The Port of Milford Haven has been reopened to all traffic following an incident yesterday (Saturday) when a jack up barge working alongside the South Hook LNG terminal partially collapsed, in which one person lost their life. A spokesman for Milford Haven Port Authority said: “We have been working closely with the emergency services throughout, providing...
The port company has received notice of a fifth, short strike later this month, following a two-day strike by 250 dock workers this week. Maritime Union members are seeking a pay rise of up to 4.9%; the company has offered 3.23%. The union has already called another strike for three hours next Tuesday and another on Wednesday, 17 October. A union sp...
Taiwan's port of Kaohsiung has awarded Yangming Marine Corps a 50-year concessional contract to build and run a new 16-metre (draft) deep-water container terminal. The current depth of Kaohsiung Harbor's container terminals is 14.5 metres. The port has been inviting international tenders to build the new terminal in a concerted effort to revive its past succ...
By the year of 2020 cargo turnover of ports of Latvia will have grown by 2 times — up to 123 mn tons. According to Delfi, such a forecast was made by the Ministry of communication of Latvia. In 2020 the port of Ventspils will handle 58 mn tons of cargo. Compared to the results 2006 (29.1 mn tons) it will grow by 2 times. Riga’s turnover will increase f...
The strike by about 265 of the 557 staff is expected to affect cargo worth $100 million. Both the Fergusson and Bledisloe container terminals are closed, but non-container operations and the company's inland ports are not affected. The general wharves can handle a small amount of container traffic but 85 per cent of the port's container capacity is out o...
TOKYO: Japan is taking steps to attract more container ships to its shores, driven by concerns that the waning fortune of its ports could hurt the country's economy and industries. Over the past decade, an increasing amount of goods from Japan have been sent to a neighbouring Asian trans-shipment hub, such as the South Korean port of Pusan, instead of being...
The Port of Seattle Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac), serving nearly 30 million passengers each year, will deploy Intergraph’s integrated security solutions as part of a public safety and security system upgrade that will provide officers and first responders with advanced tools for incident assessment, detection and response to enhance travele...
The workers have announced they will strike from 7am for two days at the Axis container terminals. Denis Carlisle, from the Maritime Union representing the workers, said the strike would effectively grind Ports of Auckland to a halt. Mr Carlisle said workers had been negotiating for a 4.5 to 4.9 per cent payrise. Ports of Auckland had offered 3.2...
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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