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Sea Port of St. Petersburg OJSC has opened an automobile terminal at the territory of Third Stevedoring Company. The terminal’s annual capacity is 80,000 automobiles. The first vessel was handled at the terminal on May 6, 2008. The project valued at over RUR 260 million will make it possible to transfer the considerable part of cargo flow traditionally ha...
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) employees have threatened to go on strike unless a salary dispute is resolved. Dock Workers Union Secretary-General, Mr Simon Sang, said he had written to the Labour minister, Mr John Munyes, seeking his intervention following a deadlock in the negotiations with KPA. There has been a standoff since February 20 when workers dema...
Port construction and operation company CIG Yangtze Ports PLC plans to group businesses into three major divisions. The company plans to realign business along three directions: ports, logistics, and distribution and sales. Company's chairman Chow Kwong-fai says the two operating container berths at Wuhan container terminal can handle about 400,000 teu a ...
China’s Cosco Pacific, Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore’s PSA are expected to bid for running Greece's largest port, according to government sources. Last December, the government announced plans to privatise the container management operations at the Piraeus Port Authority and the Thessaloniki Port Authority. The gov...
With its good results for 2007, the port of Rotterdam has amply surpassed the forecasts. The most optimistic scenario, with 1995 as reference point, anticipated the handling of 370 million tonnes. Last year, actual figures exceeded this by 10%. Growth accelerated clearly from 2003 onwards and in 2004 throughput reached the highest predicted level. Af...
In the first quarter 2008, stevedoring company Vanino Commercial Seaport handled 1.697.5 million tonnes of different cargo (+13.8%, year-on-year), the company informs. In March, the company’s throughput grew by 18.4%, year-on-year, to 656,300 tonnes. In the 3-month period, transshipment of export cargo totaled 818,700 tonnes including 165,700 tonnes of no...
In January-April, 2008, the port of Riga increased its throughput by 20.3%, year-on-year, to 9.58 million tonnes, the company informs. Transshipment of dry loose cargo was up 37.9%, year-on-year, to 6.3 million tonnes, general cargo down by 5.9%, year-on-year, to 1.64 million tonnes, liquid bulk cargo – down by 1.1%, year-on-year, to 1.61 million tonnes. ...
The Federal Maritime Commission is scheduled to hold a closed-door meeting Wednesday to discuss a trucking re-regulation plan proposed by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The closed-door portion of the meeting will focus on the ports February filing of an antitrust agreement with the FMC. The agreement would allow the Southern California ports...
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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