Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has terminated talks to lease the entire Gulf Coast Port of Galveston, Texas, for 75 years. The news came when port director Steve Cernak told Galveston City Council's regular meeting: "Hutchison Port Holdings is out." Earlier this year the port announced that Hutchison and the Carlyle Group were looking to mak...
Singapore's Maritime Port Authority (MPA) and its global port operator PSA International have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct research and development to test new container terminals technology, the Shipping Gazette reports. Development of automated guided vehicles for future container terminals to reduce manpower and improve port productiv...
Rosneftbunker’s export oil terminal has handled the Primorsky Prospekt tanker, the first Aframax size vessel (owner Sovcomflot, SCF Group) ever called at the port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad region). The port’s stevedore loaded 92,000 tons of fuel oil onto the tanker, the Sovkomflot’s press release said. The 114,000DWT tanker has Ice Class 1B...
LONG BEACH port boss Richard (Dick) Steinke has announced he will step down as executive director on September 30 after heading the port for 14 years, reports the Los Angeles Business Journal. "I'm pleased I can move on, knowing that I leave the port a better place than when I came on board," he said in a press release. Said chief harbour commissioner ...
The port of Singapore moved higher container volumes in March both month-on-month and year-on-year, according to preliminary estimates from the local port authority. Total throughput volumes were recorded at 2.5m teu in March, up from 2.15m teu in February. Last month's volume also rose from 2.41m teu seen in March 2010, according to data from the Maritime...
Container throughput of the port of Hong Kong (China) in January-March, 2011 increased by 2.4% from the same period of 2010, to 5,56 million TEUs, the Port Authority statistics said. In March, container traffic rose by 3.1% to 1,96 million TEUs. Three-month container volume at the largest terminal Kwai Chung increased by 3.7% to 4,08 million TEUs, w...
Under the “Gateway Hamburg” banner, the Port of Hamburg will be exhibiting at this year’s “transport logistic” trade fair in Munich. 48 companies from the port, transport and logistics sectors of Germany’s largest seaport and its metropolitan region will be showing on a joint venture stand organized by Port of Hamburg...
In the 1st quarter of 2011 the stevedoring companies of the group “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” handled over 2.2 mln. tons of cargoes which is by 14% less than within the same period of 2010. Due to unfavorable ice conditions during this winter in the Gulf of Finland export turnover decreased almost by 30%- up to 1.6 mln. tons. However the com...
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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