According to the Press-Service of the company JSC PAVA, in April, their first flour shipment into one of the Asian countries through Novorossiysk port will be held in April. Currently, JSC PAVA is the only grain milling company in Altai Kray that ships flour to the foreign countries through the seaports. At that, they conduct negotiations as for flour...
The Bureau of Maritime Affairs (BMA) yesterday certificated four airport personnel who underwent a refresher course in fire fighting and fire prevention in Monrovia. The fire fighting drill that marked the first in the post war activities in the maritime industry of Liberia was a collaborative effort of the Roberts International Airport (RIA) and is on...
There are the Oscars, Grammys and now the CAAP awards. With their landmark Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) more than a year old, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have created the Clean Air Excellence Awards to honor and recognize their partners for extraordinary efforts in improving air quality. Nominations are due by April 25, 2008, and the awards ce...
India's port sector needs $25 billion in investment by 2015, national shipping secretary APVN Sarma said Wednesday at a conference in Delhi. More than half that amount is needed for development of seaports, while the rest is required for inland waterways and shipping, the Economic Times reported. Sarma also said India's ports need a doubling of capaci...
A transshipment terminal in the south of India designed to eventually handle 3 million TEUs of cargo is facing potential delays that could set its opening back one year. The first phase of the Vallarpadam deepwater terminal, in the Port of Cochin, was initially due to open in April 2009, but delays in acquiring land to build a connecting highway and r...
Philippines-based International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) said today one of its subsidiaries in China has opened an independent gate at the Yantai Rising Dragon International Container Terminal (YRDICT) for container freight stations. ICTSI said the new gate enables the Chinese terminal to achieve faster turnaround time in its CFS opera...
Wheelhouse transcripts released during a during a federal hearing on Tuesday revealed the local pilot of the COSCO Busan did not understand the vessel's position before it sideswiped a Bay Area bridge last November, and questioned his decision to sail in heavy fog after the accident resulted in a massive oil spill. The transcripts were released during...
During the first quarter of 2008 Vanino Commercial Sea port handled about 1697.5 th.t. Source: Seanews
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