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Asian carriers operating out of the major ports of Brazil -including Santos, the biggest for general cargo - could receive a major boost from a Brazilian Special Ports Ministry initative to drastically cut red tape. For Brazil’s special ports minister Pedro Brito has chosen the first three ports which will act as guinea pigs in an attempt to reduce ...
PORT of Guangzhou recorded a cumulative throughput of 241 million tonnes for the year of 2009 on December 20, 11 days ahead of schedule. While detailed figures were not given, the report of Xinhua said the port also expected its container volume to meet the annual target. After continuous fall in the early half of year, the port's throughput turned for...
THE Port of Shenzhen's cumulative container throughput in the year of 2009 dropped 14.8 per cent year on year to 18.3 million TEU according to statistics from the Shenzhen Transport Commission, Xinhua reported. The port's cargo throughput tonnage fell 8.3 per cent to 194 million tonnes. Throughput of foreign trade cargo dropped 11.5 per cent to 143 mill...
Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) has gone back on its previous year's plan of making itself a 'clean' port, without any handling of coal and such other dusty cargo. On a reversal of strategy, it has repositioned itself as a multi-cargo terminal, which will handle all categories of goods ranging from coal, iron ore and oil through sugar, edible oil and other per...
URALCHEM JSC has started construction of a nitrogen fertilizers terminal at the port of Dieppe (France). As of now, the construction site, has been prepared, the project adapted to local specifics. "The project has been fully supported by regional authorities, so we do not see any obstacles to its realization. Europe is a strategically important market for ...
Freight turnover at the Port of Long Beach (USA) declined in 2009 to 15.7% as compared with the same period of 2008 - to 157 million tons. Container turnover in recent year decreased by 21.9% - to 6.48 million TEUs, the port authority said. Long Beach is the largest port of the Pacific coast of the USA. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach form the U.S...
In 2009 volumes of cargo handled at the Port of Singapore declined 8.6% - to 471.451 million tons, including 262.896 million tons cargoes in containers and 176.5 million tons of oil products, the port authority said. As of 2008, cargo throughput at the port’s terminals was reported at 515.3 million tons, the volume of bunker - 34.9 million tons. PSA...
FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 20.9 million TEU in 2009, a decrease of 14.6 per cent from 24.5 million in 2008, but December's figures showed a three per cent increase to 1.8 million TEU from the same month the previous year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 13.5 per cent decrease in container moveme...
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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