MIAMI/POINTE BLANCHE--A US $10 million loan agreement for the construction of a 445-metre-long 21-metre-wide Genesis class cruise ship pier was signed between Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL) and St. Maarten Harbour Holding Company in Miami on Friday. Work on the new Genesis class pier is slated to start in December and will be completed by December 20...
Nearly a century after the Panama Canal revolutionized world trade, a massive expansion of the engineering marvel is poised to upend global commerce again, possibly bringing a windfall to South Florida. This small Central American nation is investing more than $5 billion to double capacity at its water highway for mega-freighters that can't fit. The seven...
The Mata Mata Tourist Access Facility (Port of entry) between South Africa and Namibia within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (TFP) was officially opened on Friday by the President's of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. Presidents Thabo Mbeki, Festus Mogae of Botswana and Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia opened the access facility which will enable touri...
On 9 October this year, with the view to meeting their client's needs, the shipowner Euro Marine Carrier provided an extra vessel "City of Lutece" at the Port of Gdansk in addition to the currently operating car carriers "City of Sunderland", "City of Barcelona" and "City of Amsterdam". The car carrier "City of Lutece" is a 118.05-metre long and 18.30-metre ...
The Kollam Cargo Port will be formally commissioned at 4 p.m. on October 19 by Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan. The decision in this connection was taken at a high-level meeting held at the District Panchayat Complex here on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by Minister for Ports M. Vijayakumar, Minister for Labour P.K. Gurudasan, and Revenue Minister ...
Dubai's government-owned ports operator DP World signed on Frdiay a 25-year concession to operate Dakar port and plans to invest at least 455 million euros ($641 million) there, its chairman said on Monday. "We expect at the first stage to invest 120 million euros, (and), for the port of the future, an additional 335 million euros," Sultan Ahmed bin Sulay...
Southern coastal districts including Barisal, Patuakhali, Khulna and Bagerhat experienced downpour and squally winds yesterday under the influence of a depression in the Bay. Meteorological offices in the district headquarters issued cautionary signals and advised fishermen to move to safety, according to reports by our correspondents. Cargo handling ...
CHINA'S biggest cold-storage facility opened for business in Qingdao over the weekend as the port city aims to become Asia's largest transit hub for refrigerated goods. The project was built jointly by the Qingdao Port Group and Iceland's Eimskip, a leading provider of transport, refrigerated logistics and cold-storage services. The new warehouse, whic...
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