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Traffic at Australia's ports could be crippled by as much as half as the nation's dock workers threaten a sweeping five-day strike over pay and conditions, officials said on Thursday. The Maritime Union of Australia has vowed a national walk-out from Saturday of 2,000 wharf staff if top freight company Patrick do not come back with a 'serious offer' o...
Freight traffic volumes at the port of Oulu (Finland) in the I quarter of 2011 increased by 7.1% compared with Jan-Mar, 2010, to 843,267 tons. The port's container throughput during the period rose by 13.4%, the Port Authority said. The highest growth was recorded in handling of exported pitch (+123%), the volumes of timber and liquid chemicals significa...
A new KES500 million (US$5.97 million) container depot at the Mombasa Container Terminal (MCT) has opened for business in Kenya. It is hoped the new container freight depot that is capable of handing 2,200 TEU and 650 motor vehicles will ease congestion at Mombasa port. MCT chairman Samson Ndegwa said the new facility offers a one stop centre to deal wi...
MUMBAI's Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India's major container operation, has been returning to normal, but a serious backlog remains with cargo awaiting loading, aggravated the diversion of ships to less congested ports. Congestion spread beyond the precincts of the port to connecting railways and roads to the interior, causing shippers to suffe...
The Georgian port of Batumi has temporarily ceased operation after radioactivity was detected in scrap metal, the Port Authority told Trend on Tuesday, Trend reports.The Port Authority did not say where the scrap metal was to be exported. Several radiation safety teams are on the scene. The Georgian security agencies have blocked all approaches to the por...
Abu Dhabi Ports Company announced an MOU signing with JadeWaserPort Logistics Zone that encompasses the cooperation between the UAE and Germany, Abu Dhabi Ports Company reports. This includes the activities concerning specific industries, Aluminium, Engineered Metals, Steel, Chemical and Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical and education as well as marketing/ di...
The Kochi Port will float a new global tender to complete the capital dredging work in its channel following the sudden stoppage of work by the contractor Jaisu Shipping Company, The Hindu Business Line reports. Official sources in the port told Business Line that the new global tender would also include maintenance dredging in the channel for the year 20...
A group of major shipping lines has selected the Port of Charleston for a new, all-water service connecting the growing Southeast US region with South Korea and Central and South China. The South China East Coast Express 2 (SCE2) service, a joint service operated by the Grand Alliance carriers of Hapag-Lloyd, OOCL and NYK Line, along with ZIM Integrated S...
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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