Los Angeles port officials Friday approved a multimillion-dollar agreement with opponents of a long-stalled Port of Los Angeles terminal expansion project that will allow the $170 million project to move forward without the threat of litigation. Three Los Angeles port commissioners voted unanimously -- two members were absent -- to approve a memorandu...
Nautilus International Holding Corp., parent company of Metropolitan Stevedore Co., said it acquired privately held Savannah International Terminal (SIT) for an undisclosed amount at the end of March. SIT is a 15-acre bulk and breakbulk terminal on the south side of the Savannah River that includes a 225,000-square-foot warehouse and direct rail and h...
JAKARTA, April 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of workers from Indonesia's state-run port firm, Pelindo, rallied at parliament on Tuesday, threatening to strike if lawmakers passed a new shipping law that would open up ports to the private sector. Indonesia is a key global producer of commodities, minerals and energy and a strike could paralyse exports such as ...
The EUROGATE container terminal in Bremerhaven is getting ready for a new generation of large ships (in excess of 10,000 TEUs) which are set to berth in increasing numbers at the Bremerhaven Stromkaje container pier. On Saturday, 5 April 2008 EUROGATE will take delivery of four of a total of five new, modern container cranes which are able to span 22 cont...
A drastic increase of container traffic arriving at the Port of Sodertalje is going on. During the first quarter, the container transshipment growth rate made 25% year-on-year. Ship owners select exactly the Port of Sodertalje as a container terminal in the Stockholm region for a few reasons. According to Erik Froste, Managing Director for the Por...
Cargotec's MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore load handling solutions has received significant bulk handling crane orders. Altogether 276 cranes will be delivered during 2009-2011 and the value of the orders is more than EUR 90 million. The orders have been booked in the first quarter 2008 order intake. The cranes wil...
In January-March all the terminals of National Container Company (NCC, Russia) demonstrated stable throughput growth. The aggregated throughput in January-March 2008 amounted to 423,103 TEU which is an increase of 21.1% compared to January-March 2007. The container growth at NCC’s terminals was due to strong organic growth from existing customers and the ...
Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC) recently handled its first vessel, the 1,200-TEU APL-operated Eagle Excellence, at the newly opened New Container Terminal-1 (NCT-1) at Subic Bay Freeport, located southwest of the Luzon Island in the Philippines. SBITC is a joint venture company of International Container Terminal Services Inc., the Subi...
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