Murmansk fishing port OJSC (MMRP OJSC) announced an open tender on selection of a crediting organization to sign a contract on credit line opening. As per the company’s information, RUR 45 mln will be attracted for 18 months to finance working capital. Murmansk fishing seaport is specialized in handling of fishing vessels, floating bases and t...
China Containerized Freight Index increased by 0.56% (to 985.6 points) within the current week, November 13-20, 2009. As per materials of the Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China, the index has gone up by 1.32% in European direction, by 0.56% - Mediterranean service. China Containerized Freight Index reflects dynamics of freight c...
The Antwerp Port Authority today announced that it will during 2010 freeze most port dues at 2008 levels, keep concession fees and some port dues at 2009 levels, and further reduce dues for the transshipment of breakbulk cargoes by ten percent under certain conditions. The Port Authority’s goal is to stem losses in freight volume and employment and t...
THROUGHTPUT at Russia's Vladivostok Container Terminal reached 164,770 TEU for the 10 months between January and October - 17 per cent down from the same period last year. According to the Russian Transport Daily Report, the facility handled 23.255 TEU in October, just 21.3 per cent of the previous month's volume and tended to 42 vessels against Septemb...
ST PETERSBURG's First Container Terminal posted a sharply narrowing 1.3 per cent year on year drop in October container volume to 90,525 TEU, well down from the 8.1 per cent year on year decline recorded in September, Russian Daily Transport Report. In the first 10 months of 2009, the terminal handled 749,591-TEU, a 16 per cent year on year decline. Expo...
In a new "green port" collaboration, the Port of Long Beach and China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI), one of the world's largest operators of seaport terminals, have signed a comprehensive environmental exchange agreement to further "green" technologies and practices on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. "This agreement recognizes that we are not o...
900 exhibitors from all over the world gathered in the 10 halls of the "Ahoy!" exhibition centre in Rotterdam. The area of 40 thousand square metres was not sufficient to accommodate all those willing to participate in another edition of the maritime exhibition "EUROPORT 2009", which opened on 3 November under the theme "Advanced Technology - Imagination Be...
The amount of unitized cargo traffic through the port of Helsinki in October was 0.8 million tonnes, which is a monthly record for this year. However, it is still some 14 % short of the volumes of the previous year. Between January and October the cargo traffic amounted to nearly 7.2 million tonnes, which is 24 % less than last year at the same time...
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