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Port of Cork may reapply for planning of terminalJan 23, 2009

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 ...

Throughput of Saint Petersburg port up 1% to 59.9 mln t in 2008 Jan 23, 2009

  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...

Export of oil products via Primorsk port up 2% to 75.6 mln t in 2008 Jan 23, 2009

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...

Cargo of Lithuanian Railways up 2.7% to 55 mln t in 2008 Jan 23, 2009

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...

Long Beach to start clean truck fees Feb. 18 Jan 23, 2009

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...

Definitive figures for 2008Jan 22, 2009

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...

Long Beach Port investigates oil leak from box ship Jan 22, 2009

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...

Long Beach port faces US$12 million loss in Lehman failure Jan 22, 2009

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...

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