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Talks aimed at preventing a Jan. 2 strike in Canada's Pacific Coast ports by union dock foremen are progressing, albeit slowly, according to the association representing the dockers employers. The union foremen, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 based near Vancouver, have been without a contract since March 2007 and ...
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case seeking to block portions of the Southern California ports?trucking re-regulation program is now in the hands of the appellate panel, though a decision is not expected before the end of the year. The American Trucking Associations, which represent more than 37,000 tucking firms throughout the nation, filed the...
THE European Port of Rotterdam has announced that its seaport, quay and inner port dues will go up in 2009 by one per cent over the previous year. A statement from port authorities said stagnating economic growth as a result of the credit crisis played a significant role in determining the increase in port dues which will be applied across all se...
In January-November 2008, container terminal “Tuchkovo” (Far Eastern Transport Group OJSC) handled 60,240 TEU (up 4.5 times), the company reports. During the first year of the terminal’s operation it returned some 15% of investments. By the end of 2008 the company plans to raise it by additional $1.5 mln. Thus payback period is to make 4.5 years according...
As the congestion at the nation's seaports in Lagos continue to defile all solutions, about 51 vessels are expected to bring in different consignment to the ports to further compound the problem presently being faced by the terminal operators, even as four of them are scheduled to arrival on Christmas day. The vessels are expected to arrival the c...
The first shipment of piles for the new quay wall at the Port of Felixstowe’s Felixstowe South development have arrived at the UK’s largest container port. Nineteen of the large tubular steel piles were discharged from the vessel Arklow Rainbow directly onto the Felixstowe South construction site. Each of the huge piles is up to 38 metres in length, ...
A newly expanded version of the Port's Green Flag air quality program begins on New Year's Day, and cargo vessel operators are encouraged to start the fuel-saving, pollution-reducing slowdown as of January 1 or soon afterward to qualify for financial incentives from the Port. The new Green Flag program builds on the success of the existing one, which ...
Measures supporting sea and river ports to be developed by the end of this year, TASS cites Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov as saying at the meeting of the Maritime Board under the Russian Government, according to Gudok. Ivanov underlined that a number of Russian ports having borrowed money for implementation of their development progr...
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