CHINA's southwestern trade value through Guangxi's port city of Fancheng, 50 miles east of the Vietnamese border on the Gulf of Tonkin, increased 20.5 per cent year on year to US$2.7 billion in 2010, Xinhua reports. Most cargo came from Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces. Yunnan cargo totalled $2.1 billion, up 25.6 per cent, and accounted for 76 per...
In 2010 the capacity of Russian port facilities was increased by 5.3% (30,2 million tons) compared to the same period in 2009 to 660,7 million tons, PortNews reports citing to the information of an extended meeting of the Council of the Federal Agency of Maritime and River Transport.. The figures are projected to be increased before 2016 up to 770 million t...
The Port of Rotterdam said Friday it signed an agreement with China's Nangang Industrial Port Complex to assist it with the management of the port for a period of five years, while it is also exploring the possibility to take a stake in the Chinese port , Foxbusiness reports. The Port of Rotterdam said it is the first international port operator to becom...
Shanghai International Port's joint venture with Belgium container terminal Zeebrugge has begun operations, a senior Chinese executive said on Saturday, following a delay during an industry downturn, Reuters reports. "The project had been postponed previously, but the venture is already up and running now," SIPG president Chen Wuyuan told Reuters...
As of 8:00am (MT), March 5th, there are 63 cargo ships waiting for assistance of icebreakers in the eastern Gulf of Finland, the Port Authority of Big Port St. Petersburg said. The St. Pb PA reports of total 89 merchant ships currently located in the water area, 11 of them - in motion. 15 vessels are expecting arrival at the port. Over the past day 3 sh...
LenmorNiiProekt has been awarded a contract worth RUB 1,601,085 for development of the design of Taman port’s dry cargo area. The design bureau was the winner in a tender announced by Rostransmodernizatsiya. The company proposed to execute the contract for 525 calendar days from the date of its conclusion. The new port is planned to be located on ...
China is mulling over cooperation between two geographically close ports in Taiwan and China, a senior Chinese official said in Taipei. “The two ports are very close and we will have many opportunities,” Chen Yunlin, the president of the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) told reporters during a visit t...
Ras Laffan Port last month saw, for the first time, all the six of its LNG berths occupied with tanker vessels loading LNG cargoes for various destinations in the globe. Captain Feisal Saad, Ras Laffan Port Manager said: “With six operational LNG berths, the Port is the World's premier LNG exporting facility, double the size of its nearest rival. The...
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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