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Local agents of container lines serving India's Port of Mumbai have protested to the port authority over draft limits at the western gateway hub. Agents, under the aegis of the Mumbai-Nhava Sheva Ship Agents' Association, complained that a drastic reduction in available draft is affecting normal vessel operations, leading to loss of revenue for carrie...
The Port of Seattle board voted Tuesday to increase 2009 local property taxes collected to support the port by $8 million, an 11 percent increase over the 2008 collections. King County residents, which will pay $76 million to support the port this year, will now face a port levy of $0.219 per $1,000 of assessed property value. The $8 million increa...
The Port of Seattle board voted Tuesday to increase 2009 local property taxes collected to support the port by $8 million, an 11 percent increase over the 2008 collections. King County residents, which will pay $76 million to support the port this year, will now face a port levy of $0.219 per $1,000 of assessed property value. The $8 million increa...
The Port of Long Beach inaugurated its first dedicated ship-to-shore power service during a Tuesday ceremony when the K Line container vessel Long Beach Bridge became the port's first ship to plug into shoreside electrical power. It marks the start-up of an $8 million project that installed electrical power connections at the International Transportat...
The U.S. Maritime Administration, with a little extra funding from Congress, could do more to help speed up port development projects by clearing away bureaucratic obstacles to permitting, the agency's number two official said last month. MarAd last summer proposed the creation of a Port Improvement Enterprise Program that would allow the agency to...
Singapore's fast-growing links with China's thriving port city of Ningbo near Shanghai are set to get a further boost at a major promotional and networking event being held in Singapore this week, the Strait Times reported. The three-day event will witness the signing of 15 agreements to jump-start investment projects in Ningbo, with the aim of i...
In January-October, 2008, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 4.059.3 million tonnes of cargo (3.6%, year-on-year), the company reports. In the reported period, transshipment of export cargo totaled 2.949.3 million tonnes (+1.4%, year-on-year) including 872,900 tonnes of coal and coke (up 2.3 times) and 69,000 tonnes of timber (+3.6%). Tr...
The 2008 Ocean Transportation Report released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has shown Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Pusan to be the world's top five ports, Xinhua reported. Shanghai Port's container throughput has risen by 20 percent compared to 2006 and exceeded that of Hong Kong, which experienced ...
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