A new scanner has been installed at the Euromax terminal with a capacity to check 150 containers in an hour as opposed to 20 per hour for scanners used elsewhere at the Maasvlakte project in Rotterdam. The difference lies especially in the fact that the driver no longer needs to step out of the vehicle. Thanks to new technology, the intensity of the r...
Basra's port of Umm Qasr on Wednesday received two ships carrying varied cargos, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said. Today, Umm Qasr Port received two ships; a Jordanian carrying 281 containers and a Panamanian carrying sugar," Abdelkareem al-Basri told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). The Shiite provi...
Malaysia's Petronas Dagangan , the retail arm of state oil company Petronas PETR.UL, said on Thursday it had taken up a stake in a petroleum storage terminal project in Sarawak on Borneo. The Malaysian firm said it would own 20 percent of a joint venture set up to undertake the Central Oil Distribution Terminal project, but it did not disclose financi...
The group Oslo Marine has obtained into management the site of the Baltic Ship Mechanical Plant (BSMZ) with the area of 11 hectares at the St. Petersburg port. The structure and the sum of the deal are not disclosed. The group reckons the property complex of the plant at RUR 15bn (US$ 0.64bn EUR 0.41bn). The deal enabled Oslo Marine to expand its are...
KazTransOil national oil and gas company is not abandoning its plans for investing in the Batumi port and oil terminal. The Batumi oil terminal and Batumi sea port is operating according to the investment program that entails a further increase of transshipment capacity and modernization of the facilities in line with KazTransOil standards. The compan...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday denied a request by the American Trucking Associations for an injunction to prevent the Southern California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to proceed with their Clean Truck Program, scheduled to take effect on Oct. 1. The three-judge panel also denied an expedited hearing schedule...
The Federal Maritime Commission on Wednesday said it is launching an investigation of portions of the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports trucking re-regulation plan. The commission, charged with enforcing federal maritime regulations related to international ocean-borne commerce, said it intends to investigate a ports-created access licensing scheme, po...
The ongoing financial turmoil on Wall Street hit the Port of Tacoma this week, as port officials were forced to shift nearly $150 million in bond deals handled by the now-defunct Lehman Brothers to other financial institutions. Lehman Brothers collapse into bankruptcy on Sept. 15 automatically terminated two bond deals involving the financial service...
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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