The total number of containers shipped through the Port of Los Angeles in December increased slightly compared to the previous year, giving December numbers the only year-over-year monthly increase of the entire calendar year. The volume of loaded outbound containers in December also continued to climb, fueling more speculation that the international contai...
On January 15 the “Rio Madeira” was christened in Montevideo (Uruguay). She is the final newbuilding of a series of six identical Hamburg Süd container vessels, each with a slot capacity of 5,900 TEU. Sponsor of the “Rio Madeira” was Katharina von Malaisé. Following her delivery at Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI)...
The Adani Group-promoted Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd (MPSEZL) will invest at least US$219 million in the first phase of development of non-LNG port facilities at Hazira in Surat district of Gujarat, and commission the port in 2012, the Hindu Business Line reported. The listed company had been awarded the Letter of Intent (LoI) for development of non-LNG port f...
Hanjin Shipping has announced a rate recovery program for the Trans-Atlantic trade in the year 2010. The program, consisting of three quarterly rate restorations, will be applied to all shipments between North America, Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, both east and west bound. According to Hanjin Shipping, the Trans-Atlantic trade suffered s...
Cargo traffic at the 12 major ports increased by 5.14 per cent to 411.95 million tonnes for nine months ending December 31, 2009 compared with 391.82 million tonnes in the corresponding period last year. However, the ports missed the target of 430 million tonnes set by the Shipping Ministry by nearly 19 million tonnes. Interestingly, except for Kolkata ...
The Big Port of St. Petersburg authorities report a year-over-year 16% drop in volumes of transshipped cargoes in recent calendar year, at 50.4 million tones. According to the port’s numbers in 2009 1 million 343 thousand 675 TEUs of containers were shipped via the port, a 32,3% slump over 2008. In these numbers, bulk cargo volume decreased by 20%, ...
The Port of Seattle on the US West Coast says its goals to reduce pollution at the port are being met or exceeded. According to results from 2009 the port's At Berth Clean (ABC) Fuels programme prevented around 68 metric tonnes of sulphur from entering the environment. The programme was devised by the Port and shipping lines in order to meet the goals ...
GULFPORT, Mississippi, which handles 200,000 containers annually, closed for 45 minutes last week to allow further screenings of a suspicious export container of silica sand, reports the Biloxi Sun Herald. Port CEO Donald Allee said the container gave a positive reading during the regular security scanning and port officials followed procedure by stopping...
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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