According to the Russian Railway (RR) news service, 257 trains concentrated near Russian ports and stand idle. All Russian Far East ports failed to complete all cargo operations in November due to winter conditions. As a result, on November, 30th 165 trains, 120 of them with coal concentrated on the Far East railway, the RR said. Now 97 trains with coal a...
Hong Kong port handled 5.6 million TEUs of containers in the third quarter, down 16 percent over last year, with laden containers at 4.8 million TEUs, down 13 percent, and empty containers at 0.8 million TEUs, down 28 percent. Hong Kong saw total port cargo throughput fall to 64.4 million tonnes in the third quarter of the year, down four percent over the ...
Minister for Ports and Shipping Babar Khan Ghauri has said that if the Gwadar Port is given under the City District Government to run its affairs there is no harm in it, the Daily Pak Banker reported. “We will support this for the development and progress of the port, local people and the area,” he said. Gwadar Port is to be used for transhipm...
Dubai World, the state-owned holding company that’s in talks to renegotiate $26 billion of debt, may sell assets in the United Arab Emirates and abroad to repay its borrowings, a government official said. Asset sales are normal to shore up finances in such circumstances, Abdulrahman Al Saleh, director general of Dubai’s Department of Finance an...
The Indian navy said Monday it thwarted a pirate attack on a Norwegian tanker in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia. An Indian warship patrolling the seas responded to a distress call from the tanker belonging to the Nordic American Tanker Company after it was fired upon by pirates, said P.V.S. Satish, the navy spokesman in New Delhi. A helicopter ...
The Association of the companies of the port in Hamburg (Unternehmensverband Hafen Hamburg e V., Germany) approve the decision of the Senate of Hamburg by January, 1st, 2013 to abolish the so called free port zone at the port. The liquidation of customs borders would make all transport and customs procedures at the port faster and flexible, Klaus-Diter Pete...
"We will overcome the crisis," BLG CEO Detthold Aden said confidently before the Bremen state press conference on 7 December. However, Aden was not able to display the usual successful track record for BLG at the end of the year. Logistics service providers are dependent on economic activity. The sea ports particularly benefit from globalisation during good...
Yesterday, we spoke to Port Metro Vancouver president and CEO Robin Silvester about the labour unrest, which is one of the biggest fears facing the Canadian port. Today, The Container Shipping Manager delves further into Vancouver's huge investment in enhancing its rail and road connectivity and why the port is not threatened by the Panama Canal expansion ...
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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