A new Chinese offshore oil terminal is set to receive its first tanker calls. The facility, in Bohai Bay, can now come on-stream after production from the Bozhong 28-2S field facilities began. The China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) is using a FPSO (floating production storage and offloading vessel) to process the crude and load it onto tankers, Llo...
India's third import facility for liquefied natural gas, being built at Dabhol, will operational by the middle of next month, R.K. Goel, director for finance at gas transmission firm GAIL India (GAIL.BO) said. Goel, who is also the head of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, which runs the gas-fired power plant at Dabhol in western India, said firms such a...
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners gave preliminary approval Monday to a proposal that would spur private investment in the Port of Long Beach Clean Trucks Program. Commissioners backed a plan that would provide incentives to port truckers to quickly acquire cleaner-running big-rigs -- especially trucks that run on alternative fuels like liquefied...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has named John Hummer to head its new Northern California Gateway Office in San Francisco. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Hummer served as the State of California’s deputy secretary for goods movement in the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency. The Maritime Administration...
Vopak announces the nomination of Mr. R.G.M. Zwitserloot as member of the Supervisory Board from 1 October 2009. Mr. Zwitserloot’s extensive knowledge of and senior management experience in the oil, chemicals and gas industries and associated terminal activities complement those of the current members of the Supervisory Board. The nomination of Mr. Zw...
CARGO traffic at the US west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has slowed in February, with both container imports and exports down. Imports into the twin harbour complex declined further in February to a low not seen since 1997, while exports were sharply lower. Most of the trade numbers coming out of Asia are still pretty extreme in terms of t...
Horizon Singapore Terminals, a subsidiary of Horizon Terminals Limited, the leading terminal operator owned by Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), has completed the third expansion phase of its bulk liquid storage terminal on Singapore’s Jurong Island. Horizon Singapore Terminals currently has one of the largest independent bulk liquid storage te...
Odessa sea trading port will compensate for the losses of container shipments at the expense of metal, grains and other bulk cargos, declared Nikholay Pavlyuk, the head of the port, on March 19. According to the data of the head of the port, in the first quarter of the year import container shipment in the port decreased by 75%, exports and deadheading -...
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