The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has chosen construction company E. Pihl and Sons for a US$16.5 million contract to reclaim land at the Hunts Bay shoreline in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, the Jamaica Gleaner reported. The works cover reclamation and installation of vertical drains in the area of the Kingston Container Terminal (KCT), which has...
Xiamen International Port Co Ltd, a port developer in Xiamen city, East China's Fujian Province, announced it has agreed to sell a Haicang port project to Xiamen Haicang International Container Terminals Ltd for RMB 407.38 million. The project is related to Berth 1 at the Haicang port in Xiamen, and pertains to marine structure engineering. Proceeds f...
Kaohsiung Harbour Bureau has revealed that APM Terminals is to abandon one of the two container terminals that it operates at the port. Berths 118 and 119 will be ditched from October, although the Danish company will continue operating at berths 76 and 77, which forms part of the fifth container terminal. Traffic handled by Maersk at berths 118 a...
OAO Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (LSE: NCSP, RTS: NMTP, MICEX: NMTP) announces that OOO Baltiisk Stevedore Company (an NCSP subsidiary) has acquired two new Liebherr LHM400 harbor cranes worth more than 5 million euros. This is the first time Baltiisk Port has acquired equipment of this caliber and there is no similar equipment at ports in Kaliningrad...
Today Wartsila, a market leader in diesel and natural gas engines, biopower solutions and complete propulsion systems and CEVA Logistics, one of the leading supply chain companies in the world, signed a cooperation agreement for the 24/7 global spare parts transportation management and “control tower” activities for Wartsila Services. The contract value ...
The Gothenburg-headquartered logistics specialist GreenCarrier International has strengthened its position in Eastern Europe and the Baltic region with the acquisition of Spedair, an independent Latvian transportation and freight forwarding company, for an undisclosed sum. Spedair was established in 1998 and is based in Riga, Latvia. The company has s...
The nation's leading intermodal freight trade association said Thursday it supports a federal court request by the American Trucking Associations to block a portion of the Southern California port's trucking re-regulation plan. The Intermodal Association of North America, whose members include more than 900 firms representing all segments of the freig...
Rizhao Port , China's largest iron ore port, said on Friday it will raise its handling fees for imported iron ore by 11 percent from Sept. 1, as iron ore stocks at China's ports remain high. The port will raise handling fees for imported iron ore moved out of the port via road or rail transportation to 30.5 yuan per tonne, from 27.5 yuan per tonne pre...
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