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FELIXSTOWE-based transport company Maritime Group Ltd has expanded with the acquisition of DHL Container Logistics, including its container lifting, storage and repair operations at Hong Kong's Hutchison Port of Felixstowe as well as Trafford Park, in Manchester. The combined businesses of Maritime Transport and DHL Container Logistic will rank as the la...
CAPTAIN Steven Lloyd, the skipper of the OOCL Belgium, has formally received the Gold-Headed Cane award for the first arrival of the New Year by an ocean-going vessel at the Port of Montreal without a stopover, in a maritime tradition that dates back to 1840. The containership operated by Hong Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) flies the Hong K...
The Ministry of Shipping (MoS) has rasied objections to the new draft policy on the development of ports proposed by Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The shipping ministry fears that this new policy could hamper the National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP). However, MoS has asked MoEF to approve the ongoing projects under NMDP and to expe...
A meeting was conducted by the Cochin Port Trust to review the implementation of the Puthuvypeen LNG terminal project in the port. Work on the terminal is expected to be completed by December 2010 and will commence operations by March 2012. It was decided during the meeting that the terminal will be supplemented by GAIL (India) by laying pipelines which is ...
The Shipping Ministry expressed hope that the indefinite strike called by the port unions starting January 04, 2009 would be averted. Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy said "a meeting is scheduled to be held tomorrow between the recognised trade unions and port authorities. I expect that some solution will emerge and the strike will not take place....
After the Indian Ports Association (IPA) agreed to the wage-related demands of the Port and Dock Workers Federation, the proposed strike was called off. The unions wanted the management of the 12 ports to grant 23 per cent fitment amount to port and dock workers with effect from January 1, 2007, whereas IPA, which represented the major ports of the countr...
Classification society Lloyd’s Register today celebrated 250 years of technical service to maritime shipping when Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) delivered the first vessel of 2010 built to its class. The vessel, a 105,000dwt tonne Aframax tanker named Pichincha, was delivered to Ecuado-based tanker operator Flota Pertrolera Ecuatoriana (...
The year 2010 is will witness some of the private ports in India raising capital by selling shares through initial public offering. The ports that have so far decided to go through this route in 2010 include Gujarat Pipavav Port and MARG Karaikal Port. Gujarat Pipavav Port is planning to raise Rs 5 billion through an initial public offering (IPO). The com...
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
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