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Los Angeles to build $470 million crude oil terminalApr 20, 2009

Plans to construct a crude oil import terminal at the Port of Los Angeles have been approved by the Los Angeles City Council this week, according to local reports. According to the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Plains All American Pipeline terminal could handle up to 25% of Southern California's petroleum imports. It is to be built on Pier 400 and wou...

Antwerpen container traffic down 16.3% to 1.74 mln TEU in Q1 09Apr 20, 2009

Container traffic in Antwerp fell 16.3 percent in the first quarter of 2009 from a year ago as Europe’s third largest box port said it was too early to call the bottom of the market. But the slump in box traffic was overshadowed by a 30.7 percent collapse in conventional and break bulk shipments to just under three million tonnes The decline in break ...

Ukraine legalizes dry portsApr 20, 2009

The Government of Ukraine authorized use of overland terminals located outside seaports to control and release container cargoes, RZD-Partner reports. The Ministry of Ukraine has legalized customs registration and release of container cargoes outside borders of sea commercial ports. Procedures are transferred to customs control zones of cargo customs co...

Cargo turnover in Latvian ports down 1.4% to 16.6 mln t in Q1 09Apr 20, 2009

Cargo turnover at ports in Latvia amounted to 16.6 million tons in the first three months of the year 2009, which is 1.4% drop, compared with the results of January-March 2008, according to the Transport Ministry's data. The only port in Latvia, which registered increase in cargo turnover, was the Freeport of Riga. There were 7.452 million tons of cargo ...

Fishermen lift French port blockadesApr 17, 2009

French fishermen suspended their blockade at two English Channel ports Thursday, allowing ferry traffic and freight to move through, a ferry operator said. French fishing boats blockade the port of Boulogne. French fishing boats blockade the port of Boulogne. The fishermen lifted the blockade at Calais and Dunkirk, a spokeswoman for P&O Ferries told ...

Albania's Durres port awards a five-year contract to Cargotec Apr 17, 2009

CARGOTEC's unit Kalmar has been awarded a five-year equipment servicing and maintenance contract by the Port of Durres, Albania's biggest port handling 80 per cent of the country's seaborne trade. The contract was signed by Durres Port Authority (DPA) director Eduard Ndreu, Cargotec's Kalmar Service VP Wolfgang Stoven, Kalmar Austria MD Jurgen Wurzer ...

US box volumes hit seven-year low in FebruaryApr 17, 2009

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports hit its lowest level in seven years in February as the number of containers dropped below 1 million for the first time in half a decade, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released April 15 by the National Retail Federation and IHS Global Insight. U.S. ports surveyed handled...

Port of Rotterdam Authority to commission new berths for inland shippi...Apr 17, 2009

Today – Thursday 16 April – the Port of Rotterdam Authority will commission Antarcticakade (port number 8244 - 8249) for use by barges and tugs. For the time being, it will provide mooring for barges and tugs over a length of more than 600 metres. The commissioning of this quay is in line with Port Authority policy, which is geared towards the...

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