Phividec Industrial Authority (PIA) formally turned over the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) to Mindanao International Container Terminal Services Inc. (MICTSI) last week. The turnover ceremony was held at the MCT berthside and was attended by Phividec officers, shipping lines and local government officials. Photo shows Ninfa Along Albania (2nd from lef...
Business News Americas reports that Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli has signed an agreement for the construction of a new container terminal at La Plata port. The project will be carried out by the Tecplata consortium, formed by Argentine businessman Ricardo Román and the Philippine group International Container Terminal Services. Thi...
In January-August 2008, commercial seaport of Odessa handled 23.679.2 million tonnes of cargo (+11%, year-on-year), the company informs. In the reported period, transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 11.612 million tonnes (+7%, year-on-year). Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo totaled 12.067.2 million tonnes (+15%). In the 8-month period, the port’...
PJSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (LSE: NCSP, RTS & MICEX: NMTP) announced today that its new specialized grain terminal has reached full capacity in due time, in full accordance with NCSP’s investment plan. In August 2008 new terminal has handled 483,000 tons of export grain (In total NCSP handled 1,032,000 tonnes of grain in August 2008, which is 91...
The Internaitonal Conference devoted to the Role of Ports in Development of Ground and Sea Transport will be held on September 17-18 in Pir (Greece). Azerbaijan Republic Ministry of Transport informed that at the conference the country will be represented by the Chief of the Ministry’s TRACECA and International Projects Department Elmar Farajev. The...
Last week, Yuzhniy sea trading port (Odessa oblast) began shipping wheat. According to Irene Chibirova, the press secretary of the port, this year, for the first time, the port is shipping wheat due to the high grain harvest in Ukraine. Dock workers have already transferred nearly 330 railway cars of wheat to the Panamanian ship, Royal Crown. The...
A daylong strike at two ports in Panama backed up containers but did little to hinder operations through the Panama Canal, Reuters reported Tuesday. Crane operators and harbor towage workers at the ports of Balboa and Cristobal walked out in the morning over pay issues, but the problems were resolved by the evening. Shipping lines that use the p...
It is reported that Dalian Port has concluded a logistics cooperation agreement with Brazil’s mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, or Vale, to distribute 5 million to 10 million tonnes of iron ores annually until the end of 2020. The port will provide such services as upload, ore mixing, storage and redistribution. Dalian Port has a subsidiary ore...
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