The U.S. Coast Guard has completed an initial damage assessment Thursday at Florida's Port Canaveral after the passing of tropical storm Fay. Coast Guard inspectors found minimum discrepancies in the storm's passing, but said further assessments are required to open the port to all vessel traffic. Currently, Port Canaveral is open from the sea buo...
Long Beach and Los Angeles ports responded in federal court Thursday opposing a trucking industry request for injunction against a portion of the ports trucking re-regulation plan that requires ports-issued access licenses of all trucking firms wishing to continue doing business at the ports after Oct. 1. The injunction request, to be decided in a U.S...
After the first call of CMA CGM’s feeder vessel “Tobruk” about one month ago, EUROGATE Tanger has started to handle feeder services on a regular basis. “Although the terminal is still in a testing phase and not yet officially opened, we are very proud that our operations are working so well that we are already able to handle regular feeder services. C...
Kalmar Industries, part of Cargotec Corporation, has made an agreement to supply eleven of its E-One+ rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes to Gateway Terminals India (GTI) at Nhava Sheva, India. This latest order, delivery of which will commence in January 2009, follows on from a contract to supply GTI with 29 E-One RTGs delivered in 2006. Maximizing mach...
The ports of China reportedly handled 61.4 million TEUs during the first half of this year (January-June 2008), an increase of 17.1 per cent over the same period of last year, according to Exim News Service. Overall tonnage lifted by these ports rose by 15.5 per cent to 2.95 billion tonnes. Foreign trade cargo volume went up by 11.4 per cent to 990 mi...
The first of the two container cranes ordered by Steveco Oy from Konecranes arrived at Vuosaari Harbour on July 29. The second container crane will arrive at Vuosaari in spring 2009. The two cranes ordered by Steveco are Panamax-class, BoxHunter-type container cranes with a lifting capacity of 50 tonnes and a reach of 38 metres. Steveco chose these so...
From January to July, unitized cargo traffic reached 6.7 million tonnes. Compared to last year’s record volume, the reduction was 4%. The decrease occurred in the Rostock and Gdynia services, while services such as those to Tallinn and Travemünde continued to grow. Trailer truck and trailer numbers decreased by 7%. Container traffic showed slight growth w...
Kalmar Industries, part of Cargotec Corporation, has made an agreement to supply eleven of its E-One+ rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes to Gateway Terminals India (GTI) at Nhava Sheva, India. This latest order, delivery of which will commence in January 2009, follows on from a contract to supply GTI with 29 E-One RTGs delivered in 2006. Maximizing mach...
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