PORTLAND — Members of the Portland International Airport Citizen Noise Advisory Committee will hear the status of the PDX Fly Quiet program May 8, and will discuss the potential for a Fly Quiet Subcommittee to help with program development and reporting. Jason Schwartz, Port of Portland noise management manager, will provide an update on the program and t...
LONGVIEW — In a special meeting, Port of Longview Commissioners unanimously voted to sell wetland property for preservation. The port has agreed to sell a portion of its Willow Grove property to the Vancouver, Washington, based conservation group Columbia Land Trust (CLT) in a step toward becoming a ‘greener’ port. Originally purchased for industrial d...
West Coast longshoremen returned to work Thursday evening after shutting down ports from San Diego to Seattle for what longshore union leaders called a May Day protest against U.S. military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite the 10-hour shuttering of 29 West Coast ports by the 25,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union, industry...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Friday it is extending the deadline by seven months for mariners, port workers and other personnel to obtain an identification card for access to secure areas of port. The government will now require persons needing unescorted port access to obtain their Transportation Worker Identification Credential by A...
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas and Malaysian ocean carrier MISC Berhad on Friday signed an agreement to set up a joint venture company to serve MISC and other shipping lines out of the southern Malaysia port. The agreement will see PTP, Malaysia's biggest port, hold a 70 percent majority stake in the joint venture, with MISC holding 30 percent. It will a...
COSCO Pacific, the terminal-operating arm of the COSCO Group, has secured a six-year club term loan facility of $440 million from a consortium of four international financial institutions. The company said the loan facility would be used for working capital purposes and general corporate funding requirements. The company did not specify and particular...
Lars Karlsson will step down as managing director of Copenhagen Malm Port AB after next year's general meeting to develop its business in the Baltic Sea region. The potential for development in the Baltic is great, and nobody is better suited to take on this challenge than Lars Karlsson, said Bengt Madsen, chairman of the CMP board. CMP was form...
The meeting of the shareholders of Commercial Port of Vladivostok (VMTP OJSC) has approved the board of supervisory directors. According to the company, the annual general meeting of the shareholders which was held on April 29, 2008, approved the company’s annual report for 2007 as well as its annual financial statements including profit and loss sta...
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