Russia will inform Finland of the results of an environmental examination of the Russian segment of the Nord Stream project, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen on Tuesday. “In addition to the available information, the Finnish premier asked for results of the environmental examination of the pipeline segmen...
In January-August 2009, throughput of Temryuk and Kavkaz ports increased by 4.4% to 6.54 million tonnes, PortNews IAA learnt from the ports’ administration. According to the source, export accounts for 6.024 million tonnes of the total throughput (+13.5%). Import makes 428,580 tonnes (-40.63%, year-on-year). Export of general cargo totaled 533,630 ton...
The Port of Shenzhen posted a 21.1 per cent year on year decline in container volume to 9.6 million TEU in first seven months, but that was 0.4 per cent more than first half results, reports Xinhua. The port moved 104.6 million tonnes of cargo from January to July with a 16.2 per cent decrease, narrowing to 0.7 per cent over the loss suffered in the first...
The Port of Long Beach on Wednesday is hosting a public meeting to solicit community input on plans to expand a staging area for double-stack trains. The goal is to increase on-dock rail usage in the harbor. Railroads have been increasing the length of their intermodal trains in order to operate more efficiently. Trains can reach 10,000 feet in length, whic...
RUSSIA's Aeroflot-Cargo in July handled 12,992 tons of cargo and mail, divided between 7,104 tons of bellyhold and 5,888 tons in freighters. In July, the Russian flag carrier deployed three DC-10F-40s, two B-737 freighters, as well as the second and the third MD-11Fs. In 2009 the aircraft fleet consists of three MD-11Fs. More recently, Aeroflot receive...
GLOBAL marine terminal operator DP World and Brazilian company Odebrecht have joined to acquire Empresa Brasileira de Terminais Portuari (Embraport), the largest Brazilian private multimodal terminal at Santos 50 miles from Sao Paulo. The investment fund FI-FGTS of Caixa Economica Federal will maintain its shareholding. On the other hand the Coimex Group,...
THE number of containership lay ups will climb in coming weeks as the peak season draws to a close, says the Paris-based Alphaliner Weekly Newsletter. Service reductions will rise in September and October leading to more lay ups, said Alphaliner. This already follows three cutbacks, including the 20 per cent reduction in CKYH Alliance capacity on the Far ...
On September 1st, 2009, CCT welcome a new service — CIX from APL with the success berth of “APL Brazil”. This is the third new service for APL to launch at CCT in this year and five 4,000 TEU class vessels deploys in this service which four vessels are come from APL and one from OOCL as well. CIX calls CCT ever...
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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