In April 21-23 2008, the prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Gediminas Kirkilas, accompanied by the official delegation including Director General of SE Klaipėda State Seaport Authority Sigitas Dobilinskas, will visit Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Official delegation of Lithuania accompanying the prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania G...
In April 21-22 2008, a delegation of the representatives of Southern businessmen is visiting Klaipėda port (companies „Network Logistics“, „Brinova“, „Volvo cars“, „Green Cargo“ ) (Lithuania) as well as the representatives of Karlshamn and Helsingborg ports. The goal of the visit is to get acquainted with the possibilities and capacities of Klaipėda port,...
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission wants to know if an industry-created nighttime gate program should be phased out. Commissioner Joe Radisich asked port staff last week to report back to the commission by next month on whether the PierPass OffPeak program is still necessary. The nearly 3-year-old OffPeak program, created by marine terminal operato...
The Montreal Port Authority has outlined an ambitious plan to nearly triple capacity over the next 12 years. Patrice M. Pelletier, the port's president and chief executive officer, said the authority wants to boost capacity from about 1.6 million TEUs to 4.5 million TEUs by 2020 at a cost of $1.5 billion to 1.7 billion. He added the port is likely to ...
The Port of Seattle said Monday that China Shipping Service would begin calling at the soon-to-be-redeveloped Terminal 30 in the spring of 2009. Under terms of the new agreement, China Shipping will become an equity partner with SSA Terminals at the Terminal 30 facility. The port is investing nearly $120 million to transform the Terminal 30 site...
The Port of Tacoma commissioners on Thursday will consider a major demolition contract and relocation of a wildlife habitat in connection with the Blair-Hylebos Peninsula redevelopment plan. The $51 million demolition contract would cover the removal of more than 130 buildings on the peninsula over the next two years, including structures used for che...
Capt. Arthur E. Erb, former president and chairman of the board of the stevedoring company Eller & Co. Inc., died April 19 after a long Illness. Erb, who began his career with Eller in 1956, was president of the company from 1971 to 1984, a period in which Eller expanded from its Florida home base to as far north as Norfolk and as far west as Texas, s...
The Port of Södertälje is pushing forward the purchase of a larger harbour mobile crane. The reason is the rapidly expanding growth of container customers. The new harbour mobile crane, the only one of its kind in Sweden, will further improve efficiency. In the past year, the Port of Södertälje has increased its container growth by 50 per cent, one of...
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