Effective January 1, 2010, Nordana will shift its Spanish operations from Valencia port to Sagunto port. This pertains to the regular Ro/Ro multipurpose liner service Nordana operates between US/ North Africa and the Mediterranean areas returning via Venezuela, Caribbean Islands and Central America/Mexico to Houston. Both Valencia port and Sagunto po...
Doug Albrecht, the Port of Long Beach's Director of Information Management, has won the 2009 Best of California Award for Leadership in Management of Information Technology from the Center for Digital Government. The annual award recognizes excellence in digital technology in the public sector. Albrecht was among six winners in the leadership category tha...
On 26 November 2009, the container ship “CMA CGM IGUACU” called at the Port of Hamburg as part of the expanded sailing schedule for the “Nigeria Express” scheduled liner service operated by the OT Africa Line (OTAL). Hamburg is included for the first time in this liner service, which links the ports of Dakar, Lagos-Apapa, Lagos-Tinc...
Singapore has been re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for a ninth term at the 26th session of the IMO Assembly held here last month. According to Exim News Service, the election was conducted by secret ballot. The Assembly will reconvene in 2011 to re-elect new Council member-states. An IMO Council member since 1993...
BLG, the Bremen/Bremerhaven port company, said container traffic will close the year around 20 percent below the 2008 figure, and auto shipments will slump by 40 percent. Box shipments will fall to 4.4 million 20-foot equivalent units from 5.5 million TEUs in 2008, according to Detthold Aden, chief executive of BLG. The auto terminal at Bremerhaven has be...
The French Port of Marseilles Fos will freeze its port tariffs through 2010 to support customers “in a strained economic context” and to enhance the port’s competitiveness, the port said Tuesday. Tariffs are being held at 2009 levels across all cargo and passenger activities, including the container, oil and bulk sectors. Rental charges ...
TOTAL throughput for St Petersburg's First Container Terminal (FCT) from January-November was 954,020 TEU, down 13.1 per cent year on year, according to the Russian Transport Daily Report. But the November throughput for FCT St Petersburg came to 101,804 TEU, up 9.9 per cent year on year, and a record-breaking volume for any Russian container terminal, s...
HONG KONG's China Merchants (Holdings) International (CMHI), a major operator of container terminals, is about to sign a 35-year deal to built, operate and transfer a terminal for the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), reports the Paris-based Alphaliner consultancy. The project will also allow space for two future same-size container terminals, but there ...
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