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SEATTLE welcomed officials from China Shipping, Matson, SSA Marine and the Port of Seattle to the recent opening of its new 70-acre, US$50 million double berth Terminal 30. US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke joined the official opening ceremonies of the container terminal that is a joint venture of China Shipping, Matson and SSA Marine. "Our r...
Services sector trade union Verdi and the association of German seaports, Zentralverband der Deutschen Seehafenbetriebe, have concluded a new collective agreement. About 10,000 employees in ports will get a 1% pay rise in March 2010 and a one-off payment of EUR 550 (USD 764.71), Logistics Finland reported. (Source: Transport Weekly)
The brand-new “LISCO MAXIMA”, the biggest ferry to sail under the flag of Lithuania, was given an official welcome Tuesday to mark her first call in Kiel’s Ostuferhafen. The ship will from now on be employed in the regular liner shipping service between Kiel and Klaipeda. She replaced the older, somewhat smaller, “LISCO OPTIMA”...
NORTHEAST China's Tianjin port No 1 Harbour Operating Company has signed an export inter-transport agreement with Korea's Inchon port, Inchon Air Logistics and Tianjin Jinchuan Shipping Ltd to offer direct transport service for Samsung, reports Xinhua. According to the agreement, Samsung's electronic cargo made in Tianjin will be delivered directly to ...
THE Port of Antwerp has announced that seagoing ships belonging to Independent Container Line (ICL) will from now on be able to use the shore-based electricity supply while at berth, demonstrating that an "important step forward in the fight against port-related air pollution" has been taken at this major European gateway. The use of the...
INDIA's major ports in April handled 519,000 TEU, indicating that container volumes were down 14 per cent from the same month a year ago at the nation's top 12 gateways, according to Indian Ports Association (IPA). Yet in fiscal 2008-09 ended March 31, the IPA also reported, that aggregate box throughput at India's ports - large and small - totalled 6....
THE International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has stressed that IMO should be in control of any measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. ICS has reiterated its commitment to helping governments at the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) deliver a package of proposals for reducing the global shipping industry’s CO2 em...
In the first quarter of 2009, net loss of shipbuilding plant Severnaya Verf (St. Petersburg) fell almost 99 times to RUR 1.224 mln, the company states. In the reported period, the company’s earnings increased 4.4 times to RUR 2.455 bln. Severnaya Verf shipyard is located at the entry to the sea canal of the Gulf of Finland. The shipyard's facilit...
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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