Evergreen Line, Taiwan, is to extend the time it takes for its China Europe service to complete one round trip by seven days. The service will now take ten weeks to complete. In addition, a tenth ship will be added to the service, the 6,332TEU ‘Ever Elite’. The vessel will join the nine 7,024TEU ships already in the service. "The ‘Ever...
Russian authorities on Monday gave the go-ahead for a unit of the troubled Dubai World conglomerate to buy a 25-percent stake in the management company at a major port on Russia's Pacific coast. Vostochny is a warm water port and one of the largest transport hubs in eastern Russia -- close to Chinese, Japanese and South Korean markets. The Vostochny compa...
The construction of Vladivostok - Nakhodka - Port East highway will start in 2010, the Primorsky Territory Administration press service said citing the regional Department of Road Management. A contract is reportedly to be signed next January to perform contractor's works on the first 18km section of the road. According to the Road Department, they have ...
The Port of Seattle will pay BNSF Railway some $81 million for a 42-mile section of track northeast of the port, ending a long negotiation the port says will keep the line open to freight service. The agreement announced Monday completes more that six years of talks between Seattle officials and the railroad over a stretch of track from the industrial are...
EAST China's Ningbo Daxie port recorded a 13.4 per cent increase year on year in cargo throughput to 40.7 million tonnes in the first 10 months, reports Xinhua. The port handled 23.7 million tonnes of cargo for foreign trades with a 6.3 per cent hike and moved 1.02 million TEU, up 10 per cent over last year's 10-month period. The port's throughput be...
WHILE the global down turn has reduced shipping, the eastern Port of Rizhao has increased volume 22.8 per cent to 170 million tonnes in the first 11 months, making the fastest growing of China's top ports, reports Xinhua. The Rizhao Port Group said throughput doubled from 84.2 million tonnes achieved in 2005 following the port's expansion more than thre...
APM Terminals has announced it has chosen Shanghai as the regional headquarters for its Asia-Pacific region and has registered the company as APM Terminals Management (Shanghai) Co Ltd. The decision is designed to place leaders closer to Chinese customers and strategic partners in the commercial and financial hub of China as well as streamline operations ...
The Petrolesport (PLP) handled 295 refrigerated containers of Petkum reefer, plying on the route port Guyakil (Ecuador) - Moin (Costa Rica) - Big Port of St. Petersburg, the Petrolesport authority said, adding that was the first call of the reefer at the port of St. Petersburg. The ship is owned by Russia's largest banana trader "JFC Group» (JFC). ...
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