Stranding is the most frequent traffic accident in the North-West Basin, Federal Service for Transport Supervision (RosTransNadzor) informs. According to the statistics, stranding accounts for 80% of water traffic accidents in 2009. All the accidents occurred in darkness with 60% of cases happening during masters’ watchkeeping, RosPrirodNadzor...
The Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine has rejected the claim of Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (Illichivsk seaport, NCC subsidiary) to terminate the agreement with Ukrtranscontainer on cooperation signed June 22, 2005, National Container Company (NCC) reports. Thus, the cassation appeal against the decision of Odessa Economic Court of Appeal dated June 2...
Global container port operator DP World today said it posted a net profit after tax of $188 million during the first six months of the year from its portfolio of 49 marine terminals, a 32 per cent decline from $287 million in the corresponding period last year. The consolidated throughput was 12.3 million TEUs compared to 13.6 million during the same perio...
China's large ports handled 3.9 billion tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of this year, up 3.9 percent year-on-year, Asia Pulse reported. In the January to July period, large coastal ports recorded a throughput of 2.7 billion tonnes, and inland ports, 1.2 billion tonnes, respectively up 3.5 percent and 5.1 percent year-on-year. In terms of carg...
A DECISION by Northwest Cargo to scrap flights in December from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska to Japan's Narita International Airport is expected to leave vacant 70 per cent of the Lynxs Alaska CargoPort that serviced Northwest's cargo flights. A report by the Alaska Journal of Commerce said the move by Northwest Airlines Cargo...
The Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine has rejected the claim of Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (Illichivsk seaport, NCC subsidiary) to terminate the agreement with Ukrtranscontainer on cooperation signed June 22, 2005, National Container Company (NCC) reports. Thus, the cassation appeal against the decision of Odessa Economic Court of Appeal dated June 2...
QANTAS Airways Limited has taken delivery of its fourth Airbus A380 to date, which will help raise the frequency of the carrier's A380 services from Sydney to London and Los Angeles from September 7. "This fourth aircraft will allow us to increase Sydney-Singapore-London A380 services from three to five per week, and Sydney-Los Angeles services from thre...
Nepal will now use Visakhapatnam Port also to move its ex-im cargo, as per the joint statement issued after the Nepalese Prime Minister’s recent visit to India, Exim News Service informs. At present, Kolkata Port handles almost all of Nepal’s seaborne trade. A few years ago, the Nepal government opened a window on West Coast, promising to ro...
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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