Commercial Seaport of Tuapse to pay RUR 0.10858 per ordinary share as dividends for 2007, the company reports. The general meeting of the shareholders also approved the company’s annual financial report for 2007. Tuapse Commercial Seaport OJSC is the main operator in the port of Tuapse, one of Russia’s largest ports. In 2007, its throughput totaled 1...
The United Arab Emirates-based marine terminal operator Dubai Ports World (DP World) has announced the purchase of a 60 percent stake in a company holding exclusive concession for a container terminal in northern Spain, WAM news agency reported Thursday. The privately owned company - Contarsa Sociedad de Estiba (Contarsa) - holds the concession for Tarrag...
In January-May, 2008, Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port FSUE handled 1.408.6 million tonnes of cargo (+5%, year-on-year), the company informs. Transshipment of refrigerated cargo amounted to 55,100 tonnes (-40%), exported mineral fertilizers – 166,000 tonnes (+9%), oil products – 1.022.8 million tonnes (100% against the same period of the previous year). ...
Thamesport (London) Limited has announced that it will be changing its trading name to ‘London Thamesport’, with effect from 19th June 2008. Chris Lewis, Chief Executive Officer of Hutchison Ports (UK) Limited, which owns Thamesport, said: This change highlights London Thamesport’s strategic links with the important markets of the UK’s capital, ...
The union representing 26,000 West Coast dockworkers and the organization representing shipping industry employers are reporting significant progress in negotiations aiming to deliver a new three-year labor contract by the end of the month. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association both report that a tentativ...
Dubai Ports World has acquired a 60 percent stake in a container terminal in the Port of Tarragona in Spain. It would be the first terminal in Spain for the rapidly growing Dubai-based terminal operator. The deal is subject to EU approval. Tarraagona Port, which handles 100 percent origin and destination cargo, is located on the Mediterranean near...
Four unions representing all but a dozen of 617 employees at the Port of Oakland are asking port officials to refrain from moving forward with the planned elimination of 105 to 110 full-time positions until a unions-submitted list of financial questions regarding the port's claimed reasons for the layoffs are answered. In a letter sent Monday to port...
Liepaja Port plans to build two modern container terminals by the year 2017, as LETA learned from Liepaja Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Investment and Marketing Department Head Ivo Kolins. According to Kolins, currently Liepaja Port does not have a terminal suitable for handling container cargo, therefore the port's capacity and infrastructure are limite...
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