TT Club has agreed to work with PEMA (Port Equipment Manufacturers Association) to promote best practice in designing safe port operating equipment worldwide. The move comes after PEMA’s recent AGM in Amsterdam, where Laurence Jones, Director of Global Risk Assessment for the TT Club, presented the results of his recent research into causes of equipm...
Starting March 16 2009, Ceres Paragon Terminals (CPT) will change its company name to Amsterdam Container Terminals (ACT). Ceres Amsterdam Marine Terminals (CAMT) will become Amsterdam Marine Terminals (AMT). This name change follows a share-swapping agreement, signed in December 2008, through which Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) became the majority shareh...
After receiving a distinction in 2006 and 2007, the Warnemünde cruise port was once again distinguished this year by the trade magazine Dream World Cruise Destinations at the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention. In the category Most Efficient Port Services, Warnemünde was joined by the ports of Brisbane in Australia, Muscat in Oman and Vigo in Spa...
South African ports and Zebra Enterprise Solutions, a division of Zebra Technologies (Nasdaq: ZBRA), achieved an international milestone this month when Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) became the first port operator worldwide poised to manage the Navis™ SPARCS N4 terminal operating system from a central location across 21 marine and rail terminals. Thre...
Specialist container leasing company Cargostore International is to replace its current in-house software with the Rental4000 lease management system from Real Asset Management plc (RAM). The decision follows a period of rapid expansion for the UK-based leasing company. Cargostore provides a wide range of container specials under a variety of lease and sal...
The Port of Hamburg has said that internal waterway shipping in Hamburg reached a record 12.2m tonnes in 2008 The volume of goods carried between the Port of Hamburg and the hinterland by inland waterway grew 1.5 per cent to hit 12.2m tonnes in 2008, well above the German average which saw inland waterway volumes drop 1.6 per cent. Container numbers carr...
Cargo volumes handled at Panamanian ports in January 2009 increased 10.9 percent year-on-year, Business News Americas reported. On the Atlantic coast, Cristóbal port - operated by Panama Ports Company (PPC) - handled 25,529 TEUs, up 108 percent compared to 12,274 TEUs in January 2008. Manzanillo International Container Terminal registered a 25.3 ...
Dalian Port (PDA) Co said on Wednesday it planned to form a 2.6 billion yuan ($380.4 million) liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal joint venture with PetroChina. Dalian Port said it would hold 20 percent of the joint venture in the city of Xingang, PetroChina would hold 75 percent and the remainder would be held by Dalian Construction Investment. Xingang...
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