In November the total volume of container handling at Ukrtranscontainer (Ukraine) reached 500,000 TEU since the beginning of 2008. For the first time ever the terminal in Illichivsk port handled more than half a million TEU. Such a throughput growth became the result of investment program 4M implemented at Ukrtranscontainer (UTC, a part of NCC holdin...
On the 24th of November 2008 (on Monday) in the conference hall of Klaipeda State Seaport Authority (Lithuania) the presentation of dynamic under-keel clearance system was made. Chief engineer Capt. Laurence Benn made the presentation. One of the most important tools of competitiveness – is the possibility to accommodate big draft vessels without an...
KALMAR, a part of Cargotec Corporation, has been awarded a contract to supply 42 'Ottawa 4x2' terminal tractors to the Port of Salalah in the south of Oman, to facilitate the port's expansion and its rapid growth. The equipment is scheduled for delivery by the end of the year, a statement from Cargotec said. The transaction also includes an initial st...
PORTS in China registered a 6 per cent year on year volume growth in October, 2.1 per cent lower than last October down to 470 million tonnes, reports Logistics Week. This was the lowest monthly level recorded this year while volume tracked downward for the past three months. Chinese ports moved 10.65 million TEU in October, up 8.2 per cent but ...
The Dutch port of Rotterdam, which employs 70,000 people, is being hit hard by the current economic slump. Containers are piled high in the main ECT shipping terminal, and the areas where new cars are parked are overflowing. Traditionally, the more containers remain in the port, the less actual trade there is. The transshipment of raw materials ...
Sanya Phoenix Island International Cruise Terminal will become Asia's largest mother port for cruise liners after the second-phase construction is complete by 2010, sources reported. The first-phase construction, with a total investment of 38.19 million, has recently passed a completion inspection. The terminal, located in Sanya Phoeni...
Abu Dhabi Terminals, which operates four commercial seaports in Abu Dhabi, plans to raise storage and handling charges by 10% at the ports in January next year, reported Gulf News. ADT operates Mina Zayed, Musaffah, Freeport and New Dhow Harbour seaports. ADT last increased tariffs at the seaports in January, when all port charges except those for st...
According to a pessimistic forecast, throughput of Latvian ports undermined by crisis is not to recover before 2013-1015, RZD-Partner quotes Georg Lansmanis, Advisor to Latvia’s Minister of Communications, as saying at the Conference “How to develop transport logistics in Latvia”. According to the forecast, negative dynamics is to be overcome by the end o...
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