COURT proceedings against the dock unit of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions over alleged intimidation of non-striking workers, has been adjourned, reports the Irish Times. But before the adjournment, Mr Justice Kevin Feeney granted Marine Terminals Limited (MTL) an interim injunction against the union and 10 individuals arising out of what the company c...
259.5-meter long container carrier calls on the port of Klaipeda for the first time in port’s history. The MSC Aniello built in 2000 has the breadth of 32.2 meters, maximal draft – 13 meters. The shipping agent of the vessel MSC Vilnius. The vessel is flying the flag of Panama, the port’s administration says. On September 9, MSC Aniell...
SHENZHEN's Da Chan Bay Terminal One held a seminar for more than 80 barge operators working the Pearl River Delta (PRD) on business opportunities and how to improve co-operation with the terminal and port authorities. "The best transportation method for connecting Shenzhen Port and the high-economic growth west areas of Pearl River Delta is barge transpo...
At Tollerort in the Port of Hamburg exhaust heat from a sewage treatment plant provides the heating: with this clever solution HHLA and HAMBURG WATER reduce costs and save 1,000 tons of climatically harmful CO2. Ingenious cooperation between HHLA and HAMBURG WASSER stems from the proximity of a sewage treatment plant and a container terminal in the Port o...
Overdimensional 3PL specialists, the Project Professionals Group, will feel right at home when the heavy lift Port of Antwerp hosts the network’s annual conference from June 30 to July 3, next year (2010). PPG general manager Kevin Stephens said Antwerp was the successful nomination following this year’s conference hosted by the Port of Corpus...
Florida's Governor Charlie Crist announced, on September 11, his approval of the planned Port Dolphin Energy, LLC, deepwater port project which will provide a new source of natural gas to the state. As part of the federal permitting process, Gov. Crist is required to express support, opposition, or take no position at all for the proposed Liquid Natural ...
The Panama Canal Authority said Thursday it has received bids from a number of global engineering and construction firms for the contract to dredge the Atlantic entrance to the canal. The Atlantic entrance dredging project is part of the Canal’s $5.25 billion expansion program to ensure larger, wider ships can reach the new locks. This includes lo...
Sakhalin border guards have detained a vessel carrying 1.5 metric tons of illegally caught live crab in Russia's economic zone, a coast guard spokeswoman said on Monday according to RIA Novosti. The Cambodian-flagged Slava vessel, with a crew of 12 Russians, two Koreans and seven Indonesians, also had fishing equipment onboard. The fishing permits, provi...
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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