On 27th of January 2009 at the meeting held at Klaipėda Tourism and Culture Information Centre (Lithuania), the representatives of cruise business discussed the upcoming 2009 cruise season; as expected even 63 cruise liners will enter the port (by 20 % more than in 2008). The meeting attended by Klaipeda State Seaport Authority Director for Marketing A....
The EU is expected to call for emissions from both maritime transport and aviation to be included as overall targets set by any new UNFCCC agreement on climate change (to replace the Kyoto Protocol) and – most unhelpfully – be included in the national emissions totals in the country of departure or arrival.Shipping fully accepts its responsibility to r...
The economy may well have taken a turn for the worse in 2008 but CMP still managed to maintain a total freight volume of 18 million tons – only a single percentage point lower than 2007. Turnover of dry bulk and cars did however fall by 10-20%. The annual cruise ship season preceded the financial crisis. The number of calls rose to 301 and passenger n...
Scandlines expects the economic decline to affect cargo shipping between Germany and the Baltic States and between Germany and Scandinavia also in 2009, Logistics Finland reports. The German Rostock-based ferry operator is, however, optimistic about its cargo service between Germany and Finland. The Scandlines service between Rostock and Hanko develope...
The Supervisory Board has on its first regular session this year adopted the business plan for 2009. Despite the fact that the GDP of EU countries is decreasing, the GDP forecasts for Luka Koper's main markets in Central and Eastern Europe are expected to perform better. In 2009 we expect an 8% drop in maritime throughput compared to 2008. The most si...
According to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine Decree #392 dd 31 October, 1995 in accordance with the established order from the 1st to 15th of February 2009 an Ice Capaign is declared at the Odessa port, press center of Odessa Commercial Sea Port informs. Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports of the Black-Azov Se...
The current owners of the Kalija parks terminal in Ventspils intend to sell part of the terminal, as businessman Olegs Stepanovs confirms in an interview to the newspaper Dienas Bizness. Stepanovs reminds that the total investments into the establishment of Kalija parks terminal exceeded EUR 50 million. At one point, over five million tons of ...
RF Minister of Transport Igor Levitin informed RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about the construction of logistics infrastructure in Sochi, which is to hold Winter Olympic games in 2014. According to Levitin, the construction of seaport which has commenced in Sochi is to be completed this year, RIA Novosti reports. Besides, the construction of two rai...
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