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US Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin have announced significant federal investments in Maryland's transit and port security following the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement of awards for state infrastructure grants. Maryland has received more than US$6.4 million for port security in Baltimore. An additional $38 million has be...
A flotilla of French fishing boats blockaded Tuesday the Channel ports of Boulogne, Dunkirk and Calais in a protest against fishing quotas, cutting off ferry services to Britain. An AFP correspondent saw 20 small fishing boats drawn up in the main ferry channel leading out of Calais harbor firing distress flares, while trade union leaders said 20 more bo...
Port Liepaja plans construction of two container terminals with a long-term outlook to handle 500,000 TEU, PortNews IAA learnt from Administration of Liepaja SEZ. According to the source, the project for construction of container terminals is under development in the port. One of the investors is Liepajas Osta LM (subsidiary of Liepajas Metalurgs). The pr...
The privately built Karaikal port will receive its first vessel on Wednesday when M.V.Beluga Fan Fare, a project cargo specialist vessel, docks at the newly built berth in the morning. The deep sea, all-weather port is being built by Karaikal Port Private Limited (KPPL), at Vanjore near Karaikal, on a Build-Own-Transfer (BOT) basis. Of the nine berths p...
In the first quarter of 2009, total throughput of Russian seaports amounted to 110.6 million tonnes (+4.5%, year-on-year), Association of Sea Commercial Ports states. According to the source, transshipment of dry cargo fell by 7.3%, year-on-year, to 40.6 million tonnes while transshipment of liquid bulk cargo increased by 12.8% to 70 million tonnes. &nb...
RF Ministry of Transport asks constituent entities of the Russian Federation to apply preferential tax treatment for transport companies, PRIME-TASS cites Transport Minister Igor Levitin as saying at the meeting in St. Petersburg. “I want to ask constituent entities of the Russian Federation to apply preferential property and land tax for transport ...
The Long Beach Board of Harbour Commissioners has unanimously approved a 10-year, US$750-million expansion project that will merge two aging terminals and create an estimated 14,000 jobs, the Los Angeles Times reported. Work on the Middle Harbour Redevelopment Project will be done in phases, according to James Hankla, president of the board of commission...
Singapore's port container volumes rebounded slightly in March compared to the previous month, even though volumes were down from a year ago. PSA International's flagship Singapore terminals moved 2.14 million TEUs in March, up from 1.8 million TEUs recorded in February. For the first three months this year, PSA handled 5.86 million TEUs, down 17.8% c...
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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