THE Port Authority of New York and New Jersey wants the Federal Aviation Administration Authorisation Act (FAAAA) to include provisions for state and local entities like themselves to impose environmental regulations on waterfront truckers. As it stands, lower levels of government can only act in reference to vehicle safety, though truckers opposing the p...
PD PORTS has been awarded a contract by tea and coffee shipper Taylors of Harrogate to handle more than 1,000 containers a year of tea and coffee imports into the United Kingdom. A 40,000 square foot warehouse has been converted to food grade standards at the UK's north east harbour of Teesport, which is owned and operated by PD Ports. The imported tea a...
Undergoing its hardest year of business for a generation Shenzhen port in the south of China will today unveil a series of incentives to coerce shipping lines to call more often at the port’s four box terminals. The total package the authority is making available is 300m RMB, one of the largest incentives packages offered by any port this year, unders...
The Manatee County Port Authority approved a five-year contract today with Fresh Quest Inc. earning nearly $1.5 million for Port Manatee and creating about 75 new jobs. The company will import cantaloupe and honeydew melons to Port Manatee from Puerto Barrios, Guatemala and Puerto Cortes, Honduras where it owns farms and packing facilities. Fresh Quest ra...
The Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil (CCG) in Ecuador recently named Contecon Guayaquil SA (CGSA) as one of the top companies in Ecuador and the chamber’s most outstanding member in 2008 during a ceremony recently held in commemoration of CCG’s 120th founding anniversary. CCG awarded to CGSA the Centenario, the most prestigious award given annu...
Further to the agreement with a group of investors on a renewed cumulative financing preference shares program (the ‘2009 Program’) as announced on 9 July 2009, the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Vopak held on 27 August 2009 passed the following resolutions: Approval of the proposed issuance of 1,249,000 financing preference ...
A working group on improvement of ecological situation in ports will be formed in Russia. This decision was taken at the meeting of the BoD of Mortsentr – TEK held August 25, 2009. According to RosPrirodNadzor press center, the meeting was attended by the head of Russia’s Federal Agency of Marine and River Transport Aleksandr Davydenko, head ...
Nord Stream AG can today confirm that Request for Proposals (RFP) for the raising of senior debt for financing Phase 1 development have now been issued to the commercial bank market. Nord Stream intends to finance Phase 1 of the Nord Stream pipeline with 30 percent equity from shareholders (Gazprom, BASF/Wintershall, E.ON Ruhrgas and Gasunie) and 70 perce...
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