The supervisory board of the Port of Tallinn approved of the main directions for the enterprise’s strategy until the year 2015 at its meeting on Monday. According to the new strategy, the enterprise will increasingly focus on container transport, writes Postimees Online/LETA. In future the Port of Tallinn intends to form a regional container handlin...
The development of container ports in North Europe is almost synchronic due to stable demand and equal competitive background of the region’s ports. That was a conclusion made by Austria-based Via Donau made at The Danube Summit-2008. Conference & Exhibition held in Romania this month, RZD-Partner informs. According to Gerhard Gussmagg, representative ...
COSCO Pacific Ltd., a container-related subsidiary of China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO), has won the operation of two container terminals of Piraeus Port of Greece. COSCO Pacific beat its competitor, a consortium formed by Hutchison Whampoa Limited , HPI, Sarl, Alapis, AEBE and AID S.A., by offering higher prices, EUR 4.3 billion (including ...
The Ha Tinh People’s Committee has granted the Taiwanese Formosa group a licence to build a steel complex and a deep-water port in the province in what will be the largest FDI project by investment in the country. To be built in the Vung Ang Economic Zone, 400km south of Ha Noi, it will involve an investment of US$7.88 billion in the first stage alone....
Hong Kong's ports saw a 1.6 percent rise in container throughput in May year-on-year to 2.1 million TEUs. The bulk of the cargo was handled by terminals at Kwai Chung with throughput of 1.53 million, up 1.4 percent from a year earlier. Other terminals recorded throughput of 570,000 TEUs, up 1.9 percent from a year ago. In the first five months of th...
In 2007, the ports of the Leningrad region handled 99 million tonnes, while this year they are to handle 110-115 million tonnes, Grigory Dvas, Vice-Governor of the Leningrad region said at international conference Safety of Ports and Multimodal Transport Complexes. According to Grigory Dvas, the port of Ust-Luga is to demonstrate the fastest growth in the...
Tug boats Leonid Bochkov, Petergof and Evgeni Kocheshkov (Port Fleet CJSC, St. Petersburg) have successfully assisted the Mir sailing ship (State Marine Academy named after admiral Makarov) in her way under Blagoveshchensky and Dvortsovy bridges of St. Petersburg. Russia’s famous sailing ship moored Russian at the Hermitage (Palace embankment of St. Peter...
M. David McNeel has been selected as new executive director of the Port of Richmond, Va. He will succeed Martin J. Moynihan, who will retire July 31 after 18 years at the port. McNeel was deputy director of operations for the Mississippi State Port Authority in Gulfport, Miss. He was responsible for the day-to-day operations related to vessel and te...
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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