Ports America Group announced the appointment of Deborah H. Telman to the position of general counsel at the company's Iselin, N.J., headquarters. Prior to joining Ports America Group, Telman served as chief counsel for mergers and acquisitions at The Boeing Co. in Chicago from 2002 to 2008. She also worked as a partner at Winston & Strawn and as an a...
Chilean ocean carrier CCNI advised Monday that the Colombian National Truck Federation's call for a national strike has stopped operations in the Port of Buenaventura, forcing it to reroute a vessel on its joint Asia/Mexico/West Coast South America China Express Service/ASPA 1 service with Hamburg Sud. CCNI said there is no information available regar...
The Port of Long Beach has concluded the public comment period on environmental documents detailing the impacts of a proposed $750 million container terminal development. If the project moves forward, it would be the first such major development at Long Beach since concerns over environmental litigation halted development more than three years ago. Th...
The Dutch Port of Rotterdam, Europe's busiest port, today reported half-year cargo throughput of 213.3 million tons, a 7.7 percent increase from the first six months of 2007. The port's biggest rise came in the dry bulk segment, up 10.5 percent to 46.7 million tons, while liquid bulk goods rose 8.7 percent to 99 millions tons. General cargo improved 4...
Throughput at the Port of Guangzhou's deepwater Nansha terminals continued to grow substantially in July, the Guangzhou Port Group said Tuesday. Volume at the older of Nansha's two terminals grew 18.6 percent, to 360,000 TEUs compared with July 2007. That compares unfavorably to the 72 percent growth in June and the 29 percent growth for the year at t...
Sizable diversions to other ports, in combination with a souring U.S. economy, have eroded cargo volume gains achieved at the Southern California ports over the past five years, according to a study released last week. Despite the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles recording significant gains in exported containers for the past two years, th...
The American Trucking Associations has asked the Federal Maritime Commission to prevent an antitrust waiver agreement allowing the Southern California ports to cooperate on a trucking re-regulation plan from taking affect. ATA has also requested that the FMC subject the truck plan to a competitive review and analysis, and require the ports to answer p...
As part of its continuous drive towards upgrading products and services, Dubai Trade, Dubai World's trade facilitation department and provider of online trade eServices, announced the successful deployment of additional DP World eServices that use the Rosoom platform to enable online payments for port charges. This release will facilitate easier and faste...
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