The Florida Department of Transportation put off until the week of March 30 a decision on how to proceed with the stalled Port of Miami tunnel project. The effort to build a $1.7 billion alternative route for trucks to get to the port has been in limbo since late last year, when state DOT Secretary Stephanie Kopelousos said the state was pulling out of t...
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation signed an untied loan agreement totaling up to $357 million to finance South Africa's project to expand the Port of Durban. The loan agreement was signed on March 26 between JBIC and Transnet, South Africa's wholly state-owned freight rail, ports and pipeline company, the Japanese government-affiliated bank s...
With a little more than a year to go before the scheduled commissioning of Dhamra port, the promoter, Dhamra Port Company Ltd (DPCL), a joint venture of Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro, is mulling signing cargo agreements with prospective users of the port. The first such agreement is to be signed shortly with Tata Steel, Mr S.K. Mohapatra, CEO of DPCL...
Port of Jiangyin, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, plans to spend CNY500 million (US$73 million) on upgrading its facilities to make sure its container throughput reaches 750,000 TEU a year. The port also aims to have its overall cargo tonnage surpass 100 million tonnes and foreign trade cargo reach 12.5 million tonnes by the end of this year, Xinhu...
Leading short sea operator Containerships is improving connections for the Swedish market by adding links from Gothenburg and Helsingborg. These links will enhance the manner in which the industrial heartlands of Sweden are served as far as the Containerships services to Finland, Russia, the Baltic States, Central Asian Republics and the Eastern Medit...
The Port of Amsterdam’s environmental policy plan for the period 2008-2012 entitled “Sustainability: Boldness, Action and Resolve” matches the objectives of the Amsterdam’s municipal environmental policy plan “Sustainable Amsterdam”. It is also an elaboration of part of the sustainability theme of the Port Vision 2008-202...
Singapore port operator PSA International Ltd on Friday reported a 7.3-per-cent increase in 2008 container volume from the year before. It said it handled 63.2 million TEUs, or 20-foot equivalent units, a capacity equal to a standard 20-foot-by-8-foot (6-metre-by-2.4-metre) shipping container. But it said its strong growth up to July was rapidly eroded ...
CMP (Copenhagen Malmö Port) will get a new port facility at Malmö’s Northern Port. The City of Malmö and the construction company Skanska has signed a contract worth SEK 845 million. The port facility, including three new terminals, will be operational in the first quarter 2011. Today's cargo traffic will be removed from areas close to...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi