In January-August, 2009, Commercial Seaport Vanino OJSC (Port Vanino) handled 3.993.2 million tonnes of cargo (-11.9%, year-on-year), Interfax cites Natalya Stefashina, the company’s marketing expert. In August, the port’s throughput fell by 8.3%, year-on-year, to 482,900 tonnes. In the 8-month period, transshipment of export cargo totaled 2...
The total volume of cargo handled at the Freeport of Ventspils in the first eight months of the year 2009 amounted to 19.09 million tons, registering a slight decrease on the results of the same period of time last year, when 19.25 million tons of cargo were loaded and unloaded at the port, The Baltic Course reports. This August 1.91 million tons of cargo...
Yesterday, on September 8, Ventspils Grain Terminal handled the first cargo of grain from Belarus. On Monday 1,968 tons of Belarus-grown oilseed rape were loaded on the ship "Rubyn", which will transport the cargo to Germany, as LETA learned from the press service of Ventspils Grain Terminal. "Ventspils Port has been previously collaborating with Belarus ...
SHENZHEN Hutchison Inland Container Depots (SHICD), a member of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), has announced that it is launching a two-phase expansion programme this month in support of the Yantian container terminal. The existing Phase I of the project will see two additional export-supervisory warehouses built, each covering two hectares. Construction ...
THE world's top 20 ports' box volumes fell 15.5 per cent in the first half of the year and only two, Qingdao and Tianjin, posted increases, according to the Alphaliner Weekly Newsletter. European ports were the losers with Rotterdam falling out of the Top 10 altogether - a far cry its glory days before 1987 when it was the world's biggest container por...
Total port cargo throughput was 61.7 million tonnes in the second quarter, down 9% on the same period last year. Inward port cargo fell 6% to 35.7 million tonnes and outward port cargo fell by 13% to 26 million tonnes. The Census & Statistics Department yesterday said for the first half of this year total port cargo throughput, compared to the same peri...
Singamas Container Holdings Ltd, the world's second-biggest maker of sea-cargo boxes, posted a second straight loss as slumping world trade damped demand. Slowdown: The US$27.4 million first-half net loss compared with a profit of US$13.6 million a year earlier. Sales plunged 87 per cent to US$99.5 million The US$27.4 million first-half net loss compar...
Sri Lanka is set to open a second gate in the country's main Colombo port for the first time in 10 years in a bid to boost shipping traffic, a top port official said on Thursday. ''We will be opening the north gate in a couple of days,'' said Sri Lanka Ports Authority Chairman Priyath B. Wickrama. The announcement follows the end of a 25-year war with...
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