Port of Long Beach security officials are installing a $1.4 million radar system in the harbor to provide a crucial ability to track on-water movements of all vessels — especially smaller watercraft — and feed the information into the Port’s new Security Command and Control Center. Existing radar facilities in the harbor can monitor larg...
President Gloria Macapagal - Arroyo visited on May 4 the Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT) in Tartous, Syria, making her the first Philippine President to visit the Port of Tartous. Run by Philippine port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), TICT is the first investment of a Philippine company in the Syrian mariti...
Russia's government-owned crude pipeline company Transneft will start loading oil tankers at Kozmino, the newest Russian oil port to be opened, as soon as December. With eventual capacity of 50M tonnes a year (1M barrels per day), Kuzmino, near Nakhodka in the Russian Far East, will be one of the largest oil outlets for the Asian market. It will be able ...
Krishnapatnam Port Co. Ltd (KPCL), which operates the new deepwater port in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, has opened its office here, Exim News Service informed. Krishnapatnam Port, situated 200 km north of Chennai, has handled 8 million tonnes of cargo in its first 8 months of operations. Four deepwater berths are operational at the port now, which were compl...
PORTS in China recorded growth in March after several months of fall in throughput, Logistics Week reported. Shanghai International Port Group handled 2.18 million TEU in this month, down nearly 10 per cent over the same period last year, but much higher than February's 1.53 million TEU. The port's throughput fall in January and February were all above ...
THE new Ngqura container terminal outside Port Elizabeth on South Africa's Indian Ocean coast is expected to begin normal operations in August, according to Transnet Port Terminals executive manager Siyabulela Mhlaluka. Mr Mhlaluka said phase one of port construction has been completed and that to date more than ZAR10 billion (US$1.19 billion) has been i...
SHANTOU International Container Terminals (SICT), part of the Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings Group, has received the maiden call of the 725-TEU Sheng He, the first ship to be deployed on Cosco's new South East Asia Service (HSH). This weekly service deploys two same-sized containerships that follow a rotation of Shantou, Hong Kong, Zhanjiang, Singa...
THE Port of Shanghai posted a monthly increase of 34.4 per cent in foreign trade value to US$38.92 billion in March, marking the first monthly rebound in eight months, reports Xinhua. In March, the port's export value grew 46 per cent to $24.95 billion compared with the previous month, but 16.4 per cent lower year on year while the port's import value m...
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