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Dubai World said that its restructuring is nearly completed, and would save the government conglomerate by up to $800 million in operating costs over the next three years, Reuters reported. According to a statement issued by Dubai World, the company had reduced its global workforce by 15 percent to around 70,000 employee, amid the global economic turmoil,...
Piraeus dockers have agreed to suspend their 17-day strike until November 2 while the terms of a 35-year concession of the port's container terminal to Chinese state firm Cosco Pacific are renegotiated, the Morning Star Online reported. The dock workers said in a statement on the weekend that they would return to their jobs this week and that it would ta...
In January – September of 2009 Klaipėda Port (Lithuania) handled 20,12 million tons of marine cargo, i.e. less by -13,1 % or by 3,03 million tons than during the corresponding period of 2008. In terms of liquid cargo nomenclature during three quarters of 2009 increase in molasses handling has been by +2,1 times (23,8 thousand tons were handled...
Pre-1994 trucks will be banned outright from the Port of Oakland January 1 and those made between 1994-2003 will only be permitted if retrofitted with diesel particulate filters, the Shipping Gazette informs. The port authority announced that it will deny entry to non-compliant trucks, a step beyond the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) drayage tru...
Morris container cranes at DP World's Southampton terminal are to be decommissioned after two accidents, one in which the driver was seriously injured, according to the Shipping Gazette. Although the Morris machines have since been upgraded with extended booms, the terminal plans to replace them with super postpanamax cranes, reports American Shipper. &...
From 15 till 17 October the members of EFIP gathered in Mantova to join EFIP's General Assembly meeting. Created in 1994, EFIP, the European Federation representing nearly 200 inland ports in 18 countries from the European Union, Moldova, Switzerland and Ukraine, is celebrating its 15th Anniversary. This 15th Anniversary means a new start for EFIP. In ...
THE British International Freight Association (BIFA) has warned UK forwarders to be aware that US sanctions against Iran may make them subject to penalty if they are found to be helping Americans trade with Iran. The warning comes a day after the British government laid before Parliament a Statutory Instrument under the Counter-Terrorism Act, requiring th...
Yesterday (15th October) Luka Koper installed a fourth post-panamax container crane at the Pier I quayside. Manufactured by Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd., Killarney, , this is the last of four such cranes to be delivered to the Port of Koper this year. The first two were supplied during the summer and have been fully operational for over a month; the third...
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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