As per the preliminary estimations, the port of Tallinn (Estonia) can open new lines to St.-Petersburg from 2011. It will allow putting into operation a new seaport in Petersburg, reported ABN with reference to port’s administration. As it was announced, the port’s administration considers the possibility of opening new lines to St.-Petesburg...
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has announced the completion of the concept for its second in a series of next-generation vessels, which will be technically practical in the near future. The vessel is an environment-friendly ferry that can transport both cargo and passengers. The ferry, which maximises advancement of technologies already developed and adopted will...
Federal Customs service (FCS) has elaborated a draft regulation on ‘dry port’, reported earlier Larisa Korshunova, Head of the department of Central Administration of customs clearance and customs control of FCS, at a visiting session of Committee for customs regulation of committee for budget and taxes of the State Duma in Rostov-on-Don. &l...
Pakistan suffered a major setback at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) council elections where it lost the 2010-2011 biennium by scoring 50 votes only. India and Bangladesh scored more than 130 votes, out of 169 member states who participated in the IMO’s council election for grades A, B and C on Nov 27. Both India and Bangladesh won Grade...
Economists are predicting that signs of improvement are on the horizon for port traffic, which was down at most U.S. ports in 2009. According to IHS Global Insight and the National Retail Federation, which publish the monthly “Port Tracker” report, major U.S. ports should see a year-over-year improvement in container traffic in February. “...
Maersk Line chief executive Eivind Kolding says his company expects container export trades from Asia to grow by 3-8% in 2010. The A P Moller-Maersk director sees the first signs of rising cargo volumes, with liftings up in November compared with one year ago. But 2010 will nevertheless be "extremely challenging". He does not, however, subscribe to the doub...
FROM January to October, Port of Ningbo's Daxie terminal area recorded a cumulative container throughput volume of 1.02 million TEU, up 10 per cent year on year, Xinhua reported. The volume took up 11.9 per cent of port of Ningbo's throughput total during this period. Daxie port area's throughput during this period grew 13.4 per cent to 40.7 million ...
SOUTHEASTERN China's port of Xiamen recorded a volume of 34,281 TEU in its flourishing international container transshipment business. If such growth can be repeated over the next two months, the port's international box transshipment will exceed 150,000 TEU by the end of the year, Xinhua reported. In October, the port recorded a volume of 16,573 TEU ...
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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