China's interest in an expanding container terminal at Estonia's main merchant port of Muuga has not waned, according to a spokesman for Tallinna Sadam (Port of Tallinn) Sven Ratassepp, RIA Oreanda news reported. The president of the Ningbo group and the vice president and European representatives of an ocean container shipping company were present in a ...
Kotka port cargo turnover (Finland) decreased by 34.9% (6.34 mln tons) in January-October, 2009 as compared to the corresponding period of 2008. As per the port’s information, box turnover of the port decreased by 46.4% (to 286,832 TEUs). Most part of the cargo turnover fell onto pulp-and-paper plant products, the volume of transhipment of which reduc...
The private sector Gangavaram port on the East Coast (India), which began operations earlier this year, has handled over 10 million tonnes of cargo so far this fiscal, and is expected to cross the 15-million tonne mark by the end of 2009-10. According to Exim News Service, the new port has managed to wean away the bulk of cargo of the Visakhapatnam Steel P...
Yachting enthusiasts gain new level of safety and added comfort with the launch of the 2010 range of VIKING’s popular RescYou™ liferafts. Leading marine safety equipment manufacturer VIKING has made survival easier for the yachting set – and life easier for rescue teams – with the introduction of a bright yellow canopy to its 2010 r...
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has signed with Sudan Port Company to build Phase I of the Suakin International Container Terminal project, reports Xinhua. The contract value amounted to over US$100 million with construction period of 36 months. This is an EPC project composed of two 100,000 tonne-class container berths. The project also involves...
As part of a collaborative delivery with Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, Cargotec will deliver and install four Siwertell screw type coal unloaders for use at Korea Western Power Company’s Taean Power Plant. At the end of August Cargotec won the contract to deliver four Siwertell screw-type coal unloaders to Korea Western Power Company’s Taean ...
There was Nakhodka International Terminal CJSC registered in Nalhodka (Primorskii krai). As per the information provided by administration of Nakhodka city district, the joint-stock company of Russia, China and Korea plans to create and operate a manufacturing facility on containers handling. The container terminal will be located in the territory of Nakh...
SOUTHEASTERN China's Fuzhou International Container Terminal (FICT) handled 370,000 TEU during the first three quarters, an increase of 29 per cent over the same period in 2008, Xinhua reported. In September, the terminal's monthly throughput for the first time exceeded 50,000 TEU, setting a new high, up 35 per cent compared to the same month in the pre...
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