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The International Maritime Organization has issue a special end-2009 message to the world's 1.5m seafarers, pointing out that it has chosen to tag 2010 “Year of the Seafarer” in recognition of their vital service to the world's population of 6.5bn people. "Our intention is to pay tribute to ... the unique, and all too often over-looked, cont...
The International Maritime Organization has issue a special end-2009 message to the world's 1.5m seafarers, pointing out that it has chosen to tag 2010 “Year of the Seafarer” in recognition of their vital service to the world's population of 6.5bn people. "Our intention is to pay tribute to ... the unique, and all too often over-looked, cont...
The Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT), Jeddah Islamic Port's new $510m container facility located at the northern end of the port kicked off operations on 22 December 2009 with the arrival of UASC's Vessel Al Muttanabi (pictured). The vessel’s arrival marked completion of work on the first phase of the 1.8m teu Greenfield terminal on which constructio...
Japan’s largest natural gas distributor, Tokyo Gas Co., is bringing forward plans to open an import terminal for liquefied natural gas in Hitachi city, Ibaraki prefecture, to the north of Tokyo, reports Bloomberg. Commercial operations at the terminal, which together with pipelines will cost $1.1bn, are now scheduled to begin in FY 2015 rather than FY...
Costa Rica's Meco will be joining the Spanish construction company FCC and Mexico's ICA as part of a consortium for the dry excavation of the Panama Canal extension in a contract worth us$267.8 million dollars. The consortium beat out Belgium's Jan de Nul, Brazil's Oderbrecht and the ISC Panama consortium to win the contract, the second most lucrative ...
DESPITE global downturn the Transet National Ports Authority is confident that the Port of Durban will retain its top position in South Africa and with its first phase of developing the Pier 1 container terminal complete and up to 720,000-TEU capacity. This is likely to turn around, increasing volume 32 per cent to meet a potential 1.4 million-TEU by its ...
EAST China's Zhangjiagang port registered a 20.2 per cent increase in throughput to 136 million tonnes, reports Xinhua. The port has completed its annual goal before schedule which aims to moved 135 million tonnes of cargo, including 35 million tonnes of foreign trade and 900,000 millions TEU. The port handled 36 million tonnes of foreign trade and 786...
Russian, Chinese and North Korean investors are planning to open a new container handling facility at Primorskii Krai in Russia. The facility, which will eventually be able to handle 400,000 teu annually, will be built in phases. Source: Port Strategy
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