After several weeks of additional filings in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case seeking to block portions of the Southern California ports?truck program, the court has decided to grant a time extension requested by the ports. Originally set for Nov. 5, the appellate court has rescheduled the deadline for the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to...
The head of Federal Agency of ecological, technological and nuclear supervision (Rostechnadzor) Nikolay Kutin approved a conclusion of the expert commission of the state ecological expertise on revision of working design of the first stage of construction of operational water area for transshipment complexes of the Northern part of the sea trading port of...
Ports America announced the appointments of vice presidents Donald Rupert, Steven Trombley and Peter Dunton. Rupert, now vice president of sales and marketing, previously served as regional marketing director of sales and marketing. Based in the terminal operator's Iselin, N.J., headquarters, Rupert has been instrumental in establishing new business r...
In the first nine months of 2008, container throughput in Rotterdam was 6% up, from 77.8 to 82.4 million tonnes. Incoming trade rose slightly more sharply than outgoing, by 6.9% to 40.8 million tonnes and 5.2% to 41.7 million tonnes respectively. Expressed in TEU (20-foot container units), throughput was 8.2 million units, an increase of 2%. The diffe...
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles on Friday asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an extension to file arguments in a suit over the ports?trucking re-regulation program that began Oct. 1. The ports have asked for a 21-day extension beyond the Nov. 5 deadline set by the court last month and an expansion of the court-permitted size of their...
On October 29 frigate of the US Naval Force USS Doyle that took part in joint military exercise in the Baltic Sea together with Lithuanian Naval Force vessel Aukstaitis (F-12) will pier in Klaipeda Seaport, reports ELTA. The ship and crew will stay in Lithuania till November 3 and will meet with members and command of Lithuanian Armed Forces and repre...
Shanghai Port exported 7.794 million tons of steel products valued at 9.35 billion U.S. dollars in January-September, up 0.9 percent and 30.3 percent year on year, according to Shanghai Customs Monday. Included was the export of 1.089 million tons in September alone, up 36.4 percent over the same period last year. Analysts attributed the rise to Chines...
Ports America has begun operations at a new roll-on/roll-off terminal in Bayonne, N.J. Stephen Edwards, president and chief executive of the stevedoring company, said the terminal will be used primarily for export vehicles, largely used automobiles bound for Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Both Hoegh Autoliners and Grimaldi will use the...
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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