Four more dump barges built at Nikolaevskii shipyard Wadan Yards Оkean under Nibulon SP LLC (the Ukrain) were floated out on October 16, 2009. As per the company’s press0service information, the company’s fleet consists of 8 dump barges to the date which gives the company opportunity to transport 36 thousand tons of grain simultaneously. It is...
Odessa Commercial Seaport and Belgian port of Antwerp signed a Memorandum on co-operation. The document was signed within the visit of Victor Yushchenko, the President of the Ukraine, to the Kingdom of Belgium, informed official site of the President of the Ukraine. Victor Yushchenko named the document signing its confirmation of positive history of eco...
The Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) said it will officially launch the construction of the Van Phong international transhipment port in the central province of Khanh Hoa on October 31. The 12,500m transhipment port, which is a key national project hosted by the Ministry of Transport, is invested with more than US$3.6 billion and is capable of re...
Dalian Port , operator of the port in the northeast Chinese city of Dalian, said on Friday that it aims to complete its A-share listing in the first half of 2010. Company Chairman Sun Hong added that the port would increase capital expenditure next year to 3 billion yuan ($439.6 million), after an asset acquisition from its parent, up from 2 billion yuan ...
PORT terminals in Singapore saw their container volume fall 5.8 per cent in September compared to August while posting a September's year-on-year loss of 16 per cent. Data compiled by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore "show trade at the world's busiest container port is struggling to improve, underlining concerns by policymakers around the wo...
Wärtsilä has today opened a Service Centre in Murmansk, Russia to serve the rapidly growing number of vessels in northern waters. The Service Centre demonstrates Wärtsilä's commitment to expand in line with the increasing marine activity in the Barents Sea region. To emphasise the importance of co-operation, Wärtsilä's CEO an...
LATEST figures from the Brussels-based European Liner Affairs Association (ELAA) show a slowing of decline on Asia-Europe routes in August with China accounting for 72.3 per cent of the westbound volume. Increased European exports balanced out slackening demand for Far Eastern cargo, but the two-way traffic was down 11 per cent to 1.08 million TEU million...
EVERGREEN has announced a rate increase of US$150 per TEU on cargo from November 1 on services from north Europe and the Mediterranean to Far East and Indian sub-continent. The increase, said the Taiwanese shipping line, rated the world's fourth largest, is based on "lack of space" and increasing cargo volume, said the Evergreen statement. Source: w...
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