A boat carrying a group of radical anti-whaling activists collided with a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean on Friday in a clash Japan condemned as “unforgivable.” No-one was injured. Activist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said his boat was trying to prevent a Japanese ship from dragging a whale on board when a...
Hutchison Port Holdings said Friday it will withdraw from an agreement to operate a port in Ecuador, because the nation's government unilaterally changed the terms of the pact. The decision by Hutchison Port Holdings comes a month after Ecuador President Rafael Correa said his government might expel the company because it wasn't meeting a timetab...
The dry bulk collapse has resulted in a flurry of scrapping deals this month as owners rapidly shed old tonnage that holds little chance of ever making money again. Clarkson statistics reveal a number of handy-sized bulkers heading for demolition in the last couple of weeks and brokers indicate there are plenty more deals under negotiation. Much ...
In January 2009, 2.2 million tones of cargo was loaded in Klaipeda sea port, a decrease of 8.7% or 210,100 tones year-on-year, the Baltic Course reports. In January 2009, the load of liquid cargo advanced 8.4%, while the load of lose and general cargo dropped 22.6% and 26.9% year-on-year. In January this year, the number of passengers arriving ...
A resurgent Subic seaport surpassed its collection target by 21 percent last year and posted a 27-percent revenue growth despite enduring the ban on imported cars, a significant income source in the past several years. A year-end report from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority’s (SBMA) seaport department indicated that actual revenue collections...
Port of Guangzhou and Port of Ningbo edged in the world top ten container ports in terms of the throughput in 2008. Guangzhou Port handled 11 million containers (TEU) last year, soaring 18.8% year on year and thus exceeding the Port of Rotterdam and the Port of Kaohsiung to ascend from 12th to 7th. Ningbo Port ascended from 11th to 8th with a...
In the first half of the year contracting agency JSC Gasprom can start construction of the main objects of the gas-main pipeline Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok in Primorsky Territory, as the Primorsky Territory Administration press service reported. Survey work has been just finished. Projecting and approving the projects in oversight bodies wil...
Ennore Port Ltd, India’s only corporate major port, has planned to construct a general cargo berth for which tendering for construction works has begun. Speaking to Projectmonitor, senior EPL officials said that by the current plan of action, contractors were likely to be finalised by February-end. The facility is expected to turn commercial during the th...
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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