The Nevelsk fishery port is put up for an auction, Interfax quoted head of the Nevelsk region Vladimir Pak as saying. According to V.Pak, the auction is scheduled on August, 26. it will be held in Moscow. The opening price is about 134 mn rubles. At the same time the Russian Federal Property Fund did not approve this information. Source: Seanews
To be built next to Saint-Petersburg Avrora JSC plans to build a sea terminal to handle cars, other ro-ro cargoes and general cargoes in Vistino (the Leningrad region). Source: Seanews
Iran, OPEC's second-largest oil producer, cut by half its fleet of oil tankers idling in the Persian Gulf, adding ships to the market as rental rates plunge. That means five Iranian supertankers remain stationed at the Kharg Island loading facility or the nearby Soroush terminal. The tankers Huwayzeh, Hoda and Nesa are now bound for Ain Sukhna, a crude-oi...
In the first half of 2008, net loss of Sea Port of Saint Petersburg fell by 8.3 times, year-on-year, to RUR 7.083 million, the company reports. Group of Companies Sea Port of St. Petersburg includes Sea Port of St. Petersburg OJSC, First Stevedoring Company CJSC, Second Stevedoring Company CJSC, Third Stevedoring Company, Forth Stevedoring Company CJSC...
Lower Columbia River ports plan to create 128 acres of wetlands on Cottonwood Island to compensate for ecological damage caused by dredging. The plan was announced Wednesday by six ports in Washington and Oregon and the Corps of Engineers. The wetlands will mitigate damage from the dredging under way to deepen the Columbia River channel by 3 feet ...
The ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven reported an increase in cargo volume for the first half of 2008 compared to the same period of 2007. The ports said they handled 2.7 million TEU, 15.9 percent more than the same period last year. The ports also handled 1.09 million cars, 9.1 percent more than in the first half of 2007. Source: American Shipper ...
The nation's largest trucking trade association filed a request Wednesday with a Los Angeles federal court for a preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of an access licensing component contained in the two Southern California ports $2.4 billion trucking re-regulation plan. The American Trucking Association, which filed suit against the cit...
New Polish container terminal operator DCT Gdansk said Wednesday that it is seeing a steady rise in throughput, which now averages around 10,000 TEUs per month. The terminal operator also said handling rates are improving as volumes rise, with a recent 907-TEU vessel seeing productivity of 40.5 crane moves per hour and 75 total moves per hour. Con...
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.
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