Major U.S. ports will in October see the first year-to-year rise in container imports since July 2007, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released Friday by the National Retail Federation and Global Insight. For April, the latest month for which numbers are available, inbound box volume at the U.S. ports surveyed by Port Tracker -- Los Angel...
The Port of Tuticorin in South India has been granted approval to begin dredging a channel to allow ships capable of carrying 3,000 to 4,000 TEUs, a report in the Economic Times said Monday. Currently, no port in India is capable of handling containerships carrying more than 2,600 TEUs. India's shipping ministry has prioritized dredging in the country...
Evergreen Line is to launch its new regional service to serve main central Adriatic and Balkan ports in June 2008. The Adriatic Feeder service (AFS) will significantly improve the existing Intra Mediterranean feeder network based on a hub in Taranto, Italy. The first sailing is scheduled to depart from Taranto on June 13, 2008 and will be operated...
In January-April, 2008, the volume of transit cargo handled by the ports of Finland amounted to 2.51 million tonnes (+39.3%, year-on-year), Finnish Port Association informs. In the reported period, the volume of transit cargo exported by the port totaled 1.3 million tonnes (+70.4%), imported – 1.2 million tonnes (+16.5%). In the 5-month period, the po...
In January-May, 2008, throughput of Archangelsk port grew by 12.9%, year-on-year, to 2.135.67 million tonnes, PortNews IAA learnt from Administration of Archangelsk Seaport. In the reported period, the port’s stevedoring companies accepted 202,640 tonnes of cargo (+12.6%, year-on-year) including 130,464 tonnes of import cargo (14.4%), 72,176 tonnes of ...
In time «Ust-Luga» port can become one of the largest ports in the RF. This opinion was voiced to journalists on Wednesday, 9 April, by the chairman of the Commission of the Federation Council on the national marine policy Vyacheslav Popov after the meeting of the delegation of the Federation Council with the chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Saint ...
More tankers were blocked from the largest French oil port of Fos-Lavera as workers extended a strike that began on Thursday. The three-day work stoppage has stopped some 29 oil tankers from entering the port, or from being loaded or unloaded, according to authorities. “Some 57 ships are blocked at sea or at quay, including 29 that carry oil,” auth...
Two Texas stevedoring companies, in Brownsville and Houston, plan to start a short sea barge service connecting the two ports in July. Kenton E. Schaefer II of Schaefer Stevedoring in Brownsville, said it will be a joint service with Richardson Marine in Houston and will be offered to U.S. and Mexican shippers. While the service will accept all so...
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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