WESTPORT Malaysia at Port Klang handled 390,000 TEU in November, up from 300,000 TEU for the same month a year earlier. Despite the year on year rise in container traffic, it was reported that November's container throughput has fallen from 435,000 TEU handled the previous month and a record 475,000 TEU handled in August of this year. "There ...
THE NEW Mangalore Port has handled a record 21,859 TEU so far in the current fiscal year, an increase of 48 per cent compared to the same period a year ago. The increase in container traffic at the south Indian port has been attributed to the commissioning of two reach stackers, an increase in stacking yard capacity and more reefer plug points, upgrad...
The Gwadar Port has been inaugurated four times in a short period of three years. It witnessed two ceremonies during Pervez Musharraf’s era and one in Caretaker setup and the fourth by the PPP-led coalition government. After the completion of two berths on the Eastern Bay of the hammer-head port of Gwadar by the Chinese company the then prime min...
Ukraine’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has set up a unified State Port Inspectorate in the port of Nikolayev, internet newspaper of Nikolayev writes with the reference to the Ministry’s order No 1528 dated December 19. According to the Order the Inspectorate has been set up within the framework of reorganization of Dnepro-Bugski commercial ...
The general meeting of the shareholders of Vostochny Port OJSC (Nakhodka, Primorski Territory) has terminated the powers of all BOD members before their term ended, the company reports. The new BOD elected by the meeting consists of Gennadi Aivazyan, Viktor Mochalnikov, Peotr Yamov, Viktor Gnezdilov, Anton Lokshin, Aleksei Sviridov and Svetlana V...
Chinese enterprises should become bold in acquiring stakes in overseas enterprises, especially in the energy and resources sectors, a senior policy advisor has said. Zheng Xinli, vice-director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, suggested that the government use its $2-trillion foreign exchange reserves to encourage overseas mer...
Universal Transshipment Complex OJSC (the port of St. Petersburg) has accepted the first batch of cargo - 42 wagons with 3,000 tonnes of cast iron bars, the cm’s press center reports. According to the source, the company plans to handle additional 17,000 tonnes of cargo by the end of December. In January2009 this cargo will be shipped for export. Besides,...
FRENCH shipping company CMA CGM is projecting that its container throughput at Westports Malaysia in Port Klang will achieve double-digit growth in 2009 despite the global economic slowdown. The upbeat forecast was attributed to the company's strong network and presence in China, the deployment of more cost-efficient vessels in the next two years...
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