With Vietnam's first international transit port in the central province of Khanh Hoa back on track after almost being abandoned last year, the Government is scouting for foreign investors, Thai News Service reported. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has told the Ministries of Transport, Finance, Investment and Planning to make a comprehensiv...
President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law that will lessen the tax burden on fishing companies when making port calls in Russia. The law may have serious impact on Norwegian ports serving Russian vessels today. Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has signed several laws intended to support Russian business and boost employment, Russian paper Ros...
Three gantry cranes bound for the commercial port of Guam departed Los Angeles Harbor on Sunday, making a mid-day threading of the Vincent Thomas Bridge before heading for open ocean. Jones Act carriers Matson Navigation and Horizon Lines, which deliver a combined 80 percent of the containerized goods to Guam, purchased the used cranes from th...
Virginia Port Authority Executive Director Jerry Bridges on Monday named four new deputy executive directors in the agency's first major reorganization in more than 20 years. Jeff Keever, Rodney Oliver, Jeff Florin and Russell Held, all current VPA employees, will lead the reorganized authority. The reorganization consolidates multiple departments ...
Bargaining talks between British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 are to continue on Thursday as the two sides seek to avert a labor strike of Canadian West Coast ports. While a media blackout remains in effect during the negotiations, the BCMEA said Jan. 9 that talks were continuing ...
Dalian Port (PDA) Co Ltd. said on Thursday total container throughput at its terminals rose 28.3 percent year-on-year to 5.452 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2008. The terminal operator said container throughput at its Dalian port in northeastern China rose 18.1 percent to 4.399 million TEUs while throughput at its other ports doubled ...
Singapore's Jurong Port reported a healthy 16.95 percent growth in container throughput last year over 2007, falling just short of the one million box milestone. The port handled 973,000 TEUs from January to December, 141,000 more boxes that in 2007. Jurong's throughput soared earlier this year before slowing slightly in December. Source: ...
Fishermen protesting rising diesel prices resumed a blockade of Mexico's Salina Cruz marine oil terminal, a major refined products distribution point on the southwest coast, state oil company Pemex said. The fishermen blockaded the port for much of the day on Thursday but ended their action in the evening after calling for talks with the government. ...
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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