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The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners gave preliminary approval Monday to fund a long-term test of an innovative “sock on a stack” air quality improvement system for ships that has shown promising results in previous demonstrations. Developed by Rancho Dominguez-based Advanced Cleanup Technologies Inc., the system uses a crane to...
Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port ( Russia ) announces consolidated operating results for January-May 2009: in the reporting period cargo turnover of NCSP totaled 36,041.3 thousand tones, which exceeds the turnover of the same period last year by 11.4% or 3,647.6 thousand tonnes. Grain handling volumes from January to May 2009 incre...
TAIPEI, June 18 (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Taiwan said on Thursday they had indicted 46 people from the island's largest port and from eight shipping lines on charges of inflating data, apparently in an effort to raise the port's global ranking. The Kaohsiung Harbour Bureau director general and other officials were indicted over the past few days on cha...
The total number of cargo containers shipped through the Port of Long Beach declined 20.7 percent in May, compared with the same month a year ago. However, imports and exports grew for a third straight month, albeit at levels much below those for the same period a year ago. Port shipping terminals moved 419,555 20-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) in...
Chile's liquefied natural gas import terminal in Quintero Bay, which is set to ramp up next month, will have the capacity to send out 15 million cubic meters of gas per day starting in 2010, Chile's Energy Minister Marcelo Tokman said on Monday. The project is part of the country's push to break its dependence on unreliable supplies of fuel, though ana...
Container throughput for the Chinese terminal operator COSCO Pacific contracted 8.3 percent in May, to 3.8 million TEUs. That’s roughly on pace with COSCO’s volume loss for the first five months of 2009, with throughput down 8.6 percent to 16.5 million TEUs. COSCO, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Co., operates or has a s...
Venezuela is set to nationalize the companies that run some of the South American nation's main ports, according to a Reuters report over the weekend. The move is the latest by socialist President Hugo Chavez to put key areas of the economy in state hands, the wire service reported. The ports affected include key inbound cargo gateways for the country ...
French cargo port Marseilles Fos said Thursday it has taken a 10 percent stake in an inland river terminal between Chalon and Dijon. The port said the stake in Pagny Terminal will boost its hinterland links with northern Europe, as the multimodal hub lies at the northern end of the Rhone-Saone corridor. It’s the first deal since the French port emba...
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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