Captain Ismail Hashim has taken over as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas Sdn Bhd (PTP), operator of the Port of Tanjung Pelepas in Johor, effective last week, the Business Times reported. Ismail succeeds Harun Johari, whose term ended this September and is now executive director of the Iskandar Regional Development A...
DP World, the fourth-largest container terminal operator, has said that operations at its port in Jebel Ali, Dubai, were back to normal after experiencing months of major congestion problems, Arabian Business reported. Importers in September complained that congestion at the port was so bad it could take almost a week just for ships to berth. ...
RF President Dmitri Medvedev has signed a law specifying the powers of RF constituent entities as regards operation of river ports, PRIME-TASS reports. According to the document, RF constituent entities are to solve issues related to maintenance, development and organization of operation in river ports hosting the property owned by the entity. The documen...
Richmond, Calif. City Council members approved a multimillion-dollar deal with a U.S. partner of Honda Motor Co. that will see the Japanese carmaker ship 145,000 cars a year through the Port of Richmond. The 15-year deal, valued at $87.5 million, requires the Bay Area city to issue $37.9 million in bonds to upgrade the auto receiving facility...
Container cargo volumes moving through the five major West Coast ports continued to slip in October, with the collective ports shedding more than a million containers of volume so far this year. The ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma have handled 17 million TEUs so far this year, a 6.6 percent drop from the 18 million ...
NORTHEAST Asia is expected to remain a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy world economy going forward, accounting for around 30 per cent of global GDP by 2020, says Port of Dalian president, Mr Sun Hong. As a percentage of total world trade, northeast Asia now accounts for 34 per cent and this is expected to increase to 38 per cent by 2012. Much o...
The Busan Port Authority said Monday it will help to develop an inland container depot in Suifenhe, China to support its efforts in developing the eastern Russian port of Nakhodka. On Monday, BPA signed a memorandum of understanding with the municipal government in Suifenhe, the Russian-based JSC Far Eastern Transport Group, and Hyundai Logistics ...
Sohar International Development Company (SIDC) has invited expressions of interest for tenders to build a deep water bulk jetty linked to shore by way of trestle at The Port of Sohar in Oman. SIDC is a partnership between the Port of Rotterdam from the Netherlands and the Government of Oman and the bulk jetty is part of the next phase of development 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.
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