The work on setting limits of 24 ports (out of 66) has been completed in Russia, Aleksei Klyavin, Director of the Department for State Policy in Maritime and River Transport, RF Transport Ministry, said at the conference "Beyond the crisis outline. New routes of water transport development" arranged by PortNews IAA. According to Aleksei Klyavin, the limits ...
In January-August 2009, container throughput of Big Port of St. Petersburg fell by 30%, year-on-year, to 818,228 TEU including 114,864 TEU handled in August (-22%, year-on-year), administration of Big Port of St. Petersburg states. As it was reported earlier, total throughput of Big Port of St. Petersburg fell by 21%, year-on-year, to 32.350 million tonne...
Yantai Rising Dragon International Container Terminals Ltd (YRDICTL) recently appointed Shiti Pang as Deputy General Manager and Jianjun Li as Technical and Security Director for Yantai Rising Dragon International Container Terminal (YRDICT) in Shandong Province, China. Before his appointment, Pang was operations director of YRDICTL. He brings 11 ye...
Yantai Rising Dragon International Container Terminals Ltd (YRDICTL) recently appointed Shiti Pang as Deputy General Manager and Jianjun Li as Technical and Security Director for Yantai Rising Dragon International Container Terminal (YRDICT) in Shandong Province, China. Before his appointment, Pang was operations director of YRDICTL. He brings 11 ye...
The international jury that has to select the winner of the first ESPO Award on Societal Integration of Ports met this morning in Brussels. The jury, which is chaired by John B Richardson, former Head of the European Commission’s Maritime Task Force, intensively discussed the 30 project applications that were submitted for the Award. “The qual...
EASTERN China's Port of Lianyungang handled 1.9 million TEU from January to August, an increase of 1.7 per cent year on year, Logistics Week reported. The port's throughput during this period climbed 11.7 per cent to 76.1 million tonnes. Throughput of foreign trade cargo rose 8.2 per cent to 43.2 million tonnes. In August, port of Lianyungang's conta...
Japan will provide a loan of US$9.3 million for a project to upgrade Customs facilities at Haiphong Port, Vietnam’s state-run Labor newspaper reported. The Japanese funding will be used to improve Customs clearance regulation and have control over the safety and security of imported and exported goods via the port. The project is slated for completi...
Oil terminal in Ust-Luga port (Leningrad region) and the port in Kozmino (Primorski Territory) are to be opened by the end of 2009, RF Transport Minister Igor Levitin said at the opening ceremony of 10th International exhibition and conference for shipping, shipbuilding, ports and offshore energy exploration NEVA-2009 held in St. Petersburg. As PortNews I...
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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