of the US but still unable to cope with the sheer volume of flights and with supplies piling up in nearby Dominican Republic which occupies the other half of the island of Hispaniola, the country’s tragedy continues. The port is currently unusable because of damaged berths and debris in the...
It is reported that the year 2009 saw the business of ports grow on Shandong peninsula with port throughput reaching 730 million tonnes up by 12.3%YoY with 2008, 3% higher than the national average rate of increase in port business. Ore throughput hit 240 million tonnes in 2009 ranking No 1 in China. The CNY 4 trillion stimulus package launched by the Chine...
China's major coal-shipping ports in the north, including top coal port Qinhuangdao, have been shut since Monday afternoon due to heavy fog, slowing the flow of coal to southern China, industry sources said on Tuesday. "The fog is still very heavy. We don't know when the operations will resume," said a source at Qinhuangdao port, who declined to be name...
The Hong Kong port authorities reported a year-over-year 14.6% drop in containers shipment via its terminals, 20.9 million TEUs in recent year. Nevertheless, in December 2009, the port showed its first 3 percent rise (1.84 million TEUs) in container transshipment as compared with December of 2008. Port of Hong Kong is one of the top largest ports in the w...
Norwegian classification society DNV has recently established a Greater China Offshore Committee which will be chaired by Zhou Shouwei, vice general manager of CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The committee will be made up by senior executives and experts from the Chinese oil majors, offs...
The new operator of Manila North Harbor on Friday failed to take over the operations of the port after stakeholders, led by the shipping lines using the terminal, voiced fears that there won’t be a smooth transition as various issues were left unresolved. Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) General Manager Oscar Sevilla has extended the scheduled takeo...
On Sunday 17 January, the Yeoman Bontrup, the first ship carrying stones for the hard sea defences for Maasvlakte 2, was unloaded in Rotterdam. The stones come from Bremanger (Norway), about 200 km north of Bergen. During the coming two years, a ship loaded with around 90,000 tonnes of natural stone will arrive every two weeks. In total, 5 million tonnes of...
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