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THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), flushed with US$300 million in federal stimulus funds, is providing $30 million to port authorities to replace older trucks and upgrade polluting cargo handling equipment, reports the American Association of Port Authorities. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Port Authority of New York and ...
SINGAPORE's Neptune Orient Lines has announced that its container shipping arm APL has seen its container shipping volume decline 14 per cent to 172,200 FEU from May 30 to June 26 compared to the same period a year earlier. Average revenue per FEU fell during the reporting period by 29 per cent year-on-year to US$2,190 from $3,080 last year. NOL attrib...
A bureaucratic shakeup has led to delays in the Customs Department clearing imported food products at Kolkata Port, according to Exim News Service. Following this, huge consignments of imported edible oil, pulses, sugar and other items have reportedly piled up at the Port for over a month. Samples of these commodities have to be sent to the Central Food L...
Attorney Mario Cordero has been reappointed to the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners by Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, an action that was confirmed earlier this month by the City Council. The five-seat Harbor Commission is the governing board of the Port of Long Beach, overseeing the Port's major spending and policy decisions. Cordero, who i...
THE TT Club, a top insurer for the global transportation and logistics industries, has voiced its support for the United Nations Convention on the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, known as the "Rotterdam Rules." "The TT Club welcomes the harmonisation, transparency and modernisation of transport liability systems which the Rotterda...
THE Port of Tacoma and Japanese shipping line NYK are scaling back earlier plans to build a new large-scale container terminal on the port's Blair-Hylebos Peninsula because of weak demand. The original 2007 plan would have led to the development of a new terminal on the east side of Tacoma's Blair Waterway for the exclusive use of NYK by July 2012. The...
In January-June 2009, 17.1 million tones of cargo was loaded in Klaipeda State Port including Butinge Terminal, a decrease of 15.4% year-on-year. According to the data of the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, 13 million tones of cargo was loaded in Klaipeda sea port, a decrease of 18% year-on-year. A total of 4.1 million tones of crude oil was loaded i...
CANADA's Cargojet Income Fund has announced plans to expand its regional cargo business through a partnership with SkyLink Express Inc, reports The Canadian Press news agency. The fund said its recently acquired subsidiary Prince Edward Air Ltd will own 55 per cent of the partnership and Toronto-based SkyLink Express would own the remaining 45 per cent. ...
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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