Richmond have enjoyed a rare day in the sun, defying the heat of Perth to outrun and eventually embarrass Fremantle 20.17 (137) to 10.13 (73) at Subiaco Oval. Led by four goals from the inspirational Matthew Richardson, whose unfamiliar role on a wing was an inspired move by Terry Wallace, Richmond led at every change and made a mockery of their pre-ma...
DUBAI — Mining, energy, ports and urban development were major sectors under discussion on Friday at a meeting between the Chairman of Dubai World, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the President of Nigeria, in the capital Abuja. Bin Sulayem, and a number of senior Dubai World officials are on a tour of West Africa, exploring inve...
Contship Italia, which runs the Italian port of Gioia Tauro, has strongly rejected a study by a parliamentary commission that alleged that the mafia group Ndrangheta has had a foothold in Gioia Tauro port from the start and extorted a US$1.50-per-box security tax from Angelo Ravano, the founder of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) transhipment facili...
KUWAIT: The first international forum for sea transport which was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from March 23 till March 25 has chosen north container terminal at Jeddah port as the board containers terminal in the Arab ports for the year 2007. Kuwait Gulf Link Co owns 20 per cent share in the Gulf Shipping Contracting Co that runs the terminal. The...
THE free zone at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas in southern Johor, Malaysia, has been successful in attracting many of the top names in logistics. As primarily a transhipment port, the free zone is a way for PTP to build up its local cargo base - leveraging on its position close to the major industrial areas of southern Malaysia. “In 2007, we successfu...
France's port union, part of the CGT federationdu travail , on Thursday called for weekly 24-hour strikes to protest government plans to privatize seven of the nine state-run ports, Reuters reports. The government is taking the deliberate risk to hand over especially profitable port terminals to private operators and, above all, foreigners, a union sp...
The Port of Montreal saw a 9.4 percent increase in containerized cargo and a 3.6 percent increase in total volume, which rose to 26 million tons in 2007, said Patrice M. Pelletier, president and chief executive at his agency's annual general meeting Thursday. All indicators show that marine container traffic on the East Coast of North America will gro...
MONTREAL - The Port of Montreal is considering a large-scale infrastructure project to boost cruise ship traffic along the St. Lawrence River. Patrice Pelletier, the port's new CEO, said developing the cruise ship industry around Montreal is a smart investment. We are certain that we can profit from a cruise ship project on the St. Lawrence that wou...
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