The Pacific Maritime Association has reached an agreement for a new six year contract with the union representing longshore workers on the U.S. West Coast, paving way for normal port operations to resume, both parties said on Monday. Details of the agreement between the PMA and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union were not disclosed. It...
Murchison Metals Ltd and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp have been selected to develop a new port in western Australia aimed at opening up a new iron ore mining province, according to a government statement on Tuesday. The Murchison and Mitsubishi partnership, called Oakajee Port & Rail, beat out a competing proposal by Yilgarn Infrastructure, owned by the Ch...
Mr Lee became the second president of the BPA in January 2007. THE president of the Busan Port Authority Gap Sook Lee resigned from his post Tuesday. Mr Lee will be replaced by Ki Tae Roh, who was most recently the president of Buk-hang I Bridge. Mr Roh was previously involved with the BPA, having served as the chairman of the port commission for...
Australian miners have proposed helping to fund a A$2.5 billion ($2.4 billion) expansion of Australia's largest coal-handling port at Newcastle, the Australian Financial Review said on Monday. The proposal would double the east coast port's annual capacity to more than 210 million tonnes by 2013 and is backed by 14 miners, including BHP Billiton ,Xstrata ...
RTL Group (Russian Transport Lines) has signed an agreement with Honda Motor Rus for servicing Honda cars in Big Port of St. Petersburg. Within the framework of this agreement a test call on the port’s third district was made. Having carrying out all necessary procedures Russia Transport Lines took the delivered cars out of the port by automobile transpor...
Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone rose over 4 percent after the company's April-June net surged to Rs 96.8 crore. At 11:35 am, shares are trading at Rs 610, up 3.8 percent, off the day's high of Rs 616.40 hit in early deals. Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Ukrainian Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Volodymyr Rabotnev estimates US$2 billion is needed for development of the country's ports, the Ukrainian National News Agency reports. Rabotnev said that private investors would be invited to invest in the development of the ports, which would include port deepening, increasing cargo handling cap...
The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday opened up the Lower Mississippi River to limited use after an oil spill two days earlier forced authorities to halt all ship traffic on the key commercial artery. But the Port of New Orleans is upset about the slow pace of the clean up so far. About 420,000 gallons of industrial fuel oil spilled into the river when...
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