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Pirates hijacked an Indonesian-flag cargo ship with 20 men on board off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, and within a day they used it in a thwarted attack on another ship. The Sinar Kudus, owned by Jakarta-based shipping group PT Samudera Indonesia, was sailing from Indonesia to Rotterdam with some 8,300 tons of nickel ore when it was seized about 320 n...
Japanese authorities have downplayed concerns over radiation emission around Tokyo and Yokohama ports from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. The Japanese ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism (MLIT) has on Monday issued an update on the radiation doses measured around the two ports. “The radiation doses measured around the p...
The dry bulk carrier MS Olivia has broken in two halves after having hit the Nightingale Island, part of Tristan da Cunha (GB), on Wednesday last week, Shipgaz reports. The Greek-controlled and Malta-flagged vessel was on a voyage from Santos in Brazil to Singapore with a cargo of soya beans when it hit the remote island in the middle of the South Atlantic....
Chinese oil major PetroChina is in talks with the government of Fujairah to build oil storage facilities at the Fujairah port, industry and port sources told Reuters. Petrochina (PTR.N), the world's second-most valuable oil firm after Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), is looking to build up to 1 million cubic meters of storage capacity at the United Arab Emirates po...
Cargo volume moved at the port of Ventspils (Latvia) in January-February 2011 totaled 4,08 million tons, 12.5% down from last year’s figures, the Port Authority said. In the reporting period, the stevedoring company Ventspils Nafta handled 1,775 tons of oil products, coal terminal throughput amounted to 327,000 tons. Ventbunkers terminal handl...
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines recovered a vessel, the chartered bulk carrier C.S. Victory, that had been carried away by the massive tsunami that hit Japan last week, the shipping line said Thursday. MOL was able to bring the ship back under its own power after it had been grounded in a shallow harbor at Ishinomaki in northeastern Japan. The vessel “is now sa...
Oman's Sultan Qaboos port resumed full operations on Thursday after port service employees who had boycotted on Wednesday returned to work, shipping sources said. "On Wednesday, the port was still open but there was very limited work getting done because half of the staff didn't show up, but now things have started to get back to normal," said a shippin...
In a major victory for labor and a setback for non-union contractors, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a project labor agreement that would require contractors to use union labor on $1.5 billion in port construction projects over the next five years, Labusinessjournal reports. The project labor agreement requires contract...
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