Bangladesh may offer the use of its strategic Chittagong port to India for using the facility to transport goods from the landlocked northeast. Bangladesh could offer India the facility to use its southeastern Chittagong Port after upgrading its capacity to take the extra load, Commerce Minister Faruk Khan said. "There is no concept such as 'my...
The sea ports in Northwest Russia in the first half of the year had a total growth in turnover of 2,1 percent. That is thanks to the bigger amounts of oil shipped in the region. While ports like Arkhangelsk and Kaliningrad had a downturn in turnover of respectively 36,9 and 24,8 percent in the period, the ports of Murmansk, Kandalaksha, Ust-Luga and Primors...
The US is projected to handle 12.3 million teu by year’s end, which would represent an 18.8 percent drop from 2008’s volume and the lowest level in seven years, according to the monthly Port Tracker report recently released by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and IHS Global Insight. In June, surveyed ports handled 1.01 million teu down 2 pe...
HOLLAND's Binnenlandse Container Terminals Nederland (BCTN) is pushing forward plans to boost throughput across its five terminals to one million TEU with existing expansion rather than new developments, announced its proprietor and managing director Williem van den Heuvel. BCTN first half results declined half as much as the deep-sea terminals in Rotter...
EAST China's Weifang port has been opened to foreign vessels now that it has been designated a National A Class harbour, reports Xinhua. Weifang port, built in 1996, is situated in Shandong province's Weifang Economic Development Zone on Laizhou Bay in Bohai Sea. The bay lays on the edge of the Bohai-ring economic circle and Northeast Asia economic coop...
New York-based management advisor Stern Stewart & Co. has included International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) in its Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 100 Relative Wealth Added (RWA) Index list for 2009. ICTSI was ranked 39th in Southeast Asia and third in the Philippines in the list’s RWA-Overall Business Cycle. E...
The Port of Klaipeda reduced the port dues for cruise vessels: on the middle of August 2009, the amendments to “Regulations on Klaipėda State Seaport Dues Types, their Maximum Rates and Principles of Application” came into force. According to these amendments, port dues for cruise vessels larger than 50,000 GT (Gross Tonnage) shall be calculat...
Zebra Enterprise Solutions, a division of Zebra Technologies, announced Haina International Terminals in the Dominican Republic upgraded its in-house terminal operating system (TOS) with NavisTM SPARCS N4 to improve operations and customer service in the competitive Caribbean market. Haina International Terminals is one of the two major container terminal...
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