On 1 April, MEP’s Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (ALDE) and Corien Wortmann-Kool ( PPE DE ) submitted a joint written parliamentary question to the Commission underlining the urgent need for Community guidelines on the provision of state aid to ports. The question draws attention to the existing framework i...
Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) announced that its information security management system (ISMS) has been certified ISO/IEC 27001:2005-compliant by the British Standards Institution (BSI) Hong Kong. HIT’s infrastructure and practices conform to internationally acclaimed best practices for information security. ISO/IEC 27001:2...
Acting to keep the Port of Long Beach competitive in the current economic downturn, the Board of Harbor Commissioners voted Monday, April 20, to postpone collection of an Infrastructure Cargo Fee, approved incentives to boost intermodal cargo, modified the Clean Truck Fee to encourage privately financed replacement trucks, and appointe...
On 15 April this year, the Port of Gdansk played host to a group of 14 logistics students of the Turku School of Economics, one of Finland 's major economic universities specialized in the field of maritime economy. Their visit to Gdansk was part of a logistics course and an introduction to the principles of shipping market...
Mediterranean Shipping Company plans to introduce two new services linking North, Central and South America, effective this month. The Puma Service, covering ports in the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama, will call Balbao, Long Beach, Oakland, Manzanillo and Puerto Caldera, offering a weekly frequency. In addition, the Puma woul...
Navigation in Pechora Basin will not start before May 8, 2009, PortNews IAA learnt from Pechora State Basin Administration of waterways and navigation. According to the source, it should be attributed to low temperature which does not allow to start navigation earlier. Source: Portnews
The Russian vessel Sarmat-1, owned by Navigator Company, was released and retuned back, Maritime Security Chef of the Azerbaijan State Maritime Administration Vamik Rahimov told APA. Rahimov said the Navigator Company negotiated the issue with the Caspian Oil Fleet of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and compensated the rescue expenditures. The ...
Сanada Customs is bowing to favored importers and carriers, those certified to be of low-risk, and for them is not enforcing its long-stated policy of only clearing imports into Canada at their first port of arrival. The many and mostly smaller businesses and their carriers, Canadian or American, which have not joined the bi-national FAST (Free And Secure...
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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