A terminal for transshipment of edible vegetable oil is planned to be built at Reni port (Ukraine), Ekho cites Sergei Stroya, the port’s head as saying at the session of the municipal council. According to the source, this facility is to expand production capacity of Reni-Line operating at Reni port as a subject of Reni SEZ for a number of years alr...
The Port Authority achieved a result of € 151 million in 2008, some € 37 million more than in 2007. Goods throughput in the port of Rotterdam increased in 2008 to a record level of 421 million tonnes, 2.9% higher than in 2007. The Executive Board of the Port Authority is pleased with these figures. “We have still been able to round off the...
Dalian Port (PDA) Co. Ltd has decided to suspend the expansion of two container terminals due to sluggish foreign trade. Dalian Port managing director Sun Hong told local media that the company's container business had been affected by the international trade slump. The construction of two container berths in Phase II and three berths in Phase III develo...
Ports investor Cosco Pacific Ltd. said Thursday it is cutting capital expenditures and will stop looking at new port investments as it seeks to conserve cash during the global slump. Vice Chairman Xu Minjie told a news conference that Cosco Pacific's capital expenditure will fall to US$570 million in 2009 from US$890 million in 2008. Xu said Cosco Pacifi...
Despite the global recession, Goa-based Mormugao Port has managed a double-digit growth of 19 per cent in cargo traffic on a year-on-year basis for the fiscal 2008-09. Releasing the performance figures, the Chairman, Mr Praveen Agarwal, said here that the port had exceeded the throughput target prescribed by the Ministry of Shipping. During the financia...
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam has fallen sharply. In the first quarter of this year, 94 million tonnes of goods were handled, 10.8% down on the same period of 2008. The declining throughput involves most types of goods: iron ore and scrap (-50%), agribulk (-4%), other dry bulk (-29%), crude oil (-4%), other liquid bulk (-17%), containers (-18%), rol...
The Iraqi government approved building the country's biggest port in Basra, based on private investment mechanism. The project is considered one on Iraq's main strategic projects that could activate the country's economy and affect the region's economy, spokesman of the Iraqi government Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh said in a press release issued Thursday. Ira...
A terminal for transshipment of edible vegetable oil is planned to be built at Reni port (Ukraine), Ekho cites Sergei Stroya, the port’s head as saying at the session of the municipal council. According to the source, this facility is to expand production capacity of Reni-Line operating at Reni port as a subject of Reni SEZ for a number of years alr...
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