The world's biggest container shipping company, Maersk Line, has suspended service to three tsunami-hit Japanese ports, reported Reuters. Maersk Line has suspended service to Sendai, Onahama and Hachinohe. The three ports were severely damaged by the tsunami and analysts said it would take months, if not years, for the owners to rebuild the ports. "We ...
Terminal Internacional del Sur (Tisur), which is owned by Grupo Romero, is to invest $262m in expanding the storage terminal capacity of Matarani Port in Arequipa, Peru. The expansion will add 30.1ha to the port, including lighting, scales and vigilance. Works have already begun and are expected to be completed within three years. Tisur has invested $29.6...
GNMTC, a shipping line owned by Libya, said one of its tankers was hijacked by an armed group probably linked to rebels in the east of the country, Bloomberg reports. The Anwaar Afriqya, with a crew of 22, was diverted to the port of Tobruk near the border with Egypt, where it is now docked, GNMTC said in an e-mailed statement. The ship holds 23,800 metri...
During the meeting on March 8, the Supervisory Board of AS Tallinna Sadam approved the annual statement of the Port of Tallinn and also gave approval to a range of development projects, according to which the operators will invest a total of 200 million euro into the development of the container terminal and of liquefied gas and liquid bulk transshipment te...
Cargo throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port JSC (KSCP) in January-February 2011 increased by 15.8% compared to January-February 2010 to 509,400 tons, the stevedoring company press service said. In the reporting period the volume of outbound cargo rose by 12.5 percent to 430.9 million tons. Exports of bulk cargo soared 62.7% from the same period a ...
AS part of Maersk Line's drive to reduce sulphur emissions from its fleet of vessels to zero, the carrier said it has expanded its fuel switch programme to all nine ports in New Zealand. Switching from bunker to low sulphur fuel is expected to reduce sulphur oxide emissions released into the air by its ships calling at New Zealand's ports by 80-95 per ...
EVERGREEN is starting a new butterfly TMI loop that links Malaysia's Tanjung Pelepas to ports in Thailand and Indonesia. The port rotation for the service that will turn in two weeks is: Tanjung Pelepas, Bangkok, Laem Chabang, Port Kelang, Tanjung Pelepas, Jakarta and back to Tanjung Pelepas, reports Alphaliner. It said the TMI will be operated using ...
PORTS in northeastern China's Liaoning province lifted 988,000 TEU in January, increasing 21.8 per cent year on year, Xinhua reports. Cargo tonnage of these ports grew 24.1 per cent to 67.6 tonnes. Foreign trade cargo accounted for 16.4 million tonnes, up 8.4 per cent. Dalian's overall tonnage increased 15.8 per cent. The Port of Yinkou volume climbed...
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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