Stockholm - The Port of Gšteborg, the largest port in the Nordic region and the only one in Sweden with the capacity to receive post-panamax container vessels, has stepped up its transport of boxes by rail with the launch of RailPort Scandinavia. The aim is to bring the shuttle centres' inland terminals closer to the port by allowing them to handle Cu...
Anaheim, Calif.-based SA Recycling has acquired the scrap metal firm Pacific Coast Recycling from Japan-based Mitsui & Co. Financial details were not disclosed. PCR, according to published reports, ships about 1 million metric tons of metal a year. It operates seven facilities in Southern California, including a corporate headquarters at its scrap met...
With Swedish and German ports On 6 May the German delegation headed by Tilo Schelling, the head of the ministry of transport and infrastructure development of the Meklenbyrg-Front Pomerania district (Germany), visited the port of Vyborg. As reported to SeaNews in Oslo Marine, during the visit the preliminary agreements about the launch of the regular ...
WASHINGTON -- A post-Sept. 11 program to provide special identification cards to every worker with access to seaports could face more delays because workers are not getting help when they apply. The contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp., is taking 16 minutes to answer calls to the help desk instead of the three-minute standard the government requires, acco...
Dhamra Port, a 50:50 joint venture between Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro, announced on Monday that the first phase of the project will be operational by April 2010 at an estimated cost of Rs 2,463 crore. According to Mr Santosh Mohapatra, Chief Executive Officer of Dhamra Port Company, more than 25 per cent of the work on the port situated north of river...
In 2007, transshipment of railway cargo in Big Port of St. Petersburg totaled 26.386.6 million tonnes including 2.103.1 million tonnes of import cargo and 24.283.5 million tonnes of export cargo, the company informs. Big Port of St. Petersburg is serviced by port stations Avtovo and Novy Port. In 2007, import of cargo via Avtovo totaled 1.263.0 million...
On May 28, 2008, Baltiysky Zavod OJSC has launched diesel-electric icebreaker Saint Petersburg built for RosMorPort FSUE, the company informs. The vessel’s main task is to transport cargo and provide icebreaking assistance to large-capacity vessels with breadth of up to 50 meters. The keel of diesel-electric icebreaker Saint Petersburg was laid on Jan...
With China’s container trade having posted 21 per cent growth in 2007, four of the world’s top 10 container ports in 2007 were located in that country, with Shanghai — with a throughput of 26.15 million TEUs — occupying the number two position. The other three were Hong Kong (third position, 23.88 million TEUs) Shenzhen (fourth, 21.09 TEUs) and Qingdao (1...
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