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In 2008, Odessa Commercial Sea Port handled 34.5 million tonnes of cargo (+10.2%, year-on-year), the port informs at its website. According to the source, investment in development of the port’s facilities totaled UAH 521 million (in 2007: UAH 398 mln) including UAH 274 mln invested by the port itself (184 mln) and UAH 246 mln – by stevedoring companies (...
The ports in AS Tallinna Sadam (Port of Tallinn) handled 29.1 million tons of cargo last year, down by 19.3 per cent compared to the 36 million tons in 2007. The handling last year was at the same level as in 2001. After that cargo handling grew to the record level of 41.3 million tons in 2006. The largest drop was in handling of dry bulk cargoes and ...
Los Angeles and Long Beach marine terminals have reversed plans to end Saturday hours after an outcry by shippers and port trucking companies. PierPASS, the organization that helps fund off-peak shifts in the two ports on Saturday and nightly Monday through Thursday, said in a statement it has put on hold the plan to end Saturday off-peak shifts after...
The Port of Singapore saw volume plummet in December, resulting in year-end volumes that just barely kept the port the world’s busiest. According to a report in Singapore's Straits Times, volume fell 14 percent in December versus the same month in 2007, continuing the downward trend that afflicted nearly every major Asian port in the last quarter of 2...
Cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports was 15.3 million TEUs in 2008, 7.1 percent less than in 2007, the lowest level since 2004 when 14 million TEU moved through the ports. The National Retail Federation and IHS Global Insight said their monthly Port Tracker report found year-over-year volumes fell for the 17th straight month ...
GUANGZHOU port's dredging of a 17-metre deep, 243 metre wide, 71.8 kilometre channel to accommodate 150,000-ton ships has been received the go-ahead from Beijing, reports Xinhua. The CNY2.67 billion (US$395 million) project is to start next year so that mega ships can go between Nansha seaport facilities to inland Guangzhou. Some CNY953 million will c...
TERMINAL productivity is critical if one is the second largest container port in Europe and has to face stiff competition from ports like Le Havre, Rotterdam and Antwerp. Dr Juergen Sorgenfrei, Port of Hamburg's marketing association chairman told The Container Shipping Manager that a key aspect of Hamburg’s edge over its competitors was its ability to en...
NEW YORK listed Ryder System, a provider of supply chain, warehousing and transportation management services, has announced that it has acquired Transpacific Container Terminal Ltd (TCTL) and CRSA Logistics Ltd (CRSA) in Canada, as well as CRSA Logistics operations in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The companies will now operate as Ryder Transpacific Contai...
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
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