On 24-25 March of this year, the Port of Gdansk played host to the members of the Copenhagen-Malmo Port Authority - Mr. Johan Rostin and Mr. Lennart Pettersson, along with the close 9-people-strong management of the port. Ranking second among the Scandinavian ports in terms of the size and operational activity, the Port of Copenhagen-Malmo is, at the same...
GUIGANG, a port on the Xijiang River in southwestern China's Guangxi Autonomous Region, handled 151 million tonnes of cargo last year, making the largest river port in south China. The port is targeting on doubling its throughput by 2015, Xinhua reports. The port plans to increase its cargo handling capacity by 34 million tonnes to 72 million tonnes, an...
PORT of Qinzhou's cargo throughput capacity is to reach 120 million tonnes by 2015 with container handling capacity reaching five million TEU by 2015, Xinhua reports. By 2015, the port's cargo throughput tonnage is expected to hit 80 million tonnes and container volume two million tonnes. The port will strive for a throughput tonnage of 100 million ton...
EASTERN China's coastal province of Shandong plans to spend CNY8.8 billion (US$1.3 billion) on port and shipping projects this year, adding another 50 million tonnes' capacity to its ports to raise the total to 500 million tonnes, Xinhua reports. The province will build 15 new deepwater berths this year and speed up the development of the Dongjiakou po...
The company Russian Ferry Lines plans to launch the Kaliningrad-St. Petersburg high-speed ferry service, the press service of the Kaliningrad regional Ministry of Economy reports. The company intends to use its own berths equipped to service the high-speed ferry line. Russian Ferry Lines has allocated its own lot in St. Petersburg to accommodate the ferry...
As of 8:00am (MT), March 30th, there are 116 cargo ships awaiting icebreaker assistance in the eastern Gulf of Finland, the Port Authority of Big Port St. Petersburg said. The St. Petersburg PA reports of total 151 merchant ships currently located in the water area, 23 of them - in motion. Over the past day 12 ships have reached the entrance buoy of St...
Net income of JSC Murmansk Commercial Seaport for 2010 slumped as much as three times from the same period a year earlier to RUB 337 million (to RAS), the company’s statement said. During the forth quarter of 2010 MCS demonstrated better financial performance as compared with Q3 2010 figures thanks to increased cargo throughput. OJSC Murmansk Commer...
Hutchison Whampoa, a ports-to-telecom conglomerate controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka- shing, said on Tuesday its net profit in 2010 jumped 47 percent year on year to 20.04 billion HK dollars (2.57 billion U.S. dollars), Xinhuanet reports. The figure was higher than the average net profit forecast of 16 billion HK dollars by analysts, as earnings f...
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