The icebreaker Ymer pays a visit to 18 different Swedish Ports. During the visit it is possible to get onboard Ymer. First Port of call on this tour is Malmö on July 22nd. A visit to Ymer was possible from 10 o'clock until 4 o'clock. While Ymer was in port a number of representatives from the various maritime sectors explained the possibilities that their...
Greece's Thessaloniki Port Authority said on Wednesday Hutchison Port , teamed up with Greek pharmaceutical group Alapis, was the preferred bidder of a tender to run its cargo facilities. Greece, with two of the largest ports in the Mediterranean, has launched tenders to sell and modernise outdated facilities at Piraeus and the northern city of Thessa...
In the second quarter of 2008, net profit of Vladivostok Sea Fishing Port OJSC amounted to RUR 1.799 mln (+165.7% against RUR 677,000 in Q1 08 ), the company’s materials read. VSFP asset value grew by 27.82% tot RUR 1.397.936 bln. Vladivostok Sea Fishing Port was founded in 1918. It was incorporated in 1994. The port is locating on 10 berths (of depth...
Russian seaports boosted cargo handling 2.2% year-on-year (or 4.8 million tonnes) to 222.7 million tonnes in the first half of 2008, the Association of Commercial Seaports said according to Interfax. Dry cargo handling went up 5.7% to 94.7 million tonnes while tanker cargo handling remained at 127.9 million tonnes. Cargo handling in the Northwest ba...
Oakajee Port & Rail has been named as the preferred developer of the $3.5 billion iron ore port in Western Australia, defeating another contender Yilgarn Infrastructure. WA premier Alan Carpenter said the decision to opt for the joint venture between Murchison Metals Ltd and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. came after a series of consultations with planning m...
Muuga container terminal will start using an unique crane, meant for processing railway platforms with containers, in September, writes postimees.ee. This unique crane is connected to developing railway transit of containers. Since 2007, a container freight train from our terminal regularly travels on the route Muuga-Moscow. The new crane will make th...
In 2008, Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port plans to handle 5 million tonnes of cargo. As of July 31, the port handled 3 mln t of cargo, the port informs. Due to a peak of construction works in the region, the port every day handles 3 vessels with crushed stone. Coke, crushed stone and metal are the leaders with a multiple increase. In 2004, Kaliningr...
China's Shanghai International Port Group plans to invest in Taicang Port, Jiangsu Province, NewsTrak Daily reports. Taicang Port’s 2007 throughput was 1.02 million TEUs, although the port is capable of handling 2.35 million TEUs yearly. In the first half of 2008, the port's container throughput jumped 60 percent over the corresponding period in 2...
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