The Port of Tampa hopes to start passenger and car ferry service between Tampa and Cuba under President Barack Obama's relaxed travel restrictions, a port spokesman said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. "There has been interest by some companies in starting the service," said spokesman Andy Forbes. He said one of those companies was United Caribbean Line...
Philippine-owned International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is celebrating the start of its operations at the Port of Portland's Terminal 6, reported Inquirer.net. In May 2010, ICTSI signed a 25-year lease with the Port of Portland for the operation of the container/ breakbulk facility at Terminal 6. The Port of Portland is ICTSI's first v...
Japan has appealed for calm, but acknowledges there is “cause for concern”. The government is at the moment fighting not one, but three related disasters, the last being the nuclear power plant issue. However, pulling back from one moment from the horror of the prospect of more than 10,000 dead and half a million dislocated people, there is th...
Maersk Line says it has suspended services for both exports and imports at Sendai, Onahama, and Hachinohe until further notice. It seems Sendai Port is closed for the time being with phone lines and other communication down and some rumours say that it has been almost completely destroyed. However, as to be expected there are some slightly conflicting rep...
The Port of Felixstowe has made the annual award of the John Bubb Safety Trophy, won this year for the first time by an operational shift. The trophy is awarded annually to the area with the greatest reduction in accidents over the course of a year. In the past, the port’s rail department and temperature-controlled examination facility have repeate...
At the end of a one-month journey, the CAP PALMERSTON was the first ship in the expanded North America West Coast (WAMS) service operated by Hamburg Sud to reach the Port of Hamburg this week. The vessel was handled and cleared at the HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai. The journey through the Panama Canal and on to Europe covered a distance of about 10,00...
THE ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach posted an overall 12 per cent decline to 1.01 million TEU in container cargo in February compared to January, but increased eight per cent year-on-year. February's month-to-month decline was blamed on the Chinese New Year when mainland factories close for two weeks, reported London's Containerisation International...
PYI Corp will use some of the proceeds from the US$229.6 million sale of its majority stake in Yangkou Port to invest in a container port in Suzhou, said Tom Lau Ko-yuen, the managing director of the port and infrastructure company. Shareholders have approved the company's plan to sell a 50.1 per cent stake in the port, reported SCMP.com. The governmen...
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