Days after EB24/7 broke the news about Fujairah's new port, which is expected to handle 60 per cent to 70 per cent of Abu Dhabi's total oil exports, Mousa Murad, General Manager, Fujairah Port, reveals details about the plan in an exclusive interview. The facility will have 17 docks to store and transport crude oil. Murad said expansion work is going...
China and Japan are suffering from the recession in a big way now with its ports are flooded with goods which were either supposed to be exported or imported for the manufacturing sector. What is now happening in China is similar to India and other developing nations. Ports of China are full of goods for which orders were cancelled following the glob...
Brazil's government and private investors will pump US$2bn into Santos port in São Paulo state by 2010, Business News Americans reported. A total of $367.6 million is expected from the federal government, partly from the county's growth acceleration plan. As for private companies, investment is expected to total around $1.6 billion. This is g...
India’s premier container- handling port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, is working on an integrated security mechanism as a part of its drive to enhance security in the country, the Press Trust of India reported. We are working on an integrated security mechanism. As a part of this approach, we plan to install one scanner for cargo-scanning as well as having...
National Retail Systems, Inc. (NRS), a provider of global logistics services to America's retailers, has deployed 115 Clean Air pier trucks to comply with the Clean Truck Program requirements scheduled to take effect tomorrow at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Under Clean Truck Program provisions, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long ...
To further enhance the terminal security and fight against stowaway, SCT employed the microseism detection system MDS (Movement Detection System) developed by Belgian company S4h, with its subsequent use of carbon dioxide detector and DKL life detectors, to scan suspicious containers. Shelter for MDS inspection activities will also be set up for more e...
THE Syrian Government has recently granted Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT) the authority to handle transhipment cargo, making the terminal the first in the Middle Eastern nation to handle such containers. At present TICT moves containers at 18 moves per hour per crane using two mobile harbour cranes, but productivity is expected to inc...
The country’s top two port operators promised to pour in more investments in its flagship facilities in the Port of Manila, the country’s main shipping hub, despite the projected decline in cargo volumes as a result of the global financial crisis. Publicly listed firms Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI) and International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICT...
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