TULSA, OK -- 12/13/07 -- Port and longshore workers, truckers and others at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa will begin enrolling tomorrow in the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. The program's goal is to ensure that any individual who has unescorted access to secure areas of port facilities and ves...
Port of Vancouver commissioners approved spending $49 million to purchase the nearby Alcoa Aluminum and Evergreen Aluminum LLC properties Tuesday. The adjacent properties are two of the only undeveloped parcels with deep-water port access on the West Coast. The combined 218-acre property is expected to be developed as a marine terminal. It is expect...
AS Nigeria continues to celebrate its election into the council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), stakeholders have called for vigilance on the activities of service providers in the clearance of cargo from the nation's seaports. They said the bottlenecks being created by service providers in the clearance of goods at the ports may make...
The Port of Longview (Washington) Board of Commissioners has approved the purchase of a shoreside mobile harbor crane. The crane has a lifting capacity of 104 metric tons and will assist in the transport of wind turbine sets and tower components for wind energy projects. "We are committed to supporting our current and future customers shipping heavy lift ...
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) recently announced the appointment of Ton Bestenbreur as Chief Executive Officer of Batumi International Container Terminal LLC (BICTL), an ICTSI subsidiary operating the Batumi International Container Terminal in Georgia. Bestenbreur brings to ICTSI 30 years of experience in ports and container manag...
A draft master plan that would outline the Port of Tampa development and capital improvements over the next 20 years is expected to be ready for approval by the Tampa Port Authority Commission by the end of December. The draft master plan has been substantially completed. It was presented to port stakeholders last week. Feedback from the port community will...
The first shipment of coffee is scheduled to depart from Turbo on Tuesday, said Gabriel Silva, Fedecafe's general manager. Silva was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Fedecafe's 68th annual congress. The first shipment from Turbo, located in Colombia's northernmost banana-producing region of Uraba, near Panama, is part of a pilot scheme to test t...
Evergreen Marine Group will soon inaugurate a newly built dock near China's Qingdao Port, a Chinese-language newspaper reported yesterday. US$300 million The US$300 million investment -- launched two years ago -- is aimed at providing logistic support to Evergreen vessels sailing between China, South Korea and Japan, the Commercial Times quoted Qingdao...
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