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The Suez Canal Authority won't be reducing tolls for 2009, despite an expected fall in vessel traffic. But the head of the authority said that options would remain open if the financial crisis deepens in the first half of the year, Reuters reported. Authority Chairman Ahmed Fadel said he projects a 7 percent drop in vessels transiting the ca...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued guidance Tuesday to vessel operators who may try to divert ships from British Columbia ports to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif. CBP said it has received several inquires from the shipping industry about the potential for a dock labor disruption in the western Canadian ports. The ...
Shippers and trucking companies are voicing their upset over a decision by terminal operators in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to end Saturday hours. Terminal operators have said that they will no longer be open on Saturday after Jan. 10. People are very upset about this, says Robin Lanier, executive director of the Wate...
Cargotec’s Kalmar business area delivered its 4,500th straddle carrier to EUROGATE at Bremerhaven, Germany in December 2008. This landmark machine is a Kalmar 7th generation ESC440W straddle carrier equipped with additional special options, including an ultra low noise insulation package, a soft landing system and automatic container picking system ...
The Port of Felixstowe welcomed two of the Shipping Corporation of India’s (SCI) new 4,400-TEU vessels in January 2009, with the maiden calls of the SCI Mumbai and SCI Chennai on the 2nd and 7th respectively. The introduction of these new vessels represents a significant step for the Line in securing its position within the Indian Sub-Continent - No...
By the end of this year the port of Antwerp will have handled 190 million tonnes of freight. This represents growth of 4% compared with the already outstanding year of 2007 and is the seventh record year in a row. The figures for the first nine months were excellent, and while the last quarter clearly showed the effects of the downturn in the world econom...
The Shanghai Port saw container volume grow 7 percent in 2008, to more than 28 million TEUs. The port did not, however, grow enough to overtake the Port of Singapore as the world's busiest in terms of container throughput. The growth was also markedly lower than the 20.4 percent hike in volume seen in 2007 for Shanghai. But the port will lik...
Tianjin Port, one of the world's top 20 ports in terms of container handling and among the top six in tonnage, saw container volume grow nearly 20 percent in 2008, to 8.5 million TEUs. The North China port, among the closest major ports to the Beijing metropolitan area, handled 7.1 million TEUs in 2007, according to a report last week in the C...
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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