The Port of Marseilles said Friday it has signed an agreement with Mumbai, India's fifth-largest port by tonnage, to cooperate on trade development, engineering, management and security issues. Trade between Marseilles-Fos and India is currently modest, the French port said in a statement. About 20 percent of last year's 300,000-ton total was via Mumb...
With the Port of Antwerp hoping to increase the share of its traffic carried by barge from 30 percent to 40 percent, officials are looking at ways to consolidate volumes to improve speed and efficiency, International Freighting Weekly reported. Current services are based on shuttle links to and from inland container ports connecting with each dock and...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday it has completed the installation of its first radiation portal monitors at the Port of Mobile, Ala. The five portal monitors are designed to help detect and prevent smuggling of radioactive materials in containerized cargoes. Source: American Shipper
At the beginning of November 2008, it is expected that a contractor agreement will be signed for the construction of new terminals in Norra Hamnen, Malmö, provided that negotiations with a building contractor can be concluded in October. The construction project is CMP's biggest investment by far, and is being carried out in co-operation with Malmö Mu...
Steve Tyndal PPM®, Port Manatee’s senior director of trade development and special projects, has been elected to a two-year term as secretary of the American Association of Port Authorities’ Harbors, Navigation and Environment Committee. The committee monitors, collects and disseminates information pertaining to planning, design, construction and mai...
Harwich International Port, and Essex Education Business Partnership, in conjunction with the Haven Gateway Partnership, will be holding a 'Sea Port Role Play Day' on 7th October 2008, in the Cruise Terminal at the Port. This will be the fourth year that the event, codenamed ‘Exercise Haven Seaports’, has been held, and it is expected to attract up to 100...
Singapore-listed international physical bunker supplier has set up a joint venture agreement with the NSE-listed Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises which is developer Mundra Port, mgn reported. The JV, Chemoil-Adani, plans to supply bunkers at Mundra as a first step to expanding presence throughout the Pan-Indian fuel oil and petroleum product markets....
The Russian Port of Vladivostok said Wednesday it has received new cargo handling equipment for the first time in 25 years. The new equipment includes two 50-ton capacity ship-to-shore cranes and two 45-ton capacity rail-mounted gantry cranes. This event is extremely important and significant since it has marked the beginning of the wide-scale mod...
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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