A fire in Rotterdam's port, Europe's largest for the import of crude oil, was under control and posed no threat to surrounding facilities or factories, Dutch police authorities said on Thursday, Reuters reports. The fire started at a metal processor called Jewometaal in the Rotterdam Botlek area at the start of the evening and had threatened an adjacent...
The Captain Dranitsyn joined today, March 11, the fleet of icebreakers providing assistance to oil tankers at the port of Primorsk (Leningrad region, the Gulf of Finland), first deputy to harbormaster of Big Port St. Petersburg port Mikhail Kharyuzov said in an interview with PortNews. The Vaigach has been deployed in Primorsk harbor to provide icebreake...
STRIKES and congestion are being blamed for India's major ports only achieving 1.2 per cent growth in cargo throughput from last April to this February of fiscal 2010-11 compared with the same period a year earlier. The weak growth seen during this 11 month period comes after a six per cent rise in cargo volume during the previous fiscal year that ended ...
JIANGSU province's port of Taicang handled 347,000 tonnes of direct shipping trade cargo between Mainland and Taiwan in 2010, up 87.7 per cent year on year. Container cargo increased 88.1 per cent to 42,000 TEU, Xinhua reports. Taicang is the China home port of the Norwegian start-up The Containership Company, which despite a first year US$7 million loss...
THE 8.9 earthquake struck Japan 250 miles north of Tokyo closed all ports and airports, and coastal regions across the entire Pacific Ocean were bracing for the impact of tsunamis tidal waves. The quake, 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan's main island, at a depth of 15 miles, triggered a tsunami that caused devastation and widespread loss of life....
Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) will launched Singapore's largest IPOs in an attempt to raise $5.8bn in gross proceeds. HPH Trust is expected to raise between $4.9-5.8bn based on the offering price range of $0.91-1.08 per unit. The public offer opened on Monday and will close at 10am local time on 14 March. The trust is expected to start trading ...
Ras Lanuf and Brega, two major oil ports in eastern Libya, have been closed as pro-regime forces intensify attacks on the revolutionary forces, PressTV reports. Embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's warplanes have launched fresh airstrikes on anti-regime positions around the port city of Ras Lanuf, Reuters reported late Monday. Reports say at least th...
Cargo volumes handled by Commercial Seaport of Vladivostok JSC (CPV) in January-February 2011 shrank by 14.6% compared to January-February of 2010, to 1,013,925 tons or 80.1% of the stevedore’s plan for Q1, 2011, the company’s press service reported. CPV said the trend was due to the change in trade flows passing through Vladivostok port. Thr...
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