The Government published in the Gazette today (May 15) four sets of amendment regulations to reduce the fees and charges of 27 marine-related services provided by the Marine Department. If approved by the Legislative Council, the new fees will come into effect on July 10, 2009. A spokesman of the Transport and Housing Bureau said, Th...
One of the most important logistic events International Exhibition Transport & Logistics 2009 in Munich hosted a joined presentation of three northern Adriatic ports. The presidents of Triest and Rijeka Port Authorities together with Port of Koper’s President of Management Board Robert Casar presented the Northern Adriatic port triangle as...
On 15 May, the Gdansk port hosted the first cruise liner to arrive this year. As previously - the season was inaugurated by the arrival of Albatros operated under the flag of Bahamas. The cruise liner called at Gdansk on its way from Bremerhaven to Klaipeda, with 871 tourists on board, mainly from Germany. This vessel, over 205 metres long...
In the first quarter of 2009, net loss of Archangelsk Sea Commercial Port OJSC fell by 15.45%, year-on-year, to RUR 23.252 mln, the company officially states. In the reported period the company’s earnings increased by 7.2%, year-on-year, to RUR 148.987. Archangelsk Sea Commercial Port is a multi-profile stevedoring company operating at th...
St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko has signed the law on St. Petersburg water transport passed by the Legislative Assembly of the city on April 22, 2009, the Assembly states at its official web-site. The Law of May 13, 2009 N175-38 regulates organization of transport services to be provided to the citizens by St. Petersburg water transpo...
In January-April 2009, Russian seaports handled 151.5 million tonnes of cargo (+5.1%, year-on-year). According to Russian Association of Sea Commercial Ports the growth should be attributed to higher transshipment of liquid bulk cargo which increased by 12.4% to 94.1 million tonnes. In the reported period, transshipment of dry cargo fell by 5.1%, year-o...
Singapore port terminals handled 17.7 percent fewer containers in April from a year ago and throughput dropped 5 percent from March, data from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore shows. The numbers signal continued weakness in trade and dampen hopes of a recovery at the world's busiest container port, after throughput jumped a surprise 19 perce...
Port of Riga, the largest in Latvia by the turnover of goods, is planning to handle more than 30 million tons of cargoes, which is by 1.5 % more than in 2008, the Port of Riga Managing Director, Leonid Loginovs, the BNS agency informs according to RZD-Partner. He mentioned that the economic crisis has not yet affected the Port of Riga: volume of transsh...
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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