Port of Seattle Commissioners changed their minds and decided not to increase the tax the port collects from King County property owners. Port of Seattle Commissioners changed their minds and decided not to increase the tax the port collects from King County property owners. In adopting a budget Tuesday, commissioners decided to keep the tax ...
The strike at Dover looks like continuing this week as a further three-day walk-out is planned for Thursday. Hundreds of Unite members working at Dover Harbour went on strike last week after a dispute hinging on the outsourcing of harbour jobs to private contractors was not resolved. Port of Dover is going into its second week of strikes. Photo: ...
Maersk, the first shipping line to recognise the Port of Tacoma's significance to the US-Asia route over two decades ago is ceasing its service to the port from May next year, due to falling container volumes. The move to consolidate routes has come about from a recently announced vessel sharing deal agreement between the two giants, Maersk and C...
Container terminals of Odessa and Iljichevsk ports which handle about half of Ukraine’s total throughput, are likely to stop operation, New Region writes. As of today, over 30,000 containers with import cargo have been accumulated at the ports’ terminals. According to Sergei Bryzgalov, head of Iljichevsk port trade union, importers blame it on the...
The city wide curfew imposed by Mumbai’s police following the terrorist attacks yesterday has brought activity at Mumbai Port Trust to a standstill. “Very few members of staff have been able to make it into the office today and we are not able to do anything at the port,” said an employee at the Mumbai Port Trust office. “The chairman and heads of de...
Chinese President Hu Jintao vowed to increase maritime investment in Greece after the signing of a 3.4 billion euro deal to run the country's largest port, despite protests from dockers. Hu and Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis witnessed the signing of the contract by state-controlled China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco) to operate the container ...
Intertanko director Peter Swift has called for a naval blockade off the Somali coast to stop pirate vessels going out to attack shipping, and he wants the naval forces operating in the area to be co-ordinated by the UN. The BBC reports, however, that NATO's secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says that the alliance is not considering any nava...
On November 20-21, Actia Conferences from Poland arranged Baltic Ro-Ro and Ferry Conference 2008 in co-operation with Ports of Stockholm. Around 90 delegates from the Baltic Sea came to the conference, which was opened by the Ports of Stockholm's CEO Christel Wiman, Bogdan Oldakowski from Actia and Julian Skelnik, marketing director of the Port of Gda...
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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