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Between September and October, Port of Helsinki organised a competitive bidding process for the gate and patrol guarding of the South and West Harbour. The most cost-effective quote was provided by G4S Security Services Oy which was selected to be in charge of security services for the next three years. The selected company is also in charge of the security...
HAMBURG stevedores and terminal operators have weathered the fall in throughput, with stevedores such as Germany's Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) continuing to operate in the black. In its third quarter earnings report, HHLA forecasted a 30 per cent drop in the number of containers handled for the year. But HHLA chairman Klaus-Dieter Peters predi...
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), in its annual report on container stevedoring, says that port managers and state governments are calling for more competition at the country's ports, in hopes that it will address increasing demand and help thwart the economic downturn. The country's biggest ports - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane a...
CONCERN has been expressed that the state-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) operators of Colombo, the Jaya and Unity terminals are losing market share to privately operated South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT) since April, reports the Colombo Sunday Times. SLPA ports have lost out to SAGT terminal in container throughput despite Jaya and Unity terminals...
Commissioners at the Port of Houston voted yesterday to increase the port’s tariff by 3 percent for containers and 2 percent for breakbulk and project cargo despite the protests of carriers and port stakeholders. Representatives from global container carriers Mediterranean Shipping Company, Zim Lines and Hapag-Lloyd asked the port commission to dela...
Hamburg Süd moved its Pacific Coast / South America West Coast service to a new terminal in Seattle. Since Nov. 1, the service is calling at Terminal 46 - Total Terminals International. The Pacific Coast / Australia-New Zealand service will continue to call at Terminal 18 in Seattle, the carrier said. Source: http://www.joc.com
AMSTERDAM, never a major player in the maritime container world, is soon to disappear entirely, despite last year's promising entry bid, because of the recently announced departure of Grand Alliance ships from the city's sole terminal. Grand Alliance partners Hong Kong's OOCL, Hapag-Lloyd and NYK have announced their weekly EU1 service will no longer c...
DB Schenker has announced that construction of its new logistics centre in Bozhuriste near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia is coming to a close, with the EUR10 million (US$15 million) terminal scheduled to go into operation in spring 2010. The centre that is situated on the international road link between Sofia and Belgrade comprises a logistics warehouse ...
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
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