Ordered in Italy by Russian Atomflot a container ship for transportation of spent fuel (SF) and waste, will be built according to the standards of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RC) and under its technical control, the RC press service reports. At the moment the ship designed is being under construction at the dockyard of Fincantieri corporati...
Grand Alliance members Hapag-Lloyd (HL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) are to implement a winter program to their US West Coast services as of as the end of December, 2009 to continue “at least throughout the winter period.” The Central China Express (CCX) service will be temporary replaced by a combined se...
The Port of Dover could be sold off as part of government attempts to raise money to help cover the budget deficit. According to a government document, it is on a list of six ports that might be sold, with the proposals for Dover described as "the furthest advanced". Labour's MP for Dover, Gwyn Prosser, has vowed to fight the plan, saying he feared job l...
The Andhra Pradesh government proposes to develop 13 non-major ports, including the already-commissioned Krishnapatnam and Gangavaram ports, to handle 200 million tonnes of cargo by 2019-20, Mr K. V. Reddy, state Director of Ports, disclosed here. The capacities of Krishnapatnam and Gangavaram, with five berths apiece, would be increased in the near future...
The Port of Zeebrugge is ideal for the exporter looking for an alternative, cost-effective facility in Europe, according to Mr Vincent De Saedeleer, Vice-President of Belgium’s Port of Zeebrugge. Interacting with the trade in Mumbai recently during a meet organised by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, he said that Zeebrugge, a multipurpose ...
DP World DPW.DI said on Thursday its chief financial officer (CFO) would remain in his position at the port operator and not join parent company Dubai World. The firm had said on Oct. 27 its CFO would step down at its December board meeting and join Dubai World as group CFO as part of a general shuffle within the state-linked firm. A shock announcement by...
Kaohsiung Port Administration recently kicked off a land development project, the largest of its kind in a decade, to build a 38.8-hectare zone as a delivery hub and a free trade port. To that end, the administration will requisition a land space owned by Tang Eng Iron Works Co, reported Taiwan Econoomic News. The port administration said it will lure thre...
HONG KONG's total cargo handled by the port in the third quarter of 2009 fell by four per cent over a year earlier to 64.4 million tonnes. Within this total, inward and outward port cargo dropped by two per cent and seven per cent, respectively, to 36.3 million tonnes and 28.1 million tonnes. For the first nine months of the year, total port cargo thro...
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