The Port of Marseilles-Fos blamed an eight-month decline in cargo throughput on industrial action from mid-April to the end of June over the French government抯 port reform proposals. The Mediterranean port's throughput totaled 64.3 million tons to the end of August, a 1 percent drop on the first eight months of last year. Container traffic slumped...
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 for t...
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 latest and fastest type of scanner has been installed by Customs at the Euromax terminal. The device has a capacity of 150 containers an hour, as opposed to 20 for the scanner used elsewhere on the Maasvlakte. 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 ...
Terminal Ukrtranscontainer (UTC, part of NCC group) have finished introduction of the customized information system Conterra. The system’s developer is ROLIS (IT-company of NCC group). The system comprises all the basic process at the terminal: container handling, document flow, tariffing and financial accounting. The implementation of Conterra will a...
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday, September 24, 2008, denied a request by the American Trucking Association (ATA) for an injunction to prevent the Port's Clean Trucks Program from going into operation on October 1, 2008. The court ruled that the ATA has failed to establish that it will be irreparably injured absent an injunc...
The arrival of Alexander von Humboldt on 19 September marked the end of the 2008 cruise season at the Port of Gdansk. Since 14 May, thirty-six passenger ships visited Gdansk, bringing over thirteen thousand tourists. The cruise liners docked at the Oliwskie Quay, Captain Ziolkowski Quay and at the Westerplatte Ferry Terminal. The Baltic Sea is inc...
South China terminal operator Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) has signed a cooperation agreement with Sinotrans Guangdong focusing on barge services and intermodal freight forwarding. Under the agreement, YICT will offer favorable terms in both berth allocation and customs clearance coordination to one of Sinotrans Guangdong subsidiar...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi