Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has been exempted by the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) from a 24-hour power cut to be implemented once-a-week, provided the port cuts its power consumption by 10 percent, DNA reported. This move follows a letter sent by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port to the MSEB, stating their position as a continuous process...
Those 30% of cargo being handled today in EU states for further transportation to Russia will transfer to Russian ports due to implementation of new transport strategy, Rosbalt quotes Evgeni Fedorov, Chairman of Duma’s Committee on economic policy and entrepreneurship, as saying at the conference “St. Petersburg – marine capital of Russia. City’s transit ...
Southern California ports officials last week approved financial contracts with Daimler Truck Financial to support loan and lease programs to local drayage drivers under the ports impending truck plan. The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles truck plan, which is to go into effect Oct. 1, seeks to convert all local drayage trucks to 2007 model year or ...
The Federal Maritime Commission on Tuesday warned the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles that their $2.4 billion trucking re-regulation plan requires further documentation and government review before it can move forward, according to a letter obtained by American Shipper. In a letter to attorneys for the ports and the West Coast Marine Terminal Oper...
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) recently received four brand new rubber tired gantries (RTG) for its flagship Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) in the Philippines. The new container handling equipment, a capital investment worth PHP144.30 million (USD3.1 million), will further increase capacity and productivity at...
The Rotterdam-based stevedore rhb stevedoring & warehousing has purchased a Liebherr LHM 600 S for loading and unloading heavy industrial break bulk and project cargo. This, the largest and heaviest mobile harbour crane in the world is unique in Europe. With its 208 ton lifting capacity, the crane has seven times the lifting capacity of a conventional cra...
Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald) continues to expand its successful Latin American business. The orders in recent months for a total of five G HMK 6407 Mobile Harbour Cranes, a Model 6 variant, for three Chilean and two Colombian ports clearly show that, once again, there is strong demand for Gottwald's latest best-selling machines. The bu...
In 2007, Rotterdam was Austria’s most important seaport for the tenth consecutive time, with a throughput of 5.1 million tonnes. This was over 7% more than the previous year and represented a market share of 31%. This was revealed in the Seehafenbilanz for 2007, which the Austrian trade magazine for the logistics sector Verkehr draws up every year. The po...
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