The first vessel called on the Ro-Ro terminal of First Stevedoring Company (Sea Port of Saint Petersburg) on April 1, the Group’s press center reports. First Stevedoring Company handled some 90 trailers totaling 3,000 tonnes from the TransEurope vessel. Ro-Ro terminal is a project successfully implemented within the framework of a Program on the dev...
According to operational data of Illichivsk commercial seaport, the cargo handling amounted to 1.709 million tonnes in March 09, a 5-pct increase against plan, the port’s press center reports. The highest result was achieved by the third terminal - 513,700 tonnes. The highest growth was demonstrated in the sector of grain transshipment (+291%), ore ...
A severe storm that has formed off Australia's eastern coast has halted shipping at the world's largest coal export terminal and was limiting production at some coal mines. The Australia Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for areas stretching from the city of Sydney to the coal-rich region of Hunter Valley in New South Wales state, an...
The port of Dakar, Senegal, will launch a tender process to find a private operator for its newly built dry port before the end of June. The dry port, 2km inland from Dakar seaport, has been built by the port authority at a cost of CFA16bn (US$35m) to ease congestion at existing port facilities and in downtown Dakar. “We have built the dry port but ...
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners at its meeting Monday, April 20 will consider an additional one-year postponement of a cargo fee that would fund transportation projects in the harbor area. The "Infrastructure Cargo Fee" -- which the Commission previously delayed from January 1, 2009 to July 1, 2009 -- would be deferred at le...
The Port of Vancouver recently announced the successful sale of US$25.8 million in limited tax general obligation bonds for the acquisition of industrial property, capital improvement and refinancing outstanding bonds. On March 19 it sold $15 million in new bonds to fund the purchase of the Alcoa property and help fund major construction projects like th...
Indonesia is to build a new floating LNG discharge terminal north of Sumatra, even though it is currently one of the world's largest LNG exporters. Construction plans were announced by the nation's top energy official who said the terminal's main aim was to secure natural gas supplies for regional power plant facilities. The new floating LNG terminal...
Transit navigation has been opened at the navigable routes of the lower Don and the Azov-and-Don canal, Azov-and-Don Basin Administration of Waterways and Navigation reports according to Interfax. The transit navigation started ahead of schedule owing to good weather conditions and preparedness of hydraulic engineering structures, a source in the Admini...
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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