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The Russian Navy located a cargo ship missing since late July, the New York Times reported. The ship, its crew of 15 and a cargo of timber worth approximately $2 million were all safe off the Cape Verde Coast, according to the report. The Russian Federation Ministry of Defence on Aug. 14 denied earlier rumors that patrol ship Ladnyy had found the cargo sh...
Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) in eastern Shenzhen has opened its first inland container depot in Dalingshan Town at Dongguan City. Local shippers can now pick up empty containers at the facility, which is located closer to factories and cargo sources, and return empty import containers to the depot after unloading them. This saves shipp...
The Port of Tallinn, the state-owned port operator in Estonia, published figures show that the monthly passenger throughput in the port totalled 965,902 in July 2009. Shipping companies in terms of passengers in the port of Tallinn in July: Tallink 536,705 or 56% of the total (+9% y/y); Viking Line 195,433 (20%) +2%; Eckero Line 118,371 (12%) +2%, and cruis...
Vopak Botlek has commissioned eight new tanks with a total capacity of 149,000 m3. The first shipment consisted of ethanol for use in fuels. In addition, the handling apparatus for ethanol trains is to be modified. It was already possible to load unit trains for methanol and unload trains for ethanol. From the fourth quarter onwards, it will also be possi...
Royal Dutch Shell plc said it will build a new hydrodesulphurisation plant at its Pernis Refinery in the Netherlands. The plant, expected to come on stream in the second half of 2011, will increase cleaner-burning, low-sulphur fuels production at the 400 thousand barrels per day refinery. “The investment is part of Shell’s strategy of selectiv...
Cargo volumes through the west coast Canadian Port of Prince Rupert have picked up in the second quarter to a level close to the volume handled in the first half months of 2008, the Shipping Gazette informs. Its Fairview Container Terminal handled 97,616 TEU during the first six months, a 124 per cent increase over the 43,555 TEU moved in the same period ...
The Port of Long Beach has begun construction on its fourth “shore power” dock, to allow more ships to plug in to clean electricity and decrease pollution. Construction began recently at SSA Terminals/Matson Navigation Co.’s Pier C facility. The $6.5 million project broke ground last month. When completed next summer, the Pier C f...
HONG KONG Government figures show the territory's gross domestic product grew 3.3 per cent in the second quarter after four quarterly contractions as the year-on-year decline narrowed from 7.8 per cent in the first quarter to 3.8 per cent in the second. Exports fell 12.4 per cent year on year in the second quarter, but that was a much smaller drop than t...
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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