Icebreakers of FESCO, "Far East Shipping Company will start providing ice navigation during the 2009-2010 period, the port authority said. "Magadan" icebreaker time-chartered by Rosmorport is expected at the port of Magadan on December 24, to carry out navigation there till May 10, next year. The icebreaker "Magadan" will be piloting vessels in the Ma...
The total total volume of cargo handled through the Romanian seaports based in Constanta, Mangalia and Midia stood at 38.3 million tonnes January through November 2009, that is a drop by 33 percent on the same interval in 2008, according to the data released by the National Company Maritime Ports Administration SA Constanta (CNAPMC). The company’s ma...
CHU KONG Transhipment & Logistics Co Ltd (CKS) and Sinoway Shipping Ltd signed an agreement with Chiwan Container Terminal (CCT) and Shekou Container Terminal (SCT) to link up to 14 new barge services. The extension of the CCT/SCT barge feeder network to 30 cities and towns and 46 terminals will increase its regular service to 36 in the Pearl River De...
THE global downturn has been blamed in an expected drop in net income from US$1 million for 2009 to $34 million the year before despite federal stimulus and hurricane relief funding. Port authority executive director Alec Dreyer expects a tough year ahead even though cargo volume increased, saying that steel and machinery are expected to be flat after a 5...
TEESPORT, located on the north east coast of England and the UK's third largest port, is expected to suffer a 20 per cent drop in annual revenue following an announcement earlier this month by Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus that it will close a nearby steel mill. As chiefly a bulk and breakbulk port, Teesport handled between eight and nine million tons of...
ZHUHAI International Container Terminals (Gaolan), a member of the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) group, has hosted a delegation made up of 24 members of the Hong Kong Shippers' Council that was led by the council's executive director Sunny Ho. Delegates toured the terminal and questioned the terminal operators on the Zhuhai hinterland and its importance...
The European Commission has decided that public financing for the construction of pier I at the container terminal section of the Port of Piraeus in Greece is compatible with state aid rules. However, this decision does not cover the public financing of the acquisition of loading and unloading equipment in the Container Terminal section of the Port of Pirae...
China Classification Society (CCS) has opened a branch in Panama that will also serve Central America. CCS' president Li Kejun said that the opening of an office in Panama shows the interest of the class society to contribute to the development of the maritime industry in the region and in particular in Panama. Some 13,000 vessels transit the Panama Canal...
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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