The Port of Jacksonville said Tuesday that long-time communications director Robert Peek has been named director of marketing development, while well-known Jacksonville media professional Nancy Rubin has been hired as the port communications director. Peek has been communications director, working in the port's external affairs office, for 11 years. I...
Port Everglades has named strategic business planning specialist Peg Buchan the new assistant to the port director.Buchan has been the port's director of business administration for the last two years. In her new role, she will be responsible for managing and monitoring the port's progress in reaching milestones outlined in the five-year business plan est...
The Panama Canal Authority said it would temporarily reduce the number of booking slots in its transit reservation system, along with other changes beginning Friday, due to an increased backlog in vessels waiting to transit the canal. The authority said it would also reduce the number of booking slots for supers -- ships with beams 91 feet or longer -...
The Hague, Netherlands-based APM Terminals, part of Denmark's A.P. Moller - Maersk Group, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority, overseers of Europe's largest container complex, have signed a five-year agreement to work together on box terminal research and development. The main objectives of the partnership are to: Support environmentally proactive...
Total container throughput of major Chinese container ports increased 10 percent year on year in February to 8.4 million TEUs. After two months of 2008, throughput is up 15.1 percent to 18.77 million TEUs. The leading Chinese ports in terms of container volume in February were: 1. Shanghai, 1.82 million TEUs. 2. Shenzhen, 1.38 million TEUs. ...
A strike at the Baltic Container Terminal in Gdynia, Poland has entered its sixth day Wednesday. The terminal is operated by Philippines port operator International Container Terminal Services (ICTS) and according to the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) handles most of Poland's maritime container cargo and is the southern Baltic Sea r...
Workers at state-owned ports in France went on a 24-hour strike Wednesday to protest privatization of plants. Workers blocked docks at Fos near Marseille and Nantes Saint-Nazaire. Reuters quoted a Port of Marseille spokesman as saying two oil and four chemical tankers were prevented from entering the Fos-Lavera terminal and that three oil tankers ...
Claudia Roller will become a new board member of Port of Hamburg Marketing. During its meeting at 6 March 2008 the supervisory board of the Hamburg port marketing organisation has appointed her as a member of the Executive Committee, effective as of 1 April 2008. From then on, the executive committee will consist of Claudia Roller and Dr. Jürgen Sorgenfre...
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.
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