The location of a proposed US$283.7 million container terminal should be known by Port of Cork directors next October and the possibility of reapplying for permission to build it in Ringaskiddy has not been ruled out, the Irish Examiner reported. Last year Bord Pleanála refused the Port of Cork permission to build the terminal at the Oyster Bank ...
In 2008, the port of St. Petersburg handled 59.945 mlnt t (+1%, year-on-year), Administration of the Sea Port of St. Petersburg reports. In the reported period, transshipment of dry bulk amounted to 9.653.4 million tonnes (-1%) including 1.013.9 million tonnes of ore (+32%), 2.270.4 million tonnes of coal and coke (-2%), 6.200.6 million tonnes of m...
In 2008, oil export via the port of Primorsk grew by 2%, year-on-year, to 75.58 million tonnes. According to Administration of the Sea Port of St. Petersburg, Primorsk Oil terminal LLC exported 74.026.2 million tonnes of oil (-0.3%, year-on-year), BaltTransServis LLC – 1.555.6 million tonnes of diesel fuel. In the reported period, vessel turnover of Primo...
In 2008, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) transported cargo of 55 million tonnes, an increase of 2.7% year-on-year. According to the Department of Statistics, in 2008 compared to 2007, the international transportation of cargo went down by 3.8% to total 39.6 million tonnes, whereas domestic transportation went up by 24.7% and reached 1...
The Port of Long Beach said Wednesday it would begin collecting a Clean Trucks Fee beginning Feb. 18 to accelerate the replacement of thousands of polluting cargo trucks. That's five days after a Federal Maritime Commission review period of the program is due to end. To facilitate collections of the fees, the port will initiate an ele...
The port of Antwerp handled 189,389,545 tonnes of freight last year. This represents growth of 3.5% compared with the nearly 183 million tonnes in 2007, which was already a very good year. The figures for the first nine months in particular were excellent, and while the last quarter clearly showed the effects of the downturn in the world economy, the port...
PORT of Long Beach repair crews have been patching up a six-inch crack in the hull of a 485-foot containership, the Cap Tapaga, which sprung a fuel leak, spilling an unknown quantity of oil into the harbour. The fuel leak was first noticed by the ship's captain while the vessel was moored at Pier J marine terminal operated by International Transportat...
THE bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings hit the Port of Long Beach hard, resulting in US$12 million in failed investments that were supposed to sustain environmental, security, and infrastructure programmes such as its truck re-regulation and solar energy schemes for about $3 million each. This was revealed in the introduction in the US Senate of t...
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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