The Murmansk Commercial Sea Port begun to build a station to unload rail cars and establish a transport-conveyor system, the press-service of the port reports. The cost of the building totals $80 mn. Source: Seanews
Azerbaijan has halted oil exports via the Georgian ports of Batumi and Kulevi due to clashes between Russia and Georgia, the head of the state oil company said. Since last night the import and export of oil through the Georgian ports of Kulevi and Batumi have been halted, said Rovnag Abdullayev, the head of the Azeri state oil company SOCAR, in televised ...
Russian warships are not planning to block shipments of oil from Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti, but reserve the right to search ships coming to and from it, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Sunday. I know nothing about any plan to block the shipments, he told a news briefing, responding to remarks by Georgian officials. In fa...
China, the most trusted friend of the country, constructed the Gwadar Port in 2002 at a cost of 150 million dollars and not 250 million dollars, highly-placed sources told The Post. This, the sources said, was revealed by an independent audit of the deep-water port project which was conducted in 2006 when Islamabad was about to sign an agreement with...
Georgia's oil ports of Supsa and Batumi, used to export Azeri crude oil, are operating only partially, while the Georgian port of Poti is not operating, a shipping agent said on Monday. The slowdown of activity at the ports follows fighting between Russia and Georgia and an unrelated explosion a week before in Turkey on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pip...
Vietnam's main coal port, Cam Pha, which handles most of the country's coal exports to China and Japan, has resumed about 70 percent of loading capacity, after its loaders collapsed during a storm last week, state coal monopoly Vinacomin said on Monday. Repair is under way and the port would resume full operation in a month, a Vinacomin spokesman said...
French line CMA CGM is on course to move two million TEUs or 25 per cent of Westports total volume this year, CMA CGM & ANL Malaysia managing director Simon Whitelaw told Business Times. The container volume is 25 per cent more than the 1.6 million TEUs CMA CGM handled last year. Our strategy is to grow faster than the market. If the market is gro...
In the first six months of 2008, 13% more ore and scrap were handled in the port of Rotterdam than in the same period of last year. Expressed in millions of tonnes, throughput increased from 18.8 to 21.4 million tonnes. In comparison with the first quarter (+15%), growth was down slightly. This trend is expected to continue in the second half of the y...
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